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| Director Janos Szasz |
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If Not Now, When?
based on the book by Primo Levi
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Co-production: France, Italy, USA
Genre: Journey - Drama
Finding himself behind German lines in July 1943, Russian Jew Mendel heads west, meets up with other partisans, and eventually joins a Jewish partisan band led by the violin-playing Gedaleh. With their families killed and their home communities destroyed, most of them have nothing left but to fight — for survival, honor, revenge, and, where they can, against German supply lines and camps. Their journey takes them across Byelorussia and Poland, into conquered Germany, and eventually to Italy... More information
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| Actress Poesy Clemence |
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Tender Interface
Director: Enyedi Ildiko
Co-production: France, Hungary
Genre: Science-Fiction Romance
Actors: Paul Giamatti, Poésy Clémence
A science-fiction romance. The story of a first love.
A teenage girl matures from child to woman over the course of a weekend. Her curiosity and passion help her break through the limits of space and time, and she becomes part of a historical moment. More information
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| Director Theo Angelopoulos |
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The Dust of Time
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
Co-production: Greece, France, Italy, Canada, Germany
Actors: Bruno Ganz, Harvey Keitel, Willem Defo
Genre: Historical Romance
Past and present intertwine as A,a film director in his fifties find himself becoming a part of the film he is making. A chronicle of the tumultuous life and enduring love of his parents Spyros and Eleny.The historical events that marked their lives have their present day parallels. More information
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| Director Iciar Bollain |
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Mataharis
Director: Iciar Bollain
Co-production: France Spain
Genre: Drama
Actors: Candela Pena, Maria Vazquez, Tristan Ulloa, Albero San Juan
The story of 3 women – Carmen, Eva and Inès – twenty something, thirty something and fifty something, who are working as private detectives in the same agency and have to confront truth and lies. It is a story about their personal relationships, about combining work with raising families, and their problems with their husbands and boyfriends.
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| Actor Dominic Cooper |
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City of Birds
Director: Vladimir Michalek
Co-production: Czech republic, UK, Italy, Israel
Genre: Drama - Romance
Actors: Dominic Cooper, Mark strong, Saskia Reeves, Stephen Billington
A tale wound around the wave of Russian-Jewish immigration of the late 80s, Andrey, (17), falls in love with a local Italian girl name Sandra and migrates to the promised land of his romance. In order to prolong his stay in Italy, during the interview with the American consul, Andrey ruins his parents' chances of getting a US visa. He matures to realize that he can't be happy at the expense of his family's suffering...
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| Actress Tilda Swinton |
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The Man From London
based on the book by Georges Simenon
Nominated: Palme D'or, Cannes Film Festival 2007
Director: Bela Taar
Co-production: Hungry, UK, France,Germany
Genre: Detective
Actors: Miroslav krobot, Janos Derzsi, Tilda Swinton
From high up in his glass cage, in the dark, the port pointman Maloin is unlucky enough to become a witness to a murder. From then on Maloin's life takes a turn towards catastrophe. A fatal mechanism seems to have started. Perhaps no other Simenon heroe reached such intense misfortune and moral solitude. More information
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Fateless
based on the book by Imre Kertesz, 2002 Nobel Prize Winner
Nominated: Golden Bear Award, Berlin Film Festival 2005
Director: Lajos Koltai
Co-production: Hungary,Israel,Germany, UK
Genre: Drama - Autobiography
Music: Ennio Morricone
Actors: Marcell nagy, Janos Ban, Judit Schell
The holocaust-as a pictorial, sensory, and so-called "realistic'' portrayal of the nazi concentration-camps. A film about a 14 year old boy' perception of reality. With his constant desire to understand, while searching for the good, the boy must always face the evil and unbearable. However he never gives up looking for answers.
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