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Theodoros Angelopoulos – O Melissokomos AKA The Beekeeper (1986)
Acquarello wrote: The Beekeeper opens to a static shot of an extended dinner table festively covered with a white tablecloth…
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Leonid Ejdlin & Sergei Yutkevich – Lenin v Parizhe AKA Lenin in Paris (1981)
Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin spent four years in Paris (1909–1912), and this historical docudrama explores those years with a certain…
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Jean-Luc Godard – JLG/JLG – autoportrait de décembre AKA JLG/JLG Self-Portrait in December (1994)
Quote: Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and…
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Irina Poplavskaya & Sergei Yutkevich – Dzhamilya AKA Jamilya (1969)
The film is based on the story of the same name by Soviet writer Chinghiz Aitmatov. It is set in…
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Yuriy Norshteyn – Yozhik v tumane aka Hedgehog in the fog (1975)
Ёжик в тумане Hedgehog is on his way to visit Bear cub, to sit and count the stars, their nightly…
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Douglas Sirk – Battle Hymn (1957)
Synopsis wrote: Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity…
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Robert Bresson – Le Diable Probablement AKA The Devil, Probably (1977)
Quote: Having largely focused on literary adaptations from 1951’s Diary of a Country Priest through 1974’s Lancelot du Lac, Robert…
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Albert Brooks – Lost in America (1985)
Quote: In this hysterical satire of Reagan-era values, written and directed by Albert Brooks, a successful Los Angeles advertising executive…
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Jean-Yves Bigras – L’esprit du mal, ou Le triomphe du coeur AKA The Triumph of the Heart (1954)
Quote: The story of a Machiavellian plan hatched by a money-grubbing stepmother to push aside the young lover of her…
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