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Shyam Benegal – Ankur AKA The Seedling (1974)
Quote: Benegal’s successful feature debut is set in feudal AP and consolidated the New Indian Cinema movement. The politically inflected…
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Tokuzô Tanaka – Kujira gami AKA The Whale God (1962)
Quote: Based on the award-winning story of the same title by Uno Koichiro. A demon whale is killing the fishermen…
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Jirí Trnka – Ruka AKA The Hand (1965)
From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art: A disembodied, ‘live’ hand invades the life of an artist-puppet, instructing him…
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Luis Buñuel – Viridiana (1961)
Viridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes, moved purely by a sense of…
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Tage Danielsson – Att angöra en brygga AKA Docking the Boat (1965)
A group of friends are to celebrate the summer on a small island in the Stockholm Archipelago. The plan is…
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Fyodor Bondarchuk – 9-ya rota AKA The 9th Company (2005)
The film is based on a true story of the 9th company during the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan in 1980s.…
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Hark Bohm – Yasemin (1988)
Plot 20 years old Casanova Jan falls in love with the 3 years younger Turkish girl Yasemin, who lives in…
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Kôzaburô Yoshimura – Yoru no sugao AKA The Ladder of Success (1958)
An ambitious young woman manipulates everyone around her to become a famous choreographer in the world of traditional Japanese dancing.…
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