1951-1960

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student activist disenchanted by the increasingly hawkish state of Japanese society.Read More »

Synopsis:

‘Pietro Ponz lives a happy life in the mountains on the Swiss-Italian border with his mother Lamberta. No one but his mother knows that Pietro is a girl, a deception that Lamberta was forced into by a series of tragedies almost twenty years previously. Not long after her husband Joseph Ponz died, Lamberta also lost her fragile infant son, Pietro. Whilst mourning this double loss, she began an affair with Bolzano, a notorious smuggler. After Bolzano was killed by the customs men, Lamberta gave birth to his child, a little girl that she decided to pass off as her son Pietro, in the hope of securing an inheritance from her husband’s wealthy parents. Now that Pietro is fast coming of age, his tutor and grandmother are adamant that he should be sent to a religious school. Pietro escapes from the school and joins a gang of smugglers…’
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Synopsis:
The arrival of Sultan’s daughter Princess Fatima at England’s famous and prestigious ‘School for Young Ladies’ precipitates even more chaos than usual. Her father’s horse Arab Boy is due to run at the nearby Gold Cup so Clarence Fitton, bookie brother of headmistress Millicent, ensures his own daughter is on hand to report progress. At the same time Barchester police have planted sergeant Ruby Gates as a teacher, and the Ministry of Education are sending a third inspector down after the previous two disappeared without trace.Read More »

The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.Read More »

During excavations made in Stockholm in the year 2248, archaeologists find 45,000 meters of film reels from the 1940s, which turn out to be feature films by master director Hasse Ekman. The material is in total disarray, but the Association of Ancient Film Research compiles the reels according to what they believe to have been the master’s artistic intent.Read More »

Soviet documentary film about Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, filmed for the 60th anniversary of his birth.

The film uses materials from the State Film Fund. link
The film includes shots: fragments of S. Eisenstein’s films – “Strike”, “Battleship Potemkin”, “October”, “Old and New”, “Alexander Nevsky”, “Ivan”, “Long Live Mexico!”, “Dream” ; interview with film director G.V. Alexandrova about working with S.M. Eisenstein in Mexico; portraits: S.M. Eisenstein, E. Tisse, assistants S.M. Eisenstein: Levshina, Antonova, Gomorova, Straukh, Aleksandrov; film director S. Eisenstein among the students of VGIK, among his friends, on the set of M. Romm’s film “Dream”, at work at home; the interior of S. Eisenstein’s apartment; composer S. Prokofiev with S. Eisenstein on the set of the film “Ivan the Terrible”; drawings by S. Eisenstein.

1961 – Prize at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in ScotlandRead More »

Sweden, 1954. The peace is fragile and the cold war is about to descend truly upon the nation. Air Force Captain Birger Wreting (Ekman) feels the heavy responsibilty on his shoulders of protecting the skies of his country whilst also keeping his airmen alive flying the new SAAB J 29 “The Flying Barrel” aircraft, particularly his brother-in-law Arne – a brilliant but sometimes reckless pilot. What he doesnt know is that a few of his men has secrets that can endanger the lives of them all.Read More »

A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun Takeda.Read More »

A London police inspector becomes attracted to a ship’s radio operator and discovers smuggled gems. He must arrest her if guilty, protect her from the smuggling gang, and protect her from the silenced gang.Read More »