1971-1980

In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style. As British Major Robinson he is hidden in Madame Grenier’s Parisian brothel, right under the nose of the Nazi clients, such as Gestapo agent Herr Schroeder (again him). As Général Latour he leads the French resistance, which includes the brothel madam -made a colonel in charge of her sexy ‘troops’- and a priest, and is joined by young US diplomat Alan Cassidy. As Japanese imperial Prince Kyoto he becomes a target for the resistance in a monastery on his way to Hitler (again him). At the end he decorates the heroes as French president.Read More »

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Filmization of Theodor Kallifatide’s autobiographical novel Foreigners, which, under the direction of Johan Bergenstråhle, became one of the first films about post-emigration to Sweden.

In 1970, Theodor Kallifatides came out with the autobiographical novel Foreigners , which portrays some Greek immigrants in Stockholm with the young Stelios in the lead role. Director Johan Bergenstråhle stuck to the story of the Greeks’ encounter with Swedish society and decided to make a film of the novel. He wrote the script together with Kallifatides and the film became one of the first films about post-war immigration to Sweden.Read More »

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Film adaptation of the short Büchner story of the same name, which tells of the stay of the psychotic Sturm und Drang poet Lenz in the home of the Alsatian priest and philanthropist Oberlin. The poet, whose pathological hallucinations are becoming increasingly unbearable, hopes for help from the gentle clergyman. But Oberlin, too, knows no advice; he regards his friend’s illness as God-given.Read More »

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Original title: 青春の門　自立篇
This is the second film adaptation of Hiroyuki Itsuki’s epic novel of the same title, following the previous film “The Gate of Youth. Ibuki Shinsuke (Tanaka Ken) was born in the Chikuho coal mine in Kitakyushu and moved to Tokyo to enter university. Through his friendship and love with his drama club friends, a prostitute in Shinjuku, and his childhood friend Orie (Shinobu Otake), the film depicts the adolescent life of a dedicated young man.
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Chris Bradley is a young man who returns to his home city of Pittsburgh after several years of drifting and working odd jobs around the country since his discharge from the U.S. Army. Rejecting moving back in with his father and not wanting to return to the family business of manufacturing baby food, Chris meets and shacks up with Lynn, an older woman who works as a model in local TV commercials, and whom becomes his ‘sugar mama’ of supporting him financially and emotionally, which begins to put a strain on the affair especially when Lynn finds out that she’s pregnant and does not feel that Chris would make a responsible father or husband.Read More »

In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo’s underworld.Read More »

A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.Read More »

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The beginning of the 20th century. Led by the famous Bulgarian actor Pier Stomanyakov, the travelling theatrical troupe “Obnova” arrives at a small railway station. Before the performance of Shakespeare’s Othello, the actress playing Desdemona falls ill. The young local teacher Elisaveta Strezova, in love with theatre, offers to fill in for her role. She joins the troupe and travels with the actors along the dusty country roads. There comes a point when a chosen selection of the actors, with Stomanyakov top of the list, is offered a permanent job at the municipality theatre. Elisaveta assumes the role of leader of the rest, who bear in their hearts the memory of the “starry moments” of the “Obnova” theatrical troupe and are ready to serve art with might and main.Read More »

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Le point de départ du film est une entrevue inédite de Godard en juin 68, où il exprime ses idées et sa démarche cinématographique révolutionnaires. Il prône ainsi le gaspillage de la pellicule et la résistance au cinéma commercial. “Le Vivarium” pose la question: que deviennent les acteurs d’un film si on leur supprime leur texte ou le scénario?Read More »