Drama

Playing in a graveyard, a young girl is brought face-to-face with the adult world.Read More »

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Another fine Italian neo-realist drama. Focussing on post-war poverty and the struggle for housing, this film has all the key elements: characters living in makeshift houses, lots of dirty infants, upheaval and total disinterest from the beaurocratic machine. Anna Magnani puts in a superb performance as the distraught, struggling and feisty mother, determined to make a better life for herself and those around her.
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Kleist’s Penthesilea is certainly one of the most extraordinary plays in the German of the German dramatic repertoire. It is about the the wild and destructive passion that seizes the Queen of the Amazons and Achilles, the Achilles, the Greek hero, under the walls of Troy. Revulsed by its violence and strangeness -only in the 20th century did people realise the extent of this work – Goethe was and condemned it. Edith Clever brings out the full power of this of this feverish text.Read More »

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright who has now been left behind by critics and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned for Shinsaku regaining his old vigor as a writer and Sakie, his daughter, finding a suitable match, while the family is struggling with the losses of war.Read More »

A number of grieving families in the UK struggle to come to terms with the unexpected and tragic 1989 Hillsborough Disaster, in which 95 football fans were crushed to death.Read More »

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History of the legal scandal involving the French Captain Alfred Dreyfus who was convicted of treason and sent to the penal colony at Devil’s Island in 1894 because of an anti-Semitic conspiracy in the war ministry. Supported by the writer Emile Zola Dreyfus’s wife Lucie fights for his release. In 1899, the verdict against Dreyfus was repealed and shortly after, Dreyfus was pardoned. But it took another six years until Dreyfus was fully exonerated. (filmportal.de)Read More »

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Autumn of 1941. A remote village in Serbia is affected by the whirlwind of war, which does not bypass the house of a respectable host. Old patriarchal norms are crumbling. Staying in neutral positions is not possible and it brings a split in his family. His sons, daughter and daughter-in-law try to find their way in the turmoil of war, which will lead some of them to betrayal and death. But, in his desolate house, life does not stop…Read More »

Joe Sarno did his best to bring class to smut throughout the ’60s, in a string of “middle-class depravity” exposés that turned low budgets into assets. The director’s locations and casts looked authentically shabby, and because Sarno didn’t have to worry about playing Radio City Music Hall, his films possessed a bracing frankness about what frustrates people, sexually and otherwise.Read More »

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‘Four directors – four styles – four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin and each episode relates the story of a difficult decision made on that night.Read More »