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Year 1573. Nobleman and Calvinist Sieniawski interrupts the baptism of another child of the Catholic Bielecki family. The godfather, young nobleman Jan Bielecki, swears revenge on the Calvinist. He sets out for King Sigismund Augustus, but when he reaches his court, the king dies. The new ruler, Henry Valois, provides his subjects with religious freedom. Bielecki and other Catholics feel betrayed by the king. There is a pogrom against followers of other religions.Read More »
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Kidnapped by some fake policemen, young Richard Werner is taken to the headquarters of Fantabulous Inc. on the outskirts of Geneva and transformed into a Superman, F. 17. Professor Beethoven, owner of Fantabulous, initiates negotiations to sell his superman to the great powers, but as F. 17 accidentally sees Deborah, his girlfriend, again, something scrambles in his brain, blowing up the electronic devices embedded in it so that he regains all his normal faculties. As military troops converge on Fantabulous to seize him, F 17, back to being Richard again, succeeds in destroying the electronic brain that guided his movements so as to prevent Professor Beethoven’s scientists from creating any more monstrous dehumanized beings.Read More »
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This film is an adaptation of the historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It tells the story of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. Taras’ sons studied at the Kiev Academy and return home. The three men set out on a journey to Zaporizhian Sich located in Southern Ukraine, where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland.Read More »
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The lives of three teachers in the outskirts of São Paulo, their love lives, their interaction with the poor surroundings, their family problems.Read More »
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Sam and Felix are art thieves. Sam has just stolen a picture from a museum in Italy, but told Felix that it was lost in a boat accident. He wants copies made to sell while he will sell the original and get paid both ways. To find an artist, they pick the young, beautiful, naive Anna. When Anna has doubts, Sam strings her along and then marries her and go to Sicily on their honeymoon. Anna finds out that Sam is a thief and is very disappointed. Felix finds out that Sam has the original and is out to get it. The police are also waiting along with the buyer that Sam has for the painting.Read More »
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87-year-old persecuted and declared guerrilla Giannis Lionakis, in a farewell trip to the place that defined his life, tells us about a 14-years (1948-1962) incredible survival effort, which begins with the end of the Civil War in Crete.Read More »
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he’s in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He’s charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn’t embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she’s young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realize he’s used her to make a fortune?Read More »
During the early 1980s, David Hockney focused on a new technique for creating photographic collages, which he termed ‘joiners’. These works involve assembling scores of photos of the same subject taken from different angles in a single session. Hockney’s aim was to inject a visible element of time into photographic images, which normally represent only ‘frozen moments’. To illustrate his approach, a special project was devised for this film, and Hockney is shown at his Los Angeles studio creating the ‘joiner’ later titled Fredda bringing Ann and me a Cup of Tea. Through his exploration of this new method, Hockney illuminates his underlying attitudes to the nature of visual representation. This film adds a further dimension by looking at the influence of photographs on Hockney’s paintings and graphic works throughout his career. Hockney places his own experiments in a wide perspective, highlighting the interaction between an artist’s creativity and chosen medium.Read More »
