Blaise Dumas, war correspondent, covers an armed conflict in Eastern Europe. When he wakes from a temporary coma in his home town of Quebec City, Blaise discovers that his long time collaborator and photographer has not come back with him. He then sets out to recapture the events that led to his friend’s disappearance and his own narrow escape from the war zone.Read More »

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In one of the realms, there was time for the prince to get married, but the bride would have to be a real princess. A sign was put up on the gates: “ A Princess Wanted”. But in response to it there appeared only a small girl, wet to the bones after the rain and bearing no resemblance to nobility. So the prince was obliged to venture off to other lands in search of a suitable match. Henceforth the prince’s adventures unfold. In one kingdom, he met a fat king, in another – a hospitable king. He also visited the kingdom of arts. He saw enough princesses, beautiful and clever. And yet, the real princess, the only one he longed for, proved to be the girl who had knocked at their door during a rainstorm…Read More »

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An oddball science teacher, Makoto Kito, decides to risk life and limb to steal plutonium from an atomic power plant in order to undergo the hazardous task of building his own home-made atomic bomb. He simultaneously builds a dummy bomb to send to the authorities, who know the plutonium is missing, to prove he means business. Calling himself “Number Nine”, Kito’s first demand: Don’t preempt his baseball game!Read More »

Modern society has an enormous debt to the painter Edvard Munch, from Andy Warhol to Ingmar Bergman, from Marina Abramovic to Jasper Jones. His paintings have become symbols, but also a sign of the tragedies in the twentieth century.Read More »

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‘Mikra Anglia’ (meaning ‘Little England’ – that’s how they called the island of Andros the old days!) the new film by director Pandelis Voulgaris, is based on the homonymous novel by award-winning novelist Ioanna Karistiani and unfolds on Andros island in the 1930s and 1940s. The lives of the locals during this difficult period is mainly defined by the long absence of men aboard ships worldwide, by the loneliness of women who have been left behind on the island and by the strict social structures of the epoch.Read More »

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Pantelis Voulgaris directed this three-part Greek anthology film in which three middle-aged men confront their personal demons. In the 40-minute “A Silver Coin on the Lips,” a Macedonian archaeologist (Dimitris Katalifos) stumbles onto the remains of a soldier with a coin on his lips, payment to the ferryman Charon of legend; this discovery reminds him of his son’s death, and he departs for the border outpost where the death occurred. A 34-minute segment, “The Last of the Lesser Whites,” takes place in Thrace where ornithologists meet with the game warden (Thanassis Vengos) who watches over a beautiful wilderness area with thousands of birds. A Norwegian woman in the group seeks the only known survivor of rare Bergen geese, but a poacher shoots it. The 40-minute “Vietnam” follows a rich factory owner (Giorgos Armenis), a man in such a state of emotional torment after his wife of many years leaves him that he drunkenly destroys a bar named Vietnam. Shown at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival.
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The film is separate into three different shorts. KIDNAP focuses a tomboy’s unrequited love for an anonymous girl dare not speak her name, she can only watch for longing as the object of her affection passes each day. In a desperate bid for intimate communication, the tomboy kidnaps the girl and holds her prisoner in a cramped back street apartment. Slowly relationship develops between them. In MY BELOVED, a loner is only obsesses with guns, he has no place in his life for a girlfriend, focusing all his attention on his Baretta handgun. One night, his gun starts talking to him in a soft feminine voice, demanding the proof of his love. OH G focuses a guy and a girl meet through an ICQ chat room, they search for the real romance that they have never experienced in their lives. This touching tale of first love is played out against the backdrop of the neon world of urban malls and 24 hour convenience stores.Read More »

A play that premiered 24 February 1965 on China stage, Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm and was performed 19 times. It was shown in four parts on TV in November that same year.

The parts are between 29 & 37 minutes each. Every part begins with approximately 10 minutes from “behind the stage”. First part is from the repetitions about the directing and character developements, second part is about the stage, set- & costume design, in the third part the actors explain the prepatations and makeup, and finally in the fourh part there is bit more makeup, a short description of how it was when the plays were put up in Molieres time and a scene from when the cast are having coffee break.Read More »

It’s summer, a boy and his friends go to the river. On the ride there, a story is told about a man and his pet snake that tried to eat him. The boy falls from a tree trunk and gets hurt. A girl follows him. A couple kiss each other, another boy explores the woods and a third one just lays by a tree eating a peach. In four chapters, the heat and the humidity of the forest unravel desires among them.Read More »