Donatas Banionis

Considered one of the most significant films of DEFA, the state-run East German film studio, Goya is a monumental 70mm production directed by one of East Germany’s leading directors, Konrad Wolf, who won a Special Jury Prize at the 1971 Moscow International Film Festival for this work which was also nominated for the festival’s Golden Prize. The film is based on a 1951 novel by the German-Jewish exile author Lion Feuchtwanger. Goya is one of ten East German films originally shot in 70mm.Read More »

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At the airport of one European country, a messenger who was maintaining a relationship between Dr Haas and the secret service of Western Europe’s countries was assassinated. Dr Haas drew attention to himself during the World War II, when he tested his deadly venom that caused psychological disorder on the prisoners of the death camp. In order to stop Has in his attempt to test his poisonous gas on the citizens of the world, thus completing his dreaded plan of decreasing the human population, KGB sends its seasoned agents to Daregate, center of the pharmaceutical industry having the suspicion that Has is in fact hiding on that location.Read More »

Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. With Solaris, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic, adapted from the famous novel by Stanislas Lem. Much more than a sci-fi film, Solaris is a meditation that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself.Read More »