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Author Archives: rarefilm
Mannen på taket / Man on the Roof (1976) Bo Widerberg, Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Sven Wollter, Thomas Hellberg

Police lieutenant Nyman is murdered in his hospital bed and Martin Beck and his colleagues have another murder to solve. Read More »
Winter Cherries (1985) Igor Maslennikov, Elena Safonova, Nina Ruslanova, Larisa Udovichenko

Olga, is a young intelligent woman who raises a young son. She ends up falling in love with a married man who does not dare to leave his family. Read More »
We Are Young. We Are Strong. (2014) Burhan Qurbani, Jonas Nay, Trang Le Hong, Devid Striesow

People from different walks of life in the German city of Rostock intersect when a rampaging Read More »
The Narrow Frame of Midnight / Itar el-layl (2014) Tala Hadid, Khalid Abdalla, Marie-Josée Croze, Fadwa Boujouane

A man in search of his brother and a young girl in search of a home, both running toward an unknown future. One finds freedom, the other death. Read More »
The Beast of Budapest (1958) Harmon Jones, Gerald Milton, Michael Mills, Violet Rensing

Re-creation of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. A Hungarian militarist (Mylong) has a daughter (Rensing) who is an ardent communist. Read More »
Enchanted Princess / Hatsuharu tanuki goten (1959) Keigo Kimura, Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Shintarô Katsu

Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. Read More »
La mafia non è più quella di una volta (2019) Franco Maresco, Letizia Battaglia, Ciccio Mira, Matteo Mannino

On the 25th anniversary of Capaci and via D’Amelio bombings, Franco Maresco wonders what’s left of their ideals Read More »
Wild Geese / Gan (1966) Kazuo Ikehiro, Ayako Wakao, Gaku Yamamoto, Eitarô Ozawa

A poor woman agrees to marry a much older man, not knowing that his wife is still alive. Read More »
The Incident (1990) Joseph Sargent, Walter Matthau, Susan Blakely, Robert Carradine

Small town lawyer Harmon Cobb defends a German prisoner of war against murder charges. Read More »