Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building’s attic. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
Our Folks (1967) Sami swoi – Sylwester Checinski
Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war Read More »
Gas, Inspector Palmu! (1961) Matti Kassila, Joel Rinne, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela
A rich widow is found dead of gas poisoning in her flat in Helsinki. Read More »
Hawks and Sparrows (1966) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi
This richly symbolic film is really impossible to understand without some knowledge of 20th Century Italian history Read More »
Legacy of the 500,000 (1963) Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tsutomu Yamazaki
During the Second World War, Takeichi Matsuo had participated in hiding a huge cache of gold in the Phillippine mountains. Read More »
Unperishable Sword (1960) Yasushi Sasaki, Kôji Tsuruta, Hiroko Sakuramachi, Keiko Fujita
Obsessions (1969) Pim de la Parra, Alexandra Stewart, Dieter Geissler, Tom van Beek
Student Nils is spying on his neighbor doing kinky stuff while his girlfriend Marina, a journalist, is looking for a missing girl. Read More »
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) Charles Jarrott, Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Henry VIII of England discards one wife Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of a young and beautiful woman Read More »
Girl with Green Eyes (1964) Desmond Davis, Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave
An awkward young Irish farm girl Kate Brady moves to Dublin and shares a room with funny Read More »
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969) Nagisa Ôshima, Tadanori Yokoo, Rie Yokoyama, Moichi Tanabe
Story of a bookstore thief named Birdey who is led through various adventures in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko. Read More »