A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland’s Solidarity union. Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
Victoria (2013) Torun Lian, Iben Akerlie, Jakob Oftebro, Bill Skarsgård
A dramatizing of Knut Hamsun’s famous novel from 1898, Victoria, which is about the tragic Read More »
The Ninth Day (2004) Volker Schlöndorff, Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl, Hilmar Thate
In World War II, after a period living hell on earth in the concentration camp of Dachau with other catholic priests Read More »
A Boy Called H (2013) Yasuo Furuhata, Yutaka Mizutani, Ran Itô, Tatsuki Yoshioka
Told from the viewpoint of the father Morio (Yutaka Mizutani), “A Boy Called H” follows a young boy named Hajime Senoh, nicknamed “H”. Read More »
The Man who Crossed Hitler (2011) Justin Hardy, Ed Stoppard, Ian Hart, Bill Paterson
In November 1930 brown-shirted storm troopers of Hitler’s SA break into the Communist Eden Palace club, killing several members. Read More »
Mudar de Vida, José Mario Branco, vida e obra (2014) Pedro Fidalgo, Nelson Guerreiro
A documentary about the life and work of musician, composer, poet, actor, activist, columnist, music producer, José Mário Branco Read More »
Game of Checkers (2015) Patrícia Sequeira, Ana Nave, Ana Padrão, Fátima Belo
Following Marta’s wake, her five best friends decide to spend the night at a rural tourist getaway that Marta never got around to opening. Read More »
The Tip of the Iceberg (2016) David Cánovas, Maribel Verdú, Carmelo Gómez, Fernando Cayo
A large multinational company is shaken by the suicide of three employees. Read More »
My Beautiful Country (2012) Michaela Kezele, Zrinka Cvitesic, Misel Maticevic, Andrija Nikcevic
Kosovo, 1999. As the civil war between Serbs and Albanians rages, hatred has replaced tolerance, and towns are brutally divided along ethnic lines. Read More »
Free Radicals (2003) Barbara Albert, Kathrin Resetarits, Ursula Strauss, Georg Friedrich
A young Austrian survives the crash of a commercial airliner. Six years later, she’s a clerk, a mother, happy. Read More »