Archive for the ‘Poland’ Category
Die Blechtrommel (1979)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on… |
Inland Empire (2006)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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After taking the lead in a new movie Hollywood star Nikki Grace learns the script is based on an old polish film, which was abandoned after the two lead roles of the film were murdered, Thinking the film is cursed Nikki’s imagination runs riot. |
Edges of the Lord (2001)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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A young Jewish boy in Nazi occupied Poland hides with a family of Catholic peasants and a compassionate priest to escape Nazi forces. |
pan wolodyjowski (1969)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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The Piano Player (2001)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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How far is a man willing to go to be with the woman he wants? Erika is a veteran piano instructor at a famous music conservatory in Vienna. Erika is highly respected for her remarkable talent and strong discipline, but she’s also known to be a harsh taskmistress and does not suffer fools gladly; among her students, Erika’s class is considered a highly rewarding challenge, but difficult to weather. Erika seems to get her stern and unforgiving nature from her mother, with whom she still lives, and without a husband or a lover, Erika satisfies her strong but frequently perverse sexual appetites through extreme porn videos, voyeurism, and masturbatory practices that sometimes involve pain and self-mutilation. Erika discovers she has attracted the attentions of one of her students, Walter, a gifted and good-looking young man who does not seem at all put off by her icy personality. She refuses to acknowledge Walter’s romantic overtures, but when he rises to the defense of a fellow student after a recital, Erika is enraged, and Walter pursues her, finally following her as she storms off to the women’s room. Erika abruptly approaches Walter in a rough sexual fashion, but refuses to fully satisfy him until he is willing to allow her to control the relationship. When Walter becomes aware of just how much pain and humiliation is involved in Erika’s erotic bill of fare, he refuses to participate, but in time his attraction to her causes him to weaken, and he begins to accede to her sexual demands. |
Three Colours: Red (1994)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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Valentine is a young model living in Geneva. Because of a dog she ran over, she meets a retired judge who spies his neighbours’ phone calls, not for money but to feed his cynicism. The film is the story of relationships between some human beings, Valentine and the judge, but also other people who may not be aware of the relationship they have with Valentine or/and the old judge. Redemption, forgiveness and compassion… |
Three Colors: Blue (1993)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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Three Colors: Blue is the first part of Kieslowski’s trilogy on France’s national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Blue is the story of Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed European composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The film’s theme of liberty is manifested in Julie’s attempt to start life anew free of personal commitments, belongings grief and love. She intends to spiritually commit suicide by withdrawing from the world and live completely independently, anonymously and in solitude in the Parisian metropolis. Despite her intentions, people from her former and present life intrude with their own needs. However, the reality created by the people who need and care about her, a surprising discovery and the music around which the film revolves heals Julie and irresistably draws her back to the land of the living. |
Three Colours: White (1994)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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Karol (Polish) marries Domininque (French) and moves to Paris. The marriage breaks down and Dominique divorces Karol, forcing him into the life of a metro beggar and eventually back to Poland. However he never forgets Dominique and while building a new life for himself in Warsaw he begins to plot… |
The Hexer (2001)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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Avalon (2001)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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Gloomy portrayal of the near future in an imaginary town in Central Europe, shot in Poland (Polish is also spoken). The town is dirty and chaotic. Computer games have lost their innocence: they are addictive and large sums of money can be won. Ash lives alone. She doesn’t have any contact with other people, only with her dog. Her only activities are cooking meals for the dog and playing games. She is a professional Avalon super warrior, a player on the top-level, that is only accessible under very specific conditions. Once a player is inside, they can only stop by winning the game. Otherwise the player can die. Ash ignores all warnings and decides to play anyway. |
War and Peace (2007)Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 |
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The story of five aristocratic families in Russia during the the Napoleonic Era. |
Antichrist (2009)Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 |
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A couple lose their young son when he falls out the window while they have sex in the other room. The mother’s grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the woods, “Eden”, where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within. Search keywords |
Katyn (2007)Monday, July 13th, 2009 |
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An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940. Search keywords |
Rocky V ()Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 |
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World heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Balboa returns home to Philadelphia to a hero’s welcome after defeating Ivan Drago in a brutal match. Rocky soon discovers that his match with Drago has left him with damage to his brain, and his fortune, which he had entrusted to his wife Adrian’s brother Paulie, has been squandered by an incompetent accountant. In debt to the IRS, Rocky is forced to sell most of his possessions, including his mansion. Rocky, Adrian, and their son Rocky Balboa Jr, move back to Rocky’s old neighborhood in South Philadelphia. Adjustment to the dramatically different lifestyle proves to be more difficult for Rocky Balboa Jr than it is for Rocky and Adrian. Junior quickly becomes involved with a bad crowd, and encounters a bully. Meanwhile, financially desperate Rocky is tempted to re-enter the ring when shady promoter George Washington Duke offers him a huge amount of money to defend his title. Adrian insists that Rocky not risk his life by returning to the ring. Rocky’s financial future looks bleak, until he is approached by a young boxer named Tommy “Machine” Gunn, who idolizes Rocky and begs Rocky to help him train. Rocky agrees to train Tommy, but this hurts Rocky’s relationship with Junior, who believes Rocky is neglecting him in favor of Tommy. Junior becomes even more deeply involved with the bad crowd that he has fallen into. Junior even undergoes training and beats up the bully who was harassing him. After Tommy wins his first few matches, he starts becoming arrogant. When Tommy, who wants a high profile match against a champion, arrogantly decides that Rocky is not moving him up quickly enough, an impatient Tommy turns his back on Rocky and hires Duke as his new manager. While this gives Rocky and Junior the chance they need to work things out with each other, Tommy wins a belt, and still doesn’t have the respect that he’s arrogantly looking for because fans always boo him. Duke tells Tommy that the only way to get the respect Tommy wants would be to beat Rocky one-on-one, so Duke and Tommy find Rocky at a bar, and Tommy challenges Rocky to a street fight that may put Rocky’s life on the line. |
W. ()Friday, February 6th, 2009 |
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A chronicle of the life and presidency of George In. Bush. А кроника о животу и Председнисства Георге У. Бусх. |
Chicken Little ()Thursday, December 18th, 2008 |
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After Chicken Little causes widespread panic, when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of heaven young chicken is determined to restore his reputation. But just as things start to go his way, a real piece of sky lands on his head. Chicken Little and his gang of loser friends, Abby mallard (some ugly duckling), runt of the litter and removing the water trying to save the world without sending the entire new city in panic. След Chicken Little предизвиква паника-широко разпространена, когато той грешки намаляваща мида за парче от небето-младите пиле е решена да възстанови репутацията му. Но също толкова неща започват да отида пътя си, истинско парче от небето земи на главата му. Chicken Little и неговата банда Несретник приятели, Аби зеленоглава патица (известен Грозно пате), изтърсак на отпадъци и изважда на водата, се опитват да спасят света, без изпращане на града в цяла нова паника. |
Bronx Tale, A ()Monday, September 29th, 2008 |
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. A shooting witnessed by Calogero is the starting point of a lasting bond between the gangster and the small boy. Father (the driver of bus Lorenzo), nevertheless, disap-proves it. Calogero grows below the wings of both men, torn between his natural honesty itself and his fascination with Sonny. The neighborhood comrades of C are implicated in theft, use of arms, racial struggles. When C it finds the girl, the things are not easier. The jump of C to the masculinity is marked by the drama, but also by his recognition of many faces of the love. O gângster Sonny é o grande homem na vizinhança Bronx de Calogero. Um tiroteio testemunhado por Calogero é o ponto de partida de um vínculo duradouro entre o gângster e o pequeno rapaz. Pai (o motorista de ônibus Lorenzo), contudo, o disap-prova. Calogero cresce abaixo das asas de ambos os homens, rasgados entre a sua própria honestidade natural e a sua fascinação com Sonny. Os camaradas de vizinhança de C estão implicados em roubo, uso de armas, lutas raciais. Quando C encontra a menina, as coisas não ficam mais fáceis. O pulo de C à masculinidade é marcado pelo drama, mas também pelo seu reconhecimento de muitas caras do amor. |
Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge, A ()Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 |
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A new family moves in the house on the elm street, and shortly around, the children nightmares about the died child-murderer Freddy Krueger have again. Freddy tries this spot to own a youngster to cause devastation in the real world, and can be overcome only if the darling of the boy can master her fear. Eine neue Familie zieht ins Haus auf der Ulme-Straße, und in Kürze um, die Kinder haben wieder Albträume über den gestorbenen Kindermörder Freddy Krueger. Dieses Mal versucht Freddy, einen Jugendlichen zu besitzen, um Verwüstung in der echten Welt zu verursachen, und kann nur überwunden werden, wenn das Schätzchen des Jungen ihre Angst meistern kann. |
Garden State ()Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 |
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Andrew Largeman moved by life in a coma encouraged in the lithium until the death of his mother inspires holiday of pills to see what could arrive. An actor of TV was reasonably achieved living being in Los Angeles, “Big” was not at home in New Jersey in nine years. But even with 3 000 miles between them, it was unable to avoid his domineering father Gideon and effect making hush up that he is had on his son from a distance. Stunned to be in its home town after such a long absence, Big finds old knowledge around every corner living on lives completely unique as the gravediggers, the knights of fast food restaurant and the panderers of plans of pyramid. Meanwhile, at home, he makes all possible to avoid a confrontation cooking over a gentle heat for a long time but unavoidable with his father. By a twist of destiny, Big meet Sam, a girl who is everything that he is not. A breath of colour, hope and eccentricities, Sam becomes an acolyte who refuses to go to his sidecar. Its heat and braveness give courage Big to open the heart to joy and to pain of the infinite abyss which is life. Andrew Largeman a déplacé par la vie dans un coma incité au lithium jusqu’à ce que la mort de sa mère ait inspiré des vacances des pilules à voir ce qui pourrait arriver. Un acteur de TV modérément réussi vivant à Los Angeles, “Grand” n’a pas été à la maison dans le New Jersey dans neuf ans. Mais même avec 3 000 miles entre eux, il a été incapable d’échapper à son père dominateur Gideon et l’effet faisant taire qu’il est eu sur son fils de loin. Assommé pour se trouver dans sa ville natale après qu’une si longue absence, Grande trouve de vieilles connaissances autour de chaque coin vivant des vies tout à fait uniques comme les fossoyeurs, les chevaliers de fast-food et le panderers de plans de pyramide. Pendant ce temps, à la maison, il fait tout le possible pour éviter une confrontation cuisant à petit feu longtemps mais inévitable avec son père. Par un tortillon de destin, Grand rencontre Sam, une fille qui est tout qu’il n’est pas. Un souffle de couleur, espoir et excentricités, Sam devient un acolyte qui refuse d’aller dans son side-car. Sa chaleur et intrépidité donnent Grand le courage pour ouvrir son coeur à la joie et à la douleur de l’abîme infini qui est la vie. |
Steptoe and Son ()Saturday, March 29th, 2008 |
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Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are businessmen of trash, complete of horse and cart in order that the neighborhood travels. They also live friendly together in the yard of trash. But Harold, who likes the brilliant lights in the End of the West of London, finds an artist of streaptise. Completed, but he gets married with her and takes his Albert of house, naturally, it is furious and it tries each trick that he knows to expel the new fiancee of his house. Albert Steptoe e seu filho Harold são negociantes de rebotalho, completos de cavalo e carreta para viajar a vizinhança. Eles também vivem amigavelmente em conjunto na jarda de rebotalho. Mas Harold, que gosta das luzes brilhantes no Fim do Oeste de Londres, encontra uma artista de streaptise. Perfeito, mas ele casa-se com ela e toma o seu Albert de casa, naturalmente, é furioso e tenta cada truque que ele sabe para expulsar a nova noiva da sua casa. |



















