Tells the story of a young woman’s relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.Read More »
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet – Un long dimanche de fiançailles AKA A Very Long Engagement (2004)
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Stanislaw Rózewicz – Wolne miasto AKA Free City (1958)
Stanislaw Rózewicz1951-1960DramaPolandWarQuote:
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdansk on the first day of World War II.Wikipedia wrote:
It was the first Polish film about September 1939. The director presented the drama of a group of civilians – employees of the Polish Post Office in the Free City of Gdańsk – caught up in the gears of great history. Fragments of archival film footage of the attack on the post office add authenticity to the film.Read More » -
Joris Ivens – The Spanish Earth (1937)
1931-1940DocumentaryJoris IvensUSAWarPlot/Description: from IMDB
This documentary tells of the struggles during the Spanish Civil War. It deals with the war at different levels: from the political level, at the ground military level focusing on battles in Madrid and the road from Madrid to Valencia, and at the support level. With the latter, a key project was building an irrigation system for an agricultural field near Fuentedueña so that food could be grown to feed the soldiers.Read More » -
Fred Zinnemann – Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
Fred Zinnemann1961-1970DramaUSAWarManuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.Read More »
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Ye Lou – Zi hu die AKA Purple Butterfly (2003)
Ye Lou2001-2010ChinaThrillerWarDing Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover… and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.Read More »
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Vesna Ljubic – Ecce Homo (1994)
1991-2000Bosnia HerzegovinaDramaVesna LjubicWarQuote:
In the past few years, dozens of documentaries have been made on the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Many video registrations had the dramatic siege of Sarajevo as their main subject. ECCE HOMO distinguishes itself by its personal interpretation of the blockade of Bosnia’s capital. This film has no voice-over commentating on the horrors, only images, larded now and then with fragments of religious and other music, and the hoarse croaking of crows. ECCE HOMO is not a political film, but a personal reflection on death. Time and again, she leads us to new funerals on improvised graveyards and shows images of the devastations: a burning tram, flats destroyed by fire, and the arrival of bodies at a morgue. The film reaches an emotional climax when the camera halts at a tombstone with a photo of Danica Ljubic. Who was this woman? The sister of the director? Vesna Ljubic: “The film is not sad, on the contrary; death is our only joy. And our hope.”Read More » -
Aleksey German – Proverka na dorogakh AKA Trial on the Road AKA Checkpoint (1971)
Aleksey German1971-1980DramaUSSRWarThe Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis.Read More »
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Atiq Rahimi – Syngué sabour, pierre de patience AKA The Patience Stone (2012)
Atiq Rahimi2011-2020AfghanistanDramaWarQuote:
In a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck, abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.Read More » -
Gleb Panfilov – V ogne broda net AKA There is no Passage through Fire (1967)
Gleb Panfilov1961-1970DramaUSSRWarTanya Tyotkina is a nurse in a hospital train taking the wounded soldiers from Civil War battle fields. The plain, shy and semi-illiterate young girl sincerely believes in world revolution. She does not realize the importance of the events she is taking part in but wants to express what she sees around her in drawings. Tanya has a rare gift of a true original artist and that makes her death even more tragic.
“Golden Leopard” and Award to I. Churikova for Best Female Lead at the 22nd IFF in Locarno, Switzerland (1969).
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