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A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as “unearthly horses” transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers, who are “always expecting the impossible from the doctor,” and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything.Read More »
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Koji Yamamura – Kafuka: Inaka isha AKA Franz Kafka’s a Country Doctor (2007)
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Léandre-Alain Baker – Ramata (2009)
2001-2010DramaLéandre-Alain BakerRomanceSenegalQuote:
Ramata is a spellbindingly beautiful woman in her fifties. She has been married for thirty years now to Matar Samb, a very rich man, a former prosecutor who is now Minister of Justice. They live in Les Almadies, an elegant neighborhood of Dakar. Ngor Ndong is twenty-five. He is young, strong, mysterious and homeless. He is an occasional petty crook, known to the police. One evening, in a taxi that Ngor Ndong just happens to be driving, Ramata, reticent at first, finally agrees to follow this young man half her age to the Copacabana, a dive in the seediest part of Dakar.Read More » -
Joann Sfar – Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)
Joann Sfar2001-2010DramaFranceMusicalSynopsis
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.Read More » -
Rebecca Miller – The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
2001-2010ArthouseDramaRebecca MillerUSAPLOT: complicated relationship between father and doughter and in the background of the story beautifull landscapes of east cost island in US.Read More »
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Lutz Hachmeister – Das Goebbels-Experiment AKA The Goebbels Experiment (2005)
2001-2010DocumentaryGermanyLutz HachmeisterJoseph Goebbels has often been cited as the man who did the most to help Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rise to power; he was the architect of the party’s propaganda machine and helped to craft the public image of Hitler as he became one of the most hated and feared leaders of his time, and masterminded the greatest crime of the 20th Century. However, while Hitler’s life outside of politics has long been a subject of interest, less is known about Goebbels, and The Goebbels Experiment is a documentary which draws upon Goebbels’ own journals and rare archival to craft a portrait of his private side, including his passion for the Nazi cause, his devotion to Hitler, his battle with depression, his dramatic mood swings, and his severe contempt for anyone who did not live up to his standards. Kenneth Branagh narrates the English language version of the film.Read More »
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Jens Jonsson – Ping-pongkingen AKA The King of Ping Pong (2008)
2001-2010DramaJens JonssonSwedenRille, an ostracized and bullied teenager, who only excels in the ping pong room, descends into a life-and-death struggle with his younger, more popular brother when the truth about their father surfaces during their spring break.Read More »
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Elfi Mikesch – Mon Paradis – Der Winterpalast (2001)
Elfi Mikesch2001-2010DocumentaryGermanyA portrait of five St. Petersburgians and their connection to The Hermitage.Read More »
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Irena Pavlásková – Zemský ráj to napohled AKA An Earthy Paradise for the Eyes (2009)
Irena Pavlásková2001-2010ComedyCzech RepublicDramaAdolescence is always a difficult time; it is doubly so for Gábina. For one thing, she is growing up in the normalization years of the 1970s, and then she also has to face the reality that her father is a well-known actor disavowed by the regime. Although he abandoned the family years before, his existence casts an ominous shadow over the lives of not only Gábina, but also her older sister and mother, who are trying to find a civilized way through the social mire of the times.Read More »
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Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz – Ve’Lakhta Lehe Isha AKA To Take a Wife (2004)
Ronit Elkabetz2001-2010DramaIsraelShlomi ElkabetzThe story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.Read More »