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An old doctor faces cancer. On the set, he meets a monk and a couple, a medical student and a wardrobe mistress. He seeks the help of other doctors, but in the end it is they who help him come to terms with his inevitable death.Read More »
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Krzysztof Zanussi – Zycie jako smiertelna choroba przenoszona droga plciowa AKA Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
1991-2000DramaKrzysztof ZanussiPoland -
Christine Laurent – Vertiges (1985)
1981-1990Christine LaurentDramaFranceMusicalThe Female GazeLife and loves of a theatre inside and outside the stage. The troup is playing Les noces de Figaro.Read More »
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Piotr Szulkin – O-bi, O-ba – Koniec cywilizacji AKA O-bi O-ba – The End Of Civilization (1985)
1981-1990ArthousePiotr SzulkinPolandSci-FiThe world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of ‘The Dome’. Soft is a shepherd for the last remnants of humanity who have gathered together as they await rescue from a mysterious craft known only as ‘The Ark.’ He wanders among the masses, performing his regular daily tasks; keeping morale from plummeting, wooing prostitutes, squashing rebellions, and sometimes feeding the hungry. But as the true and sinister nature of ‘The Dome’ comes to light, Soft must ask himself if humanity is worth saving?Read More »
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Piotr Szulkin – Golem (1980)
Piotr Szulkin1971-1980ArthousePolandSci-FiPernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He’s released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven. Pernat’s odyssey to find out who he is, and what it is to be human, will force his path to cross with all of them.Read More »
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Helma Sanders-Brahms – Laputa (1986)
Helma Sanders-Brahms1981-1990DramaGermanyMalgortzata and Paul have a rendezvous in West Berlin to spend some time together before she has to go back to Warsaw and he returns to his wife and daughter. The two talk, disagree, argue, make-up, quarrel and talk some more.Read More »
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István Szabó – Mephisto[4K Restoration] (1981)
István Szabó1981-1990DramaHungaryA German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.Read More »
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Krzysztof Zanussi – Stan posiadania AKA Inventory (1989)
1981-1990DramaKrzysztof ZanussiPolandSynopsis:
Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Julia, a depressed woman older than he, he first tries to comfort her, then invites her to stay with him and his mother. Tomek makes a trip to West Berlin to visit his well-off father. He refuses to take money from him and looks for work as a house painter. Julia ends up in a rest home for treatment, while Tomek is trying to make their relationship work.Read More » -
Andrzej Wajda – Dyrygent AKA The Conductor (1980)
1971-1980Andrzej WajdaDramaPolandQuote:
A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the U.S., ties up with the world-renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out, he was once in love with the violinist’s mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive an old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for personal and professional reasons.Read More » -
Andrzej Wajda – Czlowiek z marmuru AKA Man of Marble (1977)
1971-1980Andrzej WajdaDramaPolandPoliticsSynopsis:
In 1976, a young woman in Krakow is making her diploma film, looking behind the scenes at the life of a 1950s bricklayer, Birkut, who was briefly a proletariat hero, at how that heroism was created, and what became of him. She gets hold of outtakes and censored footage and interviews the man’s friends, ex-wife, and the filmmaker who made him a hero. A portrait of Birkut emerges: he believed in the workers’ revolution, in building housing for all, and his very virtues were his undoing. Her hard-driving style and the content of the film unnerve her supervisor, who kills the project with the excuse she’s over budget. Is there any way she can push the film to completion?Read More »
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