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Friday, March 13, 2020

Le grand départ / The Big Departure. 1972.


Le grand départ / The Big Departure. 1972.

Le grand départ / The Big Departure. 1972.
 FR. Le Grand Départ est un film français réalisé par Martial Raysse, sorti en 1972.
Une fin de repas comme tant d'autres: un couple au regard vide devant un écran de télévision, plongé dans une digestion béate; puis, rupture avec l'arrivée brutale et rapide d'un jeune homme, et sa fuite en vélomoteur. Avec lui, le metteur en scène nous entraîne dans une "fête à l'envers"; l'ordre logique est renversé; les personnages changent d'identité; ils empruntent leurs masques tour à tour à des animaux (le chat Caïn), à des héros de la mythologie (Monsieur Nature), à des tableaux célèbres. Les allusions à la peinture sont nombreuses: Léonard de Vinci, Millet, Delacroix et même des contemporains: Labisse et, naturellement, Martial Raysse (le réalisateur est peintre). Les couleurs prennent celles des négatifs d'une photo: les roses buvard tournent subitement au vert, et les mauves délavés au bleu; les catégories, les déterminations ordinaires s'évanouissent dans des effets visuels fluides et inattendus. Ces créatures mystérieuses parlent du "grand départ" et cherchent le "paradis". Cette quête les conduit dans une sorte de communauté hyppie où le rêve a chassé la réalité. Ils se retrouvent sur un radeau soumis à des événements cosmiques indéfinissables; le cauchemar et le merveilleux deviennent inséparables. Les cataclysmes se succèdent; les fantasmes, les espoirs disparaissent, emportés dans un flot d'images évanescentes qui se dissolvent dans la confusion et se désagrègent dans l'horreur! Le grand départ? La quête du paradis? Avec qui? Vers quoi? Puisqu'il semble, "hélas, qu'il n'y ait pas d'autres paradis que celui où nous sommes".
EN. Not a good movie, though a prime example of audacious, rule-breaking cinema. It’s an early seventies French film shown almost entirely in negative exposure, which in itself makes it worth a watch.
LE GRAND DEPART (THE GRAND DEPARTURE; 1972) was the only feature directed by the famed French painter and sculptor Martial Raysse. In keeping with the revolutionary spirit of the time, LE GRAND DEPART has no plot to speak of and appears to have been largely made up on the spot. It shares a kinship with such films as BEGOTTEN (1990) and the X-rated short THE OPERATION (1995), both of which experimented with negative exposure (and far more effectively).
For decades LE GRAND DEPART was thought a “lost” film, but in late 2008 it made its DVD debut (in France), to alternately enchant and disappoint viewers anew.
We follow the cat man into a bizarre fantasy universe presented in negative exposure that reverses color values (black is white and vice versa) and written words. The cat man steals a car and then picks up a young girl he promises to take to “Heaven.” Heaven turns out to be a country chateau inhabited by several more animal mask wearing weirdoes.
There’s also a hippie cult frolicking in the woods nearby. The cult’s leader is an intense English speaking guru who prophecies a “Grand Departure” that will liberate his followers from their Earthly concerns.
Somewhere in here we learn the cat man represents death, as everyone he meets dies soon afterward--if he doesn’t do the killing himself. An example of this occurs when he callously molests a woman on a country road and leaves her for dead.
The cat man winds up on a “raft of freedom” manned by the guru and his followers. The raft becomes a sort of interstellar flying carpet that whisks them all through the cosmos. The trip is fun at first, with the cultists frolicking and playing ball with the Earth(!), but it eventually degenerates into a mass orgy…and the film finally returns to normal exposure.
The negative exposure works wonders, transforming drab Parisian locations into exotic dreamscapes. Of course it can’t do much for the camerawork, which is loose and amateurish; without the visual heightening this would likely play like a crappy home movie. Nor is the acting anything much; the only performer who makes any impression is Sterling Hayden as the cult leader.
 This film was created using technology Eastman Color Negative (ECN) is a photographic processing system created by Kodak in the 1950s for the development of monopack color negative motion picture film stock. Therefore, here is the original version of the film and the second version with inverted chroma.
Director: Martial Raysse.
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Anne Wiazemsky, Gilles Raysse, Lucienne Hamon, Alexandre Raysse, Jackie Raynal.
France, 1972.
Language: French, English.
Subtitles: English, French.
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Le grand départ / The Big Departure. 1972. Original version.
Le grand départ / The Big Departure. 1972. Original version.
Le grand départ / The Big Departure. 1972. Inverted chroma version.
Le grand départ / The Big Departure. 1972. Inverted chroma version.

Med osy. 1990.

Мёд осы / Med osy. 1990.
 Rare Belarusian film, surreal psychological drama with elements of animation. The film tells about the fate of the twin brothers Boris and Gleb, whose childhood coincided with the first post-war years. Through religion, Boris and Gleb come to eternal universal human values, at the same time realizing that in real life there is much suffering and people do not always adhere to Christian morality..
Director: Igor Volchek.
Cast: Andrei Bubashkin, Dmitri Kamenka, Aleksandr Labush, Marina Levtova, Ivan Matskevich, Tamara Muzhenko, Gennadiy Ovsyannikov, Aleksandr Sajko, Olga Sizova, Mikhail Yasuchek.
USSR, Belarusfilm, 1990.
Language: Russian.
Мёд осы / Med osy. 1990.
Med osy. 1990.



Een vrouw als Eva / A Woman Like Eve. 1979.

Een vrouw als Eva / A Woman Like Eve. 1979.
 A better version of this film was found.
NL. Een vrouw als Eva is een Nederlandse speelfilm uit 1979 onder regie van Nouchka van Brakel.
Het verhaal gaat over de huisvrouw Eefje, die getrouwd is met Ad en in een flat woont, samen met hun twee kinderen Sander en Britta. Eva is niet gelukkig met haar bestaan van huishouden, kinderen opvoeden en voor haar man zorgen. Na een uitbarsting bij haar moeder thuis op moederdag verrassen Ad en buurvrouw Sonja haar met een trip naar Zuid-Frankrijk. Als de beide vrouwen daar naar het strand gaan, ontmoet Eefje tijdens een zwempartijtje de Franse Liliane. Ze blijkt een lesbische vrouw, die met nog een aantal anderen in de commune La Corbeille woont. Eefje en Sonja gaan er kijken. Sonja vindt het niks, Eefje wordt aangetrokken door de eenvoudige leefstijl van de bewoners, en niet in de laatste plaats door Liliane, die haar Eva noemt, en haar omringt met aandacht. Eenmaal weer thuis kan Eva Liliane niet vergeten, en als Liliane vanwege een vrouwenfestival naar Nederland komt, besluit ze haar weer op te zoeken. Eva's gevoelens raken verward: wil ze verder met Liliane, of toch bij haar man blijven? Ze besluit voor het eerste te kiezen en Liliane achterna te reizen naar de commune Frankrijk. Na de scheiding van Ad worden de kinderen in eerste instantie aan haar toegewezen. Ad bouwt intussen een relatie op met buurvrouw Sonja.
Toch niet in harmonie met de hele situatie wordt Eva in Frankrijk steeds ongelukkiger. Terug in Nederland huurt ze een woonboot waar ook de kinderen bij haar zijn en waar ze Liliane kan ontvangen. Tijdens de voortslepende rechtszaak over hun echtscheiding worden de kinderen uiteindelijk bij Ad geplaatst, ook omdat die inmiddels met Sonja in ondertrouw is gegaan. Volgens zijn advocaat kunnen zo twee onvolledige gezinnen weer één gezin vormen. Eva is nu alleen, ze kan dus in principe doen wat ze wil. Liliane laat de keus helemaal van Eva afhangen. Ze besluit haar grote liefde te volgen. Eenmaal op het station blijft Eva op het perron een tijdlang staan. Stapt ze op de trein naar een nieuw leven? In de slotscène zien we de trein wegrijden waarna Eva zich omdraait en het perron afloopt.
EN. A Woman Like Eve (Dutch: Een vrouw als Eva) is a 1979 Dutch drama film about a woman who leaves her husband for another woman. The film was directed by Nouchka van Brakel; Monique van de Ven stars in the title role of Eve, with Peter Faber as her husband Ad and Maria Schneider as Liliane, who becomes Eve's lover. The plot focusses on the child custody battle that ensues after Eve leaves her husband.
The film had festival showings at FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Contemporary Cinema) (1980); San Francisco International Gay Film Festival (1981), and Gay & Lesbian Media Coalition's "Out on the Screen" Festival (1992). The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 52nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Director: Nouchka van Brakel.
Cast: Monique van de Ven, Maria Schneider, Marijke Merckens, Peter Faber, Renee Soutendijk, Anna Knaup, Mike Bendig, Truus Dekker, Helen van Meurs, Ben Hulsman, Karin Meerman.
Netherlands, 1979.
Language: Dutch, English, French.
Een vrouw als Eva / A Woman Like Eve. 1979.
Een vrouw als Eva / A Woman Like Eve. 1979.

Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. 1982. Episode 1.

Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. 1982. Episode 1.
 In der fünfteiligen Romanverfilmung nach Thomas Mann geht es um den gutaussehenden Unternehmersohn Felix Krull. Der galante Lebemann hat eine Begabung dazu, sich durch Lügen und Tricksereien durchs Leben zu manövrieren. Er wickelt Frauen reihenweise um den Finger und drückt sich geschickt vor dem Militärdienst und anderen Unbequemlichkeiten des Alltags. So tritt Felix statt dem Dienst an der Waffe einen von seinem Patenonkel vermittelten Job in einem Hotel in Monte Carlo an. Hier beginnt nun sein Höhenflug in und mit der (zumeist weiblichen) Schickeria des Fürstentums.
Director: Bernhard Sinkel.
Cast: John Moulder-Brown, Magali Noël, Hans Heinz Moser, Pierre Doris, Alain Flick, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Daphne Wagner, Mareike Carrière, Franziska Walser, Rolf Zacher, Rita Tushingham.
Austria, West Germany, France, 1982.
Language: German, Russian.
Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. 1982. Episode 1.
Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. 1982. Episode 1.

Du er ikke alene / You are not alone. 1978. HD.

 Du er ikke alene / You are not alone. 1978. HD.
 DK. Du er ikke alene er en dansk film fra 1978. Filmen er instrueret af Lasse Nielsen og Ernst Johansen, og manuskriptet er af Lasse Nielsen og Bent Pedersen. Filmen havde premiere den 23. februar 1978.
Filmen foregår på en dansk drengeefterskole hvor en af drengene, Bo (Anders Agensø), opdager sin kærlighed for forstanderens yngste søn, Kim (Peter Bjerg), da begge påbegynder en rejse af seksuel udforskning med hinanden. I en ikke-relateret hændelse bliver en elev udvist for at vise pornografiske plakater, hvorefter de andre elever beslutter sig for at protestere og gå i strejke. Kim og Bo beslutter sig for at komme ud af skabet foran forældre og klassekammerater og viser en film de har lavet om deres forhold, der afsluttes med en lang og følelsesladet kyssescene.
Overgreb på børneskuespillere:
I foråret 2018 er det kommet frem i medierne, at mange af børneskuespillerne, både drenge og piger, som var med i filmen, skal være blevet krænket og seksuelt misbrugt under filmoptagelserne. Misbruget skal være begået af de to instruktører Lasse Nielsen og Ernst Johansen.
EN. You Are Not Alone (Danish: Du er ikke alene) is a 1978 Danish coming-of-age film written by Lasse Nielsen and Bent Petersen, directed by Lasse Nielsen and Ernst Johansen and produced by Steen Herdel.
Set in a Danish all-boys boarding school, one of the boys, Bo (Anders Agensø), develops a special relationship with the headmaster's young son, Kim (Peter Bjerg). In the beginning of the film the headmaster is trying to get funding for a new gym for the school. The boarding school is likely a Christian one, as they have school prayer and the teachers keep referring to good Christian morals.
In another plotline, a troubled student is expelled for displaying sexually charged posters. Some of the students decide to protest this by walking-out of classes. The boy is eventually allowed to return to school so that he may graduate. At the year-end graduation ceremony, the boys present to the entire school and their families a short film they made by themselves based on the commandment "Love thy neighbour".
Sexual abuse:
In 2018 six male and sixteen female former child actors accused the two directors of sexual abuse during the production of You Are Not Alone and other films. The accusations were covered widely in Danish media, and Ernst Johansen admitted to having had sex with under-age female actors, but claims to not having been aware of the age of consent (15 years in Denmark), and that the girls made a pass on him first.
 Directors: Lasse Nielsen, Ernst Johansen.
Cast: Anders Agensø, Peter Bjerg, Ove Sprogøe, Martin Højmark, Elin Reimer, Jan Jorgensen, Jørn Faurschou, Merete Axelberg, John Hahn-Petersen, Hugo Herrestrup, Beatrice Palner, Aske Jacoby, Ole Meyer.
Denmark, 1978.
Language: Danish, Russian.
Subtitles: English.
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Zhivaya raduga / Living Rainbow. 1982.

Zhivaya raduga / Living Rainbow. 1982.
 Based on the works of the writer Nikolai Nosov.
Every morning Misha and Katya go to school where their teacher teaches them to love and understand nature. When Misha's favorite duck dies in a car accident, they build an incubator to save future ducks.
The film “Living Rainbow” is the directorial debut of Natalia Bondarchuk. The film is unique in that sings of earthly love for animals and nature.
Director: Natalya Bondarchuk.
Cast: Roman Generalov, Yekaterina Lychyova, Yelizaveta Volkova, Nikolay Burlyaev, Natalya Bondarchuk, Stefaniya Stanyuta, Inna Makarova, Arnis Licitis, Alyona Bondarchuk.
USSR,  Kinostudiya imeni M. Gorkogo, 1982.
Language: Russian.
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Zhivaya raduga / Living Rainbow. 1982.
Zhivaya raduga / Living Rainbow. 1982.

Európa messze van / Europe Is Far Away. 1995. 6 episodes.

Európa messze van / Europe Is Far Away. 1995. 6 episodes.
HU. A film a Ceausescu-rendszer utolsó évében játszódik. Főszereplője a tízéves Petru, aki értelmiségi szüleivel egy kis hegyi faluban él. Az apát ellenzéki magatartása miatt folyamatosan zaklatják, lassan már élete is veszélybe kerül.
EN. The story starts in Romania in the last years of the Ceaucescu regime. The main character of the film is Petru, a ten-year-old Romanian boy. His world is one of action and dreams but, at the same time, presents an authentic vista of contemporary Central Europe. All the events are shown through his eyes. His odyssey is an amusing and grotesque tale of survival as well as a parable on the survival of the human spirit. He comes to grips with a hostile world with both humour and rage, imagination and innocence. Petru lives with his vegetarian father Mihai and his pianist mother Daniela, in a small idyllic village in the Carpathian Mountains. His best friends are his dog Ursu, with whom he shares all his joys and sorrows, and the buffalo Florica. One day the family has to leave the country for political reasons. A long journey to freedom full of thrills and adventures begins, which first leads them from Hungary to Austria. Here they are sent to a refugee camp where Petru's parents are classified as economic refugees because they have no documents; they are be deported back to Romania. Petru flees on his own and has to encounter a number of dangerous situations. But there are also glimmers of hope when an old stationmaster and his wife from a tiny Bavarian village adopt him, nurse him back to health and enable him to integrate into a new community. But here too, the police are already on his tail...
Director: Barna Kabay, Petényi Katalin.
Cast: Levente Tamási, Géza Kaszás, Denisa Dér, Ferenc Zenthe, Hédi Temessy, Zoltán Gulyás Kiss, János Koltai, Balázs Mészáros, Ádám Rajhona.
Hungary, 1995.
Language: Hungarian.
Subtitles: Russian.
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Európa messze van / Europe Is Far Away. 1995. 6 episodes.
Európa messze van / Europe Is Far Away. 1995. 6 episodes.
Európa messze van / Europe Is Far Away. 1995. 6 episodes.
Európa messze van / Europe Is Far Away. 1995. 6 episodes.


Tom et Lola / Tom and Lola. 1990. HD & DVD.

Tom et Lola / Tom and Lola. 1990. HD & DVD.
 FR. Tom et Lola est un film français réalisé par Bertrand Arthuys, sorti en 1990.
Tom et Lola sont deux enfants-bulle de 9 ans, qui, depuis leur naissance, sont coupés du monde à cause de leur déficience immunitaire. Ils vivent nus, sans cheveux, dans deux bulles de plastique, entourés de l'affection de leur entourage, et attendant désespérément un remède à leur maladie. Cependant, ils construisent ensemble un monde onirique, communiquent avec un code secret et décident un jour, profitant de circonstances favorables, de réaliser leur rêve, atteindre l'Alaska où l'air est si pur qu'ils n'auront plus peur des microbes. Ils s'enfuient donc un soir de l'hôpital et commencent leur aventure merveilleuse pleine de péripéties.
EN. Tom et Lola (English: Tom and Lola) is a French film about two ten-year-olds who have always lived isolated in sterile, hermetically sealed plastic bubbles due to an (unspecified) immune-deficiency disease. However, neither their environment or the hospital technicians can keep down the indomitable spirit of these children. Nor can anything stop their quest to one day run truly free, unbound by the medical shackles that bind them.
In this allegorical children's melodrama, nine-year old Tom and Lola (Neil Stubbs and Melodie Colin) have been kept in super-sanitary conditions all their lives, and have only rarely ventured outside their clinical environment wrapped in plastic. They have been told that they have a radical immune deficiency, and will die if exposed to a normal environment. Surreptitiously, they begin to test the truth of this assertion by escaping from supervision in the middle of the night, and discover that whatever their adult captors believe, they are just fine. One day they escape for good.
Trivia: Late in the film when the pair are traveling, they come upon a group of siblings who are all completely naked in their own home. Despite claims to the contrary, this is perfectly normal for European preteens.
Director: Bertrand Arthuys.
Cast: Cécile Magnet, Marc Berman, Catherine Frot, Celian Varini, Neil Stubbs, Mélodie Collin, Sophie Arthuys, Olivier Belmont, Nadia Chapuis, Edouard Dequesne, Nicolas Haure, Quiterie Lejosne, Junior John Levis, Gwenaelle Quelme, Janine Souchon.
France, 1990.
Language: French.
Subtitles: English.
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Tom et Lola / Tom and Lola. 1990. HD & DVD.


Rispondetemi. 1992.

Rispondetemi. 1992.
 As the paramedics pry her hand apart from her dead lover's grip a woman's life flashes before her eyes. Racing to the hospital the stunning skies and rooftops of Montreal from the back of the ambulance are inter-cut with the most exquisitely cinematic memories.
Director: Léa Pool.
Cast: Anne Dorval, Marcel Gauthier, Élise Guilbault, Sylvie Legault, Karine Mercier.
Canada, 1992.
Language: French.
Subtitles: English.
Rispondetemi. 1992.


El castillo de la pureza / The Castle of Purity. 1973. DVD.

El castillo de la pureza / The Castle of Purity. 1973. DVD.
 ES. Un hombre afectado de sus facultades mentales mantiene encerrada a su familia por 18 años en una casona en la Ciudad de México.
Basada en hechos de la vida real, es uno de los films más conocidos del director Arturo Ripstein y del actor Claudio Brook que interpreta a Gabriel Lima, un hombre que aparentemente vive sólo en una casona en la Ciudad de México donde fabríca raticida, el cual vende a pequeños negocios.
Sin embargo lo que ninguno sabe, es que desde hace 18 años mantiene a su familia encerrada, su esposa Beatriz (Rita Macedo), y a sus tres hijos: Porvenir (Arturo Beristaín), Utopía (Diana Bracho) y la pequeña Voluntad (Gladys Bermejo).
Gabriel es muy estricto con ellos, los hace trabajar en su taller y diariamente los somete a sesiones de ejercicio, estudio y una comida basada solo en vegetales, ya que la carne está prohibida, pero lo más importante, los mantiene alejados del mundo exterior porque él cree que es dañino y corrupto, además por la más mínima distracción los castiga encerrándoles en un pequeño cuarto.
La historia esta basada en eventos de la vida real documentados en periodicos de 1959. Rafael Pérez Hernández, mantuvo encerrada a su familia por 15 años en una vieja casona estilo europeo en esquina de Insurgentes Norte y Godard en la ciudad de México conocida como “Casa de los Macetones”. Sus hijos de nombres Soberano, Librepensador, Indómita, Triunfador y Bienvivir, corresponden a su visión utópica de la vida.
EN. The Castle of Purity (Spanish: El castillo de la pureza) is a 1972 Mexican drama film directed by Arturo Ripstein.
The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.
Director: Arturo Ripstein.
Cast: Claudio Brook, Rita Macedo, Arturo Beristáin, Diana Bracho, Gladys Bermejo, David Silva, María Rojo, María Guadalupe Delgado, Mario Castillón Bracho, Andrea del Llano.
Mexico, 1973.
Language: Spanish, Russian.
Subtitles: English.
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Kapteinis Džeks / Kapitan Dzhek. 1972.

Kapteinis Džeks / Kapitan Dzhek. 1972.
 LV. Meitenīte Žeņa sapņo kļūt par jūrnieci. Viņa valkā jūrnieku strīpaino kreklu, jūrnieku cepuri un visu savu brīvo laiku kopā ar zēniem pavada vecajā šonerī \"Signāls\", kas ir pietauvots krastā. Par savām jūras lietu zināšanām viņa ieguvusi iesauku \"Kapteinis Džeks\". Kad veco kuģi nolemj nodot lūžņos, mazie jūrnieki dodas ar šoneri bangojošā jūrā, jo uzskata, ka kuģis-veterāns nav pelnījis tādu likteni. Ar šo kuģi kara laikā no ienaidnieku gūsta aizmuka padomju jūrnieki, kuru vidū bija arī Žeņas tēvs. Ostas priekšniecība nolemj palīdzēt skolēniem organizēt pionieru jūras klubu, kam arī nodod varonīgo šoneri.
EN. Girl Žeņa dreams of becoming a sailor. She wears a sailor's shirt, a sailor's hat, and all her free time with her boys in his old baton. She got the nickname "Captain Jack" for her marine knowledge. When an old ship decides to scrap it, the small sailors go with a barge in the wading sea because they think the ship-veteran doesn't deserve such a fate. With this ship the Soviet sailors, who were also the father of Jean, were thrown out of the enemy during the war. The harbor chief decides to help the pupils organize a pioneer marine club, which is also handed over to the heroic baton.
Director: Ada Armīda Neretniece.
Cast: Inga Mickīte, Marija Podgurska, Donāts Baņonis, Raimonds Brikšķis, Einārs Piekuss, Aivars Lipšāns, Vaidevutis Mickītis, Valdemārs Zandbergs, Aivars Liepiņš, Harijs Šadovskis, Lauris Krumovičs, Nils Ceimurs.
USSR, Rīgas kinostudija, 1972.
Language: Russian.
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Das Eismeer ruft. 1984. HD.

Das Eismeer ruft. 1984. HD.
DE. Das Eismeer ruft ist ein deutscher Kinderfilm der DEFA von Jörg Foth aus dem Jahr 1984. Er beruht auf dem gleichnamigen Kinderbuch von Alex Wedding.
Prag 1934. Fünf Kinder hören in ihrem selbstgebastelten Radio die Nachricht, daß der Eisbrecher "Tscheljuskin" im Packeis des Polarmeeres liegengeblieben ist. Spontan beschließen sie, die Schiffbrüchigen zu retten. Aber schon bald gerät ihre Expedition in eine Sackgasse. Ein sympathischer Film über den Idealismus der Kindheit, der durch seine ruhige Erzählweise allerdings konzentriertes Hinsehen voraussetzt.
EN. This children's adventure movie is a charming tale of a group of youngsters in Prague who hear that Soviet sailors abandoned their failing ship in the Arctic Sea before it went down, but no one had been able to find the sailors yet. Inspired by the efforts to save the men, the youngsters strike out on their own to help in the rescue attempt. One child is in charge of making the potato pancakes, one is in charge of the compass, and others all have their particular tasks to handle. Their progress toward the Arctic Sea is necessarily slow, whether by foot or cart or train, and they have to hole up in a relative's country cottage to spend their first night away from home. Meanwhile, worried parents have been to the authorities and a hunt is on for the children that parallels the hunt for the seamen. The children hear that they have been reported missing in the news on the radio, and they decide to turn back -- not because they have done anything wrong, but because they have to go through a dark tunnel to continue their journey -- and they are all afraid of the dark. Except for a bit of serious footage on the ship and sailors lost at sea -- which detracts from the focus of this story, the film is entertaining for adults and children alike.
Director: Jörg Foth.
Cast: Oliver Karsitz, Alexander Rohde, Vivian Schmidt, Thomas Gutzeit, Oliver Peuser, Ilja Kriwoluzky, Heide Kipp, Ute Lubosch, Marie Gruber, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Carl Heinz Choynski, Zdenek Srstka, Thomas Plenert, Hannes Stelzer.
DDR, DEFA, 1984.
Language: German.
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Sunde børn / Healthy children. 1943. HD.

Sunde børn / Healthy children. 1943. HD.
 DK. Propagandafilm for en sundere børneforplejning af lege- og skolebørn, såvel med hensyn til kosten som til påklædning og renlighed.
EN. Propaganda film for a healthier child care of play and school children, both in terms of diet and clothing and cleanliness.
Director: Karl Roos.
Script: Aage Gullestrup.
Denmark, Minerva Film, 1943.
Language: Danish.
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Lus / Lice. 1983. HD.

Lus / Lice. 1983. HD.
 Lus er en dansk børnefilm fra 1983 instrueret af Anette Pilmark og efter manuskript af Anette Pilmark og Per Schultz.
Lisa er 6 1/2 år gammel og går i børnehave. En dag får hun lus. Filmen viser, hvordan kammeraterne og de voksne omgivelser reagerer.
Director: Anette Pilmark.
Cast: Julie Find, Jesper Bredgaard, Anna Emilie Graae, Ivan Harsløf, Jonas Preisler, Iben Wurbs, Gunvor Bjerre.
Denmark, 1983.
Language: Danish.
1920x1080 HD
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Cría cuervos / Raise Ravens. 1976.

Cría cuervos / Raise Ravens. 1976.
 ES. Ana recuerda todo lo ocurrido desde de la muerte de su padre, veinte años antes. Su hija, de nueve años, cree tener poder sobre la vida y la muerte de quienes viven con ella. Hay otro poder que Ana cree poseer: el de invocar la presencia de su madre. Con ella, muerta hace años, revive una relación llena de ternura y, a veces, de dominio.
EN. Cría Cuervos (Raise ravens) is a 1976 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Saura. The film is an allegorical drama about an eight-year-old girl dealing with loss. Highly acclaimed, it received the Special Jury Prize Award at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.
In Madrid, the orphan sisters Irene, Ana and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother and their military father Anselmo. Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by death, after seeing her mother having a painful death and her father dead in bed.
Director: Carlos Saura.
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Mónica Randall, Florinda Chico, Ana Torrent, Héctor Alterio, Germán Cobos, Mirta Miller, Josefina Díaz, Conchita Pérez, Mayte Sanchez, Juan Sánchez Almendros.
Spain, 1976.
Language: Spanish, English, Russian.
Subtitles: English.
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Demi-tarif / Half-Price. 2003. DVD.

Demi-tarif / Half-Price. 2003. DVD.
 FR. Demi-tarif est un film français écrit et réalisé par Isild Le Besco et sorti en 2003.
Isild Le Besco avait 16 ans quand elle a écrit le scénario.
Demi-tarif relate la vie d'une fratrie de trois enfants vivant seuls dans un appartement. Leur mère s'est absentée pendant plusieurs mois et ils doivent se débrouiller seuls. Ils n'aiment pas aller à l'école. Ils n'aiment pas dormir quand la ville dort. Ils aiment se promener dans Paris la nuit. Ils aiment aller au cinéma. Ils jouent à être des princes ou des princesses. Ils aiment sortir et vivre nus la nuit pour attraper froid. Ils aiment chiper des pommes ou des bonbons. Ils s'inventent une vie loin du monde des adultes.
EN. Demi-Tarif follows the low-key adventures of three young siblings, Romeo (Kolia Litscher), Launa (Lila Salet), and the youngest, Leo (Cindy David), left on their own in a rundown Paris apartment. One of them narrates, wistfully explaining how their mother abandoned them and calls them once in a while to see how they are doing or tell them she loves them. The three kids do as they please, roaming the streets, running out of restaurants without paying for food, and shoplifting from the local grocery store. They eat whatever and whenever they want, gorging themselves on sweets. They beg for change on the Metro and show up late for school in tattered, dirty clothes. All the while, they try to keep the fact that they are alone a secret from the world of adults.
Director: Isild Le Besco.
Cast: Cindy David, Kolia Litscher, Lila Salet.
France, 2003.
Language: French.
Subtitles: English, German, Spanish, Russian.
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Anthology of short films. Part 64.

Anthology of short films. Part 64.
A new issue of the anthology of short films number 64. Today the collection contains 10 fresh mini-films from around the world.
1. Letizia. 2013.
Letizia is a young woman whose childhood was snatched by a ruthless father who cares because of his illness. Andrew clings to the only silent witness of his drama, his teddy bear called cremita.
Director: Nico Chacón.
Cast: Ana Chacón, Carlos Adrián Chacón, Daniela Chacón, Gabriela Chacón, Leticia Chacón, Laura Maldonado.
Spain, 2013.
Language: Spanish.
2. Rita Koeling. 2002.
Film about the timid boy Anton, who for the first time in his life falls madly in love with one of his classmates.
Director: Hubert Pouille.
Cast: Manon von Liebenstein, Jim van der Panne, Unna Huijsman, Barry Atsma.
Netherlands, 2002.
Language: Dutch.
3. Last day. 2009.
Kishinev. 1990 year. The head of the family is going to go with his family for permanent residence in Israel.
Director: Yevgeny Herzenstein.
Moldavia, 2009.
Language: Russian.
Subtitles: Hebrew, English.
4. Vizsgálat / Examination. 2016.
High school students are bullied at the school boy...
Director: Fekete Tamás.
Hungary, 2016.
Language: Hungarian.
Subtitles: English.
5. These Things Take Time. 2018.
An eight-year-old boy experiences his first heartbreak when he falls in love with his male third-grade teacher.
Director: Jerell Rosales.
Cast: Zackary Arthur, Timothy Cole, Jason Heymann, Samantha Krull, Makana Say, Jack McGraw, Meilee Condron, Ashley Ledbetter, Annmarie Nitti, Aiden Arthur, Alexa Brosamle, Chase Brosamle, Akinyele Caldwell, Zoey Gale, Kaylynn Gardner.
USA, 2018.
Language: English.
1920x804 HD
6. The Boy in the Ocean. 2016.
The 12-year-old German boy, Mathias, discovers his sexuality on a sailing boat i Denmark. Surrounded by water, trapped on the boat with his parents, who still treat him like a child, his desire is to get on land to have new experiences. His desire grows, when he gets fascinated by a Danish girl in the harbor.
Director: Friedrich Tiedtke.
Denmark, 2016.
1280х528 HD
7. Stejně Jako Já / Just Like Me. 2012.
A boy takes his younger brother shooting when his mother leaves them home alone.
Directors: Deana Disalvio, Michael Freise.
Czech Republic, 2012.
Language: Czech.
Subtitles: English.
8. A Better Tomorrow. 2013.
In the near future when water is scarce, Shin and Myra, two orphans following in their scientist father's footsteps, develop a technology that could turn the tides of time and heal the earth. But when dark forces kidnap them in an attempt to steal their father's invention, the device is mistakenly activated and a mysterious power unleashed. While trying to escape their captors, they are magically transported on a voyage out of this world.
Director: Hikari.
Japan, 2013.
Language: Japanese.
Subtitles: English.
1280х720 HD
9. Millimeterle. 2016.
X jumps first. Down in the water, he's not allowed to change position. The goal for Y and Z is to jump as close as possible to X. The one who jumps closest to X wins the game. Measuring their power and proving themselves is part of the boys' everyday life. Even for the 13-year old gentle-natured Yannik. Until his best friend's upcoming sexual curiosity suddenly puts him in a threatening situation. Where is the line between game and reality and what happens if that line is crossed?
Director: Pascal Reinmann.
Switzerland, 2016.
Language: Swiss German.
Subtitles: English.
1280х720 HD
10. Mécanomagie. 1996.
A landscape in which everything moves is afflicted with a figure which is in itself static, but which moves - a kind of mechanic man? In Mécanomagie both the borders of perception and (natural) laws are infringed so that something new may emerge: nature as a boundless state of ecstasy!
Director: Bady Minck.
Austria, Luxembourg, 1996.
Language: None.
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Valahol Európában / Somewhere in Europe. 1948.

Valahol Európában / Somewhere in Europe. 1948.
HU. "Felnőtt. Ellenség. Könyörgöm, akasszuk fel" - visítja a filmben egy szeplős kis csibész, mikor a rongyos, árva gyerekek egy csapata megtalálja a neves karmestert rejtekhelyén, egy rombadőlt kastélyban. A zene és a személyiség varázsa és jósága azonban minden korlátot ledöntve bizonyítja, a halál és a gyermek csak a háborúban jelenthet egyet. Felejthetetlen alakítások, merész montázstechnika, költői flash backek emelték ezt a megrázóan humanista filmet a világ filmművészetének élvonalába.
EN. Somewhere in Europe (Hungarian: Valahol Európában) is a 1948 Hungarian drama film directed by Géza von Radványi. It depicts the aftermath of World War II and specifically the lives of a gang of orphaned children in a postwar setting. The gang of children steal, cheat, and pillage due largely to the harsh circumstances and the world around them. The film has been compared to Italian neorealism.
A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who's hiding out in a ruined castle. After the initial altercation between them the gang accepts his guidance and he wins their respect by protecting them from the elements. However, disgruntled townsfolk want to chase away the gang who has been - in their search for survival - laying waste to their crops. A battle ensues ending in the death of a little boy - and resolution.
Director: Géza von Radványi.
Cast: Artúr Somlay, Miklós Gábor, Zsuzsa Bánki, György Bárdy, László Horváth, István Rozsos, László Kemény, Abraham Ronai, György Bodó, Károly Bicskey.
Hungary, 1948.
Language: Hungarian.
Subtitles: Russians.
Valahol Európában / Somewhere in Europe. 1948.
Valahol Európában / Somewhere in Europe. 1948.

パコダテ人 / Pakodate-jin. 2002.

パコダテ人 / Pakodate-jin. 2002.
JP. 『パコダテ人』は、2002年4月27日公開の日本映画。2002年2月9日北海道先行上映。札幌テレビ放送(STV)が初めて製作した映画。
函館にある銭湯大正湯の娘・ひかるは、はまなす学園に通う高校一年生。ある朝、彼女のお尻にシッポが生えた。思わぬ事態に、秘かな想いを寄せるクラスメイトの隼人と気まずくなるは、函館スクープの記者・早川に追いかけ回されるはで、大混乱に陥るひかる。しかし、家族の愛に支えられカムアウト。一躍、パコダテ人と呼ばれ時の人となる。がそれも束の間、寄生虫を持っているとの噂を立てられバッシングの対象に。そんな彼女に、遂に政府の調査団が迫る。強制連行されれば、人体実験されるかもしれない!? だが、隼人の活躍によって、シッポの原因が長尾製薬会社の新製品ウルトラシップにあったことが判明。ひかるも家族の元から引き離されずに済むのであった。それから数日後、もう誰からもシッポのことを咎められなくなったひかるは、函館山でデートを楽しんでいた。愛の証として、湿布を貼ってシッポを生やした隼人と一緒に。
EN. A girl of roughly sixteen years grows a tail and, in the process, starts a fashion fad. Yet, how will the government and society react when they learn her tail is really attached?
Director: Tetsu Maeda.
Cast: Aoi Miyazaki, Yô Ôizumi, Masato Hagiwara, Miyuki Matsuda, Yu Tokui, Kazusa Matsuda, Hôka Kinoshita, Erika Mabuchi, Shou Ohkura, Nao Ohmori, Yôji Tanaka, Ken Yasuda.
Japan, 2002.
Language: Japanese.
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