Music, art, stage - great and holy words, beckoning lights of life. Young beautiful souls burst into their light. And often merciless fate ruins them on this path or breaks their fragile delicate strength. Young Ira, with her sensitive and impulsive soul, aspired to something else. Life with her old father weighed on her.
Yevgeni Vakhtangov
Jean Martin
Michael Chekhov
Fred, Jean's brother
Olga Baclanova
Ira
Boris Sushkevich
Father
Music, art, stage - great and holy words, beckoning lights of life. Young beautiful souls burst into their light. And often merciless fate ruins them on this path or breaks their fragile delicate strength. Young Ira, with her sensitive and impulsive soul, aspired to something else. Life with her old father weighed on her.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.
A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.