Kristoball can be seen as a unique expression of the time; 1960 heading towards 1968 - individuality and playful modernism, the Vietnam war and awakening political consciousness.
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Kristoball can be seen as a unique expression of the time; 1960 heading towards 1968 - individuality and playful modernism, the Vietnam war and awakening political consciousness.
A nostalgic reunion briefly arises when three estranged siblings spend some time together in their childhood home where their father is on his dead-bed. A glimpse of a new fellowship between the three of them.
In late 1968, the last SDS delegates' conference was held in Hanover. It had already been postponed by the Berlin Action Council in Frankfurt in September after the famous tomato throwing by the women. Now attempts are made once again to develop common criteria for the supra-regional context of the SDS, for an SDS whose organizational structures have been overturned by the revolt itself. Factions emerge, the Frankfurt Women's Council distributes its leaflet "Free the socialist eminences from their bourgeois tails", the wave of lawsuits looms. Joscha Schmierer as Django criticizes the student "shitty milieu that is out to satisfy immediate needs. Christian Semler calls for a strong central office. "Of course, I don't have a central office in mind, like the German Communist Party had a central office before '33". After all, the anti-authoritarians in the North region are attacking.
While investigating his wife's sudden death, a policeman becomes involved with shady doctors and black-market racketeers.
A Soviet trading ship sank into the Italian port. Sailor Roman went ashore. In one of the squares he heard singing. It was sung by Francesca. The sailor was delighted with her voice and beauty. They wandered for a long time that day on ancient streets and squares. And the next morning the war began. The Soviet ship had to urgently return to their homeland. It was difficult to part in love, but they believe that they will definitely meet.
A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.
The conflicts in one pilot's fractured marriage come to a head just as Soviet jets are introduced to international airliners. Naive psychological drama is embraced here with naive admiration for the most advanced aviation technology.
Manfred and Hilke live a live perfectly complied with each other in West Berlin. They managed to elude from the bourgeois conformity, which they loath. But when Hilke finds out about her pregnancy she estranges from her partner. Trying to keep her former life as it was, she desperately looks all over the city to get an abortion.
Written, directed, and self-financed by Juleen Compton, The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean is the story of a clairvoyant teenage girl, Norma Jean (Sharon Henesy), taken advantage of by a boy band, fashioned after The Beatles, determined to exploit the young woman's powers as part of a hoax revival.
Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful novel Looking Back. He meets with the novel's female author, a University professor and writer named Olga Machová (Jirina Trebická), approximately ten-years-older than him. In the beginning, they do not understand each other at all. Frantisek is a skeptic experiencing a moral crisis, unsatisfied with both his work and his private life - he lives separated from his wife and has no deeper feelings for his numerous lovers. He even gets drunk from time to time and breaks the public peace. Olga is lonesome, too, but considers her life fulfilled.
Ikhariev is a professional gambler who made his fortune by cheating. Having just won eighty thousand roubles, he comes to try his luck again at a new inn. He is accosted by three men, also cheaters, who offer to join forces with him to ruin their new prey: young Glov, heir to a rich landed estate.
Satirical play in which businessmen want to destroy Westminster Abbey to make way for a bypass.
Two brothers, both gamekeepers, are in love with the same girl. One commits a murder and flees. Only one person can locate him in the dense forest - his brother.
A 1962 Filipino action drama starring Vic Vargas and Lolita Rodriguez.
Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hurry to escape his pursuers after robbing a jewelry store. The next day, reading the newspapers, Mustapha becomes aware of the role he has played in this affair, and would gladly assist the police if a fortuitous incident didn't make him fear the criminals' vengeance. It's a cruel dilemma in which he is both suspected by some and threatened by others. Weak but honest, he manages to get out of this predicament at the risk of his life!
A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.
Relations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at their best. So it occurred to them to leave their Hamburg home and go on vacation to the Côte d'Azur to revitalize their relationship. But Arthur Dahlberg, even on vacation, is obsessed with running his business. Meanwhile, Anya meets the young writer Roy Benter.
Walter Bergman is a boring old travel agent. One day while away on a business trip, he starts hanging out with a group of young swingers.
The young musician Ralph Osterwalder, born in Bern in 1922, is tired of working in a big band. He dreams of a small, flexible ensemble. In 1944, he founded his own combo in a hotel room. In 1949, fierce disputes arose. The newly founded Hazy Osterwald Sextet, featuring Sunny Lang, Dennis Armitage, Curti Prina, Werner Dies, and Johnny Ward, soon made international music history. Fast-paced, catchy music, interspersed with humorous show interludes, became the band's unmistakable trademark.
Back in the village, Galya Makarova starts working on the farm. After the dismissal of the negligent manager, she, together with other milkmaids, tries to restore order.
A young man must choose between two women. The one brings him the money, but the other he loves.
In North Carolina, Daniel Boone hears amazing tales about Kentucky and decides to move his family there. But first he has to find the Indian path that will lead him and earn enough money trapping to repay a loan. The Indians are not happy that settlers are coming, and make life difficult for them.
The saleswoman involves the love of her competitor in the region and tries to draw his attention to marry him, she succeeds in this and enjoys a beautiful life with her life partner, but her mother reads one day the news of the death of a wealthy man who reveals to her daughter that he is her real father, so Magda decides to live in the bliss of her father after her investments on the part The largest of the inheritance.
Tom Murray's wedding day takes a turn for the worse when a mysterious woman arrives uninvited and claims to be his wife.
Set on Fire Island, My Hustler depicts competition over the affections of a young male hustler among a straight woman, a former male hustler, and the man who hired the boy's companionship via a "Dial-A-Hustler" service.
J. Smrek's poetic composition is the basis for a television film on the theme of the search for eternal love and youth. Part 1: In a snow-covered park; Spring continues. Part 2: Summer night on the water; Leaves are falling. Part 3: After 10 years.
Beautiful Negostina sets the hearts of two young men on fire during World War II.
New teacher arrives to the remote village Krinitsy and not everybody are happy about what he's doing.
In order to study abroad in Great Britain, Ramesh agrees to marry a village girl named Sudha, but refuses to love her. Heartbroken, Sudha tries to kill herself, but is rescued by Shankernath, who coaches her etiquette and teaches her English so she can go to England to win back her husband. The plan seems to work perfectly, until Shankernath discovers his own long lost granddaughter, Jenny, has fallen in love with Ramesh.
Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.
A trio of World War 2 vets band together to search for a lost Nazi fortune.
Melodrama about the inhuman treatment of migratory workers in California vineyards by the boss, and the formers' rebellion against him.
In the vast army of human society, Pepe, a sweeper, occupies one of the last places: anonymous, gray, vague. Pepe is a member of that ghostly dawn brigade, to blow hose, clean the streets at dawn. One day Pepe finds a million in the trash. Financial need of the poor sweeper suggests keeping the money, but his wife advises him to do his civic duty and return the money ...
A film about some inner states of man: joy, pain, prayer, fear, shown through the mood of a girl, more precisely through her eyes. The thread that connects all those states in the film is a ball, with which the girl plays when she is happy, and when she is not there, it is sad. In moments of fear, the girl can not establish communication with people, because the ball is gone.
Based on the novel by Vladimir Orlov "Salty Watermelon". About the youth team of builders laying in the taiga railway Abakan-Tayshet. In the taiga, on the site of the future route, the youth team of Nikolai Bondarenko works. The people in the brigade are very different: the educated muscovite Vitaly, the resourceful Boris, the scribe and the romantic "Bukvar", but everyone lives together. They dream of a future route that will open the way to the Sayan Mountains.
Professor Mahmoud loves the dancer Samia, who discovered her talent even with the age difference between them, but she treats him as a friend. When singer Adel comes to work with them, Samia is attracted to him, which causes Mahmoud's jealousy, and makes him sign with another casino.
Shaahin finds a talented young woman named Atash . Shaahin tries to make Atash a good and very famous singer by letting her perform in his cabarets.
The infamous Don Juan Tenorio, a reckless and charming libertine, engages in various amorous exploits and challenges morality in his pursuit of pleasure and conquest. A wager between Don Juan and his rival Don Luis Mejía is established, laying the groundwork for a contest of seduction and moral defiance. "Don Juan Tenorio" by José Zorrilla is a dramatic play written in the mid-19th century, renowned as a classic of Spanish literature.
A young man who lives on scams and deceptions manages to convince a wealthy industrialist who has come from the province to finance a film. Having received an adequate advance, he begins to lead an expensive life among luxury cars and beautiful women.
Famous star Suheir falls in love with a rising actor called Ibrahim and they intend to get married. However, her producer who gets overly jealous hires a woman to ruin Suheir and Ibrahim's relationship by claiming she is Ibrahim's wife.
Taiwanese horror movie from 1966.
A beautiful dancer has two admirers -- one is a young worker whom she has only met by accident, and the other is an unscrupulous businessman. The worker had been training as a Buddhist monk and as his interest in the dancer and the businessman's pursuit of the woman develop, the dancer and the former monk end up at the archaeological site of Angkor.
After a test flight, pilot Sergei Sazonov was invited to a group of astronauts. Intensive preparation begins for the flight into space: classes in the weightlessness chamber, constant study. Sergei decides that he does not have the right to meet with a cheerful student Natasha, whom his friends accuse of frivolity. But their telephone conversation ends up asking him to marry him.
Two brothers return to their devastated home village after the end of the Second World War with nothing to their name but their army-issue machine guns. There they find a traumatised German, abandoned in retreat. Together, the three men act out a tragicomic tale.
Juan is subjected to shock treatment in the hands of Dr. David, and apparently is able to resume a "normal" life. He and his wife María make dolls in a workshop attached to their apartment in New York. However, John does not heal and he starts looking for the nurses to murder them.
The short story explores the often tragic impact of prejudice or suspicion that relies on the appearance of the human face. Guests in a remote pub recount their own experiences of such cases, furthermore influenced by their experiences in the First World War...
Louis saves a five-year-old girl, Monique, who wants to throw herself into the river. He consoles her, takes her home and nurses her back to health. Thanks to Monique, the old man regains his zest for life. Monique tells him that she has misplaced her mother's purse and is afraid to go home. Louis takes her back and continues on his way.
A moral story about two people who have completely different attitudes to life and people. The duel of the heroes ends tragically.
Reyes Mendoza (Carmen Sevilla) is a Spanish artist who arrives in Mexico in 1913 and finds herself involved in the Pancho Villa (Jose Elias Moreno) revolution.
In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the incident serves as a metaphor for the horror of the Holocaust, and provides a powerful trigger for discussion of the disturbing issues raised by the film. The figure of the children's’ teacher specifically parallels Janusz Korcak (1879-1942), a famous Jewish educator who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto and died with his young charges at Treblinka.
Young teacher first experience in their profession acquired in a remote mountain village, which has no school building. Life of a farmer, a clash between two warring race, then the conflict between the government and farmers for cutting the national forests needed to build new schools and the presence of a young teacher who doubt the search for truth, that will lead to major conflicts and tragedies.
A man who is struggling with life's daily problems, especially his troublesome wife, accidentally runs into a man who makes bills that change human behavior, and his life changes.
Lamberto Avellana’s English-language film based on Nick Joaquin’s play about a painter, a painting, two sisters, and a crook.
The Crossroads (Spanish: La encrucijada) is a 1960 French-Spanish drama film directed by Alfonso Balcázar.[1] The story line is about a couple who trie to scape to France during the Spanish Civil War