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The Vienna State Opera on Thursday before the Carnival. As every year the large ball rather is attended by celebrities from politics and the media. Just the arrival of newcomers is finished and the Polonaise faded as it is in the best tradition: "Alles Walzer". transferred with 20 cameras live throughout the world. Television journalist Fraser (Heiner Lauterbach) views the event from the control room, outside in the hall leads his son has one of the cameras. Suddenly all hell breaks loose: poison gas flows from hidden containers, hundreds of guests die in agony, millions of horrified spectators experience it on the TV screen...

Filmed at the Radio 1 FM "Party In The Park" at Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield, on sunday the 30th august 1992 in celebration of their 25th anniversary and includes an exclusive anniversary version of Roadhouse Medley.

Caterina and Maria Manara are two monozygotic twins, therefore identical in appearance. What profoundly differentiates them are their character and the choices that life has led them to make. Their story intersects with crimes and attempted murders, threats and attacks, misfortunes and apparitions, premonitions and nightmares.

Buddy-cop comedy: police officer with a fatal disease will only draw pension/benefits for his family if he dies in the line of duty.

The couple of filmmakers traveled to Armenia in 1988 to film the upheaval of the USSR in the country. During their trip, an earthquake struck, a fatal echo of the political earthquake.

After a robbery gone awry, a young man breaks into an apartment and takes a wheelchair bound girl hostage.

Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry against the pressures and tragedies of everyday life.

Two girl-friends host a radio phone-in show in Paris.

This is A Documentary of Diego Maradona

When a guy tries to make contact with a girl in the library, he can't control his movements.

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Karim Dridi, originally aired 2 July 1997.

A brief account of the Spanish-American War (1898) and the end of the Spanish Empire in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

58-year-old Monique lives in a small apartment in the projects on the outskirts of Paris. She has retired from assembly-line work with a small textile company, only to learn that her retirement benefits barely match her rent. One of her daughters, Giselle plans to enter the Drama Conservatory in Paris, while her other daughter Sandra is recovering from a suicide attempt.

Musician and artist Nina Hagen was perhaps the most notable figure to come out of the German punk scene, and this documentary offers a look at her life, her work and her friends and collaborators. Along with interview footage with Hagen and her family, director Peter Sempel visits Lemmy from Motorhead, director Wim Wenders, Dee Dee Ramone and George S. Clinton as they discuss their flamboyantly creative friend.

Three-time Caldecott Honor artist Jerry Pinkney brings new relevance to the classic Hans Christian Andersen story The wintry streets of an American city are thronged with shoppers, in preparation for New Year's Eve. But no one is interested in buying the matches and artificial flowers offered by one little girl. Wishing to avoid the cold welcome awaiting her at home, she lights her matches for what little heat they can provide. The visions that she sees in their flickering glow warm her spirit, even as the brutal cold of night destroys her body.

A group of young twentysomethings face a fall in their lives undergo a major transformation when the time came to take on adult responsibilities. David is 27 and has long been working as a messenger, enough to know it's time to quit.

At the center, a boy who is challenged to a test of courage. But a much greater challenge awaits. He must decide...

Plasticine animation. Two characters erect a wall between them to end their discord. On each side, life is organized differently, until the reunion...elsewhere! A film for everyone, young and old, very funny and which tells us a lot about some of our behaviors!

Cologne filmmakers visit a local critic.

A talking Terrier with impressive computer skills teams up with two youngsters to stop a million dollars from falling into the wrong hands.

Employing a montage of xeroxed images, paintings and sound, Jukebox is a personal journey through fragmented experience.

Alfredo is a crude Roman motorcycle repairman who is a friend of Count Max, a gentleman and ex-pleasure lover. The latter invites Alfredo to his residence in Campo dei Fiori and teaches him etiquette, French and how to play poker. The laughter will begin when Alfredo meets and chases the beautiful model Isabell Bellissima in Paris.

50 years of Harald Juhnke: A documentary about his career

Experimental short film

After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to participate in various crimes commited by the mafia.

Luis is attempting suicide from the top level of a construction building when he is interrupted by Don Ramón who also wants to kill himself. The two men engage into a conversation about life, love and family while sharing a song: "De jazmín en flor".

Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing.

A woman is setting the table for dinner. Her husband does not come; she waits. Finally, an (unexpected) visitor suprises her.

An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.

Richard Wagner Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Peter Tchaikovsky "The Storm" Claude Debussy “Trois Nocturnes” Giuseppe Verdi "Quattro pezzi sacri"

Set to Rashid Taha's YA RAI, a song in Arabic about exile.

Live special featuring Brian Conley

The 1998 version of Carmen is an opera performance directed by Herbert von Karajan, which was produced in Switzerland. The performance is based on the famous opera by Georges Bizet and was realized by the production company Cosmotel in Switzerland. The actress playing the title role, Carmen, is Mirella Freni, and the production was carried out by the renowned production company Cosmotel.

In this somewhat literary exploration of the meaning of romance, loosely based on the works of Henry James, five modern-day couples gather at a country estate to mark the anniversary of their long friendship. Their romantic maneuverings, past and present, are too complex to summarize here. However, it is clear that they love to talk about love, and will do so endlessly, given the slightest opportunity.

This feature documentary zooms in on Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges borough, where over 75 ethnic groups live side by side in a dizzying swirl of sound and colour. One day, filmmaker Lucie Lachapelle began knocking on the doors that isolated her from her neighbours. The result is a vibrant film about freedom and uprootedness set to urban music composed by Montreal jazz artist Harold Faustin.

Robert Sens lives in a degenerate future society. He is an apathetic bureaucrat in a society without values. He finally learns from his foster father that he has already become the victim of a genetic experiment as an egg cell. The latter has separated Robert's hereditary traits of reason, pleasure and aggression and cut up copies of his egg cell. The emotionally cold Robert is left only with reason, but the late side effects cause his cells to deteriorate. To escape the threat of cell death, he sets out to find his genetic brothers.

Ismael breaks into the house of a fine art restorer and shoots the homeowner dead, leaving her daughter orphaned and traumatized for life. Years later, Ismael is working in a bar where he sees the daughter again. Paranoid that she has recognised him and will report him, he kidnaps her and holds her hostage, demanding that her hospital pay a ransom for her release. As he spends more time with her, a strange bond develops that causes him to delay the ransom request or fulfil his threats of throwing her in front of a train. But he can’t delay forever…

Doctor Peter Husak introduces the American Jack Carver to his friend, nurse Kate, and it's love on first sight. But when she learns, in a dramatic incident, that Jack's a C.I.A. agent, she leaves him and marries Husak instead. Together, they go into a war area in Nagorny Karabach for a relief organization.

Drifters tells of Karin, a past-her-prime cosmetics saleswoman, with her increasing exasperation with her life and her dreams of leaving it all behind and living in Paris. An unlikely but entertaining plot develops, where anything can happen.

When sweet-voiced Cassie of unsigned reggae act Midnight is offered a lucrative deal to join successful group Breaks by record company rep Billy, her band mate boyfriend Tyron is none too pleased.

Through dramatization and interviews with her colleagues, this film captures the life and work of famed Puerto Rican poet Mercedes Negrón Muñoz (also known as Clara Lair).

Zac is a well-respected French filmmaker who creates a major uproar when for no apparent reason he suddenly vanishes from his posh Parisian apartment leaving behind his lover Helene, a popular star. Marcus, his producer searches for eight months before locating Zac who has since become a homeless street bum in an expensive neighborhood. Marcus sends Zac to a posh hotel. He then sends Daisy, an ambitious secretary and aspiring screenwriter to learn what happened to the great director. It takes a lot of mutual verbal sparring and false turns (which are presented as creatively filmed vignettes that are done using a variety of techniques) from Zac before he finally tells her the truth. The two then decide to turn the story into a film. As they write, Daisy and Zac slowly fall in love. At the same time, Marcus has his hands full trying to avoid some tough Russian Mafiosos who want the money they invested back.

This documentary is a collection of footage of 14 suspects being 'interviewed' by the deputy public prosecutors.

Julchen is the "feminine" (transvestite) and definitely motherly half of a couple of homosexual men, the "co-fathers" of a pleasant part-Moroccan girl. The girl has been told that her mother is dead, but Julchen knows this is not true.

A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.