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Aunt Lusha, the chairman of the collective farm, is still far from old age. But his youth flew by like a day, worrying about others and caring for the village. Now it's time to clean up the bread, but the area does not provide a threshing machine, it's time to prepare the cattle yard for winter — and everything needs to be solved fundamentally and immediately...
The documentary depicts the celebrations of the 15th anniversary of the socialist Polish state. The entire country celebrates industrial successes and progress in rebuilding the homeland from post-war destruction.
Once upon a time the Chuang family chopped firewood for a living. Mother Tanja spent three years day and night weaving this tapestry. One day a wind storm came and the tapestry flew away. Kam Tong, one of the children, would venture off to the dangerous Tibet mountains to try to get the tapestry back. Very few have ever survived the cave.
A student commits suicide out of unhappy love to a married man; story is recounted in retrospective by a "judge" who asks the audience to decide who is the guilty party.
A sociohistorical drama about the construction of the Simplon-tunnel: A conflict develops when German workers want to strike and fight for better working conditions while Italian workers simply want to earn money and provide for their families.
A young boy (Master Suresh), and his pet duck, are found by the owners of a circus. A gangster (Habib) plans to kidnap the kid and hold him for ransom, but circus star Usha Devi (Fearless Nadia) and police detective Kishore (John Cawas) foil the plan.
A Shaw Brothers production
In 1956, the humorous designer Oski made a work about the foundation of the city of Buenos Aires. Fernando Birri made a film from this work in 1959, using the original text of the German explorer Ulrich Schmidel. This film, which disappeared in the years of the dictatorship, was miraculously restored on video in 2000. The story that the documentary describes can be compared with the situation of Latin American cinema throughout all these years.
Vittorio De Seta travels to Alessandria del Carretto, a small town in the province of Cosenza, to capture a unique celebration known as the “Feast of Silver.”
Documentary about a surgical incision to a varus finger.
A typical day's work by a provincial policeman in Leicester.
After a spaceship crashes on Earth, a giant egg rolls from the wreckage. The egg quickly hatches to reveal an alien dinosaur. Due to the Earth's atmosphere, the newly hatched alien dinosaur rapidly increases in size. The dinosaur turns its attention towards a railway township, which it attacks, causing great destruction. The alien dinosaur sees a water tower, which it commences to climb. The continued affect of Earth's atmosphere on the alien dinosaur makes the creature burn, destroying it.
Soviet Estonian animation about a brave young man seeking a magic ring.
Commander-in-Chief Lu Dahai and the majority of shipbuilders strongly demanded that the 10,000-ton cargo ship Dongfang be should be produced with all domestically produced parts. As the leader at the time, Chen Zongjie, a member of the Party Committee of the Sinotrans Bureau of the Communist Party of China, believed that the quality of domestically produced main engines and navigation instruments was not good, and ordered them to be replaced with imported goods, otherwise no trial voyage would be allowed.
The 3rd film in the Three Dolls series
Canadian concert pianist Glenn Gould enjoys a respite at his lakeside cottage. It is an aspect of Gould previously known only to the collie pacing beside him through the woods, the fishermen resting their oars to hear his piano, and fellow musicians like Franz Kraemer, with whom Gould talks of composition. (First of two parts.)
A look at the horse races at the famous track in Sluzewiec, Warsaw.
Three friends, Emil, Vrabec and Mišo, spend every Sunday playing the lottery, each nursing a personal dream: Emil wants a Jawa 250 motorcycle, Vrabec hopes for a Pionier scooter and Mišo imagines funding a world tour. Frustrated by constant losses, they decide to maximize their stake in the next draw, convinced that more money will tip the odds in their favor. Their plan takes an unexpected turn when they meet attractive Eva Dvorčíková on a televised variety show - Eva has long been Mišo’s unspoken crush. To determine who will have the right to win her affection, the friends agree to draw lots, putting their bonds and ambitions to the test.
A mischievous young man has a relationship with a dancer. Her husband surprises him while they are together, so he takes out his gun to kill them, and during their fight a bullet is fired to hit the husband, so the young man runs away thinking that he has killed him. The young man, and confesses that he is the murderer and is surprised because the inspector does not know anything about his crime, and that he is going to attend his sister’s marriage, so the inspector decides to hand him over to justice.
Serialized in Espesyal Komiks by Pablo S. Gomez, the big-screen adaptation of 'Esmerada' stars Carmen Rosales in the titular role.
Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving their virginity in a variety of purity-oath threatening situations.
Also known as Guitar Craze and the more evocative Hound Dogs and Bach Addicts, this Monitor item (Ken Russell's third for the pioneering BBC arts strand) offers a whistle-stop tour of how Britons are enthusiastically taking up the guitar in all sorts of ways. The instrument's sudden popularity came about as a by-product of the skiffle revival, which led a wide range of people to form bands whose instrumentation was generally as cheap and cheerful as possible. Washboards and comb-and-paper combinations were common, and the only conventional musical instrument was often the humble acoustic guitar.
Racking Oil Merchant Films is a film classic Malay published in 1959 in black and white . This form of comedy film was directed by Ramon A. Estella .
A couple in love returns to Greece from France and has plans for their future.
On the state stud-farm, Tomás (Rudolf Jelínek) is preparing to become a jockey together with other boys. He loves to read cowboy stories and Western pulp magazines and his passion makes him...
Pak Belalang and his son who conspire to portray the latter as an astrologer in an attempt to help out fellow villagers in trouble. Convinced by his actions, the Penghulu (Mayor) brings him to the royal palace to help solve a robbery but the situation turns complicated when their lies began unravelling.
The hotel Arizona and the hotel Mankwang in Gyeongju, one of the most famous tourist sites, fiercely compete for customers, and the owners of the hotels become hostile toward one another. To complicate matters, a son and a daughter of the owners of the two hotels love each other. When the hostile relationship between the two owners gets worse, the son and daughter try to make their parents reconcile. In the end, everything works out, and the two are married happily.
A comedy set in Ginza that explores the lives of teenagers.
A woman, who believes she has a curse, sees an engineer die in an accident while building a bridge. Considering two men who were courting her responsible for the tragedy, she decides to take revenge on both. Brazilian version of Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
Historical drama depicting the life of Banzuin Chobei.
Satirical cartoon featuring a jewel robbery.
A very respectable married couple, dentist Rudolf Thomsen and Helene, his sweet and quiet wife. He is deeply absorbed in his dental work and expects to be rewarded for his diligence with a prestigious position at a clinic in Amsterdam. Incidentally, he is quite fussy about his health and systematically avoids anything that might add color to his life.
Sunil Kumar and Geet decide to marry for love a decision which leads to many problems.
Funda follows a romantic drama in which two young men vie for the love of the same woman, leading to a series of adventurous entanglements. Alongside this, the story explores the poignant struggles of foreign affairs officer Kenan, whose accident in Europe leaves him physically disabled and strains his relationship with his wife Fehiman.
The struggles of a doctor in rural India.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary about five-times world champion Juan Manuel Fangio who retired from motor racing in 1958.
Bankrupt millionaire discovers a treasure map belonging to a distant ancestor.
A former aging movie star, Sandra Belmonte, reconnects with her abusive on-screen ex-lover.
About the plight of poor man Dek Sam and his daughter Bok Sir, expelled from the north of Korea by supporters of the South Korean regime of Singman Ri, who, like thousands of other unemployed, are doomed to terrible hardships and poverty.
The film is a biography of the tenor Julian Gayarre who was born in 1843 in a small village in Navarra, Spain, and who soon demonstrated his great ability to sing.
The life at the Military Academy of Agulhas Negras, with a cadet living remarkable moments during school times.
The movie Pushpadhanu is based on human relations and sentiments.
We're off to Australia in the shortest of the short films found on this volume. There's lots of cute little baby animals to be found, but there's a little too much up-close footage of baby kangaroos in their mother's pouch. (It doesn't look so slimy and gooey when Roo does it!) There's also a few glimpses of the giant bat (so large it's nicknamed "the flying fox"), which happens to be the most terrifying animal I've ever known to exist. You'll also see some beautiful footage of a flying squirrel and rare underwater photography of the duck-billed platypus.
Little Nelli is a clever and cunning child. As her parents are both working, her grandmother has to care for her. But her grandmother is no match to Nelly. Out on the street, Nelli also calls the tune and becomes the kids’ favourite with her brash pranks. But when Nelli enters day nursery, the situation changes completely. Suddenly, Nelli is no longer at the centre of attention and starts to upset the group with her aggressive stubbornness and to revolt against the rules.
