The plot revolves around the controversial relationship between maid Stefania Chornenko and blueblood Adelia Anger against the backdrop of the provincial Austro-Hungary in 1900. Both Stefania’s parents and Adelia’s mother died during the fire. Adelia’s father adopted neighbors’ orphan. Girls grew up together to become as close as sisters, though Stefania served as the maid. This attachment develops into love-trap: on one hand full of mutual manipulation and jealousy, but equally based on сare and devotion. The illusion of balance is broken when Adelia marries sculptor Petro. Everything gets even more complicated when Joseph, the old love interest of Stefa, returns to town as the priest and married man. Illusions are destined to evaporate and reality comes into focus.
Hamakichi was a former detective respected by everyone but he was arrested after he helped a criminal flee for money, which he needed for his child’s medical treatment. Five years later, he is allowed to enter Edo with a fresh start. He make ends meet by selling toys. One day, he meets Otoki, a woman who is a lookalike of his late wife and who is being pursued by a mysterious man.
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
This documentary shows that the music community in Bandung does not just gather, but embraces each other. Even with their limitations, they can unite into a solid and creative community to conquer all negative views of the general public in the past. All challenges and obstacles were overcome together to later grow into a music industry that we know today. It is this long-standing concern that is trying to be revived through the inspiration of previous successes. GOR Saparua is a complete proof of the unyielding spirit displayed by Bandung music activists. Even Alvin, the director noted that the music event in Saparua had existed since 1963. It was started by Aneka Nada, a band that was strengthened by Sam and Acil Bimbo as well as Guruh Soekarno Putra. Until then its use is maximized by the next generation. Especially the 90's.
A story set in the Middle Ages about a warrior knight who survived the historic Battle of Kosovo in 1389. Along the way, he meets a wild boy, all alone. And they continue this journey together. This man is a personification of all small heroes, that no songs are sang about.
Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
A group of teddybears awaken in the attic after years of storage. Store-Nalle (Big Teddy) explains the history of the species, from the very first teddybears manufactured in Germany. Other segments include dramatizations of the directors' childhood memories, as well as interviews with several stuffed animal owners.
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
The film is based on historical events that took place in the 6th century at the junction of three great powers: The Turkish Khagan, The Byzantine Empire and The Sasanian Empire.
Aimless after failing in several public tenders, a young man ends up meeting the best chef in the region and falls in love with the world of cuisine that he shows him.
The story of Prince Stepán Kasátsky discovering his fiancée was the mistress of the Czar, so he then becomes a monk.
In the thick of World War I, Allied forces attempt the daring feat of planting over a million pounds of explosives beneath enemy lines.
Two lives intersect in a dream. We have come to explore the wreck, the thing itself, and not the myth.
Three students from Saint-Cyr are sent to Syria to fight the rebels in the desert.
This is the authentic story of a bombing raid on Germany... how it is planned and how it is executed. Every person seen in the picture is a member of the Royal Air Force from Commander-in-Chief to aircraft hand, re-enacting his own daily life on the job. They are the men and women who actually direct, plan and execute the raids.
Tells the story of the legendary 16th century naval captain Mohammed, a brave warrior and merchant supported the Samoodiri in his fight against the Portuguese. The Samoodiri honoured Mohammed by making him his naval chief and renaming him ‘Kunjali Marakkar'
A story of a husband battle that unfolds in a village near the 38th parallel a year before the outbreak of the Korean War.
The film depicts the adventurous life of the civil war hero Vasil Kikvidze.
Documentary drama about the revolutionary Olga Benario
This brief look at mid nineteenth century New York City, a period of mass immigration, street gangs, political corruption, and the worst civilian insurrection in the country's history, lends insight into the inspiration for Martin Scorsese's new movie, Gangs of New York.
The film is dedicated to the events of the Civil War, the offensive of Denikin and Kolchak's troops on Uralsk, and the defense of the city. Historical facts are presented in it on a significant scale, through the personalities and fates of many characters, with a wide introduction of mass and battle scenes.
Inspired by the tale of Telemachus in Homer’s Odyssey, young Adam’s mother is persecuted by the state police because his father fought in WWII as a pilot before disappearing. Adam fantasizes about his father and one day, while watching Godard’s Contempt in the cinema, finds himself transported into the dressing room of Brigitte Bardot and into a world where he meets a coterie of her contemporary celebrities.