Death In Venice and The Devil's Bride
Death In Venice
(Morte A Venezia)
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 1971; Director: Luchino Visconti; Writer: Luchino Visconti, based on the book by Thomas Mann.; Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Nora Ricci)
An ageing composer becomes obsessed with a beautiful teenage boy as cholera ravages the City of Bridges.
The Devil's Bride
(Velnio Nuotaka)
(Country: Lithuania; Year: 1974; Director: Arūnas Žebriūnas; Writer: Kazys Boruta, Sigitas Geda, Arūnas Žebriūnas; Stars: Vaiva Mainelyte, Gediminas Girdvainis, Regimantas Adomaitis, Vasyl Symchych, Regina Varnaite)
When a miller captures a fallen devil, the two make a pact, but nothing goes to plan for either of them in this groundbreaking Soviet rock opera based on a Lithuanian folktale.
Devil's Island
(Country: Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Norway; Year: 1996; Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson; Writer: Einar Kárason; Stars: Baltasar Kormákur, Sigurveig Jónsdóttir, Gísli Halldórsson, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Sveinn Geirsson, Saga Jónsdóttir, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Geo von Krogh, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Sigurður Sigurjónsson)
Devil's Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik's post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US military barracks have been turned into makeshift homes. Struggling wives and their hard-working husbands try to make ends meet. The younger generation dreams of dollars, Rock'n'Roll and the American way of life. To celebrate or to drown their misery - they're never short of a good reason to booze. Devil's Island vividly depicts the everyday life of a wacky family, their neighbours and friends and shows how some of their dreams come true and others don't.
The Double Life of Véronique
(Country: France, Norway, Poland; Year: 1991; Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski; Writer: Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz; Stars: Irène Jacob, Halina Gryglaszewska, Philippe Volter, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Kalina Jędrusik, Aleksander Bardini, Władysław Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko, Janusz Sterninski, Sandrine Dumas, Louis Ducreux, Claude Duneton, Lorraine Evanoff, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus, Alain Frérot)
What if, somewhere, someone else’s life echoes through your own?
Drifting Clouds
(Country: Finland, France, Germany; Year: 1996; Director: Aki Kaurismäki; Writer: Aki Kaurismäki; Stars: Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen, Elina Salo, Sakari Kuosmanen, Markku Peltola, Matti Onnismaa, Shelley Fisher, Markus Allan, Pauli Granfelt, Kari Lindqvist, Pentti Mutikainen, Tommi Parkkonen, Taisto Wesslin, Tuire Liiti, Kaarina Väyrynen)
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope.
The Lonely Wife
(Charulata)
(Country: India; Year: 1964; Director: Satyajit Ray; Writer: Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore; Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Tarapada Basu, Gopaldas Bhattacharya, Dilip Bose, Ramesh Chandra Chandra, Sunilkanta Dasgupta, Nilotpal Dey, Bankim Ghosh, Shyamal Ghoshal, Ajit Gupta, Bholanath Koyal, Kamu Mukherjee, Suku Mukherjee)
A woman neglected by her husband finds herself falling for a younger man.
Ludwig
(Country: France/Italy/West Germany; Year: 1972; Director: Luchino Visconti; Writer: Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Enrico
Medioli, Luchino Visconti; Stars: Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Griem, Nora Ricci, Gert Frobe, John Moulder Brown, Izabella Telezynska, Umberto Orsini, Sonia Petrovna, Folker Bohnet, Heinz Moog, Adriana Asti, Marc Porel, Mark Burns)
The king of Bavaria struggles
with his inner demons.
The Miracle Of The Sargasso Sea
(To Thávma Tis Thálassas Ton Sargassón)
(Country: Greece, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden; Year: 2019; Director: Syllas Tzoumerkas; Writer: Youla Boudali, Syllas Tzoumerkas; Stars: Angeliki Papoulia, Youla Boudali, Hristos Passalis, Argyris Xafis, Thanasis Dovris, Laertis Malkotsis, Maria Filini, Michalis Kimonas, Christian Culbida, Thanos Tokakis, Laertis Vasiliou, Katerina Helmy, Alkistis Poulopoulou, Romanos Kalokyris, Areti Seidaridou)
Crime drama.
The Promised Land
(Country: Poland; Year: 1975; Director: Andrzej Wajda; Writer: Andrzej Wajda; Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn, Kalina Jędrusik, Anna Nehrebecka, Bożena Dykiel, Andrzej Szalawski, Stanisław Igar, Franciszek Pieczka, Kazimierz Opaliński, Andrzej Łapicki, Wojciech Siemion, Tadeusz Białoszczyński, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Jerzy Nowak)
At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.
Tears of Stone
(Country: Germany, Iceland; Year: 1995; Director: Hilmar Oddsson; Writer: Sveinbjörn I. Baldvinsson, Hilmar Oddsson, Hjálmar Helgi Ragnarsson; Stars: Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Ruth Olafsdottir, Cilia Marianne Úlfsdóttir, Sigrún Lilliendahl, Bergþóra Aradóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Heinz Bennent, Ingrid Andree, Ulrich Tukur, Hera Hilmar, Guðlaug Elísabet Ólafsdóttir, Árni Pétur Guðjónsson, Sigurjón Kjartansson, Steinn Ármann Magnússon, Winfried Wagner)
About Icelandic composer Jon Leifs (1899-1968) who spent much of his life in Germany before WWII.
