Film ERASMUS+ 70 YEH

70 years of European History through
films is a product in Erasmus+ project „70 years
of European History 1945-2015”. It was
prepared by the teachers and students involved
in the project – from: Greece, Czech Republic,
Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey.
It’ll be a teaching aid and the source
of information about the recent European
history.

In the early twentieth century, Zurich-based Carl Jung is a
follower in the new theories of psychoanalysis of Vienna-based
Sigmund Freud, who states that all psychological problems are
rooted in sex. Jung uses those theories for the first time as part of
his treatment of Sabina Spielrein, a young Russian woman bro-
ught to his care. She is obviously troubled despite her assertions
that she is not crazy. Jung is able to uncover the reasons for Sa-
bina’s psychological problems, she who is an aspiring physician
herself. In this latter role, Jung employs her to work in his own
research, which often includes him and his wife Emma as test
subjects. Jung is eventually able to meet Freud himself, they, ba-
sed on their enthusiasm, who develop a friendship driven by the-
ir lengthy philosophical discussions on psychoanalysis. Actions
by Jung based on his discussions with another patient, a fellow
psychoanalyst named Otto Gross, lead to fundamental chan-
ges in Jung’s relationships with Freud, Sabina and Emma. Those
relationships are also affected by Freud’s unbending views of
psychoanalysis and its use, by Sabina’s growing self-awareness
of what drives her emotionally, regardless of their negative root
causes, and by Emma’s feelings of guilt over not being able to
produce a male heir for her husband.
A DANGEROUS METHOD (2011)
Director: David Cronenberg
Writers: Christopher Hampton,
Christopher Hampton
Stars: Michael Fassbender,
Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen
Country: UK | GE | Canada | CH
Genres: Biography | Drama |
Romance | Thriller
Trailer

Moscow, 1952. Anna is a doctor, Vassilli serves in a local
administration. Life is grim but they find solace in unconditional
love. One day Anna is taken to the Kremlin where she has to
cure Stanlin himself. She needs to keep the secret at all costs
and as her relationship with the URSS leader grows, her couple
with Vassilli tumbles.
AN ORDINARY EXECUTION (2010)
Une exécution ordinaire
Director: Marc Dugain
Writers: Marc Dugain
Stars: André Dussollier,
Marina Hands, Edouard Baer
Country: France
Genres: Drama | History
Trailer

The Apollo 13 mission was not supposed to be historic. Three
astronauts, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert were sup-
posed to go to the moon, a destination that people seemingly
were no longer interested in. In fact, their broadcasts from space
didn’t even make the news. And then the words came: „Ho-
uston...we’ve got a problem.”
On Earth, the astronauts’ families wait in horror as the reports
continue to flow in. Bad reports. Gene Kranz, the flight director
in Houston, works around the clock, hoping, just hoping, that so-
mething will actually go right. And Ken Mattingly, who, two days
before the launch, was stripped of his chance to go into space
due to the measles, attempts to figure out a way to get his friends
back home. And suddenly, the news media becomes attentive
as the whole world watches, praying for the safe return of three
brave astronauts.
205, 000 miles from home, the three astronauts watch as
their crippled craft jettisons oxygen into space and carbon dioxi-
de levels rise to brain damaging levels. They watch as the tem-
perature drops past freezing, icing the windows and numbing
their bodies. And they watch as their spaceship gets farther and
farther from Earth, realizing that they may never see home aga-
in.
APOLLO 13 (1995)
Director: Ron Howard
Writers: Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
Stars: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton,
Kevin Bacon
Country: USA
Genres: Adventure | Drama | History
Trailer

Renowned actress Maria de Medeiros directs this sweeping
historical drama set in Portugal about the heady days leading
up to April 25, 1974, when that country was finally freed from 40
years of Fascist rule. The film opens with a series of grisly black
and white photographs of Portuguese war atrocities committed
against its colonies -- Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau.
Antonia (de Medeiros) is a teacher who begs her minister-bro-
ther to release a couple of her students from the clutches of the
secret police. As a result, she herself gets captured, interroga-
ted, and tortured. At the same time, a young couple bid a tear-
ful adieu at the train station just as the man, Capt. Maia (Stefano
Accorsi) is drafted to fight in the colonies. Just before the youth
gets shipped off to Africa, he manages to persuade the soldiers
of a remote army outpost to rebel. Along with his buddies Lobao
(Fele Martinez) and Antonia’s ex-husband Manuel (Frederic Pier-
rot), Maia manages to storm a radio station and ultimately be-
siege the national guard barracks, which houses the president
and military advisors. This film was screened at the 2000 Cannes
Film Festival.~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
APRIL CAPTAINS (2000)
Capitães de Abril
Director: Maria de Medeiros
Writers: Maria de Medeiros,
Ève Deboise
Stars: Stefano Accorsi, Maria
de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida
Country: Portugal | Spain | Italy |
France
Genres: Drama | History | War
Trailer

A television commercial for a Sega game system that aired
during the 1999 MTV Music Video Awards landed debut director
John Moore a gig behind the camera of this military action thril-
ler.
Fighter navigator Chris Burnett wants out: he was looking for
something more than the boring recon missions he’s been flying.
He finds himself flying the lone Christmas day mission over war-
-torn Bosnia. But when he talks pilot Stackhouse into flying slightly
off-course to check out an interesting target, the two get shot
down. Burnett is soon alone, trying to outrun a pursuing army,
while commanding officer Reigert finds his rescue operation
hamstrung by politics, forcing Burnett to run far out of his way.
BEHIND ENEMY LINES (2001)
Director: John Moore
Writers: Jim Thomas, David Veloz
Stars: Gene Hackman, Owen Wilson,
Gabriel Macht
Country: USA
Genres: Action | War | Drama |
Thriller
Trailer

This film deals with the tragedy of the women survivors of the
Srebrenica genocide, or rather, the consequences of the horrors
they experienced - it is about women whose sole purpose in life is
to locate the bones of their loved ones and give them a decent
burial. Fifteen years later, they still want just one simple thing - the
truth. As a contrast, the film also deals with trivialities of modern
living, including obsession with different reality shows.
BELVEDERE (2010)
Director: Ahmed Imamovic
Writers: Ahmed Imamovic, Aida Pilav
Stars: Sadzida Setic, Nermin Tulic,
Emina Muftic
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Genres: Drama
Trailer

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpec-
ted love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
1984: In a northern England mining town, miners are on stri-
ke and the atmosphere is tense. Eleven-year old Billy Elliot, whose
father and brother are participating in the strike, whose mother
has died quite some time ago and whose grandmother is not
completely aware of what’s going on, doesn’t like the brutal
boxing lessons at school. Instead, he falls for the girls’ ballet les-
sons. When his folks find out about this unusual love of his, Billy is
in trouble. Being supported by the ballet teacher, Mrs. Wilkinson,
he keeps on training secretly while the work situation as well as
the problems at home get worse. Finally, Mrs. Wilkinson manages
to get Billy an audition for the Royal Ballet School, but now he
also has to open his heart to his family.
BILLY ELLIOT (2000)
Director: Stephen Daldry
Writer: Lee Hall
Stars: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters,
Jean Heywood
Country: UK | France
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Trailer

Both sides agree that on Jan. 30, 1972, a civil rights march
in Derry, Northern Ireland, ended with a confrontation between
some of the marchers and British army paratroopers. At the end
of the day, 13 marchers were dead and 14 in the hospital, one of
whom later died. No British soldiers were killed. An official inquiry
declared that the soldiers had returned the fire of armed mar-
chers. Some of the soldiers involved were later decorated by the
crown.
Beyond this agreement, there is a disagreement so deep and
bitter that 30 years later „Bloody Sunday” is still an open wound
in the long, contested history of the British in Northern Ireland.
A new inquiry into the events of the day was opened in 1998
and still continues today. Paul Greengrass’ film „Bloody Sunday,”
which shared the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival this year,
is made in the form of a documentary. It covers about 24 hours,
starting on Saturday evening, and its central character is Ivan
Cooper (James Nesbitt), a civil rights leader in Derry. He was a
Protestant MP from the nationalist Social Democratic Labour Par-
ty. Most of the 10,000 marchers on that Sunday would be Catho-
lic; that a Protestant led them, and stood beside such firebrands
as Bernadette Devlin, indicates the division in the north between
those who stood in solidarity with their co-religionists, and those
of all faiths who simply wanted the British out of Northern Ireland.
BLOODY SUNDAY (2002)
Director: Paul Greengrass
Writer: Paul Greengrass
Stars: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith,
Nicholas Farrell
Country: UK | Ireland
Genres: Drama | History | War
Trailer

Viljam Fišer is a Russian spy, who is sending scrambled mes-
sages from New York and living there under unreal name. But his
origin is revealed by FBI and he is going to court for a sentence
to death. But then a lawyer Donovan comes to defend agent
at the court and thanks to his speach Fišer is send to prison for
45 years. But some years later is shot down an American plane
and his pilot Powers is convicted and send to prison. Because of
the fear of CIA Donovan is pulled in to an operation in effort to
exchange Russian spy for the pilot. But when he gets to the Berlin
he founds out by accident that in the city was also arrested an
American student and he decides to not listen to orders and try
to save both of them. Movie is based on a true story.
BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Matt Charman, Ethan Coen
Stars: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance,
Alan Alda
Country: USA | Germany | India
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller
Trailer

The story is set in the latter days of World War 2, against the
backdrop of fierce combat on the eastern front. Brother’s War is
based on real events. The western Allies push into Germany and
the Red Army fights its way towards Berlin. Churchill is worried
about Russia’s post-war plans for Europe but must not endanger
the increasingly threatened alliance between the west and Rus-
sia. A British military officer attached to the Red Army discovers
a Russian war crime against the Polish government in exile and is
seized by Stalin’s feared intelligence service. He finds unexpec-
ted help from an enemy and fellow prisoner, a German Captain.
They discover a common bond in Freemasonry and are bound
by honor, oath and secrets. They are joined by Anna, a beautiful
Polish nurse cast adrift on the tides of war. The three are pursu-
ed by A ruthless Russian commander through Germany carrying
a secret that can change the outcome of the world and the
fate of millions. Brother’s War was produced with strict attention
to historic accuracy and military detail and portrays the horrors
and heroism of desperate battles. The film also opens the door
into the ancient order of Freemasons and presents unmatched
insight on the real histories of these men, brothers all, who have
fought in every war for hundreds of years.
BROTHER’S WAR (2009)
Director: Jerry Buteyn
Writers: Warren Lewis, Tino Struckmann
Stars: Tino Struckmann,
Michael Berryman, Olivier Gruner
Country: USA
Genres: History | War
Trailer

Based on real characters and events, this drama focuses on
the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach,
who set himself on fire in protest against the Soviet occupation
of Czechoslovakia in 1969. Dagmar Buresová, a young female
lawyer, became part of his legacy by defending Jan’s family in
a trial against the communist government, a regime which tried
to dishonor Palach’s sacrifice, a heroic action for the freedom of
Czechoslovakia.
BURNING BUSH (2013)
Horící ker
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Tatiana Pauhofová,
Jaroslava Pokorná, Petr Stach
Country: Czech Republic
Genres: Biography | Drama
Trailer

CHILDREN OF GLORY (2006)
Szabadság, szerelem
Director: Krisztina Goda
Writers: Joe Eszterhas, Éva Gárdos
Stars: Kata Dobó, Iván Fenyö,
Sándor Csányi
Country: Hungary
Genres: Drama | History | Romance
Trailer

„Children of Glory” commemorates Hungary’s Revolution
of 1956 and the Blood in the Water match. Taking place in Bu-
dapest and at the Melbourne Olympic Games in October and
November of that year, the film takes viewers into the passion
and sadness of one of the most dramatic popular revolts of the
twentieth century. In the same year Soviet tanks were violently
suppressing the Revolution within Hungary, the Hungarian water
polo team was winning over the Soviets in the Olympic pool in
Melbourne, in what is sometimes described as the bloodiest wa-
ter polo match in history.
While telling the story of 1956 in part through fictional lead
characters, the film-makers simultaneously recreated many of
the key public events of the Revolution, including the huge de-
monstrations and the fighting in the streets of Budapest.

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with
the movies at his village’s theater and formed a deep friendship
with the theater’s projectionist.
A boy who grew up in a native Sicilian Village returns home
as a famous director after receiving news about the death of an
old friend. Told in a flashback, Salvatore reminiscences about
his childhood and his relationship with Alfredo, a projectionist at
Cinema Paradiso. Under the fatherly influence of Alfredo, Salva-
tore fell in love with film making, with the duo spending many
hours discussing about films and Alfredo painstakingly teaching
Salvatore the skills that became a stepping stone for the young
boy into the world of film making. The film brings the audience
through the changes in cinema and the dying trade of traditio-
nal film making, editing and screening. It also explores a young
boy’s dream of leaving his little town to foray into the world out-
side.
CINEMA PARADISO (1988)
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Writers: Giuseppe Tornatore,
Giuseppe Tornatore
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Enzo
Cannavale, Antonella Attili
Country: Italy | France
Genres: Drama | Romance
Trailer

This story tells us about the life of families in 1967 to 1968 in
Prague. There are parallel stories from different families and pe-
ople can see the problems through all generations. The main
story is narrated from teenage boy which is in love with girl who-
se boyfriend is the only one whose family is in the USA. The father
from the main character is soldier and communist and doesn’t
understand his son. Their neighbors have problems too, they hate
communism and the mother of family is dying because of can-
cer. The lives of this families are mixing together and ending with
Prague spring.
COSY DENS (1999)
Pelísky
Director: Jan Hrebejk
Writers: Petr Jarchovský, Petr Sabach
Stars: Michael Beran, Miroslav Donutil,
Simona Stasová
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Trailer

DIE FRAU VOM CHECKPOINT CHARLIE
(2007)
Director: Miguel Alexandre
Writer: Annette Hess
Stars: Veronica Ferres, Peter Kremer,
Filip Peeters
Country: Germany
Genres: Drama
Trailer

Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre’s two-part drama
focuses on a East German woman and the fight for her children.
Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sa-
bine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her col-
league Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed
in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germa-
ny, she isn’t allowed to go there, so she starts planning to leave
her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania,
she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ran-
somed by the West German government, but without her dau-
ghters. To draw the world’s attention on her desperate situation,
she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpo-
int Charlie...

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although mar-
ried to another, falls in love with a political activist’s wife and
experiences hardship during the First World War and then the
October Revolution.
Lara inspires lechery in Komarovsky (her mother’s lover who
is a master at surviving whoever runs Russia) and can’t compe-
te with passion for the revolution of the man she marries, Pasha.
Her true love is Zhivago who also loves his wife. Lara is the one
who inspires poetry. The story is narrated by Zhivago’s half bro-
ther Yevgraf, who has made his career in the Soviet Army. At the
beginning of the film he is about to meet a young woman he
believes may be the long lost daughter of Lara and Zhivago.
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
Director: David Lean
Writers: Boris Pasternak, Robert Bolt
Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie,
Geraldine Chaplin
Country: USA | Italy | UK
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Trailer

The last days of Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker at the end of
World War Two, has been discussed many times in books and in
documentaries. This movie is the first serious attempt by a Ger-
man director to tackle this most sensitive aspect of his country’s
history in a dramatized account.
‚Downfall’ is a study of life in the bunker and the surrounding
streets as the Russians are closing in. It is not so much about the
details of the end of the war, though that of course is covered;
rather, this is a story about desperate people in very desperate
circumstances, and how they each find their own solution to the
question of what to do when defeat becomes inevitable.
DOWNFALL (2004)
Der Untergang
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writers: Bernd Eichinger , Joachim Fest
Stars: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria
Lara, Ulrich Matthes
Country: Germany | Austria | Italy
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Trailer

U.S. President Merkin Muffley is on the hot line to Moscow with
some rather embarrassing news for the Soviet premier: „Hello, Di-
mitri....I’m fine....Now then, you know how we’ve always talked
about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb....
The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb....Well, now, what hap-
pened is that, uh, one of our base commanders...he went a little
funny in the head....and he went and did a silly thing....He orde-
red his planes to attack your country.” A comedy about an ac-
cidental nuclear attack? One that ends with total annihilation,
thermonuclear apocalypse? Preposterous! Stanley Kubrick tho-
ught otherwise. In the end his thinking prevailed. The mad saga
revolves around a psychotic Strategic Air Command officer,
Gen. Jack D. Ripper, who lets loose his B-52 bomber squadron on
the Soviet Union. Ripper takes this unilateral action because of
his paranoid belief that Communists are sapping and contami-
nating „all our precious bodily fluids” as part of their plan to take
over the world. Unbeknownst to Ripper, his attack will trigger the
Russian’s ultimate weapon, the Doomsday Machine, a diaboli-
cal retaliatory device set to blow up the planet.
DR. STRANGELOVE OR:
HOW I LEARNED TO STOP
WORRYING AND LOVE
THE BOMB (1964)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern
Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott,
Sterling Hayden
Country: USA | UK
Genres: Comedy
Trailer

Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made
before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner
Less, a young Israeli Police Officer, of his past as the architect of
Hitler’s plan for the final solution. Captured by intelligence ope-
ratives in Argentina, 15 years after World War II, Eichmann (Kret-
schmann), the World’s most wanted man, must be broken down
and the truth unveiled. As the world waits, two men must con-
front each other in a battle of wills- the result of which will chan-
ge a nation forever.
EICHMANN (2007)
Director: Robert Young
Writer: Snoo Wilson
Stars: Avner W. Less,
Thomas Kretschmann, Troy Garity
Country: Hungary | UK
Genres: Biography | History | War
Trailer

The Baader Meinhof Complex depicts the early years of the
West German terrorist group, the Red Army Faction (RAF). The
group was founded in the German student movement of the
late 1960s. The name of the film comes from two of the foun-
ding members, Andreas Baader (Bleibtreu) and Ulrike Meinhof
(Gedeck). The aim of such radical politics was to create a more
human society, through inhuman approaches like bombing and
murders. Of course, they have to face the German police, led
by Chief Horst Herold (Ganz).
Following closely to Stefan Aust’s non-fiction book of the
same title, the time-span of the film starts from the founding in
1967/8 to the German Autumn in 1977, but the long span does
not stop the film containing all the events in a documentary fa-
shion.
The film benefits hugely from the terrific acting talents of
both Bleibtreu and Gedeck, stars of the famous German films
Run Lola Run and The Lives of Others respectively. The prota-
gonists are terrorists, putting the audience on the other side of
the story which makes the film so fascinating, breathtaking and
provocative to watch. The film is demonstrative and the script is
cracking
EXODUS 47 (2015)
Director: Uli Edel
Writers: Bernd Eichinger, Uli Edel
Stars: Martina Gedeck,
Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek
Country: Germany | France |
Czech Republic
Genres: Action | Biography | Crime
Trailer

The 1980s in Czechoslovakia. The young talented sprinter
Anna (Judit Bárdos) is selected for the national team and starts
training to qualify for the Olympic Games. As a part of the pre-
paration she is placed in a secret „medical programme” where
she’s getting doped with anabolic steroids. Her performance is
getting better, but after she collapses at the training, she learns
the truth about the drugs. Anna decides to continue in her tra-
ining without the steroids even though her mother (Anna Ge-
islerova) is worried that she won’t be able to keep up with other
athletes and might not qualify for the Olympics, which she sees
as the only chance for her daughter to escape from behind the
Iron Curtain. After Anna finishes the last in the indoor race, her
mother informs the coach (Roman Luknar) that Anna is no lon-
ger using steroids. They decide to apply the steroids to Anna se-
cretly, pretending it’s nothing but doses of harmless vitamins.
FAIR PLAY (2014)
Director: Andrea Sedlácková
Writers: Irena Hejdová,
Andrea Sedlácková
Stars: Anna Geislerová,
Vlastina Svátková, Eva Josefíková
Country: Czech Republic | Slovakia |
Germany
Genres: Drama | Sport
Trailer

An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during
World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who’s
sent to a forced labor camp. After his father’s departure, Györ-
gy gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish
occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suf-
fering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving
one’s dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does
survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is na-
tural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color
alternate to shade the mood.
FATELESS (2005)
Sorstalanság
Director: Lajos Koltai
Writers: Imre Kertész, Imre Kertész
Stars: Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra,
Bálint Péntek
Country: Hungary | Germany | UK |
Israel | France
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Trailer

East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against
the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suf-
fers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the
GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she
has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR
again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot.
GOODBYE LENIN! (2003)
Director: Wolfgang Becker
Writers: Bernd Lichtenberg,
Wolfgang Becker
Stars: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß,
Chulpan Khamatova
Country: Germany
Genres: Drama | Romance
Trailer

The movie is based on a true story. On 16 March 1978 Aldo
Moro, the former Italian Prime Minister was kidnapped in Via Fani
by the Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades), a militant Communist Italian
group. He was the main supporter of the Compromesso Storico
(Hystorical Compromise), which had to lead to the first Italian
government supported by both the Christian Democrats and
the Communists, in a period of social, economic and political
crises. During the attack his five escort agents were all killed. Mo-
ro’s corpse was found on 9 May 1978 in a car parked in a street
between the headquarters of the Christian Democrat Party and
the Communist Party. This movie is inspired by this tragic event
which traumatize the whole nation. It focuses mainly on the re-
lationship between the prisoner and his guards through the eyes
of Chiara, the young woman whose role is to guard the prisoner.
The movie portraits Chiara’s life (her job as a librarian, the ordi-
nary household) on one side and the political
GOOD MORNING, NIGHT (2003)
Buongiorno, notte
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Writers: Anna Laura Braghetti,
Paola Tavella
Stars: Maya Sansa, Luigi Lo Cascio,
Roberto Herlitzka
Country: Italy
Trailer

Anna is 18 years old and on her way to become a nun,
but she must go to a journey to visit her last living relative – aunt
Wanda. After short time reveales a hidden secret, because her
aunt used to be a member of communist party and worked as
a judge in many of cases with political activists in 50’s. She also
reveals origins of her relatives and her real name – Ida. Her family
was all jewish and she and her aunt Wanda are now discovering
new democratic world and finding their own identity.
IDA (2013)
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Writers: Pawel Pawlikowski,
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Stars: Agata Kulesza,Agata
Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik
Country: Poland | Denmark |
France | UK
Genres: Drama
Trailer

Identity card is story about four teenage boys, from the-
ir fifteens to eighteens. We can see their problems, love, funny
events, but dramatic ones too. They don’t like the regime and
trying to break the rules somehow, but this takes them often to
difficult situations. All starts when these friends get the identity
card and ends in times when they are trying to avoid going to
the army. In the background we can see the life in totalitarian
regime in Czechoslovakia.
IDENTITY CARD (2010)
Obcanský prukaz
Director: Ondrej Trojan
Writers: Petr Jarchovský, Petr Sabach
Stars: Libor Kovár, Matous Vrba,
Jakub Sárka
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Trailer

As the film opens, Giulio Andreotti gives an inner monolo-
gue observing how he has managed to survive his tumultuous
political career while his various detractors have died. A monta-
ge shows the murders of various people connected to Andreotti,
including journalist Mino Pecorelli, Carabinieri general Carlo Al-
berto Dalla Chiesa, bankers Michele Sindona and Roberto Calvi,
and former prime minister Aldo Moro.
The story of Giulio Andreotti, a seven-time prime minister
of Italy notorious for his alleged ties to the Mafia. The narration
spans the period from Andreotti’s seventh election in 1992, to his
failed bid for the presidency of the Italian Republic, to the Tan-
gentopoli bribe scandal, until his trial in 1995.
IL DIVO (2008)
Il divo - La spettacolare vita di Giulio...
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Writer: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto,
Giulio Bosetti
Country: Italy | France
Trailer

During World War II a group of American soldiers are sent
into Europe to kill Nazis. They’ve become so good at it that the
Germans refer to them as The Basterds. Later, they work with a
British officer who was sent to formalize a plan to kill several high
ranking German officers at the premiere of a movie depicting
the „heroics” of a German soldier. But something goes wrong
at the meeting with their contact, a German actress, all of the
members of the team who speak German are killed which com-
plicates the plans. So the leader Lt. Raine comes up with an alter-
native. And another complication is the screening is being mo-
ved to a small theater because the man depicted in the movie
takes a liking to the owner of the theater. And unknown to them,
she is a Jew whose entire family was killed by a Nazi officer, who
was tasked with rounding up the Jews and is now the security of-
ficer of the screening. And also unknown is that she has her own
plans.
INGLOURIOUS BASTARDS (2009)
Director: Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth
Writers: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth
Country: USA | Germany
Genres: Adventure | Drama | War
Trailer

Interrogation (Polish: Przesłuchanie) is a 1982 Polish film abo-
ut false imprisonment under the Stalinist pro-Soviet Polish regime
in the early 1950s. An ordinary, apolitical woman refuses to co-
operate with the abusive system and its officials, who are trying
to force her to incriminate a former incidental lover, now an ac-
cused political prisoner. It was directed by Ryszard Bugajski. Due
to its anti-communist themes, the Polish communist government
banned the film from public viewing for over seven years, until
the 1989 dissolution of the Eastern Bloc allowed it to see the light
of day.
Tonia (Krystyna Janda) is a cabaret singer in post-World War
II Poland towards the end of the life of Soviet leader Joseph Sta-
lin. After she performs for soldiers, she is arrested without being
told why, and placed in a political military prison to be interroga-
ted. Over a course of some years, she is humiliated and tortured
by prison officials into confessing to crimes she did not commit.
After failing to sign a document detailing a false confession, she
is taken to the prison shower block and locked into a small cage
between the floors. The water is turned on and the room is slowly
flooded. She is released at the last moment and...
INTERROGATION (1982)
Przesłuchanie
Director: Ryszard Bugajski
Writers: Ryszard Bugajski,
Janusz Dymek
Stars: Krystyna Janda,
Adam Ferency, Janusz Gajos
Country: Poland
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Trailer

In the Name of the Father is a 1993 Irish-British-American bio-
graphical courtroom drama film co-written and directed by Jim
Sheridan. It is based on the true life story of the Guildford Four,
four people falsely convicted of the 1974 IRA’s Guildford pub
bombings, which killed four off-duty British soldiers and a civilian.
[2] The screenplay was adapted by Terry George and Jim Sheri-
dan from the autobiography Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry
Conlon of the Guildford Four by Gerry Conlon.
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely im-
plicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people
while he is in London. Bullied by the British police, he and four of
his friends are coerced into confessing their guilt. Gerry’s father
and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime.
He spends 15 years in prison with his father trying to prove his in-
nocence with the help of a British attorney, Gareth Peirce. Based
on a true story.
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (1993)
Director: Jim Sheridan
Writers: Gerry Conlon, Terry George
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis,
Pete Postlethwaite, Alison Crosbie
Country: Ireland | UK | USA
Trailer

The Second World War has recently ended in Europe, and
the people of the United Kingdom are awaiting the results of the
1945 general elections. During this time, Winston Churchill goes
to France for a holiday with his wife Clemmie. Through a series of
flashbacks, Churchill recalls some of his most glorious moments
during the war, and the effect it had on their marriage.
Into the Storm or Churchill at War (alternative title) continu-
es on from the “The Gathering Storm” (a 2002 film, directed by
Richard Loncraine). It is set against the backdrop of World War
II, and looks at how Churchill’s success as a great wartime le-
ader ultimately undermined his political career and threatened
his marriage to „Clemmie” -Clementine Hozier.
Into the Storm was nominated for 14 Primetime Emmy
Awards. Brendan Gleeson won the Primetime Emmy Award for
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
INTO THE STORM (2009)
Director: Thaddeus O’Sullivan
Writer: Hugh Whitemore
Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Clive Mantle,
Adrian Scarborough
Country: UK | USA
| War
Trailer

This gripping spy thriller tells the true story of a man who dares
to challenge the Soviet empire. While planning the maneuvers
of the Warsaw Pact forces, Polish army colonel Ryszard Kuklinski
has access to top secrets. He gets to know that the American
nuclear counterattack against Soviet forces is planned to be
executed on Polish territory. Thanks to his determination, he starts
a long, lonely and psychologically exhausting cooperation with
CIA. From that very moment the life of his family and his own is in
constant danger as one careless move may lead to tragedy.
JACK STRONG (2014)
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski
Writer: Wladyslaw Pasikowski
Stars: Marcin Dorocinski,
Maja Ostaszewska, Patrick Wilson
Country: Poland
Trailer

Judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy) arrives in Nuremberg
in 1948 to preside over the trial of four Nazi judges, each charged
with having abused the court system to help cleanse Germany
of the politically and socially undesirable, allegedly guilty of war
crimes. The opening statement of the prosecuting attorney (Ri-
chard Widmark) is a vicious one, depicting the defendants as
having been willing, evil, accomplices in Nazi atrocities, but Jud-
ge Haywood wonders if it is really that simple.
Confounded at how one defendant, a renowned German
champion of justice named Ernst Janning (Burt Lancaster), ap-
pears to have played the greatest role in molding Germany’s
Ministry of Justice into a destructive instrument of Nazism, Judge
Haywood resolves to gain some perspective on the period in
which the German legal system strayed from a course of entirely
objective justice.
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
Director: Stanley Kramer
Writers: Abby Mann, Abby Mann
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster,
Richard Widmark
Country: USA
Genres: Drama | War
Trailer

This film is an inspiring story of courage and heroism as the
K-19 officers and crew display their sacrificial commitment to
duty as Russian Navy men. It is also a story of the political coura-
ge required to avoid warfare. Captain Polenin shows a deep
concern for the morale and safety of the crew, but his stern
replacement, Captain Vostrikov, eventually displays his own
commitment to their well-being. Crew members experience a
number of injuries, including severe radiation burns. Some pretty
realistic scenes of injuries and burned skin on radiation victims
are graphic and gruesome. But the most amazing phenomenon
in this film is the complete lack of foul language. Only one slightly
suggestive comment is made by a crew member. However, in a
humorous incident, the Russian crew “moons” an American heli-
copter crew. With a warning about the graphic injuries and bare
posterior scene, “K-19: The Widowmaker” is a very acceptable
and fascinating film for teenagers and adults.
K-19: THE WINDOWMAKER (2002)
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Writers: Louis Nowra, Christopher Kyle
Stars: Harrison Ford, Sam Spruell,
Peter Stebbings
Country: UK | Germany | USA |
Canada
Trailer

Franta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Cze-
choslovakia, a confirmed bachelor and a lady’s man. Having
lost his place in the state orchestra, he must make ends meet
by playing at funerals and painting tombstones. But he has run
up a large debt, and when his friend, the grave-digger Mr. Broz,
suggests a scheme for making a lot of money by marrying a Rus-
sian woman so that she can get her Czech papers, he reluc-
tantly agrees. She takes advantage of the situation to emigrate
to West Germany, to her lover; and leaves her five-year-old son
with his grandmother; when the grandmother dies, Kolya must
come and live with his stepfather - Louka.
KOLA (1996)
Kolja
Director: Jan Sverák
Writers: Pavel Taussig, Zdenek Sverák
Stars: Zdenek Sverák, Andrey
Khalimon, Libuse Safránková
Country: Czech Republic | UK |
France
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music
Trailer

In 1939, Jewish-Italian Guido Orefice comes into Arezzo,
Italy, ultimately to open a book store. In the meantime, he will
work as a waiter at the hotel restaurant where his Uncle Eliseo is
the maître d’. In town, he meets a school teacher named Dora,
who he calls Princess and who comes from a wealthy Italian fa-
mily. For him, it’s love at first sight. Despite she already being in a
relationship with another man, Guido ultimately sweeps her off
her feet. They get married and have a son they name Giosué.
On Giosué’s fifth birthday, World War II is in full force. Since they
are Jewish, the Germans take away Guido, Eliseo and Giosué to
a labor camp. Wanting to be with her family, Dora insists she be
taken too, but she is housed in the women’s side of the camp.
To protect Giosué from the horror of what is happening to them,
Guido tells him that they are playing a game, certain actions
which garner points, other actions which take points away or
disqualify one from the game. The first to reach 1,000 points wins
the prize of a real tank. Guido’s primary goal is to keep Giosué
safe at all cost, while he tries to figure out a way to get his family
out of the camp and keep the Germans at bay from learning
what he is doing with Giosué.
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (1997)
La vita è bella
Director: Roberto Benigni
Writers: Vincenzo Cerami,
Roberto Benigni
Stars: Roberto Benigni,
Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
Country: Italy
Genres: Comedy | Drama | War
Trailer

MUNICH (2005)
Writers: Tony Kushner, Eric Roth
Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig,
Marie-Josée Croze
Country: France | Canada | USA
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Trailer

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli
athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian ter-
rorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli
government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down
and execute those responsible for the attack.
Shot in Malta, Budapest, Paris and New York City, Munich
was a critical success but is also one of Spielberg’s lowest-grossing
films. It garnered positive reviews and five Academy Awards no-
minations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay,
Best Film Editing and Best Original Score.

The grim futility of the war between Bosnia and Serbia is re-
duced to its essence as two enemy soldiers are forced to share
a wary trust for one another in this drama. A group of Bosnian
soldiers are advancing upon Serbian territory during a misty ni-
ght when the fog lifts at daybreak, making them plainly visible
to their enemy. Serb forces open fire upon them, and soon only
Chiki (Brancko Djuric) is still alive, after diving into a trench in no
man’s land. Two Serbian soldiers scouting the area set up a land
mine using the body of a Bosnian soldier as „bait;” if moved, the
mine will jump into the air and explode. Chiki watches as the sol-
diers set the trap, and furious at the disrespect to his fallen com-
rades, he kills one of the Serbs, and takes the other, Nino (Rene
Bitorajac), hostage. With both soldiers alone and equally armed,
they find themselves at a stalemate, and begin trying to attract
help from either side. Eventually, the two men are found by a
squadron of French soldiers attached to a U.N. peacekeeping
unit; now held by supposedly neutral forces, Chiki and Nino are
with the French troops when it’s discovered that the dead Bo-
snian soldier isn’t dead after all, though no one is sure how to
disarm the mine without killing him in the process. No Man’s Land
was the debut feature from Bosnian writer and director Danis Ta-
novic.
NO MAN’S LAND (2001)
Director: Danis Tanovic
Writer: Danis Tanovic
Stars: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac,
Filip Sovagovic
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina |
France | Slovenia | Italy | UK |
Belgium
Genres: Drama | War
Trailer

An examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bom-
bing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
15 August 1998: the Real IRA exploded a bomb on a cro-
wded street in Omagh, just into Northern Ireland, to halt the
Good Friday accords and peace process; 29 people died. Fa-
milies formed the Omagh Support Group to press the police in
their inquiries. The film focuses on the Gallagher family, who lose
their son Aiden. His father, Michael, a mechanic, becomes chair
of the support group. The press for answers strains his relationship
with his wife. High-ranking police speak in bromides. Shadowy
figures offer intelligence that calls into question the integrity be-
fore and after the bombing of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and
its Special Branch. Will the murders remain unsolved?
OMAGH (2004)
Director: Pete Travis
Writers: Paul Greengrass, Guy Hibbert
Stars: Gerard McSorley,
Michèle Forbes, Brenda Fricker
Country: Ireland | UK
Genres: Drama
Trailer

Berlin, after the Second World War: C.R. MacNamara presi-
des over the Coca-Cola branch of Germany. He is working hard
and trying his very best to impress the Atlanta headquarters, sin-
ce he has heard that the European headquarters in London will
soon be looking for a new head. Now, Coca-Cola boss Mr. Ha-
zeltine asks MacNamara to take care of his daughter Scarlett,
who is going to take a trip to Europe. Scarlett, however, does
not behave the way a young respectable girl of her age should:
Instead of sightseeing, she goes out until the early morning and
has lots of fun. Finally, she falls in love with Otto Piffl, a young man
from East Berlin and a flaming Communist, and marries him sur-
prisingly. When MacNamara hears of this, he intrigues quite a bit
with the help of his assistant Schlemmer to get Piffl into an East
German prison, but when he also gets note of his Boss and wife
coming over to visit their daughter in Berlin, he needs to get Piffl
out again, convert him to Capitalism and present him as a fine
young and noble husband in order to get his London post, and
all of that very quick!
ONE, TWO, THREE (1961)
Director: Billy Wilder
Writers: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond
Stars: James Cagney
Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin
Country: USA
Genres: Comedy
Trailer

As 1973 winds down, Franco is still governing Spain with an
iron hand. Opposition parties are forbidden; labor movements
are repressed; and Basque nationalists are mercilessly hunted
down. The caudillo is aging, though, and the continuity of the
régime is in question. One man has the trust of Franco, enough
authority and experience to assume the leadership, and an im-
peccable track record as to dealing with enemies of the State:
admiral Carrero Blanco. For the embattled clandestine Basque
organization ETA, Carrero Blanco must be brought down. Daring
plans are made, requiring a meticulous execution...
OPERATION OGRE (1979)
Ogro
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Writers: Giorgio Arlorio, Ugo Pirro,
Gillo Pontecorvo
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè,
Ángela Molina, Saverio Marconi
Country: Italy | Spain
Trailer

In 1947 the anticommunist partisan groups retreated into the
mountains. Enemies of the system, hunted by authorities and lo-
ved by ordinary Romanians, the partisans have a transcendent
destiny. The events in Constantin Popescu’s film are inspired by
real action taking place during an entire decade.
PORTRAIT OF THE FIGHTER AS A
YOUNG MAN (2010)
Portretul luptatorului la tinerete
Director: Constantin Popescu
Writer: Constantin Popescu
Stars: Constantin Dita,
Bogdan Dumitrache, Ionut Caras
Country: Romania
Genres: Action | Drama | History
Trailer

PORTRAIT OF WALLY (2012)
Director: Andrew Shea
Writers: David D’Arcy, Andrew Shea
Country: U.S.A, Austria
Genres: Documentary | History
Trailer
„Portrait of Wally”,Egon Schiele’s tender picture of his mi-
stress, Walburga (Wally) Neuzil, is the pride of the Leopold Mu-
seum in Vienna. But for 13 years the painting was locked up in
New York, caught in a legal battle between the Austrian mu-
seum and the Jewish family from whom the Nazis seized the pa-
inting in 1939.
The documentary PORTRAIT OF WALLY, traces the history of
this iconic image from Schiele’s gesture of affection toward his
young lover, to the theft of the painting from Lea Bondi, a Jewish
art dealer fleeing Vienna for her life, to the post-war confusion
and subterfuge that evoke THE THIRD MAN, to the surprise resur-
facing of „Wally” on loan to the Museum of Modern Art in Man-
hattan in 1997.
The “Wally” case brought the story of Nazi art loot into the
open, eventually forcing museums in Europe and the U.S. to se-
arch their own collections for suspect objects. Many museums
ended up returning art to Jewish families who had abandoned
hope until “Wally” showed that institutions could be held acco-
untable for holding property stolen during the Holocaust. The
case was resolved in dramatic fashion in the summer of 2010,
but only after the history of Schiele’s extraordinary painting was
unearthed to revisit the crimes of the Holocaust and to witness
the reluctance of major institutions in Europe and New York to
send the “last prisoners of war” back to their families.

ROMANZO CRIMINALE (2011)
Director: Michele Placido
Writers: Giancarlo De Cataldo,
Stefano Rulli
Stars: Kim Rossi Stuart, Anna Mouglalis,
Pierfrancesco Favino
Country: Italy | France | UK
Genres: Crime | Drama
Trailer

Michele Placido’s film “Romanzo Criminale” begins with a
group of boys stealing a car and going on a joyride that leaves
one of them dead and the rest in prison. They begin a life of cri-
me, determined to conquer the Roman underworld and, for a
while at least, they succeed.
The story, which is based on a novel by Giancarlo de Ca-
taldo, takes its characters through the turbulent 1970’s and into
the eighties, and as the boys seek to increase their power - and
through that, their independence - they only become more en-
tangled with powers which will always be greater than them-
selves; the mafia, corrupt politicians. They are also pursued over
the years by Commissioner Scialoja, played by the popular Ita-
lian actor Stefano Accorsi.
The story is fairly complex, and involves the characters with
many real-life historical events such as the kidnapping and mur-
der of Aldo Moro (which also formed the basis for “Buongiorno
Notte”) and the Bologna massacre of 1980, when a bomb left
in a crowded train station left 85 people dead. The book was
a long one, at over 600 pages, and the story barely fits into the
film’s 154 minute running time. As a result some events are sped
through perhaps a little too quickly, and Romanzo Criminale co-
uld easily have been a much longer film, or perhaps even a te-
levision series. Timing aside, it’s well directed by Placido and fe-
atures some wonderful use of Roman scenery, including some
dramatic death scenes that take place on the Spanish Steps
and in the piazza in front of Santa Maria in Trastevere.

Schindler’s List is Steven Spielberg’s award-winning film
which illustrates the profoundly nightmarish Holocaust. It re-cre-
ates a dark, frightening period during World War II, when Na-
zi-occupied Krakow first dispossessed Jews of their businesses
and homes, then placed in ghettos and forced labor camps in
Plaszow, and finally resettled in concentration camps for execu-
tion. Oskar Schindler, a German businessman and an opportu-
nist member of the Nazi party acquires a factory for the produc-
tion of mess kits and cooking paraphernalia. Not knowing much
about how to properly run such an enterprise, he gains a con-
tact, Itzhak Stern, who has links with the underground Jewish bu-
siness community in the ghetto. They loan him the money for the
factory in return for a small share of products produced for trade
in the black market. Schindler witnesses the horrifying visions of
the Holocaust and the toll it takes on the Jewish people. Schin-
dler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and by
lavishly bribing the SS officials, he is able to save over 1,100 Jews
from death in the gas chambers.
SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993)
Writers: Thomas Keneally,
Steven Zaillian
Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes,
Ben Kingsley
Country: Country: USA
Trailer

A tale based on the life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the contro-
versial conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic whose tenure coin-
cided with the controversial Nazi era. One of the most spectacu-
lar and renowned conductors of the 30s, Furtwangler’s reputation
rivaled that of Toscanini’s. After the war, he was investigated as
part of the Allies’ de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-o-
ut Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring
law and order--and justice--to bear on an occupied Germany.
An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to
find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. To-
ugh and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a
world of which he knows nothing. Orchestra members vouch for
Furtwangler’s morality--he did what he could to protect Jewish
players from his orchestra. To the Germans, deeply respectful of
their musical heritage, Furtwangler was a demigod; to Major Ar-
nold, he is just a lying, weak-willed Nazi.
TAKING SIDES (2001)
Director: István Szabó
Writers: Ronald Harwood,
Ronald Harwood
Stars: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård,
Moritz Bleibtreu
Country: France | UK | Germany |
Austria
Genres: Drama | Music | War
Trailer

War in Georgia, Apkhazeti region 1992: local Apkhazians are
fighting to break free from Georgia. Estonian village between the
mountains has become empty, almost everyone has returned to
their homeland, only 2 men have stayed: Ivo and Margus. But
Margus will leave as soon as he has harvested his crops of tan-
gerines. In a bloody conflict in their miniature village wounded
men are left behind, and Ivo is forced to take them in. But they
are from opposite sides of the war. This is touching anti-war story
about Estonians who find themselves in the middle of someone
else’s war. How do they handle it? How do the enemies act un-
der third-party roof?
TANGERINES (2013)
Mandariinid
Director: Zaza Urushadze
Writer: Zaza Urushadze
Stars: Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen,
Giorgi Nakashidze
Country: Estonia | Georgia
Genres: Drama | War
Trailer

Joseph Stalin (Sergei Razhuk) visits ailing Russian leader Vla-
dimir Lenin (Leonid Mozgovoy) in 1923.
TAURUS (2001)
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Writer: Yuriy Arabov
Stars: Leonid Mozgovoy, Mariya
Kuznetsova, Sergey Razhuk
Country: Russia
Genres: Drama
Trailer

TIED RED THREAD (2011)
Demeni kokkini klosti
Director: Kostas Haralambous
Writer: Kostas Haralambous
Stars: Thanos Samaras, Tasos Nousias,
Efi Gousi
Country: Greece
Genres: Drama | War
Trailer

This political drama takes us back in time, to a different po-
litical period in a small mountainous Greek village of 1945. Shor-
tly after Varkiza’s Agreement, armed parastatals led by Micha
cause terror, murders and other horrible acts against the leftists
who have not declared obedience and allegiance.
The movie’s scenes and the whole story is cruel yet realistic.
The armed parastatals invade homes- raping, beating and thre-
atening even the children. They demand money in order not to
escalate the violence, forcing people to sell their small fortunes,
their animals and their homes. Their action supports the Gendar-
merie station, which entrusts them with crimes that others are
usually not willing to commit.
This story depicts the differences between extreme leftists
and right- wing fascism that too often results in violence. It is a
close look into the civil war, focused primarily on the actions of
the fascists. It is a story that will make us wonder about the forms
and effects of the unfortunate rise of fascism.

The Baader Meinhof Complex depicts the early years of the
West German terrorist group, the Red Army Faction (RAF). The
group was founded in the German student movement of the
late 1960s. The name of the film comes from two of the foun-
ding members, Andreas Baader (Bleibtreu) and Ulrike Meinhof
(Gedeck). The aim of such radical politics was to create a more
human society, through inhuman approaches like bombing and
murders. Of course, they have to face the German police, led
by Chief Horst Herold (Ganz).
Following closely to Stefan Aust’s non-fiction book of the
same title, the time-span of the film starts from the founding in
1967/8 to the German Autumn in 1977, but the long span does
not stop the film containing all the events in a documentary fa-
shion.
The film benefits hugely from the terrific acting talents of
both Bleibtreu and Gedeck, stars of the famous German films
Run Lola Run and The Lives of Others respectively. The prota-
gonists are terrorists, putting the audience on the other side of
the story which makes the film so fascinating, breathtaking and
provocative to watch. The film is demonstrative and the script is
cracking
THE BADDER - MEINHOF COMPLEX (2009)
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Director: Uli Edel
Writers: Bernd Eichinger, Uli Edel
Stars: Martina Gedeck,
Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek
Country: Germany | France |
Czech Republic
Trailer

1954. France, after the independence of the nations com-
prising Indochina, turns its attention to incidents in French Alge-
ria, which they have ruled for approximately one hundred thirty
years. The National Liberation Front (FLN) is leading the resistan-
ce in Algeria against their colonial rulers, the FLN who the French
authorities believe, or want to believe, comprise only a small mi-
nority of the Muslim Algerian population in wanting Algerian in-
dependence. Specific incidents in this battle in Algiers between
1954 and the time of independence in 1962 are presented. The
FLN began their campaign in shooting military police in the Cas-
bah, the predominantly Muslim quarter of the city, as they were
able to blend back into the scene with the support of the po-
pulace. These initial one by one attacks escalated on both si-
des to mass killings, where collateral damage was seen as being
acceptable. Both sides also worked toward the United Nations
discussion on the issue, each wanting global support for their
cause. The events largely focus on two people, one on each
side. The first is Ali La Pointe, a lifelong petty criminal and illiterate
who the FLN recruited after being politicized while in prison. The
second is French paratrooper Colonel Mathieu, a lead French
strategist whose main goal is to dismantle the FLN activities by
„cutting off the head of the tapeworm”.
THE BATTLE OF ALGER (1966)
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Writers: Franco Solinas
Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin,
Yacef Saadi
Country: Italy | Algeria
Genres: Drama | War
Trailer

It is a Romanian film from 1994, directed by Sergiu Nicola-
escu. It presents events from the Romanian history which happe-
ned during the 2nd World War and the following years, focusing
on the coup that ousted authoritarian regime of Marshal Ion An-
tonescu.
The film also covers the tumultuous period of the legionna-
ire rebellion and King Michael’s abdication, the rise of the arrest
and execution of Marshal Antonescu, glory and fall of King Mi-
hai, imposition of Petru Groza as prime minister by Vasinski, Ma-
niu’s death and Patrascanu’s execution.
THE BEGINNING OF THE TRUTH (1993)
Oglinda
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Writers: Ioan Grigorescu,
Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Ion Siminie, Adrian Vâlcu,
Gheorghe Dinica
Country: Romania
Trailer

An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an
Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped Bri-
tish soldier lured into an IRA trap by Jude, another IRA member.
When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus
escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody’s lover,
a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus adopts the name „Jimmy” and
gets a job as a day laborer. He also starts seeing Dil, who knows
nothing about Fergus’ IRA background. But there are some thin-
gs about Dil that Fergus doesn’t know, either...
THE CRYING GAME (1992)
Director: Neil Jordan
Writers: Neil Jordan
Stars: Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson,
Forest Whitaker
Country: UK | Japan
Genres: Crime | Drama |
Romance | Thriller
Trailer

The espionage thriller begins in 1997, as shocking news re-
aches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and
Stefan (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David
(Ciarán Hinds). All three have been venerated for decades by
their country because of the mission that they undertook back
in 1965, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Cha-
stain, Marton Csokas, and Sam Worthington) tracked down Nazi
war criminal Vogel (Jesper Christensen) in East Berlin. At great
risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team’s mission was
accomplished - or was it? The suspense builds in and across two
different time periods, with startling action and surprising revela-
tions.
THE DEBT (2010)
Director: John Madden
Writers: Matthew Vaughn,
Jane Goldman
Stars: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington,
Tom Wilkinson
Country: USA | UK | Hungary | Israel
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A thriller about an IRA gunman who draws an American fa-
mily into the crossfire of terrorism. Frankie McGuire is one of the
IRA’s deadliest assassins. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy
weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O’Meara, a
New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie’s real identity.
Their surprising friendship, and Tom’s growing suspicions, force
Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of
murder.
THE DEVIL’S OWN (1997)
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Writers: Kevin Jarre, David A. Cohen
Stars: Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt,
Margaret Colin
Country: USA
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama |
Thriller
Trailer

THE IRON LADY (2011)
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Writer: Abi Morgan (screenplay)
Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent,
Richard E. Grant
Country: UK | France
Trailer

London, 2008: In her well-appointed apartment, the elderly
former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher prepares breakfast for
her husband Denis, as she has every morning of their married life.
It’s not until Margaret’s personal aide bustles in that we see that
Margaret sits at the table alone. Denis is alive only in her imagi-
nation.
THE IRON LADY is the story of a woman who came from no-
where to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard
in a male dominated world. It is a film about power and the price
that is paid for power, a story that is both unique and universal.
THE IRON LADY stars Academy Award-winners Meryl Streep as
Margaret Thatcher and Jim Broadbent as her husband, Denis.

In Grbavica, Sarajevo, Esma Halilovic raises her teenage
daughter Sara alone with many difficulties and working in do-
uble-shift. Every now and then Esma participates in a group the-
rapy with other traumatized Bosnian women that have survived
to the Balkan War. Esma needs two hundred Euros for the school
trip of Sara and is working hard to raise the amount. When Sara is
informed by her teacher that the martyr certificate of her father
would grant her to travel for free, she presses her mother to give
the document. But Esma borrows the money and pays the full
price and Sara forces her mother to disclose the truth about her
father.
THE LAND OF MY DREAMS (2006)
Grbavica
Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Writer: Jasmila Zbanic
Stars: Mirjana Karanovic,
Luna Zimic Mijovic, Leon Lucev
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Croatia | Austria | Germany
Genres: Drama
Trailer

The Lives of Others (German: Das Leben der Anderen) is a
2006 German drama film, marking the feature film debut of film-
maker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, about the monitoring
of East Berlin residents by agents of the Stasi, the GDR’s secret
police. It stars Ulrich Mühe (who died within a year of the film’s
release) as Stasi Captain Gerd Wiesler, Ulrich Tukur as his superior
Anton Grubitz, Sebastian Koch as the playwright Georg Drey-
man, and Martina Gedeck as Dreyman’s lover, a prominent ac-
tress named Christa-Maria Sieland.
Gerd Wiesler is an officer with the Stasi, the East German se-
cret police. The film begins in 1984 when Wiesler attends a play
written by Georg Dreyman, who is considered by many to be the
ultimate example of the loyal citizen. Wiesler has a gut feeling
that Dreyman can’t be as ideal as he seems and believes surve-
illance is called for. The Minister of Culture agrees but only later
does Wiesler learn that the Minister sees Dreyman as a rival and
lusts after his partner Christa-Maria. The more time he spends li-
stening in on them, the more he comes to care about them.
The once rigid Stasi officer begins to intervene in their lives, in
a positive way, protecting them whenever possible. Eventually,
Wiesler activities catch up to him and while there is no proof of
wrongdoing, he finds himself in menial jobs - until the unbelieva-
ble happens.
THE LIVES OF OTHERS (2006)
Das Leben der Anderen
Director: Florian Henckel
von Donnersmarck
Writer: Florian Henckel
von Donnersmarck
Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck,
Sebastian Koch
Country: Drama | Thriller
Genres: Germany
Trailer

This 6-part series from The History Channel explores the histo-
ry of the Third Reich, using recently discovered documents and
archival footage from former Soviet-Bloc nations.
1. Helped into Power
A detailed and sober account of German history from the af-
termath of the First World War to Hitler’s elevation to the post of
Chancellor in 1933.
2. Chaos and Consent
Episode 2 begins in 1933 with the Nazi ascent to power and conc-
ludes on the eve of the Second World War.
3. The Wrong War
It’s a story of creeping militarization and expansion, with a deta-
iled breakdown of the events that led to Nazi Germany provo-
king The Wrong War.
4. The Wild East
This episode reveals the atrocities that became part of everyday
life as western Poland was absorbed into the German Reich.
5. The Road to Treblinka
In 1940, there was still no plan to exterminate the Jews--merely to
resettle them, but with the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union,
the complete clearing up of the Jews question was in sight.
6. Fighting to the End
This final episode of the series explores the reasons why Germany
fought on long after any chance of winning the war was gone.
THE NAZIS: A WARNING
FROM HISTORY
(1997)
Director: Laurence Rees
Writers: Laurence Rees
Stars: Fritz Arlt, Rudi Bamber,
Gerda Bernhardt
Country: UK
Genres: Documentary | History | War
Trailer

The Reader is a 2008 German-American romantic drama
film based on the 1995 German novel of the same name by Ber-
nhard Schlink. The film was written by David Hare and directed
by Stephen Daldry. Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet star along
with the young actor David Kross. It was the last film for produ-
cers Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack, both of whom had
died before it was released. Production began in Germany in
September 2007, and the film opened in limited release on De-
cember 10, 2008.
It tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who as a
mid-teenager in 1958 had an affair with an older woman, Hanna
Schmitz, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as
one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her
actions as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp. Michael reali-
zes that Hanna is keeping a personal secret she believes is worse
than her Nazi past – a secret which, if revealed, could help her
at the trial.
THE READER (2008)
Director: Stephen Daldry
Writers: David Hare, Bernhard Schlink
Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes,
Bruno Ganz
Country: Drama | Romance
Genres: USA | Germany
Trailer

THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM
THE COLD (1965)
Director: Martin Ritt
Writers: John le Carré, Paul Dehn
Stars: Richard Burton, Oskar Werner,
Claire Bloom
Country: UK
Trailer

Based on the novel by John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came in
from the Cold stars Richard Burton as a dispirited, end-of-tether
British secret agent. He comes in from „the cold” (meaning he is
pulled out of field operations) to act as a undercover man behi-
nd the Iron Curtain. To make his staged defection seem genuine,
Burton goes on an alcoholic toot and is imprisoned and public-
ly humiliated. Once he has been accepted into East German
espionage circles, Burton discovers that what he thought was his
mission was a mere subterfuge--and that he’s been set up as a
pawn for an entirely different operation. Though Ireland and En-
gland „stand in” for East Berlin, Spy Who Came In From the Cold
has the air of authenticity throughout, thanks in great part to the
bleak black and white photography by Oswald Morris. The film
was condemned as incomprehensible by those filmgoers accu-
stomed to the simplistic melodramatics of James Bond; seen to-
day, the double-crosses and double-double crosses seem all too
clear and credible.

A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Ste-
phen Hawking and his wife.
The Theory of Everything is the story of the most brilliant and
celebrated physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, and Jane
Wilde the arts student he fell in love with whilst studying at Cam-
bridge in the 1960s. Little was expected from Stephen Hawking,
a bright but shiftless student of cosmology, given just two years to
live following the diagnosis of a fatal illness at 21 years of age. He
became galvanized, however, by the love of fellow Cambridge
student, Jane Wilde, and he went on to be called the successor
to Einstein, as well as a husband and father to their three child-
ren. Over the course of their marriage as Stephen’s body collap-
sed and his academic renown soared, fault lines were exposed
that tested the lineaments of their relationship and dramatically
altered the course of both of their lives.
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (2014)
Director: James Marsh
Writers: Anthony McCarten,
Jane Hawking
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones,
Tom Prior
Country: UK
Genres: Biography | Drama |
Romance
Trailer

THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES (2003)
Director: Peter Greenaway
Writer: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Enrique Alcides,
Raymond J. Barry, Michèle Bernier
Country: Italy | Spain |
Luxembourg | Germany
Trailer

Three films: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Sto-
ry, The Tulse Luper Suitcases,Part 2: Vaux to the Sea, The Tulse
Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish were released in
2003, although they were shown out of order, with Part 1 shown
in 2003, Part 3 in early 2004 and Part 2 in summer 2004. Part 1 was
entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival
The project has been described by Greenaway as „a perso-
nal history of uranium” and the „autobiography of a professional
prisoner”. It is structured around 92 suitcases allegedly belonging
to Luper, 92 being the atomic number of uranium as well as a
number used by Greenaway in the formal structure of his earlier
work. Each suitcase contains an object „to represent the world”,
which advances or comments upon the story in some way, al-
though in many cases the contents are more metaphorical than
real.

Based on a true story a group of East Berliners escaping to
the West. Harry Melchior was a champion East German swimmer
at odds with the system under which he has already been im-
prisoned. On his own escape, he is determined the arrange the
escape to the West of his sister and her family. The idea of the
tunnel is born, but the project does not run smoothly. The partici-
pants struggle not only with the massive logistics of their task, but
betrayal from friends in the East. And always the East German
police are close to discovering the plot.
THE TUNNEL (2001)
Der Tunnel
Director: Roland Suso Richter
Writer: Johannes W. Betz
Stars: Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz,
Sebastian Koch
Country: Germany
Trailer

Teens in a Turkish prison struggle to survive under hideous
conditions. Made by dying Yilmaz Guney in France, after he
escaped from a Turkish prison, enabling him to accept his award
at Cannes for Yol (The Road). When the Turkish superstar leading
man turned human rights activist, Guney was convicted for pro-
-Kurdish political activity and murder, by the Turkish military regi-
me. Director/writer Guney’s last film, Duvar (The Wall), was ban-
ned in Turkey for 17 years. The incarcerated teens organize and
fight back, brutalize each other, exult over the smallest triumph,
while joking, suffering and learning from the inhumanity they wal-
low in. The prison also separately houses men and women, many
played by other Turkish expatriates.
THE WALL (1983)
Duvar
Director: Yilmaz Güney
Writer: Yilmaz Güney
Stars: Tuncel Kurtiz,
Ayse Emel Mesci Kuray, Malik Berrichi
Country: Turkey | France
Genres: Drama
Trailer

Based on a true story. In the 70’s, during the last stages of
Franco’s dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is
arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have
just committed a murder. The secret service see in him an ide-
al candidate to infiltrate the terrorist band ETA and become a
mole, so they try to offer him a deal if he will do so. At first he’s not
too interested, but his financial problems (probably caused by
the secret service itself) finally force him to take their money and
accept the mission. He adopts the undercover name of „Lobo”
(Wolf) and becomes an active member of the band, making all
the right connections until he reaches the top and acquires the
trust of its leaders. In the process, he discovers that the group has
deep internal divisions between those who want to abandon
the armed fight and become just a political party, and those
who want to keep the terrorist activity until they can proclaim
the independence of the Basque country. These divisions and
power struggles are often resolved bloodily. After the band car-
ries out their most daring and shocking crime yet, killing the pri-
me minister Carrero Blanco, the military heads in Madrid beco-
me impatient and wish to launch an immediate attack on ETA
and the basque country. Ricardo, the chief of the secret service,
convinces them to wait until Lobo can complete his mission and
enable them to dismantle the band. But when the Barcelona
police manage to catch the leader of the band ...
THE WOLF (2004)
El Lobo
Director: Miguel Courtois
Writer: Antonio Onetti
Stars: Eduardo Noriega,
José Coronado, Mélanie Doutey
Country: Spain
Genres: Thriller
Trailer

One of the first films by Polish director Agnieszka Holland to
gain international acclaim, this drama is a joint French-American
production based loosely on the real-life story of the dissident
Polish priest Jerzy Popieluszko. In the early 1980s, as the demo-
cracy and labor movement known as Solidarity was challenging
Soviet authority in Poland, an outspoken priest, Father Alek (Chri-
stopher Lambert), defies martial law and continues to rally follo-
wers around the cause of Solidarity. The Soviet-controlled Polish
government enlists a police official, Stefan (Ed Harris), to stop the
priest. Stefan, a devoted party follower, finds that the only way
he can silence Father Alek is to have him killed. Along the way,
however, the priest has a profound influence on Stefan.
TO Kill A PRIEST (1988)
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writers: Michael Cooper,
Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris,
Joss Ackland
Country: France | USA
Trailer

Underground is Emir Kusturica’s wildly ambitious, relentlessly
energetic, tragicomic allegory for the history of his native Yu-
goslavia from the Nazi invasion of World War II up to the disinte-
gration of the unified country in the bloodshed and genocide of
the Balkan wars.
Two friends build a massive underground weapons making
complex to protect their town from the German invasion in WWII
while they join the communist guerilla fighters. Both fall for the
same woman — an actress who helps the Germans and also has
a bungling/comical German lover. Eventually, one friend is inju-
red and remains underground while the other rises up through
the ranks of the Tito regime (and adapts an elaborate system to
convince those still hidden underground that WWII is still being
waged). I best not spoil the rest!
UNDERGROUND (1995)
Director: Emir Kusturica
Writers: Dusan Kovacevic,
Emir Kusturica
Stars: Predrag ‚Miki’ Manojlovic,
Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic
Country: YU | FR| DE | BG | CZ | HU
Genres: Comedy | Drama | War
Trailer

The depiction of the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and fo-
under of Poland’s Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, as events
in the 1970s lead to a peaceful revolution.
A film about Lech Wałęsa – a husband, a father and a sim-
ple worker, but most of all a great leader. A controversial man,
who released the hidden dreams of freedom in the hearts of mil-
lions. The story of the struggle against communism in Poland and
Europe is also the story of his family, which was meant to lead an
ordinary life but found itself in the midst of historic events.
WALESA MAN OF HOPE (2013)
Wałęsa. Człowiek z nadziei
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Writers: Janusz Glowacki
Stars: Robert Wieckiewicz,
Agnieszka Grochowska, Iwona Bielska
Country: Poland
Genres: Biography | Comedy |
Drama | Fantasy
Trailer

Wolf Children period drama is inspired by the true story of
German troop orphaned children, who between 1946 and 1947
roamed the Soviets occupied areas of the former East Prussia,
trying to get to friendly to families in Lithuania. Wolf Children pe-
riod drama is set in 1946 and follows a group of war orphans who
are struggling to survive in the ruins of post-war Europe. The plot
focuses on fourteen Hans who after the death of their mother
decides to go with his younger brother Charles to Lithuania. The
brothers, however, are on their way compelled to flee before So-
viet troops and unplanned splits. Hans, driven by the seemingly
hopeless desire to find his brother, joins the group of orphans nick-
named wolf children to the territory of a foreign country waged
unequal struggle with hunger, weather and disease. After losing
a war in the former Prussian region fell to the Soviet Union find
themselves in the position of game two brothers - the older Hans
(Levin Liam) and younger Fritzen (Patrick Lórencz). Mother them
on his deathbed advice to escape befriended family in Lithu-
ania. On a painful journey, which feature length debut director
Rick Ostermann conceives as naturalistically hungry wandering
savage and cruel captivating summer landscape, meet other
German orphaned children who fight for their own lives prema-
turely forced to grow up. Children’s mission is to rescue another
contribution to the progressively growing line of images repre-
senting the German hero as victims of WW2.
WOLFSKINDER (2013)
Director: Rick Ostermann
Writer: Rick Ostermann
Stars: Levin Liam, Helena Phil,
Vivien Ciskowski
Country: Germany
Trailer

In a mid-sized metropolis (population 500,000) in a right-
-wing military led country, a pacifist organization, which supports
the opposition party in the government, is planning on holding
an anti-military, nuclear disarmament rally. The organization’s
charismatic leader - the deputy - is scheduled to arrive in the
town from the capital the day of the rally. Beyond the problems
arranging the rally due to the probable incitement of violence
at such a rally, the organization learns of an unconfirmed report
that there will be an attempt on the deputy’s life. The rally does
happen, after which a three-wheeled kamikaze runs over the
deputy, who eventually passes away from his injuries. The official
report is that the incident was a drunken accident. In reality, the
deputy’s death was murder orchestrated by the secret police,
the general for who likens the pacifist organization to mildew kil-
ling off agricultural crops. A magistrate is assigned to the case.
Although he does have political views, he is more interested in
finding out the truth, and as such has to wade through the politi-
cal rhetoric and politically motivated testimony he hears. Thrown
into the mix is a photojournalist who too is looking for the truth, as
it, he believes, will make a great front page story.
Z (1969)
Director: Costa-Gavras
Writers: Vasilis Vasilikos,
Jorge Semprún
Stars: Yves Montand, Irene Papas,
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Country: France | Algeria
Genres: Crime | Drama | History |
Thriller
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