Director: Francesco Rosi
Stars: Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France | Italy
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings.
Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Margarita Lozano, Orazio Torrisi, Carlo Cartier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Five stories by Luigi Pirandello set in turn-of-the-century Italy.
Director: Nanni Moretti
Stars: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Roberto Vezzosi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Michele is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful colleague Bianca, and a relationship begins between the two. Where is this relationship heading, and will Michele be able to help the police catch the murderer?
Director: Alex Cox
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
A young punk recruited by a car repossession agency finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu that is wanted for a $20,000 bounty – and has something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.
Director: Martin Bell
Stars: Annie, Eddie, Antoine
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA
Gritty documentary that looks at the lives of teenagers living on the streets of Seattle.
Director: Jack Gold
Stars: Denis Lawson, Rita Wolf, Phyllis Logan
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Director: Rolan Bykov
Stars: Christina Orbakaite, Yuriy Nikulin, Elena Sanaeva
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Unpopular girl being bullied in her class.
Director: Milos ‘Misa’ Radivojevic
Stars: Sonja Savic, Rade Serbedzija, Milena Dravic
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
A romantic thoughtful interview intended student list entirely changed the lives of two people, professors and eminent students.
Director: María Luisa Bemberg
Stars: Susú Pecoraro, Imanol Arias, Héctor Alterio
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina | Spain
In 1840’s Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ultimately succumbs to her. The two later escape to a far off, secluded village where they assume new identities as husband and wife and begin running a children’s school. After several months of relative happiness, the couple’s identity is discovered by a local priest. Under moralistic pressure from both Camila’s family and the Catholic church the authorities apprehend the lovers, and imprison them for sacrilege.
Director: Micheline Lanctôt
Stars: Pascale Bussières, Marcia Pilote, Pierre F. Fauteux
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Two teenaged friends have separate difficult experiences that make the girls seriously consider suicide.
Director: Jûzô Itami
Stars: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
At the beginning of the film the father-in-law of the protagonist dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. The remainder of the film is episodic, moving from one incident to another over the course of the three-day funeral, which is held (as is customary) in the home. These incidents contrast old ways and new ways, young and old, ritual ceremony and true feelings, often comically, but sometimes with real poignancy.
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A look at the employees and shoppers at the Neiman-Marcus department in Dallas, Texas during the holiday season.
Director: Atom Egoyan
Stars: Patrick Tierney, Berj Fazlian, Sirvart Fazlian
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Unhappy living with his loveless parents, a young man convinces a family of Armenian immigrants that he’s their long-lost son and moves in with them, improving all of their lives in the process.
Director: Juliusz Machulski
Stars: Wieslaw Michnikowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Olgierd Lukaszewicz
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland | Czechoslovakia
Two scientists are placed in hibernation and should be awaken after three years. But when they wake up, it turns out that it has been fifty years, and they are the only two males in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.
Director: Philippe Garrel
Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Maurice Garrel, Christine Boisson
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.
Director: Mike Leigh
Stars: Brid Brennan, Des McAleer, Paula Hamilton
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
A Catholic and a Protestant couple in Northern Ireland have amazing parallels in their lives, despite being either side of the divide.
Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Philip Baker Hall
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
A fictionalized former President Richard M. Nixon offers a solitary, stream-of-consciousness reflection on his life and political career – and the “true” reasons for the Watergate scandal and his resignation.
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Stars: Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Peter Soffel is the stuffy warden of a remote American prison around the turn of the century. His wife, Kate, finds herself attracted to prisoner Ed Biddle. She abandons her husband and children to help Ed and his brother Jack escape and accompanies them into the wintery wasteland.
Director: Paul Cox
Stars: John Hargreaves, Wendy Hughes, Lucy Angwin
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
The film follows the dissolution of John and Helen’s marriage and the aftermath.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Ingmar Bergman, Karin Bergman
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: Sweden
A film based on the pictures from Ingmar Bergman’s personal photo album, especially the pictures of his mother Karin.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Angela Punch McGregor, Drew Forsythe, Liddy Clark
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
In the 1970s, Jessica Hathaway (Angela Punch McGregor) joins the staff of Brentwood Hospital, a government facility for handicapped children in Melbourne, Australia. One of her patients is Annie O’Farrell (Tina Arhondis), whose cerebral palsy has kept her institutionalized since the age of 3. Convinced the girl, now 13, has been misdiagnosed as legally retarded, Jessica teaches her to communicate through a Ouija board in this true story about the fight to free Annie from institutional care.
Director: Rajko Grlic
Stars: Gorica Popovic, Vitomira Loncar, Bogdan Diklic
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
This movie, based in part on the popular novel, tells two tales about modern women. One is Stefica Cvek, average and lonely girl who is desperately trying to find the man of her dreams. The other story is about a woman director who is making the movie abozt Stefica and has the same problem.
Director: Béla Tarr
Stars: Hédi Temessy, Erika Bodnár, Miklós Székely B.
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
A large, claustrophobic apartment is the setting for this intense chamber drama. In this dense setting, the inhabitants of the apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
Director: Tengiz Abuladze
Stars: Avtandil Makharadze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Ia Ninidze
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.
Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Shelley Duvall, Daniel Stern, Barret Oliver
Genre: Short, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
A young boy sets out to revive his dead pet using the monstrous power of science.
Director: Takashi Ito
Stars: Bin Shimada
Genre: Short, Horror
Country: Japan
Haunting light and haunted spaces, otherworldly movement and abstracted time. A ghost visits an apartment complex.
Director: Alejandro Doria
Stars: Luis Brandoni, Dora Baret, Luisina Brando
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
The film centers on a unsuccessful doctor and his patient, whom everyone believes has no hope of ever recovering from a recent accident, and the daily events of a public hospital in Argentina.
Director: José Luis Guerín
Stars: Sílvia Gracia, Iñaki Aierra, Rafael Díaz
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
The life of a young girl who plays with little animals and insects is suddenly changed with the arrival of a film crew and a strange man.
Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jérôme would have nothing to do with suicide.
Director: John Duigan
Stars: Tyler Coppin, Cassandra Delaney, Jay Hackett
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Australia | Canada
In Australia, four teenagers in a Sydney theater are astounded to hear the news that a nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. They try to figure out the best way they can survive the coming conflagration.
Director: Daniel Petrie
Stars: Jane Fonda, Levon Helm, Amanda Plummer
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Jane Fonda gives an Emmy-winning performance as Gertie Nevels, a pioneer woman and the mother of five from the Kentucky hills who is forced to uproot her children to follow her husband Clovis (Levon Helm) to Detroit when he finds work during World War II. One setback follows another and shattering tragedy strikes the family. It’s all up to Gertie to find new strength, courage and determination to keep her family together and strong.
Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Pascale Ogier, Tchéky Karyo, Fabrice Luchini
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Louise, a young woman, who recently finished her studies in arts, is working as a interior decorator trainee. Playing the game of seduction, her life becomes more and more complicated.
Director: Norman Jewison
Stars: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.
Director: Silvio Tendler
Stars: Leonel Brizola, João Goulart, Juscelino Kubitschek
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: Brazil
The story of João “Jango” Goulart, the Brazilian left-wing president deposed by the military.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: Iran
A concealed camera follows a group of first graders during their day at school.
Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Pascale Salkin
Genre: Short
Country: France
Two girls come to Paris for the first time and try to live.
Director: Oldrich Lipský
Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Petr Cepek, Josef Somr
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Three veterans are given magic artifacts by elves that can magically create gold, servants and any other object. They encounter greedy characters and one of them falls in love with a princess.
Director: Elaine Bass, Saul Bass
Stars: John Abbott, Noah Hathaway, David Comfort
Genre: Short, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
On a distant planet, descendants of a crashed spaceship are subjected to mysterious forces that cause them to age and die in just eight days. They must also live in caves to escape the bitter cold of night and the killing heat of day. One young boy is determined to find his way back to the ship that brought them there. But how will accomplish this in the short time left to him?
Director: Mark Zakharov
Stars: Elena Valyushkina, Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Aleksandr Abdulov
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family’s country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love… to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count Cagliostro is touring Russia and has created quite a buzz in high society with his “magic”, he decides to ask the Count to bring the statue to life.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Chi-Kuang Wang, Shu-Chen Li, Hsiu-Ling Lin
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister who spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Meet the jazz musicians, dancers, owner and guests (e.g. gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-30s Harlem.
Director: Nanni Loy
Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Lina Sastri, Aldo Giuffrè
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
During a debate in Naples’ town hall in the early 80s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council.
Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Hervé Mangani, Louis Bec, Saskia Cohen Tanugi
Genre: Short
Country: France
A real estate agent tries to sell a 7-room house with kitchen and bathroom to a young couple even though he had previously sold it to its former owners.
Director: Geo Saizescu
Stars: Emil Hossu, Stefan Mihailescu-Braila, Dem Radulescu
Genre: Comedy, Action
Country: Romania
During the communist era in Romania, a reporter finds an incredibly well organized network of a local winery. The whole movie is a satire of the communist regimes’ absurd economical and social rules.
Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house, an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blur.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Isidro Puig Boada, Antoni Gaudí, Seiji Miyaguchi
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan
Hiroshi Teshigahara’s camera takes us over, under, around, and into buildings and a park designed by Antonio Gaudí (1852 – 1926), Catalan architect, ceramist, and sculptor.
Director: Slobodan Sijan
Stars: Tasko Nacic, Nikola Simic, Srdjan Saper
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Yugoslavia
A mentally disturbed flower seller starts killing young girls on the streets of Belgrade. While the frustrated police inspector is trying to stop him, an aspiring musician finds his life and work deeply intertwined with that of a killer.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Swatilekha Sengupta
Genre: Drama
Country: India
When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband’s visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.
Director: John Huston
Stars: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico | USA
The last 24 hours in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a lonely, depressed English consul who retreats to alcohol for solace.
Director: Jane Campion
Stars: Danielle Pearse, Don Reid, Anna Maria Monticelli
Genre: Drama, Short
Country: Australia
The difficulty of separating sexual fantasy and reality become apparent at an investigation of an alledged sexual harassment case.
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Stars: Carlos Vereza, Glória Pires, Nildo Parente
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Graciliano Ramos’ period he spent in prison after being considered a subversive element by the government.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: James Mason, Alan Bates, Greta Scacchi
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby, to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity for money. Death for money?
Director: Otar Iosseliani
Stars: Katja Rupé, Alix de Montaigu, François Michel
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France | Italy | Soviet Union
Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival, this absurdist comedy, with its sprawling cast of crooks, thieves, anarchists, prostitutes, chief inspectors, art dealers, and inventors, calls to mind the bustling tapestries of Robert Altman. The story revolves around two objects, a rare set of 18th-century Limoges china, and a 19th century aristocratic portrait. As these items are passed, sold, or stolen from one character to another, a giddy round dance of excess begins to take shape, one which suggests that if history doesn’t repeat itself, it certainly rhymes.
Director: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Stars: Christian Heinisch, Nazzareno Bianconi, Mario Adorf
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany | France
After making the domestic servant pregnant, a woman who doubles his age, a young man of only seventeen years from the German bourgeoisie is sent by his family to the United States in order to avoid a huge scandal.
Director: Nicos Perakis
Stars: Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Giorgos Kimoulis, Takis Spyridakis
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
The “adventures” of some friends during their military service.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Sabine Azéma
Genre: Drama
Country: France
An elderly painter whose son visits with his family on the weekends, is also surprised by a visit from his still-single daughter.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Carmen Maura, Gonzalo Suárez, Luis Hostalot
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
The vicissitudes of Gloria, a neurotic housewife, and her family’s peculiar characters.
Director: Marek Kanievska
Stars: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Michael Jenn
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.
Director: Leo De Boer, Jurriën Rood
Stars: Robert Bresson, Louis Malle, Dominique Sanda
Genre: Documentary
Country: Netherlands
A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.
Director: Donatella Baglivo
Stars: Donatella Baglivo, Andrei Tarkovsky
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy
Tarkovsky expounds on his life and work, the essential importance of fighting, the conceptual nonexistence of happiness, what childhood determines about us, wartime’s impact on fantasies, and the salutary effects of a year laboring in Siberia.
Director: Dang Nhat Minh
Stars: Lê Vân, Luu Viet Bao Dang, Phu Cuong Lai
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duyen faces a daily struggle to care for her young son and her weakened father-in-law, while keeping secret the fact that her husband died in a battle during the war.
Director: Les Blank
Stars: Dick Pillar, Walter Szczypula, Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA
A portrait of the life, culture and food surrounding the lovers of Polka music. The title is taken from an old Polka standard. Stars of the Polka world are highlighted.
Director: Agnès Varda
Stars: Agnès Varda
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France
A documentary of the caryatids in Paris accompanied by the poetry of Baudelaire and the music of Offenbach.
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Stars: Maja Komorowska, Scott Wilson, Hanna Skarzanka
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland | Italy | West Germany
Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in deep love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him. Emilia’s mother is sick, but would recover by available medicine. Somehow the mother, but not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket. Realizing that Emilia would never abandon her, the mother secretly throws away the daily doses given her by Emilia, and dies. Somehow Emilia discovers her mother’s sacrifice and refuses to benefit from it. She gives the ticket to a female friend and retreats to a cloister, living like the nuns except not wearing their dress and not having given a promise to stay forever.
Director: Heinz Schirk
Stars: Dietrich Mattausch, Gerd Böckmann, Friedrich G. Beckhaus
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria | West Germany
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” can be best implemented.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Stars: Manos Katrakis, Mairi Hronopoulou, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece | West Germany | Italy | UK
An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren’t the way he had hoped for.
Director: Neil Jordan
Stars: Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
A teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine, and has a disturbing dream involving wolves prowling the woods below her bedroom window.
Director: Chris Marker
Stars: François Périer, Sophie Garnier, Bibiane Kirby
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France
A computer generates conflicting hypotheses about the future of trade unions.
Director: Vadim Abdrashitov
Stars: Oleg Borisov, Sergey Shakurov, Sergey Nikonenko
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
In a surreal puzzler, this story of a fantasy lived by a disparate group of men captures the visual imagination with its images and leaves a large question mark in the meantime. A rare astronomical phenomenon – the parade of planets – has a peculiar effect on several of the men.
Director: Ken Burns, Amy Stechler
Stars: Mildred Barker, Olga Bellin, Tucker Burr
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Ken Burns examines the American utopian 19th century religious sect known as the Shakers.
Director: Werner Herzog, Denis Reichle
Stars: Werner Herzog, Denis Reichle
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany
The film focuses on a group of Miskito in Nicaragua who used child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.
Director: Márta Mészáros
Stars: Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Teri Földi, Anna Polony
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
From one of the foremost woman directors comes a personal story of how history and the individual impact each other. A young woman (Juli) returns to her homeland only to find the horrors she escaped have infected it also.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Daniel Bergman, Ingmar Bergman, Gunnar Björnstrand
Genre: Documentary
Country: Sweden
A chronicle of the making of Ingmar Bergman’s Oscar winning film.
Director: Fred Barzyk
Stars: Scott Glenn, Michael Murphy, Helen Shaver
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Dramatic doomsday scenario in which the Cold War fully escalates. The story is told through a live news report that follows the apocalyptic world-ending nuclear exchange between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.
Director: Goran Paskaljevic
Stars: Slavko Stimac, Danilo ‘Bata’ Stojkovic, Mira Banjac
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Noriko Ohara, Mieko Nobusawa, Kazuyo Aoki
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Japan
In the future, some humans build a spaceship to abandon earth. The spaceship crashed in an island isolated from the rest of the world. The story takes place when there are only 2 survivors in the island: Conan a boy born in the island and his grandfather. Then the world discover them.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Stars: Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Keith Carradine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA | Israel
Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ethnic Yugoslavian virgin Maria Bosic. She dates him again, thus ruining a virtual engagement to captain Al Griselli. Against Ivan’s dad’s advice, they get married. But Ivan became psychologically impotent, feels unworthy of her and starts wondering, even looking for another girl. Meanwhile slick guitar-and-song-busker Clarence Butts moves in to South-Western PA, and seduces Maria.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Stars: Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Two cousins unknowingly rob the mob and face the dangerous consequences.
Director: Michael Radford
Stars: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden | West Germany
Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg’s “A Dream Play.” She talks of her hatred for her mother, now dead, an alcoholic actress, who was Vogler’s star and lover. Vogler falls into a reverie, remembering a day Anna’s mother, Rakel, late in life, came after rehearsal to beg him to come to her apartment. He awakes and Anna reveals the reason she has returned: she jolts him into an emotional response, rare for him, and the feelings of a young woman and an older man play out.
Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany | Australia
A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.
Director: Eduardo Coutinho
Stars: Eduardo Coutinho, Tite de Lemos, Ferreira Gullar
Genre: Documentary
Country: Brazil
Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.
Director: Edgar Reitz
Stars: Marita Breuer, Rüdiger Weigang, Kurt Wagner
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany
The village of Schabbach experiences the shifting fortunes of Germany from 1919 to 1982.