 Den Åttonde dagenYear: 1979 Country: Sweden Actors and Actresses: Susanna Rådö, Benny Fehér, Tintin Anderzon, Bo-Patric Gusterman Review: Some countries have a long tradition for making movies about children. I do not mean children as lovely and charming little dolls, but children as genuine human individuals, with basically the same kinds of emotions as adults. Sweden is one of these countries, and this film is a good example. However, the actors consist of three age groups: the middle-aged adults, who are little more than extras; the two teenagers, who also have a subsidiary place; and the 11-year-old boy and girl Peiter and Anna, who constitute the centre. The director has devoted all his energy to the children, and it must be admitted that his person directing of the two other groups is mediocre. But I, for one, am willing to forgive this shortcoming, because the performance of the children is so much better. Both the director and the children, in particular the girl, deserve praise for the outcome. Anna, her parents and her younger brother live on an island. Peiter's parents are divorced, and only during one summer week will he stay with his father, who likewise lives on this island. Hence, the children will be together for no more than seven days a year. Nevertheless, they had been friends for years. Unfortunately, in the summer that this movie is about, they have difficulty in getting in real touch. Day after day they fail. Finally all seven days have gone, and the gap or whatever it was that prevented full contact, is still not closed. Though when time is up Peiter is permitted to stay for one more day. And during 'the eighth day' (= the Swedish name of the film) they succeed. What did they do together during the week? Many things are not very conspicuous. While they are standing outside a cheap café, Peiter boasts that he can manage any task. Anna gives him the task of fetching the thing inside the café, which she is thinking of. Peiter goes inside, looks at everything. But then he asks a certain guest to rise from his chair. When the guest has done so, he takes this chair and brings it outside to Anna. This was indeed the right thing, and this chair will re-appear several times until the end of the movie. - - - On another occasion Peiter boasts that he is not afraid of being locked up in a desolate tower for a few hours. Anna closes the lock on the outside. But when she comes home her parents prevent her from going out again during this day and the following night. Peiter remained alone in the tower for the entire night. Eleven years is a 'between-age'. Children may begin to have an embryonic feeling that opposite-sex friendship is not quite the same as same-sex friendship. Perhaps this was the reason of Peiter's and Anna's difficulties, but also of their final success. On the eighth day they show their sex organs to each other; and they are neither motivated by curiosity, nor by indecent interest. This is the only external sign of anything they could not have done during the preceding years. I think this movie may be appreciated by anyone liking to see children presented as genuine human individuals (as they are indeed), and with the difficulties this involves. - Max Scharnberg, IMDb Movie added at: 26.09.2013 |
      
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 El Niño y el muroYear: 1965 Country: Mexico, Spain Actors and Actresses: Inma de Santis, Nino Del Arco Tags: bathing boy Review: A boy of approximately five years of age covets a ball on display at a nearby store. His father one day purchases it for him, but it is soon kicked over the wall of a newly built prison. Determined to regain his possession, our little hero removes a block from the wall and there finds a female peer whose mother works at the facility playing with it. Over a period of a couple days, he tries to coerce the girl into giving it back to him and in the process makes a friend. Trouble starts when the guards learn of the hole. - CVMC Movie added at: 26.09.2013 |
    
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 JericóYear: 1991 Country: Venezuela Review: At early 16th century a priest joins the spanish conquerros in order to bring christianity to the indios. The expedition is murdered by the indios, only the priest is sparred. Santiago, the priest, first tries to continue christianization, but finally becomes one of them - until the Spaniards return. - IMDb Movie added at: 26.09.2013 |
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 Favola crudeleYear: 1991 Country: Italy Actors and Actresses: Jenai Ricci Review: Roy Kramer, a terrorist during the "years of lead", escapes from prison while being transferred by sea, dragging the policeman he's handcuffed to along with him. They end up on a deserted island, inhabited only by an eight-year-old girl, Angelica' with her sister Beatrice and their nanny Martina. The policeman falls into the sea and drowns, and the child finds the keys to the handcuffs. Roy is finally free. Martina throws herself in his arms, but dies soon after in a senseless accident. Beatrice meets the same fate, after she offered herself to Roy' who is filled with remorse at this horrible destiny. But the child consoles him by telling him her favorite fairy tales' in which a handsome prince stranded on an island is about to be the victim of two wicked witches, but a little princess saves him by killing the witches with a magic spell. Roy is plagued by an horrible suspicion - that the child is the one that killed Martina and Beatrice. In his state of anguish he trips, falls, hits his head and faints. When he comes to his senses, he realizes he's been bound and gagged, and Angelica is telling him the end of the fairy tale. - anica.srd.it Movie added at: 26.09.2013 |
    
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Dark Enemy Year: 1984 Country: United Kingdom Actors and Actresses: Oliver Hicks, Rory Macfarquhar Tags: boy skinny dip, girl skinny dip Review: After a nuclear war, a group of children at an isolated farmhouse debate what the outside world might be like. Soon one of them leaves the house to investigate, and finds out that things aren't the way they thought. - IMDb Movie added at: 26.09.2013 |
      
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 Miedzy brzegamiYear: 1963 Country: Poland Actors and Actresses: Magdalena Wollejko, Marek Kondrat Review: Present-day psychological drama; tragical nexus in a village inhabited by fishermen, deserted by a men during fishery, is a pretext to contemplate the human solidarity and humanitarianism. A small village between sea and lake inhabited by fishermen. One day, when all the men sailed away fishing, a small girl was badly wounded by misfire. Vacationists owning a motorboat refuse to help. Grandfather Filip, exhausted with the last of his strenght, brings the girl to a doctor who founds that she is dead. - Polish Cinema Database Movie added at: 26.09.2013 |
      
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 Panenka s porcelánovou hlavickouYear: 1991 Country: Czechoslovakia Actors and Actresses: Jakub Zdenek, Matous Soukenka, Heidi Vanžura, Jan Drobný Movie added at: 26.09.2013 |
       
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 AntonYear: 1996 Country: Denmark Actors and Actresses: Jacob Krarup, Fie Kruse, Sofie Maria Ahlgren, Joakim Kruse Tags: bathing boy Review: Anton is 10 years old. Anton's father was a jet fighter pilot who died in an accident. Anton's mother told Anton that his father is flying angels around in heaven. Anton is obsessed with aeroplanes (his bedroom is full of models and posters) and is (re-)building a full-size aeroplane in the Garage. He plans to use this aeroplane to fly up to his father. The film is about Anton coming to terms with his father's death and about friends, enemies and first love. - Erik Corry, IMDb Movie added at: 26.09.2013 |
      
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 Drzanje za vazduhYear: 1985 Country: Yugoslavia Actors and Actresses: Gala Videnovic Tags: bathing boy Review: The story of a war-orphan, who remembers first post-war days, his stay in Home for war-orphans, his teachers, friends, and mostly his "only brother". At the same time, a story of love and misunderstanding, of childish dreams through which all the beauty and purity of children's soul is seen, as well as the first post-war days of vigor and enthusiasm. - IMDb Movie added at: 26.09.2013 |
       
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 Deux justiciers dans la villeYear: 1993 Country: France Tags: bathing boy, bathing girl Movie added at: 26.09.2013 |
   
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