![]() Year: 2001 Country: Greece Actors and Actresses: Fragiski Moustaki Tags: bathing boy Review: Writer Georgios Vizyenos is admitted to a mental asylum in Athens at the end of the 19th century, in large part the result of his passionate but loving obsession for a 12-year-old girl named Bettina. Reality and fiction are confused in his mind. He struggles to recall memories from his childhood in Constantinople and Thrace and reads through his earlier published literary work, which he had based on those memories. The main focus of his reminiscences is his grandfather, who spent the first 10 years of his life disguised as a girl. His family was obliged to hide their child's gender to protect him from being forced to serve in the Turkish army. Vizyenos's psyche, we learn, has been powerfully influenced by his grandfather - the grim fate he avoided and the way he lived the rest of his life in fairy tales and dreams. This juxtaposition of hopes and fears, secrets and imagination, informed the whole of Vizyenos' work. - www.hollywood.com Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 1998 Country: Russia Actors and Actresses: Aleksey Dyo, Chingiz Tsydendambayev Review: Alexlei Balabanov (Brother) directed this period film, set in turn-of-the-century St. Petersburg, where a middle-class family and an upper-class family both become intertwined with pornographic photographer Johann (Sergei Makovetsky). Dr. Stasov (Alexandr Mezentsev) treats railroad engineer Radlov (Igor Shibanov). Johann takes an interest in the doctor's maid (Tatyana Polonskaya) and Radlov's daughter (Dinara Drukarova), Johann's sister Grunya (Darya Lesnikova) is Radlov's mistress, Johann is thwarted in his lust for Lisa -- until Grunya takes over Radlov's estate after the engineer's death. Filmed with a tint to resemble sepia photographs of the period. Shown in the Directors Fortnight section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. - Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 1998 Country: United Kingdom, Ireland Actors and Actresses: Roxanna Nic Liam, Frank Laverty, Ciarán Fitzgerald, Eamonn Owens Review: The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the IRA, the UVF and members of his own team. - Andrew Wong, IMDb Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 1966 Country: Soviet Union Actors and Actresses: Slava Golubkov, Aleksandr Kavalerov, Lev Vaynshteyn, Viktor Perevalov Review: Dedicated director Viktor Nikolayevich Sorokin (Sergei Yursky) tries to help a school of orphans change from juvenile delinquents into productive members of society in this engaging children's comedy. His efforts are met with resistance before he manages to get through to the rebellious children. The kids battle the adults with hilarious hi-jinx before they heed the lessons taught by the director. The story was written by two former students who benefited from their stay at the institution, but the film fails to represent the accuracy of the book. The title of the feature is an abbreviation for the school that was named in honor of Fedor Dostoyevsky. The film is significant because of the lack of heavy-handed ideology that permeates many Soviet features of the era. - Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 1976 Country: Soviet Union Actors and Actresses: Sasha Makartsev, Ilya Yermolayev, Sasha Kudryavtseva, Tanya Lapina, Tair Zhalyalov, Sasha Silin Tags: boy skinny dip Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 1991 Country: France Actors and Actresses: Rody Averty, Hélène Pors, Jérémie Bader, Marie-Sidonie Benoist, Clément Delaroche, Laurent Monnier, Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Fanny Lebreton, Julien Mitard Review: Agnes Varda's 1991 tribute to her late husband, Jacques Demy--Varda's fellow pioneer in the French New Wave movement of the 1950s and early 1960s--is a moving combination of reenacted scenes from Demy's fanciful childhood, clips from his movies (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Donkey Skin), and filmed interviews with him shortly before he passed away. Varda's efforts lead to a touching and evocative portrait of a man who saw, even as a boy, no distinction between his imagination and the more magical traditions of theater and film. The cast of unknown actors portraying Demy and other people in reconstructions of his memories are very good, and the interesting tension between the function of these scenes as storytelling and their inclusion in Varda's larger biographical essay instantly recalls the intensely personal nature of Demy's own lush, ambitious experiments behind the camera. Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 1961 Country: Soviet Union Actors and Actresses: Misha Gavrilin, Lyusya Bespalova, Kolya Nikulochkin, Vladimir Semyonov, Igor Savelyev Tags: boy skinny dip Review: After long four years of war, former shepherd Foma Korshunov returns to his native village. He is appointed to the chairmen of the Council, which causes concern among well-to-do Cossacks. Through the neighbors, he is offered money to buy a small farm, but it is clear to Foma that the enemies of the new power want to get rid of him. Korshunov's son Mishutka, nicknamed "Nakhalenok", wants to be like his father in everything. When the Red Army entered the village, he begged the commander of the detachment with tears in his eyes to take him with him. - IMDb Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 2004 Country: Netherlands Actors and Actresses: Hylke de Haan Review: Ten years after her failed marriage, recently fired mother Ellis 'El' Vermeulen and preteen son Thijs get peanuts while her ex spends everything on new flame Mirella. She finally takes Joane Collins' amoral course 'How To Marry A Millionaire'. She actually gets socialites interested, including hunk Gijs, a fine substitute dad for Thijs. Of course there is a catch. - IMDb Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 1983 Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Romania Actors and Actresses: Kseniya Piryatinskaya Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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![]() Year: 1984 Country: Poland, Soviet Union Actors and Actresses: Magdalena Scholl, Slavek Wronka, Adam Probosz Tags: bathing boy Review: Ten-year-old Adam, beginning his education at the Academy, finds the hideout of Bird Matt, who used to be a prince. Touched by his fate, he promises to find the magic button which has the power to restore him to human shape. - www.moviekids.org Movie added at: 31.08.2013 |
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