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Blind Chance (1981)Przypadek
Poland, in the politically turbulent late 1970's: Witek (Boguslaw Linda) is running to catch a train. From this banal event, Krzysztof Kieslowski imagines three different possible outcomes in the young man's life. In the first scenario, Witek catches the train on which he meets some hard line communists and joins the party. In the second, as Witek runs for the train, his path is blocked by a ticket inspector; the ensuing struggle leads to his arrest and subsequent involvement in the political underground. In the final scenario, Witek misses the train and he returns to the medical studies that he intended to abandon. He falls in love with a female student, gets married and lives a quiet life as a doctor, showing little interest in politics. - Director:
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Cast:
- Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
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"Another Mother's Son" is the extraordinary true story of Louisa Gould. A tale of defiance, bravery and betrayal set against the backdrop of Nazi occupation on the Channel Islands during the Second World War. When a Russian soldier escapes the labour camps, seeking shelter, Louisa (Jenny Seagrove) decides to offer her help, and by doing so, risking the lives of her friends and family who are in on the secret and facing the prospect of capture and deportation to Germany. - Director:
- Christopher Menaul
- Cast:
- Jenny Seagrove, John Hannah, Julian Kostov
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The Last Family (2016)Ostantnia Rodzina
A 28-year family saga unfolds through disturbing dystopian paintings, near-death experiences, dance music trends and funerals... Beksiriski (Andrzej Seweryn) is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksinski is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia (Aleksandra Konieczna), neurotic son Tomasz (Dawid Ogrodnik) and the couple's aging mothers. His daily painting to classical music eventually pays off and he makes a name for himself in contemporary art. Good Catholic woman Zofia tries to hold the family together, but troubled son Tomasz proves to be a handful with his violent outbursts and suicidal threats. Their relief is brief when he starts dating women and becomes a radio presenter and movie translator, and the concerned parents must be on constant watch to prevent their son from hurting himself. But Beksiriski never believed that family life would always be sunshine and rainbows. As he tapes everything with his beloved camcorder, the 28-year Beksiriski saga unfolds through paintings, near-death experiences, dance music trends and funerals... Based on the bizarre true story of the cult Polish painter Zdzistaw Beksinski. - Director:
- Jan P. Matuszynski
- Cast:
- Andrzej Seweryn, Marek Niedzwiecki, Dawid Ogrodnik
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The incredible true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a salesman from Illinois, met Mac (John Carroll Lynch) and Dick McDonald (Nick Offerman), who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. So impressed by the brothers' 'speedy system' Kroc risked his marriage, bankruptcy and his reputation to create a billion-dollar empire that revolutionised the world. - Director:
- John Lee Hancock
- Cast:
- Michael Keaton, Joe Sanfelippo, Nick Offerman
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In the Name Of (2013)W imie...
Father Adam (Andrzej Chyra) is relocated to a rural village where he runs a refuge for youths with troubled pasts. It is there where he meets handsome local outsider, Lukasz (Mateusz Kosciukiewicz) and soon Adam struggles to reconcile his attraction to the young man and his spiritual calling. To the village, his energy and enthusiasm are appreciated and the locals accept him as one of their own. Everybody wants to be close to him, feeding off of his vitality and power, but no one knows that Father Adam harbours his own secret. - Director:
- Malgorzata Szumowska
- Cast:
- Andrzej Chyra, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Lukasz Simlat
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The story of a twenty-something long-haired tattooed metal-head who one day unexpectedly enters the life of a grieving family. Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is the most unlikely person to help 13-year-old TJ (Devin Brochu) cope with the death of his mother, but he proves to be the only one who can truly free TJ from his overwhelming sadness. With unconventional tactics that make him resemble a convict more than a care-giver, Hesher takes TJ under his wing and gives the young boy and his grieving father (Rainn Wilson) a chance to be a family again. - Director:
- Spencer Susser
- Cast:
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Devin Brochu, Natalie Portman
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India 1947. The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change. Starring Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson as Lord and Lady Mountbatten, and set against an exotic Indian backdrop at the time of the Raj, 'Viceroy's House' tells the incredible true story of the final months of British rule in India, and of the resilience of the human spirit. - Director:
- Gurinder Chadha
- Cast:
- Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Manish Dayal
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Land of Mine (2015)Under Sandet
Inspired by real events, "Land of Mine" follows the dramatic story of the young German prisoners who, as World War II came to an end in 1945, were forced to defuse and remove two million mines on the Danish Coast. Presided over by tough veteran Sergeant Carl Rasmussen (Roland Mailer), these teenage POW's were treated with hostility whilst being forced to dig up the mines from the sand with their bare hands with little training. When Rasmussen begins to sympathise and promises their release back to Germany when the task is completed, they soon realise that the war is far from over. - Director:
- Martin Zandvliet
- Cast:
- Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman
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