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The Shop on Main Street (1965, Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos)
Classic Czechoslovakian film. With subtitles of course.
The main character of this tragicomedy, Bouzykine, has a gift for attracting people. He is always ready to offer his helping hand and cannot refuse anyone. A kind and gentle person, Bouzykine never thinks about himself, thus getting in all kinds of complicated situations. Making a choice, showing a preference for something or somebody at the expense of others is always a problem for him. This goes for his private life, too. Unwilling to cause pain to his mistress, he unintentionally hurts his wife, unable to make a final decision till the last moment. However, he tries to change the habitual course of events, and almost succeeds.
One of the best Russian films about the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The “old men” in this squadron were no older than twenty, but those “wet behind the ears”, a reinforcement fresh from flying schools with accelerated training, were not allowed to go to battle for quite a while… They were yet to experience everything – the heat of the battle, the joy of the first victory over the enemy, the grandeur of a brotherhood strengthened with blood, the first love, and the bitterness of a loss…And there came the day when, on hearing the command “only ‘old men’ are going to battle”, it was them who rushed to their planes…
Nanook of the North (1922) is a silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty. In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuk Nanook and his family in the Canadian arctic. The film is considered the first feature-length documentary, though Flaherty has been criticized for staging several sequences and thereby distorting the reality of his subjects' lives.[1] In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
1943. In the answer of the actions of partisans and also according to the program "The plan of the distraction of Slavonic nation", Nazis were burning hundreds of villages with their inhabitants along all Belorussia. Directed to one of such villages a division of "SS" was given an order to suspend an action unexpectedly at the last moment. Instead of destroying the inhabitants and the village, German soldiers became kind and lovely lodgers. Will the young soldier be in time to have a talk about his love and feelings to Polina, a daughter of the mistress, until a new order will come? How much time is left? Neither love, nor murder was in life of Franz.
British classic by Third Man director Carol Reed. Starts among other Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis.
Thunder Alley (1985)
FOOL ME TWICE, exposes the cover-up of the Bali bombings and provides evidence that it was a Falseflag Operation. The film begins by documenting the Australian governmentâÂÂs prior knowledge of the Indonesian militaryâÂÂs plan to use violence to maintain autonomy over East Timor. Contrary to The Howard Governments claims they argued against peacekeeping forces allowing the Indonesian Special Forces to carry out their campaign of fear and suppression. Within 24 hours of the 2002 Bali bombings a team of FBI, UK special agents and Australian federal police started arriving in Bali. The investigation team continuously claimed different explosive devices were responsible for the main blast. Days after the attacks, Indonesian Police Chief, General Daiâ Bachtier, announced that the FBI had discovered C4 pointing the blame towards Jemaah Islamiah, JI (âÂÂSE Asia wing of Al qaedaâÂÂ). Eventually, investigators concluded that the main explosive device was a potassium chlorate car bomb. C4 was never included in final reports. The main explosive device was so powerful it seriously damaged buildings in a 2/400 metre radius and left a 1 metre deep, 10 metre wide crater. 202 people perished in the blasts, the majority incinerated from the main explosive device. Investigators quickly excavated the crater contents and dumped the remaining debris off the coast of southern Bali, including completely stripped concrete reinforcing bars. Potassium chlorate is a low velocity explosive and does not have the overpressure force to create a 1 metre deep crater or completely incinerate humans, let alone strip concrete. Only a high-tech explosive device has the power to strip concrete.
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One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Classic war film from P&P. Not one of their absolute best but still one that should be appreciated.
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