Ali: Fear eats the Soul is a German movie filmed in the 1970s by the famous Bavarian director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. As many of Fassbinders movies, this one criticizes German society, particularly alleged racism amongst Germans.
Emmi is a 60-year-old janitor who lives in an apartment building in Munich. She walks into a bar one evening […]
June 6th, 2007
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The Swedish movie Evil is based in a 1950s boarding school in Sweden by name of Stjarnsberg. Erik, who has been abused his whole life by his stepfather, is now in his later teens and transfers to the school in hope of being able to eventually attend a university.
During the 1950s, students typically ran the […]
April 19th, 2007
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“Come and See” is an excellent World War II movie, which takes place in Belarus. No movie expresses the evil of the SS better than this production by director Elem Klimov. The language of the film is Russian with English subtitles.
The main character in this movie is a boy by name of Florya, who decides to leave his family to join […]
April 15th, 2007
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Young Torless is a German movie based on the novel of Robert Musil and takes place in an all-boys boarding school in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The boarding school is a private school run along military lines and is for children of the wealthy citizens in of the empire.
The main character is a teenage boy by […]
April 11th, 2007
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Abandoned takes place in 1960s Hungary. The movie is in Hungarian with English subtitles. The main character is a young boy, approximately 12 years of age, named Aron. Aron lost his father in an accident and his almost blind mother is unable to take care of him. As a result, he is brought to an […]
April 9th, 2007
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