Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia’s Counsel for Crime. Kruger plays William Mellon, a shifty shyster whose underhanded methods loses him the love of his sweetheart Anne, who subsequently marries a powerful senator. What Mellon doesn’t know is that Anne has borne him a son, whom the senator has adopted. Reaching adulthood, Paul opts for a legal career himself, taking a clerical job with his own father’s firm. In typical “B”-picture, Mellon is charged with murdering one of his more odious clients – and Paul is appointed prosecuting attorney in the case.
Year: 2026
After Larry Darrant accidentally kills his lover’s estranged blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before the trial, and if the man is found guilty then Larry will give himself up and prevent an innocent man going to the gallows.
Years after surviving the Holocaust, Alex Koves sees Michael Barna, the man who killed his family, on the streets of Toronto. Barna is now an upstanding citizen and a loving husband, but Alex will not rest until justice is served.
In 1970s Yerevan, Armen, a compassionate archivist at the National Archives, spends his days helping ordinary citizens uncover forgotten truths about their past. Haunted by the human consequences of the records he handles, he becomes increasingly troubled by the way history can preserve injustice as easily as it preserves memory. As Armen struggles to reconcile his desire for truth with his concern for the people affected by it, his personal life and growing relationship with a young woman named Anahit intertwine with a profound meditation on memory, identity, and the weight of history.
A young man from the city decides to travel into the Dutch countryside. There, he notices strange mound-like shapes in the fields covered by white plastic tarps. The local farmers casually explain that the mounds contain silage or hay, but the man becomes suspicious. When he secretly peeks underneath, he discovers something bizarre instead: stacks of consumer goods like sugar, canned soup, and sliced bread.
In the winter of 1992, in a small provincial town in Moldova, a young woman named Ema wanders through the drab corners of her surroundings in search of meaning, pleasure, or a way out. Like Flaubert’s Emma Bovary, she dreams of a different life, finding refuge in films, fantasies, and daydreams as she struggles to escape the monotony and emptiness of her everyday existence.
Produced for the 1984 London Film Festival, Derek Jarman’s Imagining October is a dreamlike meditation on art and politics in the final years of the Cold War. In this film Jarman explores art and politics in the final years of the Cold War, drawing connections between pre-Perestroika Russia and Thatcherite Britain. The title refers to the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and Sergei Eisenstein’s propaganda film October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928).
André Delvaux’s final feature film, based on the novel L’oeuvre au noir (Het hermetisch zwart/The Abyss) by Belgian-born novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, tells the story of Zeno, a doctor and alchemist whose quest for knowledge takes him around 16th-century Europe. The film focuses on the end of Zeno’s travels, when he has returned to Bruges to contemplate his life. Living quietly under an assumed name, he treats the sick in one of the town’s religious houses. But once his identity becomes known, the church authorities put him on trial.