A diocesan priest endures isolation and chastisement by the prince of darkness even as his mystical experiences bring him closer to God. Seeing the world shrouded in darkness he agonizes to understand the incompleteness of his visions and why the fallen world has been abandoned by God, even as he struggles fruitlessly to help others overcome the allure of evil.
Category: Drama
Prison discharges Hans into the inhospitable freedom of a cold Munich winter. As a stranger, he strays through familiar streets and bars and tries unsuccessfully to contact old friends. Eventually he takes a plane to a friend in Berlin, fleeing from invisible enemies, on the way to an indeterminate destination.
In German-occupied Poland in 1943, a writer and a mysterious new acquaintance travel to a country estate, hoping to escape the hardships of wartime Warsaw. Amid the seemingly peaceful surroundings, the two men become absorbed in a disturbing game of manipulation, attempting to bring two young people together while the violence and moral uncertainties of the war linger just beyond their secluded refuge.
Fictionalized portrait of one of history’s great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.
The protagonist of this Kafkaesque tale receives a telegram ordering him to appear at his own execution at dawn on the following day. His acquaintances try to reassure him that it is all probably just an administrative error, but the Complaints Office has already closed for the day and it is impossible to discover the truth. The man finally decides that, after all, it is perhaps best if he does actually appear at the scaffold the following day. This final film by Miklós Erdély examines a most vexing subject using his inimitable experimental cinematic solutions.
A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.
In Istanbul, the Kurdish immigrants are constantly hassled by the cops. Mehmet is arrested for something he hasn’t done and beaten up in prison. Later, his new friend, Berzan, who scrapes a living selling music tapes from a barrow, is killed in police custody. Mehmet is determined to take Berzan’s body back to his village in the south. That is the coffin bit, which becomes a genuine adventure. A silent cry for freedom and peace, a movie that expresses the wish of people living peacefully together.
Released from jail on serious health issues after being sentenced 10 years earlier as a university student activist, Yusuf returns to his village in the eastern Black Sea region. In the modest house tucked in the beautiful mountains, he reunites with his longing elderly mother. She lovingly takes care of him while he spends idle days resting and occasionally meeting his childhood friend Mikail in the village. One day Yusuf meets Eka, a beautiful young Georgian prostitute. With time and circumstances against them, the two misfits desperately try to connect.