In this moral study of heroism set in a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with anti-Nazi partisans, the schoolteacher collaborates with the Germans, but, at the end of his humiliation, finds the courage to save his honor and the innocent victims of the Nazis.
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The local highschool is threatened to be closed, unless they collect $200,000. The students’ president Melissa struggles to collect the money, but lacks the support from her fellow students. So she accepts when car fetishist Dylan suggests to bet on him in car races against underworld king Phatman. At first everything goes well – too well…
A junior partner in a law firm, finds out that the wife of a very important client is a former college sweetheart.
A group of elderly retirees join a boxing gym, and rediscover their self-worth as they repudiate expectations that they’re too old to lead vigorous lives. Jack is particularly relieved to escape the tedium of his retirement home, as he advances to challenge brutish Rocco for the club championship. But Rudy, the club’s operator, must battle local officials who are trying to close the club out of fear that the members are endangering themselves.
Zaizen Goro may only be an assistant professor but he has already made a name for himself. His superior, however, does not approve of his attitude towards their profession, and is at odds over who to nominate as his successor. The selection of the new professor reveals a rich and complex political world inside Naniwa University.
An experimental, ludicrous, plotless, absurd, surreal comedy. It is seemingly intentionally impossible to understand. It leaps from scene to scene, world to world, with recurring names and actors being the only things that hold it together. Very much like sketch comedy, except without much of a point. The movie literally goes from “Moment To Moment”, with no actual narrative in mind rather than to just film a bunch of miscellaneous scenes and ideas and cut them together. Make of it what you will.
Angi Vera is a strikingly beautiful 18-year-old assistant nurse living in postwar Hungary. When she speaks out publicly about problems at her hospital, she’s not condemned by the new communist regime — she’s earmarked for big things. Sent to a party training school in a rural town, she must debate the nation’s new philosophies with other “chosen” pupils.
Short film about an unhappy but apparently very cold, attractive young who speaks with a strong Zagreb dialect, who in late 60’s sings in a R’N’R band in Belgrade, and who – in his own words “mimics lavish sexual life” and “is in search for oneself”. He is also not on the best terms with local the law police officers, and he used to borrow a revolver from his pal and carry it when on hanging around the hood on Sundays.