The film tells the true story of the Lenkey-Hussar battalion. It depicts naturally the obsessed and ill-weighed assertion of home sickness and patriotism thus revoking the memory of 1848. Obeying the pressure of the Empire the Hussar regiment of Paál Farkas and his companions has to be stationed in a small Polish town. Upon receiving the news on the revolution and freedom fight in Hungary, the Hussar Korsós attempts to desert.
Tag: 1970s
Set in the American Southwest, Othello is a wandering evangelist who happens onto Iago’s remote commune. There he marries the lovely Desdemona much to the chagrin of Iago, who also loves her. The conniving commune leader then manages to quietly pressure Othello until murder and tragedy ensue.
Helene, a young girl yearning for maternal love after her mother’s demise, falls for Tamara, her father’s manipulative bisexual girlfriend who seduces her into a lesbian affair while plotting to marry her wealthy father.
The Copper Tower is a story of adventure and romance evolving around three male fiends and a woman, set against the background of the magnificent High Tatras mountains in Northern Slovakia . The three friends work at a mountain hostel during the summer season. Their careless and sometimes rough bachelor life changes with the arrival of a pretty, young student. Clearcut relations become entangled and lead up to a tragic ending.
In this modern adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, a lonely man in Munich becomes obsessed with an old man’s strange, pale eye, which seems to torment his every thought. His fixation drives him to commit a carefully planned murder. Shot in stark black and white, the film captures the descent of a rational mind into paranoia and insanity.
Animated film satire of self-indulgence in a hungry world. Rapidly dissolving, reshaping images, made with the aid of a computer, create a stark contrast between abundance and want. A man eats, at first sparingly, but his appetite grows to gluttony, greed, and gratification of every desire. The nightmare that finally haunts him is the one that hangs over our disparate world.
A film that was created by chance, while making another documentary. This is the story of a typical opportunist who has always been able to adapt to the times in which he lived. “Hero” without any sense of shame tells how he sewed uniforms for German officers and now runs a thriving restaurant. Despite the rather short statement, it is worth thinking more deeply about the attitude of the “king” of life…