Tag: 1970s

December 8, 2018 / Comedy

The daily routine in the village of Yugla is shaken by the statistician clerk Asenov who come with a mission to take the census of the hares in the locality. He makes the village mayor Bay Georgi mobilize the local men in realization of the absurd task. On the very day all the village men are in the field. The mayor, the teacher, the veterinarian… even an old men join the group. Naturally all the efforts failed in fulfilling the mission since not a single hare came into sight.

December 3, 2018 / TV Movie

The world’s first commercial supersonic flight, Maiden I, is about to take off from New York to Paris, filled with a group of contest winners and crew. Unfortunately, Les Phillips, an engineer, fed up with being dissed by the plane’s designer, Willy Bassett, sabotages the plane’s hydrualic system, causing it to malfunction during flight. And as if that isn’t bad enough, Ralph Therman, an epidemioligist from WHO, has the plane transport a highly infectuous Senegal flu, turning the plane into a flying quarantine zone.

December 3, 2018 / War

A war widow searches for the true reason behind her husband’s death, and why she’s been unable to collect survivor benefits. It turns out he has been classified a traitor and a deserter, and the exact cause of his death listed as ‘unknown’. She sets out on a quest to find the people he served with, to determine the real story behind the government smokescreen. 

December 3, 2018 / Drama

Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed before his birth, at the request of Draifa. The father, also named Athos Magnani and looking exactly like the son, was killed by a fascist in 1936 — or so says Draifa (his mistress), the town statue, and everyone in town. As the son untangles the web of lies this story is constructed from, he finds himself ensnared in the same web.

December 2, 2018 / TV Movie

A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon changes her mind, and with the help of the local police, tries to find the killer before he fulfills his part of the bargain.

December 1, 2018 / TV Movie

In 1881, Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper, the first African-American man to graduate from West Point, went on trial for embezzlement, a crime he didn’t commit. Desperate to prove his innocence, Flipper finds that he has little chance of clearing his name.

December 1, 2018 / Drama

Period drama set in Montreal in 1925. Tells the story of a six-year-old boy, David, his grandfather, a horse called Ferdeleh and the comic-tragic ambitions of the boy’s father who wants to become a rich man.

November 28, 2018 / Comedy

Made without proper language, just gibberish and grunts, this is an absurdist comedy about a man who rejects every facet of normal bourgeois life and turns his apartment into a virtual cave.