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Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Français
Description
A bold trio of stories about love and loss that was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 90s. The films were named for the colors of the French flag and stand for the tenets of the French Revolution: liberty, equality, and fraternity. But that hardly explains their enigmatic beauty and rich humanity. Set in Paris, Warsaw, and Geneva, and ranging from tragedy to comedy, Blue, White, and Red examine a group of ambiguously interconnected people...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Polish
Description
On the last day of World War II, Maciek, a young Resistance fighter, is ordered to kill Szczuka, a Communist district leader. The Soviet leader has arrived in town to establish a new government. A mistake leads Maciek to a beautiful barmaid who shows him what his life could be like. Although killing has been easy for Maciek in the past, Szczuka was a fellow soldier, and Maciek must decide whether to follow the orders to kill him.
Author
Publisher
Jaguar
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Polish
Description
Lori loves wakeboarding and hanging with her friends, including the Vader brothers. Now that she's turning sixteen, she wants to be seen as one of the girls, especially in the eyes of the older brother, Sean. But that's not going to happen - not if the younger brother, Adam, can help it.
6) Vabank II
Publisher
Facets Video/Polart
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Polish
Description
The same characters are entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager. The movie follows the further adventures of Kwinto, portrayed by Poland's most popular screen actor, Jan Machulski. The main character's long time nemesis escapes from prison to get even and Kwinto must call on his old gang to meet the threat. Set in the 1930's, Vabank II features Kwinto and the gang matching wits against everyone from police to...
Publisher
Polart Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Polish
Description
A young Jewish girl is sent to a concentration camp where, in a strange twist of fate, she is selected to be an interpreter while her entire family is killed. Now she must deal with her grief, her new position, and the tyrannical guards in the camp.
8) Korczak
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Polish
Description
Tells the true story of Janusz Korczak, a renowned physician and author who ran a home for Jewish orphans in 1930's Warsaw.
The film opens in the late 1930s with pediatrician, writer, teacher, and radio personality Korczak working as the administrator of an orphanage in the slums of Warsaw. When the Nazis invade Poland, move Korczak and his Jewish charges into the ghetto, and begin shipping cattle cars full of adult Jews to Treblinka, the doctor...
9) Bełżec
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
עברית
Description
The horrifically efficient Nazi death camp, Belzec, was in operation for less than one year, but witnessed the murder of at least 600,000 Jews. Once the Soviet counterattacks began, the S.S. eliminated all traces of the camp, and the name Belzec faded from the collective conscience. Conceived of by executive producer Claude Lanzman as the last chapter to his epic Shoah, helmer Guillaume Moscovitz has created a chilling account that's as much about...
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