Chudotvornaya 1960

Chudotvornaya 1960

Chudotvornaya 1960
1h 15min | Drama| 1960 (Soviet Union)

Plot:

Rodka Gulyaev is a pupil of the Gumniskii rural secondary school. He on the bank of the river digs out the darkened old icon, and his grandmother Avdotya, an overbearing and cunning old woman, dissolves a rumor that the icon is miraculous, and her granddaughter is a saint. But the boy did not want to be a saint. This event radically changed the life of the youngster, since the villagers called him “the chosen one of God.” Rodka was forced to pray and intimidate with “punishments of God,” leading the pioneer to attempt suicide … (google translated)

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Les enfants de la chance 2016

Les enfants de la chance 2016

Les enfants de la chance 2016
1h 35min | Comedy, Drama | 30 November 2016 (France)

Storyline:

In the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France, taken to the hospital for a broken leg from an accident, twelve-year-old Maurice Gutman is narrowly spared from the mass roundup that will take his family from him and leave them imprisoned in a distant death camp. At the hospital, Dr. Daviel diagnoses him with tuberculosis and imposes a long treatment, perhaps a humane ruse to prevent him from being deported. Over the course of two years, while living with the hospital staff, Maurice and eight other young boarders unforgettably experience friendship, solidarity and extraordinary courage. These are the children of luck.

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Deep Breath 2001

Deep Breath 2001

Deep Breath 2001
Le souffle (original title)
1h 17min | Drama | 7 November 2001 (France)

Storyline:

David is a teenager like any other. His world is filled with loud music, imaginary encounters with centre-folds, and heroic fights on make-believe battlefields. With his mother away and his father nowhere to be found, David id forced to stay on his uncle’s farm, where life lacks the excitement he craves.

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Yepeto 1999

Yepeto 1999

Yepeto 1999
1h 47min | Drama | 6 May 1999 (Argentina)

Storyline:

Yepeto is a professor in his 50’s, a prestigious writer who holds a chair in the literature department. Cecilia, an 18 year old student is the object of Antonio’s desire. (Antonio is a young athlete, also very attractive.) Yepeto starts to feel passionately, but silently attracted to Cecilia, while at the same time, builds up his friendship with Antonio. Will this force Yepeto to give up, out of loyalty to his friend and student Antonio, all contact with his desired student Cecilia?

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Mir v drugom izmerenii 1990

Mir v drugom izmerenii 1990

Mir v drugom izmerenii 1990
1h 19min | Drama | December 1990 (Soviet Union)

Storyline:

A delinquent boy of about fifteen years is sent to a reformatory and there finds himself in more trouble than he was in the outside world. Can he endure the frequent bullying that occurs at his new home?

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Le Petit Roi 1933

Le Petit Roi 1933

Le Petit Roi 1933

Le Petit Roi 1933
Comedy, Drama | 21 November 1933 (France)

Storyline:

In an imaginary country, Michel VIII is still a child but he is to reign when his time comes. Revolution threatens and the young monarch’s entourage lies to him and even tries to get rid of him.

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