Moja Australia 2011

Moja Australia 2011

Moja Australia 2011
1h 37min | Drama | 14 April 2011 (Poland)

Storyline:

City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland together with her family and go to… Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become aware of their and their family roots.

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Jonny kommt 1988

Jonny kommt 1988

Jonny kommt 1988
1h 45min | Family | TV Movie 25 December 1988

Plot:

12-year-old johnny lives in a shelter. No father, his mother abandoned him. They have the opportunity to get into the family of a local doctor. In a family of three children: almost grown daughter and the boys are 11 and 5 years. But not everything is so simple. Largely the fault of the Johnnie.

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Krucke 1993

Krucke 1993

Krucke 1993
Krücke (original title)
1h 38min | Drama | 26 May 1994 (Germany)

Plot:

In the turmoil of the last war days, the 13-year-old Tom loses his mother. From Silesia, he succeeded in fleeing to Vienna, where he clung to the war cripple crutch, which is flooded with little crooks. Together, the two conquer each other through post-war Vienna; Finally they arrive in Germany.

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Jan auf der Zille 1986

Jan auf der Zille 1986

Jan auf der Zille 1986
1h 26min | Drama, War | 26 March 1986 (East Germany)

Storyline:

1934, Germany. Jan is a 13 year old boy, who is raised without a mother. His father, a communist, is accused of a political murder, and predicted to be shot by the police when he was on the run. Jan lives with his aunt and finds a friend, Max, who wants to help him to find out what really with his father happened. During a conspirative gathering Max is shot by SA (Nazi paramilitary) and Jan succeed to escape in a barge. Erika, the daughter of the captain of the barge, and a boatman hide him. They try to help Jan to escape from police and find his father, who really survived.

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Schulmadchen-Report 3. Teil – Was Eltern nicht mal ahnen 1972

Schulmadchen-Report 3. Teil - Was Eltern nicht mal ahnen 1972

Schulmadchen-Report 3. Teil – Was Eltern nicht mal ahnen 1972
1h 37min | Comedy, Drama | February 1972 (Austria)

Storyline:

A contemporary sexual education guide has been published by the Christian Young Men’s Association of Hamburg to help boys and girls understand and enjoy a healthy sex life. But the question is, can young people of today act responsibly when granted this kind of freedom?

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Die Wilden Kerle 2 – 2005

Die Wilden Kerle 2 - 2005

Die Wilden Kerle 2 – 2005
1h 35min | Comedy, Family, Sport | 17 February 2005 (Germany)

Storyline:

The Wild Bunch junior soccer team wants to play against the national team, but rules stipulate they can’t unless their playing field can provide emergency exits, bathroom facilities, dressing rooms, grand stand seating and security for handling hooligans. Leon leads the team to Maxi’s father’s bank to negotiate the $5000 deal for these improvements. Per the deal they strike, if the Wild Bunch loses in the qualifying game, they agree to dissolve their gang, surrender their playing field, and become Christmas ornament craftsmen; but, if they win, Maxi’s father must join the WIld Bunch and attend all their games. The real worry starts, though, when ace player Vanessa is subsequently lured away by personal attentions from the silky, dreadlocks-adorned leader of a rival skateboarding gang.

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City Without Baseball 2008

City Without Baseball 2008

City Without Baseball 2008
Mou ye chi sing (original title)
1h 40min | Drama, Sport | 19 June 2008 (Hong Kong)

Storyline:

The actual members of the Hong Kong Baseball Team all prove themselves to be natural actors by playing themselves in this fictional youth drama set in 2004. In a city where baseball culture is non-existent, these baseball players are a minority by choice. The experience teaches them to be free-thinkers in dealing with love, friendship and their own sexuality. It also enables them to find the will to live in the face of death and the strength to conquer losing in a spectatorless sport.

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Die heiden von kummerow und ihre lustigen streiche 1967

Die heiden von kummerow und ihre lustigen streiche 1967

Die heiden von kummerow und ihre lustigen streiche 1967

Die heiden von kummerow und ihre lustigen streiche 1967
1h 34min | Comedy, Family | 21 December 1967 (West Germany)

Plot:

Kummerow, a village in North East Germany, around 1900: Mean-spirited miller Düker wants to drive cowherd Krischan out of the village. Being popular with the local children, Krischan can rely on the help of schoolboys Martin and Johannes and their friends, who try to prevent the miller’s plans by playing pranks on him.

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