Elias of het gevecht met de nachtegalen 1991

Elias of het gevecht met de nachtegalen 1991

Elias of het gevecht met de nachtegalen 1991

Elias of het gevecht met de nachtegalen 1991
1h 20min | Drama | 24 September 1991 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

Elias has hardly left his childhood behind him than he is sent to boarding school with his older cousin. But before that he spends his holidays on the isolated estate belonging to his family, a little group fully out of touch with the world.

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Threstir 2015

Threstir 2015

Threstir 2015
Þrestir (original title)
1h 39min | Drama | 11 September 2015 (Canada)

Storyline:

A coming-of-age story about the 16-year old boy Ari, who has been living with his mother in Reykjavik and is suddenly sent back to the remote Westfjords to live with his father Gunnar. There, he has to navigate a difficult relationship with his father, and he finds his childhood friends changed. In these hopeless and declining surroundings, Ari has to step up and find his way.

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The Annunciation 1984

The Annunciation 1984

The Annunciation 1984
Angyali üdvözlet (original title)
1h 40min | Drama | 27 April 1990 (Denmark)

Storyline:

Angyali üdvözlet, aka “The Annunciation”, is a surreal account of the history of humanity as portrayed entirely by children between the ages of 8 and 12. The film begins with the biblical story as Adam (Péter Bocsor) and Eve (Júlia Mérö), are deceived by Lucifer (Eszter Gyalog) — three very photogenic leads — into tasting the “Forbidden Fruit”. They are thus chased out of the Garden of Eden by the Angel of Death and, in a vision, sent on an existential journey through western European history.

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Tree of Knowledge 1981

Tree of Knowledge 1981

Tree of Knowledge 1981

Tree of Knowledge 1981
Kundskabens træ (original title)
1h 50min | Drama | 13 November 1981 (Denmark)

Storyline:

As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.

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