The Photographer of Mauthausen 2018

The Photographer of Mauthausen 2018

The Photographer of Mauthausen 2018
El fotógrafo de Mauthausen (2018)
TV-MA | 1h 50min | Biography, Drama, History | 26 October 2018 (Spain)

Storyline:

Based on real events, Francesc Boix is a Spaniard inmate in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria who tries to save the evidences of the horrors committed inside its walls.

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The Bridge 1959

The Bridge 1959

The Bridge 1959
Die Brücke (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 43min | Drama, War | 1 May 1961 (USA)

Storyline:

A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the “blood and honor” Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge.

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Zaytoun 2012

Zaytoun 2012

Zaytoun 2012
Not Rated | 1h 50min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 20 September 2013 (USA)

Storyline:

Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee helps an Israeli fighter pilot escape from PLO captivity because he wants to visit his ancestral family home. En route through war-torn Lebanon their relationship develops into a close bond.

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Uloupené dětství 1987

Uloupené dětství 1987

Uloupené dětství 1987
1h 22min | Drama | TV Movie 1987

Plot:

Virtually the whole world knows the fate of Jewish children from the Terezin ghetto, the tragedy of children from Lidice, but few know about the tragic death of several thousand children from mixed Czech-German marriages in the occupied border region. The real story of a young boy, who described the writer Jozo Mikula in his book Kids Behind the Grilles, attracted filmmakers as well. Under the concise title “The Broken Childhood”, Mirek lives in Kinderheim, Germany, where he came after the death of his Czech mother. At the father’s request, a court decision is taken by the child from the care of his grandmother and his upbringing to the German authorities. Education is a pontification. The methods used here or remotely did not remind of their noble name. MIRC also commented on the treatment and mental and physical deprivation.

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