Pafnucio Santo 1977
1h 40min | Drama, History | 27 October 1977 (Mexico)
Storyline:
The controversial, sexy, surreal story of a messenger and his journey and encounters with many historical events and people like Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!).
The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978
L’albero degli zoccoli (original title)
3h 6min | Drama, History | May 1978 (France)
Storyline:
The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy’s shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy another pair. What can they do?
Posledniy pobeg 1981
1h 32min | Drama | July 1981 (Soviet Union)
Storyline:
The hero of the film Scrubs – a war veteran who works in a school for troubled teens. On the day of release from the special school his favorite pupil Victor waited in vain for his mother – she did not come for her son, and went out to meet the swimming man, Vitina stepfather. Then the teacher took home Vitya – Aleksey Ivanovich. But when Victor saw the house merry company, his resentment prevailed, and the stubborn kid runs away from the bush, and the caretaker does not do anything but go in search of the fugitive …(google translated)
Alla Vi Barn I Bullerbyn 1986
1h 27min | Family | 6 December 1986 (Sweden)
Storyline
The story of the children who live in Bullarby, Sweden, through the spring and summer months.
The Day Will Come 2016
Der kommer en dag (original title)
1h 50min | Drama | 21 April 2016 (Denmark)
Storyline:
‘Der kommer en dag’ is a movie about an orphanage where violence and humiliations is a part of the everyday life. The history is based on real stories from a boy home called ‘godhavn’, where lots of boys were victims of violent and sexual abuse and medical experiments.
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.
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.
Growing Up: A New Approach to Sex Education, No. 1 (1971)
23min | Short, Documentary | 1971 (UK)
Plot:
From the impenetrably euphemistic to the breathtakingly explicit, this intriguing anthology takes us through 60 yearsof sex education in Britain from the 1910s to the 1970s.All ‘unmentionable matters’ pertaining to sex are dealt with, from the WW1 warning to soldiers about the dangers of cavorting with loose women in London’s West End, Whatsoever a Man Soweth (1917), to puberty pep-talks for girls on how to avoid pregnancy in Don’t Be Like Brenda (1973).
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.
