Muz pres palubu 1981
1h 21min | Family | 1 September 1981 (Czechoslovakia)
Storyline:
Ten-year-old David joins a sailing club. He trains hard and helps repair the sailing boats, but people have to take turns actually sailing. The club chairman Vala wants David to sail with his son Olda. Olda’s previous team mate Béda has grown too fast, but with little David Olda could win a place on the regatta to Finland. Olda is arrogant and accustomed to winning with little effort; he bullies David and calls him “Greenhorn”. He makes David his servant and blames him when things go wrong.
Last Cowboy Standing 2009
Skavabölen pojat (original title)
2h 3min | Drama | 4 September 2009 (Finland)
Storyline:
In 1972, Rupert, 8 and Evert, 6 are two lovable and wildly imaginative brothers, lost in their cowboys-and-Indians fantasies and in the playground romances with the neighborhood girls. In the background is the warm but explosive and unstable mother, and the charming but unreliable father. The family has moved to a new house, the future looks bright. Everything starts to fall apart when Rupert finds a hidden letter. There are terrible fights and hushed whispers, then mom is taken somewhere to rest for a while. Later on there is confusing talk about a new mom. The brothers make a blood oath: One can’t lie or die or one has to pay the other a million or more for the rest of his life. Rupert tries to hold the family together. But finally things get too complicated, and real tragedy waits in the wings of the fantasy plays. In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present. If he doesn’t find absolution, the family tragedy will be repeated and the curse will live on. Dad is coming home and the blood oath is about to be broken.
Jacquot de Nantes 1991
1h 58min | Biography, Drama | 15 May 1991 (France)
Storyline
Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and likes to sing and to go to the movies. Jacquot is fascinated by every kind of show (theatre, cinema, puppets). He buys a camera to shoot his first amateur film… An evocation of French cineast Jacques Demy’s childhood and vocation for the cinema and the musicals.
Savrseni krug 1997
1h 50min | Drama, War | 10 September 1997 (France)
Storyline
An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo.
Der Krieg der Knopfe 1962
La guerre des boutons (original title)
1h 30min | Comedy | 18 April 1962 (France)
Storyline
The school boys of two villages in France are fighting. Their trophy are the buttons they will snatch from the enemy. This fight will bring those kids to everlasting friendship…eventually.
Arhus by night 1989
Århus by night (original title)
1h 41min | Biography, Drama | 27 January 1989 (Denmark)
Storyline:
A young CCG filmmaker about to start his first film on the big budget, a film about his own childhood. Follow the film’s laborious genesis: the idealistic and ambitious but immature instructor has problems with the cast and is also in love with the female lead actor. Even greater problems he has with the technical team from Copenhagen. The burly locals do not care much for the local residents, and they insist on time off in the evening, where to drink and scores ladies. (google translated)
