Le Grand Chemin 1987

Le Grand Chemin 1987

Le Grand Chemin 1987

Le Grand Chemin 1987
1h 44min | Drama | 25 March 1987 (France)

Storyline

Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she’s having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year-old girl next door, and learns from her about life.

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Europa messze van episode 2 – 1994

Europa messze van episode 2 - 1994

Europa messze van episode 2 – 1994
Drama

Storyline:

The story starts in Romania in the last years of the Ceaucescu regime. The main character of the film is Petru, a ten-year-old Romanian boy. His world is one of action and dreams but, at the same time, presents an authentic vista of contemporary Central Europe. All the events are shown through his eyes. His odyssey is an amusing and grotesque tale of survival as well as a parable on the survival of the human spirit. He comes to grips with a hostile world with both humour and rage, imagination and innocence. Petru lives with his vegetarian father Mihai and his pianist mother Daniela, in a small idyllic village in the Carpathian Mountains. His best friends are his dog Ursu, with whom he shares all his joys and sorrows, and the buffalo Florica. One day the family has to leave the country for political reasons. A long journey to freedom full of thrills and adventures begins, which first leads them from Hungary to Austria. Here they are sent to a refugee camp where Petru’s parents are classified as economic refugees because they have no documents; they are be deported back to Romania. Petru flees on his own and has to encounter a number of dangerous situations. But there are also glimmers of hope when an old stationmaster and his wife from a tiny Bavarian village adopt him, nurse him back to health and enable him to integrate into a new community. But here too, the police are already on his tail…

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Dobro pozhalovat ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchen 1964

Dobro pozhalovat ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchen 1964

Dobro pozhalovat ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchen 1964

Dobro pozhalovat ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchen 1964
1h 14min | Comedy, Family | 1964 (Italy)

Storyline

A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.

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Aldri mer 13 1996

Aldri mer 13 1996
1h 17min | Drama, Family

Storyline

13-year old Rikke sees Bea, the new girl in her class, as a challenge. After an endurance test to find which of them can lie longer in a circle of flames, they become friends. However, as a result of some unfortunate truths and half-truths, the friendship falters. Rikke feels that Bea has let her down, and resolves to continue the rivalry between them, but now in a less physical, more artful way. In addition we meet Rikke’s elder sister Ninni, who has been in England to learn the language, and has had to leave her great love, a man twelve years her senior. The film is also about the problems Rikke encounters in fulfilling the expectations of those around her as she approaches womanhood.

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War of the Buttons 1994

War of the Buttons 1994

War of the Buttons 1994
1h 34min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 14 October 1994 (UK)

Storyline

The children of Ballydowse & Carrickdowse engage in battles in which they cut off the buttons, shoe-laces, belts and braces of their captured opponents. This gets their opponents in trouble with parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, wielding sticks & slingshots. It’s a battle of strategic skills for the opposing leaders, Including one scene in which the principal gang uses an ancient war trick to overcome their opponents with successful and itchy results.

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