Shtorm na sushe 1976

Shtorm na sushe 1976

Shtorm na sushe 1976
1h 17min | Family | November 1976 (Soviet Union)

Plot:

Based on Boris Zhitkova stories. The seaside town of Russia, 1913. Mitka Hryapov with suburban kids dreaming of distant countries and travel. With envy, thinking of the harbor, where they still are not allowed to visit, they spent whole days on the beach and Mitka patiently teaches friends uncomplicated cases, without which there is a large swimming. Painting “The Storm on the overland” Sergei Gerasimov named the best film for children.

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Der Laden 1998 – Teil 1

Der Laden 1998 - Teil 1

Der Laden 1998 – Teil 1
4h 33min | Drama, War | TV Mini-Series (1998– )

Stroyline:

The main figure is the beginning of nine-year-old Esau Matt, who leads the story as a narrator. In the summer of 1919, the Esau family moved from Grausteen to Bossdom, where the parents bought a bakery shop. This was done with great financial support from his grandfather, who also lives with his wife in the house. Neither father Heinrich nor mother Lenchen, however, have commercial skill and therefore must always borrow money from the grandfather without being able to repay it.
The father has an affair with the child girl Hanka, in which Esau is also in love. But Lenchen, too, a little left-back brother, Phile, who comes back late from the war, has cast an eye on Hanka.
After the conservative village teacher Rumposch was replaced by a more progressive and committed teacher, he discovered that Esau had talent to write. He suggests that Esau will go to the High School in Spremberg in the future. (google translated)

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The Cure 1995

The Cure 1995

The Cure 1995
PG-13 | 1h 37min | Drama | 21 April 1995 (USA)

Storyline:

Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Erik, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Erik also becomes closer to Dexter’s mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their friendship upon learning of it. When they read that a doctor in distant New Orleans claims to have found a cure for AIDS, the boys leave home on their own, planning to float down the Mississippi river and find him.

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Helden wie wir 1999

Helden wie wir 1999

Helden wie wir 1999
1h 33min | Comedy | 10 November 1999 (Germany)

Storyline:

Heroes Like Us presents as heroes ordinary teenagers and young East German adults, who in Thomas Brussig’s (the novel and screenplay author) story, caused the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Our young hero falls in love, from an early age, with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. Our hero’s father, however, is a member of the “Stasi”, the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son’s relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself. The absurdities of everyday life in the former German “Democratic” Republic are comically (sometimes tragically) are exposed throughout the film.

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