Far til fire & vikingerne 2020

Far til fire & vikingerne 2020

Far til fire & vikingerne 2020

Far til fire & vikingerne 2020
1h 25min | Comedy, Family | 1 October 2020 (Denmark)

Storyline:

The otherwise close-knit family is in crisis. Mie and Ole can no longer bear to share a room, Søs is tired of acting as the family’s surrogate mother, and Dad does not have the usual surplus to tackle Uncle Anders’ peculiar behavior. Little Per is left, who is just sad about it all. Uncle Anders therefore registers the family for a stay at a family therapy place, where the family will live as Vikings for a week. In the company of the children’s holiday guest Olivia, the family sets off to get things in order. With them, of course, they also have the elephant Bodil, the whole family’s old stuffed animal, who suddenly comes to play a major role when she is involved in one of the eager therapists’ self-invented Viking exercises.

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Soup and Me 1978

Soup and Me 1978

Soup and Me 1978

Soup and Me 1978
TV-Y | 24min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | Episode aired 4 February 1978

Storyline:

On the day of the Halloween party, boys Soup and Rob are finding plenty of ways to get into trouble: swimming in a local pond (though their mothers prohibit swimming so late in the year), pitching apples over a barn, and borrowing a cart which had drifted away from its owner. The grandest mischief of all, however, comes from their attempt to win the prize at the Halloween party, given to the entrant with the largest pumpkin.

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Korczak 1990

Korczak 1990

Korczak 1990

Korczak 1990
Unrated | 1h 58min | Biography, Drama, War | 6 May 1990 (Poland)

Storyline:

In Warsaw, Doctor Henryk Goldszmit a.k.a. Janusz Korczak runs an orphanage with a great dedication and love for the orphans. After the invasion of Poland by the German army, his orphanage moves to the Warsaw ghetto with two hundred children. Dr. Korczak asks for food and money from the wealthy Jews. When the ghetto is displaced to Treblinka by train, Dr. Korczak refuses a Swiss passport and embarks in the train with his beloved children.

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Hugo and Josephine 1967

Hugo and Josephine 1967

Hugo and Josephine 1967

Hugo and Josephine 1967
Hugo och Josefin (original title)
G | 1h 22min | Family, Comedy, Drama | 16 December 1967 (Sweden)

Storyline:

Josefin is a six-year-old girl who lives isolated in the countryside, where her father is a priest. She has no friends until she meets Hugo. He is a carefree boy who rather walk in the forest than go to school. Together with the gardener they make up fun things to do.

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The Distant Barking of Dogs 2017

The Distant Barking of Dogs 2017

The Distant Barking of Dogs 2017

The Distant Barking of Dogs 2017
Olegs krig (original title)
1h 31min | Documentary, War | 23 November 2018 (Sweden)

Storyline:

THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village of Hnutove. Having no other place to go, Oleg and Alexandra stay and watch as others leave the village. Life becomes increasingly difficult with each passing day, and the war offers no end in sight. In this now half-deserted village where Oleg and Alexandra are the only true constants in each other’s lives, the film shows just how fragile, but crucial, close relationships are for survival. Through Oleg’s perspective, the film examines what it means to grow up in a war zone. It portrays how a child’s universal struggle to discover what the world is about grows interlaced with all the dangers and challenges the war presents. Thus, THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS unveils the consequences of war bearing down on the children in Eastern Ukraine, and by natural extension, the scars and self-taught life lessons this generation will carry with them into the future.

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Iskam Amerika 1991

Iskam Amerika 1991

Iskam Amerika 1991

Iskam Amerika 1991
1h 25min | Drama | 12 December 1991 (Bulgaria)

Storyline:

A film director goes back to the place where he was born to shoot a film about his father – a resistance hero. The childhood memories prove painful, the meetings with the old friends, who have changed beyond recognition, are a distressing experience. After the director sees how the time has been ruined their lives, he realizes he is never going to make the film about his father…

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The Yellow Balloon 1953

The Yellow Balloon 1953

The Yellow Balloon 1953

The Yellow Balloon 1953
1h 16min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 4 October 1953 (USA)

Storyline:

One of two young boys accidentally falls to his death when playing in a bombed-out London neighborhood. Frankie, the survivor feels guilty about his friend’s death. Len, a petty thief who has just killed a pub owner during a botched robbery, learns of the accident. He poses as Frankie’s friend and blackmails the boy into stealing from his parents to finance Len’s escape. When Len decides that Frankie may know enough to connect him with the murder, he decides to silence the boy in a tense “hide and seek” chase through the ruins.

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No Ordinary Shepherd 2014

No Ordinary Shepherd 2014

No Ordinary Shepherd 2014

No Ordinary Shepherd 2014
TV-G | 24min | Short, Drama | Video 3 November 2014

Storyline:

As the sun beams brightly on the hills surrounding Palestine, one young shepherd boy thoughtfully considers the significance of the day. The child, crippled in a terrible accident, has always treasured his shepherd father’s tale of that starlit night so many years before – a night filled with the wonder of angelic heralds and a tiny Bethlehem stable sheltering the chosen Messiah. Now, years since that sacred event, tales of Jesus of Nazareth’s miraculous birth touch the young boy’s faith. When he meets the gentle stranger in the hills – a man strangely familiar to him – the faithful young shepherd encounters a miracle of his own.

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