Playing Soldiers 1967

Playing Soldiers 1967

Playing Soldiers 1967

Playing Soldiers 1967
Mali vojnici (original title)
1h 32min | Drama | 27 December 1967 (Yugoslavia)

Storyline:

After the end of WW2 a blonde boy arrives at an orphanage made for the children of Partizans or people being killed in the war. The headmaster knows that the boy’s parents were Nazis but conceals that fact from others, fearing violence by vengeful children. He invents the boy’s life story, but the other children get suspicious.

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Los Gigantes No Existen 2017

Los Gigantes No Existen 2017

Los Gigantes No Existen 2017

Los Gigantes No Existen 2017
1h 22min | Drama | 2 October 2019 (USA)

Storyline:

Guatemala, in the 80s. The worst days of the Civil war. Andrés is 9 years old. He lives with Pedro González, one of the men who massacred all the women and children in his village. Andrés has survived, but he’s scared. Pedro’s wife, María, is also scared, scared to go out, scared to lose Andrés, whom she considers as “her new son” – even Pedro is scared, scared of himself and what the Army bounds him to do. Andrés would like to run away but he also wants to stay in his new family – until his sister appears.

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Kolonidrenge 1936

Kolonidrenge 1936

Kolonidrenge 1936

Kolonidrenge 1936
14min | Documentary | 1936 (Denmark)

Plot:

At the holiday colony Sæbystrand in Sæby under the Copenhagen Municipal Teachers’ Association you follow the boys in daily life. You see them playing football, in the dormitory, in the evening and morning toilets, by hoisting the flag when building branch cabins and at dinner time. There is also time for Native American games and a trip to the beach.

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Paul et Virginie 2014

Paul et Virginie 2014

Paul et Virginie 2014

Paul et Virginie 2014
19min | Short, Drama, Family | 4 October 2014 (Belgium)

Storyline:

Paul lives alone with his mother Virginie. Weakened by disease, she is unable to go about their daily life anymore. Paul, driven by the unbreakable bond of love that exists between him and his mother, tries to take matters into his own hands.

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Mr. Blob in the Universe 1988

Mr. Blob in the Universe 1988

Mr. Blob in the Universe 1988

Mr. Blob in the Universe 1988
Pan Kleks w kosmosie (original title)
2h 28min | Adventure, Family, Musical | 5 December 1988 (Poland)

Storyline:

Kids from the orphanage in Malishev receive for Christmas a newest computer from a former pupil of this children’s home, and now the president of a large electronic corporation, as a gift. The computer tells them a story that can happen in 25 years. The Great Electronics after escaping from the Island of Inventors, settles on the planet Mango and invents Fantomization (teleportation). He kidnaps Agnieszka and gives it to the governor of the planet, Don Bazar. In the meantime, Pan Blot is in the last Nature Reserve. Peas, Agnieszka’s friend, together with his class friends, goes to the Blob to help find Agnieszka.

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