Germania anno zero 1948
Germania anno zero 1948
1h 18m | Drama, History, War | Release date: February 2, 1949 (France)
Storyline:
Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the Second World War, must do all kinds of work to help his family get food and survive. One day he meets one of his former teachers and hopes to get support from him, but this man’s ideas don’t lead Edmund into a clearer or safer way of living.
A Time for Drunken Horses 2000
A Time for Drunken Horses 2000
Zamani barayé masti asbha (original title)
1h 20m | Drama, War | Release date: September 13, 2000 (France)
Storyline:
After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, needs an immediate operation in order to remain alive. This heartbreaking tale shows the lengths to which a family will go in order to survive in the harshest of conditions, where even the horses are fed liquor in order to work.
Nebel im August 2016
Nebel im August 2016
2h 1m | Drama, War | Release date: September 29, 2016 (Germany)
Storyline:
A Yenish boy is placed in a mental hospital and experiences the Nazi euthanasia program. Aware of what is happening and attached to friends, the lad attempts to sabotage the program. The film addresses the complexities of the program director, the lives of the child victims, and the struggles of the child protagonist. More than 5,000 children were killed in the Nazi euthanasia program.
I Was Nineteen 1968
I Was Nineteen 1968
Ich war neunzehn (original title)
1h 55m | Biography, Drama, War | Release date: September 12, 1968 (Hungary)
Storyline:
April 1945: 19-year-old Gregor Hecker reaches the outskirts of Berlin as part of the Red Army’s scouting team. Having fled Germany with his family when he was eight, he is confronted with the dilemma of having to fight men from his birth country. Through dealing with challenging situations (e.g. he is appointed commander of Bernau, talks to many disillusioned Germans, and keeps getting attacked by scattered groups of German soldiers), he grows more confident that not all hope is lost for post-war Germany. Based on the diary entries of director Konrad Wolf, the episodic movie authentically portrays the protagonist’s struggle to come to terms with his own past and identity.
Dolina miru 1956
Dolina miru 1956
1h 22m | Drama, War | Slovenia, July 23 1956
Storyline:
A boy of 9 and a much-younger girl lose their families in an air raid. They have heard about a valley where peace always reigns, they fancy that it’s the boy’s uncle’s house, and they set out to find it. At the same time an airplane is shot down and the Black American pilot jumped by parachute. He finds the children at a ford. There is absolutely no danger, but the girl is standing in the middle of the river, scared and crying, and neither she nor the boy dare to go forth or back. The pilot cannot abandon the children although they will reduce his chance of escaping. Both the Germans and the partisans know that the pilot had survived. Who will find him first? Several things happen in rapid succession. The children and the pilot find the uncle’s house, which has long been empty. The Germans arrive and catch the pilot. The partisans attack and liberate the pilot, who joins them. But during the fight he is soon mortally wounded and orders the children to run away. Then the house explodes. The children conclude that this was the wrong valley and decide to continue to search for the right one, the peaceful one.
Coeurs vaillants 2021
Coeurs vaillants 2021
1h 32m | Drama | 11 May 2022 (France)
Storyline:
In August 1942, during World War II, six Jewish children flee the Nazi regime and go to find refuge in Chambord, where the artwork from the Louvre is being stored.
Before the Rain 1994
Before the Rain 1994
Pred dozhdot (original title)
1h 53m | Drama, Romance, War | 26 October 1994 (Italy)
Storyline:
Before the Rain tells the stories of an orthodox Christian monk, a British photo agent, and a native Macedonian war photographer to paint a portrait of simmering ethnic and religious hatred about to reach its boiling point. This gripping triptych of love and violence is also a timeless evocation of the loss of pastoral innocence, and remains one of recent cinema’s most powerful laments on the futility of war.
The Railway Children Return 2022
The Railway Children Return 2022
1h 35m | Adventure, Drama, Family | 23 September 2022 (USA)
Storyline:
Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.
