The Shadow in My Eye 2021
The Shadow in My Eye 2021
Skyggen i mit øje (original title)
1h 47m | Drama, History, War | 28 October 2021 (Denmark)
Storyline:
On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo’s headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.
Die Freibadclique 2017
Die Freibadclique 2017
1h 44m | Drama, War | 28 March 2018 (Germany)
Storyline:
Summer 1944, Schwäbisch Hall. Against the war propaganda and the ordered heroism, the five 16 year old boys of the swimming pool group dream about swing music, sex and freedom. And they also dream about Lore, the helper from Fliegerhorst, who gets looks from all the boys in her red swimming suit. At the same time they realize there is no chance they can escape the horror at the front. Lore tells them “Remain alive”, but Zungenkuss dies first and more won’t make it through the war alive.
4 Days in May 2011
4 Days in May 2011
4 Tage im Mai (original title)
1h 37m | Drama, War | 29 September 2011 (Germany)
Storyline:
A group of Russian soldiers are sent into Northern Germany at the tail-end of WWII, where they occupy a children’s home in close proximity to a larger German unit. Against these odds, a friendship forms between a German orphan and a childless Soviet captain.
The Search 1948
The Search 1948
1h 44m | Drama, War | 26 March 1948 (USA)
Storyline:
A silent nine-year-old Czech boy, a survivor of Auschwitz, flees a refugee center in postwar Germany and is found by an American G.I. At the same time, the boy’s mother, the sole surviving member of his family, searches refugee centers for her son. Time, distance, and the massive numbers of refugee children are factors hampering the reunion of mother and son.
The Boy Soldier 1981
The Boy Soldier 1981
Allons z’enfants (original title)
Storyline:
This is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. He’s a bookish pacifist who endures being bullied by his superiors all throughout school, not out of weakness rather out of strength to deny violence it’s coveted reciprocity. On the eve of his much anticipated graduation day, Word War II ensues and swaps out the freedom he earned for the brutality of its first front lines. An original score by French composer Phillipe Sarde with photography directed by Yves Boisset sets the atmosphere of 1932 in France.
Fateless 2005
Fateless 2005
Sorstalanság (original title)
2h 20m | Drama, Romance, War | 10 February 2005 (Hungary)
Storyline:
An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who’s sent to a forced labor camp. After his father’s departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one’s dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.
