Ithaca 2015

Ithaca 2015

Ithaca 2015

Ithaca 2015
PG | 1h 36min | Drama, War | 9 September 2016 (USA)

Storyline:

Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain… and death… to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan’s 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the abruptness of change, the sweetness of life, the sting of death, and the sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.

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The Painted Bird 2019

The Painted Bird 2019

The Painted Bird 2019

The Painted Bird 2019
18 | 2h 49min | Drama, War | 24 October 2019 (USA)

Storyline:

In an unidentified area of war-torn Eastern Europe, a young boy is sent by his parents to live in safety with his aunt. But she dies unexpectedly, so he sets off on a journey to return home. He roams alone in a wild and hostile world in which only local rules, prejudices and superstitions apply. His struggle for virtually physical survival after the war turns into a battle of a different type. A battle that he doesn’t even realize, a fight with himself, a fight for his soul, for his future.

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Salas u Malom Ritu 1976

Salas u Malom Ritu 1976

Salas u Malom Ritu 1976

Salas u Malom Ritu 1976
2h 6min | Drama, War | 4 February 1976 (Yugoslavia)

Storyline:

War arrives to a small secluded village in Vojvodina. The Germans take a group of hostages through the village and on their way molest a small boy. As revenge the boy sets the German corn on fire. An intelligent and shrewd Gestapo officer Sicer arrives to investigate. He does not even suspect that he is up against a group of small boys, led by Milan and Vaso, and orders that all men from the village be taken to custody. He announces that one man will be shot each day unless the real culprit steps forward. Children contact the partisans.

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The Island on Bird Street 1997

The Island on Bird Street 1997

The Island on Bird Street 1997

The Island on Bird Street 1997
PG-13 | 1h 47min | Drama, War | 11 April 1997 (Denmark)

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Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.

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Stielke, Heinz, Fünfzehn 1987

Stielke, Heinz, Fünfzehn 1987

Stielke, Heinz, Fünfzehn 1987

Stielke, Heinz, Fünfzehn 1987
1h 35min | War | 12 February 1987 (East Germany)

Storyline:

Follows the 15-year-old, Heinz Stilke, a member of the Hitler Youth. Heinz is proud of his father, who died bravely for his fatherland, but suddenly learns that he himself is half Jewish. Heinz leaves his gymnasium and is forced to flee his classmates lest his secret be revealed.

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Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004)

Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004)

Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004)

Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004)
Not Rated | 1h 46min | Documentary, War | 8 October 2004 (Finland)

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A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children’s refugee camp.

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Mino 1986

Mino 1986

Mino 1986

Mino 1986
5h 44min | Drama, War | TV Mini-Series (1986– )

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1914 : Giacomino “Mino ” Rasi is the ten -year – old son of a Milan university mathematics professor . His family is friends with the aristocratic Austrian consul Karl Stolz and his much younger wife Freda . In August 1914 the Rasi family travels to Austria to visit the Stolz family . World War I has already broken out, but the spirit is upbeat and both families spend a happy time . That Italy , a member of the Triple Alliance , has remained neutral at the outbreak of the war causes a slight alteration between Karl and Minos father .

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It Happened in Europe 1948

It Happened in Europe 1948

It Happened in Europe 1948

It Happened in Europe 1948
Valahol Európában (original title)
1h 40min | Drama | 19 November 1948 (Austria)

Storyline:

A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who’s hiding out in a ruined castle. After the initial altercation between them the gang accepts his guidance and he wins their respect by protecting them from the elements. However, disgruntled townsfolk want to chase away the gang who has been – in their search for survival – laying waste to their crops. A battle ensues ending in the death of a little boy – and resolution.

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