Sovereign Order of the Knights of Malta (2005)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 53M
Director : Roberto Mitrotti
Sinopsis
Sovereign Order of the Knights of Malta documents this mysterious group that has been associated with a variety of historical events and objects including the Holy Grail. The film utilizes interviews with experts on the topic and historical reenactments of the events that are discussed.
En vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), la vida de Dominic Matei (Tim Roth), un anciano profesor, sufre una extraña transformación: tras ser alcanzado por un rayo, no sólo sigue vivo, sino que rejuvenece. Este hecho despierta el interés de los nazis, que pretenden servirse de él para sus investigaciones y experimentos. Dominic se ve entonces obligado a huir y a adoptar una nueva identidad. Convertido en un fugitivo, vagará por diversos países y conocerá a Verónica (Alexandra Maria Lara), una mujer idéntica a Laura, el gran amor de su vida.
Un pescador solitario en su carrera diaria se encuentra perdido en una espesa niebla que resulta imposible de navegar. Lo peor está por venir cuando su encuentro con un velero aparentemente abandonado se convierta en una lucha por la supervivencia contra un enemigo desconocido.
Un niño con una imaginación desbordante y fantasioso en extremo, es testigo de un asesinato, pero su hermana no le cree. Mientras, el asesino empieza la búsqueda del único cabo suelto que queda.
La armada británica está enfrascada en una encarnizada lucha con las fuerzas alemanas por el control de las rutas de suministro del Mediterráneo durante el año 1942. Todo el oeste de Europa está en manos nazis y Rommel avanza imparable a través de la costa norte de África para adueñarse del control absoluto de todo el mar. La única esperanza para los aliados pasa por la isla de Malta. El Comandante Tom Jeffords es enviado al lugar para romper el bloqueo y así abrir las comunicaciones. El éxito pasa por el uso generalizado de unos botes rápidos armados con torpedos conocidos por Hell Boats (Barcos del infierno).
Short WW II documentary
Due to his violent past, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III (Joe Don Baker) has been transferred to a rural outpost. When two thugs kill the sheriff, Geronimo shoots one of them, and the other vows revenge. Unfortunately for Geronimo, that thug turns out to be a mob boss, and the court orders Geronimo to extradite him back to his home in Sicily. When their plane is hijacked, the adversaries find their roles reversed.
Young Theo is sent on his first trip with his Maltese sea faring family, but things go terribly wrong when the 'Simshar' sinks, leaving the crew stranded in the Mediterranean... Simultaneously, Alex - a medic reluctantly dispatched onto a Turkish Merchant vessel which has rescued a group of stranded African boat people between Malta and Italy - gets stuck on the boat as the countries wage a bureaucratic war over who should take in the migrants... The stories unravel in parallel and culminate tragically when the fishermen are traced down, but by that time there's only one survivor.
A short but harrowing look at the horrors of war and how the smallest of errors can have tragic consequences as two British paratroopers land in Nazi-occupied Sicily (beautifully filmed in and around Victoria Gate in Valletta) in 1943.
The film’s storyline is one many returned Maltese migrants will no doubt associate with: it’s about a young free-spirited artist, Karl, who returns to his home island Malta after a long time away. It covers his personal journey discovering his roots. Reliving old habits with friends and memories from his childhood, this journey leads him to re-visit his past with his ex-girlfriend, and then with a new friend, Anna, through whom he visits his old home in Gozo, now a neglected house full of memories. Anna is his springboard for self reflection and becomes his reason for trying to start life again in Malta; a place he’s familiar with but is now seeing through different eyes.
This historical documentary addresses a subject typically given short shrift in discussions of World War II: the role of Malta in pivotal Second World War battles. The program argues that because of the island's key location - sandwiched, as it is, in-between Southern Europe and Northern Africa - it inevitably impeded Axis and Allied reinforcement deliveries time and again. As a result, the Maltese people found themselves caught in the middle of a crossfire when they had virtually nothing to do with the war itself, and suffered immensely for their geographic placement. In telling this seldom-heard story, the program draws on first-person interviews, CGI animations, and dramatic recreations.
A study of the political and religious fanaticism in Malta in the 60s.
A study into man-made landscapes that was shot over a period of 4 weeks in Malta.
