Virtually without exception, a relation between parents and children is something that affects us throughout our lives. The first fiction film by award-winning documentarist Jaro Vojtek is an omnibus film about complicated relationships between parents and their children in which characters are challenged with long-term separation or declining health. Four stories titled Son, Marathon, Canary and Father tell four different tales that form a single view on the troubled relationship between parents and children. Each story takes place in a different season and together they create a multi-layered mosaic of relations reflecting hopes, disappointments and inevitable decisions. With a documentary filmmaker’s precision, Vojtek observes the characters and their behaviour, presenting an authentic picture of damaged family relations.
Shepherd #1
Desde la vida en común de María y José hasta la crucifixión de Jesús. Esta es la historia de una vida llena de dolor y de gozo, la vida de la Virgen María. Después de dar a luz a Jesús, María tuvo que protegerle de Herodes, le vio crecer y enfrentarse a su pueblo proclamándose el Mesías. Finalmente fue testigo de su muerte en la cruz y de su resurrección.
first minister
En la Rusia de fin de siglo XIX, con el Imperio al borde de la revolución, un hombre cambiará la historia para siempre. Es Rasputin, y le llaman el monje loco, pero muchos creen en sus poderes sobrenaturales, los cuales dicen que han salvado la vida del hijo del zar. Su influencia no tiene límites y tampoco su ambición. El mundo no será el mismo cuando alcance el poder. (FILMAFFINITY)
Footman
En el siglo XVIII, en Viena, la sociedad médica conoció el escándalo por los radicales métodos de curación del doctor Franz Anton Mesmer (Alan Rickman), basados en el "magnetismo animal", la hipnosis, la sugestión... Su principal éxito es la curación de una pianista ciega con la que el doctor inicia una relación; pero la comunidad médica utilizará esa relación para expulsar a Mesmer del país y destruir su polémica carrera.
Bobino Theatre Manager
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, and follows to her death in 1975. Written by John Sacksteder
Korniss
The film describes the general situation and conditions of the middle-aged intellectuals.
Daddy Kárász, the stakhanovist worker, complains in a television interview about the fact that his family, consisting of many members, cannot get a home on their own. Kéri, the chairman of the local authority, promises to help him on the condition that if he does not, they may move in to his villa at elegant Pasarét. Nothing happens, therefore the Kárász family takes Kéri by his word. From this time on, tumultuous scenes and frequent quarrels take place in the villa between the two families.
The "sleepless years" in this propaganda piece by director Felix Marlassy occur on Csepel Island, an island south of Budapest that is home to an armaments factory. The factory workers are shown being exploited by imperialists, capitalists gone berserk, and fascists, more or less in that exact chronological sequence. The heavy-handed approach does much to undercut the belief that when socialism finally takes over, the lives of the workers are brought up to a human level. In this instance, audiences might prefer a more nuanced and subtle statement, no matter what the message.
