The testament of a former concentration camp prisoner confronts and turns the lives of two young people from different worlds around, shedding light on the tragic history of their family.
An anthology film about the common topic of the Holocaust and honouring the memory of the victims. What caused the mass extermination of people on a national basis? Where do origins of interethnic intolerance, anti-Semitism, nationalist propaganda come from? Today these issues are still topical. Nationally motivated conflicts still fare up between people; national hostility is still kindled. There are voices that deny the reality of the Holocaust as a historical fact. We cannot allow a repetition of the monstrous tragedy and should never forget about it!
The world of the novel is fully and completely hanged around the unique instrument which got through all horrors of the war. The story begins in a violin shop in Nuremberg, where in the beginning of the XX century the violin was created. Hundred years later, through the hands of various owners, the violin finally ends up at the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem.
Año 1941. Ha pasado un lustro desde que el destino del general Kotov y su familia cambiara de forma irreversible. Continuación de "Quemado por el Sol" (Burnt by the Sun, 1994). Esta secuela es la producción más cara de la historia del cine ruso.
The film is about the complicated and even paradoxical relationships in the world of academic music. The character of Aleksandr Maslaev represents the Maestro, a kind of modern Mozart, wallowing in corruption, plagiarism, and envy. Once a talented composer, he's totally lost his gift and cynically buys new music from young composers, then plays it under his own name. Yet, the Maestro does not close this chain, for everyone pays his debts...
En un futuro la avanzada civilización terrestre descubre un lejano planeta habitado por unos seres completamente humanos pero tremendamente atrasados respecto a la Tierra. La humanidad envía a un equipo científico para investigar el descubrimiento. Una nave es situada en orbita para monitorizar la historia del mundo, y un infiltrado Rumata, es enviado para mezclarse con la cultura nativa, siempre guiado por una fuerte regla de no intervención.
