A film about ignorance, intolerance and the lack of responsibility in people. A political film about human kindness, which in many of the so-called "incidents on the border" has been sadly missing.
Un saxofonista soviético, Vladimir Ivanoff (Robin Williams), logra escapar de la K.G.B. y se marcha a Estados Unidos, donde consigue asilo político. Vladimir se instala en Nueva York, en Harlem, en el superpoblado piso de Lionel Witherspoon (Cleavant Derricks), un guardia de seguridad. Allí conoce a una voluptuosa italiana, Lucia Lombardo (María Conchita Alonso), y a un perspicaz abogado cubano, Orlando Ramírez (Alejandro Rey), entre mucha otra gente. Vladimir experimentará la frialdad y el dolor que sienten, a menudo, los inmigrantes en una tierra extraña, pero poco a poco, aprenderá a querer a su nuevo país. (FILMAFFINITY)
Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole from the riches to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people, and a popular social rebel. He was chased by the police until his unfortunate sentence.
The exemplary accountant Antonín Safránek lives his orderly life as a citizen of a small town. His wife Eliska brings up their three children and desperately tries to get by on her husband's low salary every month. At the same time, she sadly watches the luxurious life of their neighbor and other people like him who have no qualms about improving their standard of living by cheating. One day, the infallible Safránek makes a mistake in the cash clearance and there are nine one-hundred Crown bills left in the safe. An unexpected company control carried out the next day passes without problems and the account is closed. The temptation is too strong. The insufficient control enables Safránek to gradually steal one million Crowns.
