The Midas Touch (1989)
ジャンル : ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 44分
演出 : Géza Bereményi
シノプシス
A deep drama about life in Hungary after the WW2 until the revolt against Russians in '56. The main character is the head of the black market in Budapest. He thinks he can buy everyone and everything but at the end he must face that he can't buy life. A must-see for everyone. Casting involves some of the greatest Hungarian actors. The story takes place in the eighth district of Budapest focusing on the market place on Teleki square which is still working. The movie contains some archive footage of real fight during the revolution.
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
1984年、イギリス北部の炭坑町。11歳のビリーは炭坑労働者のパパと兄トニー、おばあちゃんと暮らしていた。ある日、ビリーの通うボクシング教室のホールにバレエ教室が移ってきた。ふとしたことからレッスンに飛び入りしたビリーは、バレエに特別な開放感を覚えるのだった。教室の先生であるウィルキンソン夫人もビリーに特別な才能を見出した。それからというものビリーはバレエに夢中になるのだが……。バレエ・ダンサーを目指す少年の姿を描いたS・ダルドリー監督の長編第1作。
The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II, and the father returns from Russia after eleven years. The second story is about a reporter and his wife reporting from the tournament.
ヴァンパイアとライカン(狼男族)の種族の存亡を賭けた死闘が繰り広げられてきた闇の世界の女戦士セリーンは、両種族の創世にまつわる自らに秘められた過酷な運命を知る。己の血族であるヴァンパイアに裏切られたセリーンは、複雑な想いの中、闇の世界“アンダーワールド”への復讐を誓う。
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives.
肉眼でもレーダーでも捉えられないインビジブル機能搭載の最新型ステルス戦闘機“スイッチブレイド”。米国が極秘に開発したこの戦闘機がある日、何者かに盗まれる。そしてそれは武器商人ガンダーズの手に渡っていた。彼は、ハンガリーのブダペストで行われるボクシングのタイトル・マッチの前夜パーティを自邸で開催する裏で、戦闘機の入札を行おうと企てる。これに対し米国の国家保安局BNSは、戦闘機の奪回をスペシャル・エージェントのアレックスに命じ、その相棒として何とタイトル戦に出場する無敗のボクサー、ケリーを指名するのだった。
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Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across Bill, a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in. Through passionate sex, soul-searching conversations ranging from politics to philosophy, and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview. As their affair heats up, the course of Bill's life begins to take an abrupt and unexpected turn.
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In the Kerepesi Street cemetery, three grave diggers contemplate the fate of the world, then they step out of this role and in a sequence of episodes they play the typical figures of contemporary Hungarian reality, the fat cat, the swashbuckler, the victim, underworld chieftains, and present little absurd dramas of love, marriage, friendship, public order and legal safety. The author and the film director walk among them all the time, contemplating, laughing at their plays. The stories starting from the graveyard and returning there warn of the inevitability of death. The author and the director (Gyula Hernádi and Miklós Jancsó) wisely make friends with death.
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トーク番組の司会者デイブとアーロンは、朝鮮労働党第一書記・金正恩へのインタビューを許されたことから、中央情報局(CIA)に雇われて彼の暗殺を試みる。二人は金の怒りを買い、金は怒りに任せ、大陸間弾道ミサイルの発射を命じる。だが命令が発せられる前にデイブは戦車でヘリコプターを撃墜して金を殺害し、ミサイル発射を食い止める。二人は北朝鮮軍に偽装した米海軍特殊部隊に救出され、デイブは自分の経験を本に著す。そして北朝鮮はスークの助勢を受けて民主主義国家になる。