The Soviet Story (2008)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー, 戦争, 履歴
上映時間 : 1時間 26分
演出 : Edvīns Šņore
シノプシス
“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now...
アメリカ コロラド州の平和な田舎町。昼下がりに異様な数の兵士がパラシュートで次々と降下してくる。ソビエトの兵装の兵士達は次々と降下し銃撃を開始した。武器を持たぬ市民は虐殺されていくが高校生ジェドはその仲間達は間一髪山中へ逃げ込み少ない武器を手に取り反撃を開始する。
著名人たちが愛したという伝説のテレビマンを、ジョージ・クルーニーが演じた実録ドラマ。舞台は“赤狩り”が全米を震撼させていた1953年。誰もが報復に脅えるなか、キャスターのエド・マローだけは言葉を武器に巨悪に立ち向かった。
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
大学時代にクラスメイトだったケイティとバベルは、第二次世界大戦末期に再会し結婚する。しかし政治運動に没頭するケイティと脚本家を目指すバベルは、次第に違う道を歩き始めることに……。激動の時代を生き抜いた男女のラヴ・ストーリー。
Poland, 1970. Firmly determined to fight against Soviet tyranny and prevent the destruction of the world, the high-ranking officer of the Polish army Ryszard Kukliński makes a serious decision that will put his life, his family and the fate of an entire nation at risk.
The main character, nicknamed "Teddy Bear" by his friends and acquaintances, is a manager of a sports club in Poland. One day he is detained at the border just as his sport team is off to a tournament. It appears that somebody has torn out a few pages from his passport. It occurs to him that perhaps his ex-wife has done it in order to get her hands on their joint account in a London bank. Therefore, he has to get to London as soon as possible in order to transfer the money to a different bank. The solution is taking part in a movie, made by his friend. The script requires a double role, thus the search for another actor is announced. The double has to apply for the passport, and that is solved through a girlfriend who agrees to play the dope's new fiancée. At the engagement party he is slipped a drug, and Teddy Bear runs off to the airport with the false passport. On the plane, however, he meets his ex-wife...
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A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
スターリン主義の影響下にあった50年代初頭のユーゴスラビア。薄汚い密告が見境なくはびこり、人々は疑心暗鬼だ。少年マリックの精力的かつ俗物の父親も例外なくその犠牲となる。ふと愛人に洩らした他愛ない国政批判のせいだ。収容所に収監された父を、母は“出張中”と少年に告げごまかすのだった……。＜旧ユーゴのクストリッツァがカンヌでグランプリを得た、ユーモアの中に痛烈な体制批判を織り込んだ作品。＞
第1次インドシナ戦争時の1954年。朝鮮戦争に従軍経験のあるアメリカ人のブロックとゴールディは、傭兵としてインドシナでフランス外人部隊に所属していた。ある時、ブロック率いる破壊工作班が、中国国境付近にある軍需品集積所を爆破しにいくことになり、案内役としてブロックの元妻リーアが雇われる。リーアは、案内役を務める代わりに、息子をアメリカに避難させる約束を仏軍ととりつけていたが……。
New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque culture and traditions, parade down the street; but the local authorities have not allowed the appearance of all of them: due to the racial prejudices that persist in many sectors of society, the participation of two black giants has been banned.
“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now...
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