The Weight of Chains (2010)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー, 履歴
上映時間 : 2時間 5分
演出 : Boris Malagurski
シノプシス
The Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state - Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen by Western audiences, is a creative first-hand look at why the West intervened in the Yugoslav conflict, with an impressive roster of interviews with academics, diplomats, media personalities and ordinary citizens of the former Yugoslav republics. This film also presents positive stories from the Yugoslav wars - people helping each other regardless of their ethnic background, stories of bravery and self-sacrifice.
第二次世界大戦中のユーゴスラビアでは、強大なドイツ軍が、パルチザン将兵をネレトバ峡谷に追いつめていた。彼らを救うため、アメリカ軍特殊部隊“フォース10”がネレトバ橋の爆破を命じられる。フォース10には、ナバロン要塞を爆破したマロリーとミラーが加えられた。しかしユーゴスラビアに降下した彼らは、ドラザック大尉率いる王党派に捕えられ、ドイツ軍に引き渡されてしまう。
「パパは、出張中！」「アンダーグラウンド」のエミール・クストリッツァ監督作品。ドナウ川のほとりに暮らすジプシー一族に起こる若者の恋愛や石油列車強奪計画といったエピソードを、陽気にストレートに描いたコメディ。ジプシーのマトゥコは、自称ダマしの天才。ある日、彼はロシアの密輸船から石油を買うが、見事に騙されて大金を失う。金に困ったマトゥコは、息子のザーレとともに、“ゴッドファーザー”グルガに石油列車強奪の計画を持ちかけ資金援助を乞うが……。
In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallum. A former Special Operations instructor is approached and asked to apprehend Hallum—his former student—who has 'gone rogue' after suffering severe battle stress from his time in Kosovo.
Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
イギリスのとある街にある工場で働くハンナは、働き者ではあるが誰とも口を利かず、孤独な毎日を送っていた。彼女の過去は誰も知らない。時々どこかに電話をかけるが、相手が出ても何も話さずに切ってしまう。全く休まないハンナを見た上司は、彼女に無理にでも休暇を取るように勧め、ハンナはある港町にやって来る。しかし休暇など欲しくなかった彼女はとりたててすることもない。 そんな時に入った中華料理屋で、至急看護師が欲しいと携帯で話す男を見かけ、ハンナは自分は看護師だと告げる。ある海底油田掘削所で火事が起こり、重傷を負った男性を看護する人が必要だという。ハンナはすぐにヘリコプターで採掘所に向かう。 患者のジョゼフは重度の火傷を負っており、さらに火事のせいで一時的に目が見えなくなっていた。火事の時、ある男が火の中に飛び込んで自殺したが、ジョゼフは彼を助けようとして重傷を負ったとハンナは聞かされる。 ハンナは黙々とジョゼフを看護する。ジョゼフは時には強引に、時には冗談を交えて何とかハンナ自身のことを聞き出そうとする。そんなジョゼフや、採掘所で働く心優しいコックのサイモンに、徐々にハンナは心を開いていく。
ボスニアの戦争犯罪者を捕らえるという大胆な計画を立てた若きジャーナリスト、経験豊富なカメラマン、そして信頼を失った記者は、国連代表が彼らをCIAの殺し屋集団と勘違いしたことで、急速にコントロールを失っていく。
In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.
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。＞
"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly criss-crossed the Balkans and, without regard for national and ethnic strife, recorded the region's history and customs. Did these primitive, never-developed images really exist?
1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, decides to go to Bosnia to find him.
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
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In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.
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During the Cold War, diplomatic courier Mike Kells must retrieve a dispatch containing top-secret intelligence. But when he arrives at the meeting point, a train station in Salzburg, his contact turns up dead, and the message is nowhere to be found. With no clear suspect in sight, Kells must sort through his uncertain relationships with two women, while sidestepping the pitfalls of subterfuge, sabotage and spies in his search for the documents.
The Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state - Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen by Western audiences, is a creative first-hand look at why the West intervened in the Yugoslav conflict, with an impressive roster of interviews with academics, diplomats, media personalities and ordinary citizens of the former Yugoslav republics. This film also presents positive stories from the Yugoslav wars - people helping each other regardless of their ethnic background, stories of bravery and self-sacrifice.
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