André de Toth

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.

Four boys act out games in a nearly barren landscape near a mining excavation where blasting is going on. The oldest, Szafran, is their leader. When he gets into a frenzy, so do the others: running barefoot through thistles, rubbing dirt in their hair, catching fish barehanded. Szafran says he is the Antichrist and gives orders. Are these games or something else?

Noted Hollywood stars and directors talk about the history and evolution of the film industry in Los Angeles.

A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.

A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.

Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a loner gold prospector, team up with a band of Apache Indians in 19th century Mexico to capture a large, heavily armed fortress for the millions -- or billions -- of dollars in gold that are rumored to be stored within. Written by Brian C. Madsen

2차대전중 아프리카 사막에서 작전에 번번이 실패한 마스터즈 대령은 마지막 기회로서 독일군의 연료저장고를 폭파하는 계획을 세운다. 영국군 블로어 준장은 실제 작전에 앞서서 교란팀을 파견하는데 블로어의 의도는 이들이 작전에 실패하고 붙잡히는 것. 그 지휘관으로 더글라스 대위(마이클 케인)를 선발하는데 그는 대위 계급의 영국군복을 입었으되, 실은 영국 석유회사에서 파견된 직원이고 그 휘하의 대원들은 감옥에서 뽑혀온 범죄자 용병들. 이들은 자신들이 작전의 주인공인줄 알고 이탈리아군으로 위장하여 임무수행에 나선다. 더글라스는 사막전에 밝은 용병 리치 대위(데븐 포트)와 사사건건 충돌하며 일이 꼬이기 시작한다.

2차대전중 아프리카 사막에서 작전에 번번이 실패한 마스터즈 대령은 마지막 기회로서 독일군의 연료저장고를 폭파하는 계획을 세운다. 영국군 블로어 준장은 실제 작전에 앞서서 교란팀을 파견하는데 블로어의 의도는 이들이 작전에 실패하고 붙잡히는 것. 그 지휘관으로 더글라스 대위(마이클 케인)를 선발하는데 그는 대위 계급의 영국군복을 입었으되, 실은 영국 석유회사에서 파견된 직원이고 그 휘하의 대원들은 감옥에서 뽑혀온 범죄자 용병들. 이들은 자신들이 작전의 주인공인줄 알고 이탈리아군으로 위장하여 임무수행에 나선다. 더글라스는 사막전에 밝은 용병 리치 대위(데븐 포트)와 사사건건 충돌하며 일이 꼬이기 시작한다.

해리 파머는 MI5를 그만두고 삼류 사립탐정으로 살아가고 있습니다. 다시 정보국으로 복귀하라는 로스 대령의 요구를 무시한 그는 정체불명의 전화를 받고 역시 정체불명의 소포를 핀란드로 배달하는데, 알고 봤더니 그 고용주는 그의 미국인 친구인 레오 뉴비겐이었고 소포는 치명적인 바이러스가 들어있는 계란들이었죠. 여기서부터 해리 파머는 바이러스를 되찾으려는 영국 정보국, 반공산봉기를 일으키려는 라트비아 왕당파, 전세계의 공산주의자들을 모두 죽여없애는 것이 자신의 사명이라고 믿고 있는 텍사스 출신 광신도 장군, 봉기를 막으려는 소련 정보국 그리고 그들 사이에서 이득을 취하려는 여러 사람들이 등장하는 지독하게 복잡한 음모에 말려듭니다.

A gladiator gets caught up in a slave revolt and the invasion of England.

During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and his oldest son Ogotai ensues when the former aims for peace and the latter itches for war and conquest.

A Welsh pirate raids up and down the Caribbean, battling the Spanish, the English and other pirates.

A Welsh pirate raids up and down the Caribbean, battling the Spanish, the English and other pirates.

U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen (Ernest Borgnine) helping spies, and they force him to counterspy.

Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.

Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.

A U.S. lawman busts Copenhagen counterfeiters to help his sister, falsely accused of murder.

A U.S. lawman busts Copenhagen counterfeiters to help his sister, falsely accused of murder.

The painfully true story of welterweight boxing champion Barney Ross is detailed in Monkey on My Back. Cameron Mitchell stars as Ross, whose meteoric ring career is interrupted when he joins the Marines at the outset of WWII. A highly decorated hero, Ross contracts malaria oversees and is given morphine to assuage the pain. By the time he returns to the states, Ross is a confirmed drug addict. Before he can rise to the top again, he must hit rock bottom and his descent into the hell of narcotics dependency is graphically illustrated (so much so that the film was almost denied a Production Code seal). Though a cured Barney Ross served as technical advisor for Monkey on My Back, he ended up suing the producers for defamation of character -- and lost.

조니 하워스는 오레건 지방 경계 도처에서 악명높은 인디언 파이터들을 붙잡는 건방지고 성급한 카우보이다. 지방경찰 지휘관인 트래쉬는 레드 클라우드가 이끄는 인접한 시아웍스 부족의 문제 때문에 하워스를 불렀다. 그는 부족장을 만나 위협하고 평화롭게 지내자고 말한다. 하지만 하워스의 승진의 길을 저지하는 부족장의 딸인 오나티에게 흠뻑 빠져버린다. 그러던 중 황금을 찾기 위해 떠돌아 다니는 개척자들인 치빙톤과 웨스 토드가 나타나게 되자 긴장감은 더해졌다. 이에 부족장의 동생이 격분하게 되고 그 개척자들은 자신들의 위스키와 인디언의 황금을 교환하기를 시도한다. 하워스는 중개인으로 그들을 평화롭게 협의하게 도와주려고 한다. 시아웍스 부족은 개척자들의 짐마차를 자신들에게 해를 끼치지 않는 한 땅을 지나갈 수 있도록 허락한다. 하워스는 마차를 옮기는데 동행하게 되고 함께 한 미망인인 수산 로저스는 그와 결혼하기를 원한다. 그러나 하워스는 이미 오나티에게 마음을 빼앗겨 버린 상태이다. 그리고 치빙톤과 토드는 시아웍스 부족의 황금을 차지하기 위해 위험한 시도를 하게 된다.

A year after a violent train robbery the Pinkerton detective agency hires a bounty hunter to find the three remaining killers. He tracks them to Twin Forks but has no clue to their identity. Tensions surface as just his presence in town acts as a catalyst.

A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escaped criminal.

When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang

Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of occupation, had taken over the state. Federal Captain Porter, a Texan, has to carry out orders against his own people. He brings in the rebel leader Ben Westman whom he knows is innocent of a murder that he is accused of. In trying to prove his innocence, Porter himself becomes a wanted man.

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.

Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows of his past. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is trying to steal gold from. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his he sets out to get Mourret and his men. When his plan to have another gang get Mourret fails, he has to go after them himself.

밀랍 인형으로 역사 속 아름다운 장면들을 재현하는 탐미 예술가 제로드는 주식 투자가 버크의 투자로 작품 활동세계를 하고 있다. 그러던 어느날 버크는 제로드의 예술 활동이 돈벌이가 되지 않자 전시장에 불을 내어 화재 보험을 타자고 제의한다. 하지만 제로드는 버크의 제의를 거절하고, 둘은 몸싸움 끝에 전시장에는 화재가 나고 만다. 하지만 제로드는 미처 그곳을 빠져 나오지 못한다. 그 후 버크는 화재 보험으로 연인 캐시와 여행갈 준비를 하던 중 살해를 당하는 사건이 발생한다.

It's 1876 and all the Indians are at peace except the Comanches lead by Black Cloud. When Black Cloud wipes out a town, only six soldiers are left and they head for the nearest fort. In the desert they are reinforced by members of a stagecoach and find some water at a deserted mission. Pinned down by Black Cloud they send an Indian boy who was Black Cloud's prisoner on to the fort while they try to bargain with Black Cloud whom they learn is without water.

Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.

Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.

A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.

서부의 유명한 총잡이인 지미 링고는 가는데마다 멋모르는 젊은이들 때문에 늘 싸움에 휘말린다. 그러던 중 에디라는 청년을 죽이게 되고, 그의 세 형에게 쫓긴다. 그는 사랑하는 여인인 페기와 아들이 있는 마을로 가지만 페기는 그를 만나주려 하지 않고 그녀를 기다리며 설득하는 동안 에디의 형들은 그를 쫓아 마을까지 온다. 가까스로 그 형들은 따돌렸지만 그 마을의 망나니인 헌트가 뒤에서 총을 쏘는 바람에 지미 링고는 죽게 된다. 그는 죽으며 헌트에게 벌을 내리는 대신 자신처럼 유명인으로서 쫓기며 살게 하라고 당부한다.

A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds in flashbacks as the pilot battles the storm and recalls his failures, including a love affair with the wife of his best friend.

An insurance man's affair with a blonde leads to guilt, murder and a confession to his wife.

An insurance man's affair with a blonde leads to guilt, murder and a confession to his wife.

Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.

Seriously ill, concert pianist Karen Duncan is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. Despite being attracted to Dr Tony Stanton she ignores his warnings of possibly fatal consequences unless she rests completely. Rather, she opts for a livelier time in Monte Carlo with dashing Paul Clermont.

A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.

Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.

Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately, she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney who intend to kill her and steal the family assets. Dr. George Grover helps Leslie to defeat Sydney.

Through flashbacks, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed.

The Lone Wolf goes undercover in Egypt to foil a Nazi plot to bomb and disable the Suez canal, which is vital to England's war effort.

Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.

Two girls run away from a small village. Gyöngyi comes from an aristocratic family and her father throws her out of the house when he discovers she has gotten pregnant out of wedlock. She finds herself wandering the streets of Budapest and earns money playing the violin in a restaurant. Vica is an orphaned peasant; she is afraid of her stepfather and moves to the city where she gets a job on a construction site. Gyöngyi and Vica meet on the streets of Budapest, move in together and turn their lives around.

Two girls run away from a small village. Gyöngyi comes from an aristocratic family and her father throws her out of the house when he discovers she has gotten pregnant out of wedlock. She finds herself wandering the streets of Budapest and earns money playing the violin in a restaurant. Vica is an orphaned peasant; she is afraid of her stepfather and moves to the city where she gets a job on a construction site. Gyöngyi and Vica meet on the streets of Budapest, move in together and turn their lives around.

Set in Paris (which looks more like Budapest), the story concerns a murder investigation conducted by one Judge Henri Tessier. The audience is led to believe that Robert Petrovich, estranged husband of Tessier's sweetheart Marion, is responsible for the murder.

Ignác Semmelweis is 18 and is in Vienna, training to become a judge-advocate, to comply with the wishes of his family. He is, however, attracted by the medical science, and joins the team of Professor Rokitanszky.

Another winner from Hungarian director Ivan Szekely (aka S.K. Seeley and Steve Sekely), A Nosty fiu Esete Toth Marival was released in English-speaking regions as I Married for Love. Feri Noszty (Paul Javor) is a handsome but irresponsible Hussar officer who prefers a life of wine, women and song to his military responsibilities. Unwilling to bow to family pressure, Feri refuses to marry heiress Mary Toth (Eva Szorenyi) for her dowry alone. But Mary falls in love with the prideful Feri, and to win his affections she poses as her own poverty-stricken maid. Based on a novel by Kalman Mikszath, A Noszty Fiu Esete Toth Marival was filmed simultaneously in Hungarian- and German-language versions.

Robert Flaherty and Zoltán Korda shared best director honors at the Venice Film Festival for collaborating on this charming translation of Rudyard Kipling’s “Jungle Book” story “Toomai of the Elephants.” A harmonious mix of the two filmmakers’ styles, Flaherty's adeptness at ethnographic documentary meeting Korda's taste for grand adventure, ELEPHANT BOY also served as the breakthrough showcase for the thirteen-year-old Sabu, whose beaming performance as a young mahout leading the British on an expedition made him a major international star.