The Ambush (1969)
Gênero : Drama, Guerra
Runtime : 1H 20M
Director : Živojin Pavlović
Sinopse
Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.
Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world of their childhood crumble and change beyond recognition. Through the lives of these former schoolmates, this intimate film reveals how they have adjusted to their post-Soviet reality in today's Moscow.
Sergei and Andrei are walking through a city park and see that a film shoot set just post World War II is taking place . They climb over the park fence to get a better view but hit some cable lying on the ground and find themselves in the past - on May 8, 1949, a day which they seem doomed to relive over and over again.
A dog inherits a fortune and becomes an influential capitalist snob in the human world.
It’s not easy to rebel when your dad wants to join the party... One day (in 1979), Magnus and his son Nikolaj hit the wall in their new terrace house in Rykkinn. Magnus is an architect, hippie and free spirit, a glaring exception in a community where equality and conformity is the norm. He always stands up for his son, supporting him unconditionally, even when Nikolaj decides to stop giving a damn.
Profundamente marcada pela prisão do pai, do qual nunca mais recebeu noticías, em 1938, na ex União Sovietica, para onde a família tinha emigrado e pela morte da mãe por epidemia de tifo, a diretora hungara, Márta Mészáros, nos apresenta uma obra semi autobiográfica... 1947. Uma jovem Hungara, Juli, orfã (seu pai, comunista refugiado na União Sovietica, foi fuzilado durante as purgas estalinistas), regressa ao seu país em ruínas, depois da guerra mundial.. Ela é confiada a uma tia, Magda, uma resistente antifascista e firme defensora do novo regime na Hungria... Venceu o grande prémio do jurí, em Cannes.
Andy Marlow, um ex-militar britânico S.A.S que virou um mercenário, é enviado para os Balkans, após um golpe militar que surgiu para resgatar um embaixador dos EUA e seu assessor.
Reporter for a North Korean news service joins the partisans when the Americans and UN forces invade South Korea.
A group of 19 young women, led by a partizan man, are the only people available to escort a number of partisan wounded in the struggle for freedom, in the mountain ranges invaded by the Nazi army. The crossing of difficult tracks, and a few encounters with enemy patrols provide danger, and death for some heroines. Two girls are in love with the column's commander, but love for the motherland and freedom will prove stronger.
Explosions are raging in one of the ports in the territory occupied by the German fascist invaders. An old and experienced military leader, Admiral Reinhardt, arrives to investigate these emergencies. Together with the head of the Gestapo, SS Standartenfuehrer Hübe, he takes all measures to suppress the activity of the partisans, raids and arrests, but all in vain. Underwater sabotage continues. A detachment of fighters with experience of submarine warfare is sent from Italy to fight the demolitions.
Jovem mulher entra em crise quando percebe que seu marido, um oficial do Exército britânico, está colaborando com os comunistas.
Imagens mostram a devastação que a Primeira Guerra Mundial causou aos ucranianos.
Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern - funny - twists.
In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.
Year 1945. The second World War is over and the soldiers from the disbanded army are returning home. Yet there is still no sign of Joze Malek.
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.
Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.
Adaptação do romance de James McBride, ambientado durante a Segunda Guerra, que conta a história de quatro soldados americanos que fazem parte da 92º Divisão Buffalo Soldier - formada apenas por negros. Baseados na Toscana, Itália, em 1944, esses quatro homens caem numa armadilha preparada pelos nazistas. E acabam se separando quando um deles decide arriscar sua própria vida para salvar um garotinho italiano.
Havana, Cuba, 1979. Flamboyantly gay artist Diego (Jorge Perugorría) attempts to seduce the straight and strait-laced David, an idealistic young communist, and fails dismally. But David conspires to become friends with Diego so he can monitor the artist's subversive life for the state. As Diego and David discuss politics, individuality and personal expression in Castro's Cuba, a genuine friendship develops between the two. But can it last? Strawberry and Chocolate became an instant hit when it was released, and has become a classic of Cuban cinema due to its charming and authentic exploration of a connection between two people under historical circumstances that seem levelled against them.