Virtually without exception, a relation between parents and children is something that affects us throughout our lives. The first fiction film by award-winning documentarist Jaro Vojtek is an omnibus film about complicated relationships between parents and their children in which characters are challenged with long-term separation or declining health. Four stories titled Son, Marathon, Canary and Father tell four different tales that form a single view on the troubled relationship between parents and children. Each story takes place in a different season and together they create a multi-layered mosaic of relations reflecting hopes, disappointments and inevitable decisions. With a documentary filmmaker’s precision, Vojtek observes the characters and their behaviour, presenting an authentic picture of damaged family relations.
Shepherd #1
Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother.
first minister
Em uma era fervendo em guerra e revolução, um homem chega com um poder incrível para curar uma nação... ou destruí-la. Baseado na história real de uma das figuras mais poderosas e misteriosas da história da Rússia.
Footman
Para alguns ele era um mago, um milagreiro; para outros era um charlatão, uma fraude. Suas teorias eram revolucionárias, mas ele foi rejeitado por seus contemporâneos e deportado de sua terra natal, Viena. Ele incendiou Paris, se tornou um renegado na medicina, um visionário, um vilão.
Franz Anton Mesmer Nasceu em 23 de maio de 1734, em Iznang, aldeia próxima do lago de Constança, filho do casal Franciscus Antonius Mesmer e Maria Ursula Michel, membros de uma grande família católica da Suábia, região que hoje pertence à Alemanha. Mesmer desencarnou em 5 de março de 1815.
Bobino Theatre Manager
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, and follows to her death in 1975. Written by John Sacksteder
Korniss
The film describes the general situation and conditions of the middle-aged intellectuals.
Daddy Kárász, the stakhanovist worker, complains in a television interview about the fact that his family, consisting of many members, cannot get a home on their own. Kéri, the chairman of the local authority, promises to help him on the condition that if he does not, they may move in to his villa at elegant Pasarét. Nothing happens, therefore the Kárász family takes Kéri by his word. From this time on, tumultuous scenes and frequent quarrels take place in the villa between the two families.
The "sleepless years" in this propaganda piece by director Felix Marlassy occur on Csepel Island, an island south of Budapest that is home to an armaments factory. The factory workers are shown being exploited by imperialists, capitalists gone berserk, and fascists, more or less in that exact chronological sequence. The heavy-handed approach does much to undercut the belief that when socialism finally takes over, the lives of the workers are brought up to a human level. In this instance, audiences might prefer a more nuanced and subtle statement, no matter what the message.
