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Молодой коммунист Дэйв решил поехать в Испанию сражаться с фашизмом. Он в одном строю с парнишкой из Франции, и его отправляют с частями милиции на республиканский фронт в Арагоне. Но происходит непредвиденное: при обучении добровольцев маузер взрывается прямо в лицо Дэйву. Он попадает в барселонский госпиталь, где встречает Бланку, служившую с ним в одном подразделении…
Guest at wake
Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.
Mrs Maines
A woman attempts to escape her domestic problems by fleeing to New York in search of her father. She finds him, and also new problems, some friendship, a romance, and an unexpected career as pro-boxer, to make ends meet.
Factory Girl
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
Fat Woman at Party
16-летний Эдди сбегает из дома, где его постоянно унижал отец. Со своим другом Майклом (они оба геи) они на гей-дискотеке под названием «Фруктовый автомат» видят как киллер убивает хозяина дискотеки. Они убегают, но киллер преследует их... При этом денег у них нет, приходится подрабатывать. Один из них не гнушается секса с пожилым мужиком. Фильм построен на хитрости одного и простоватости другого.
These three semi-autobiographical short films by Terence Davies follow the journey of Robert Tucker, first seen as a hangdog child in "Children" (1976), then as a hollow-eyed middle-aged man in "Madonna and Child" (1980), and finally as a decrepit old man in "Death and Transfiguration" (1983). Dreamlike and profoundly moving.
In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life: he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back.
