Land and Freedom (1995)

Land and Freedom (1995)
Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Jim Allen (screenplay)
Release Date: 7 April 1995 (Spain)
Genre: Drama - History - War



* Cast :


Ian Hart ... David Carr
Rosana Pastor ... Blanca
Icíar Bollaín ... Maite (as Iciar Bollain)
Tom Gilroy ... Lawrence
Marc Martínez ... Juan Vidal (as Marc Martinez)
Frédéric Pierrot ... Bernard Goujon (as Frederic Pierrot)
Andrés Aladren ... Militia member (as Andres Aladren)
Sergi Calleja ... Militia member
Raffaele Cantatore ... Militia member
Pascal Demolon ... Militia member
Paul Laverty ... Militia member
Josep Magem ... Militia member
Eoin McCarthy ... Connor
Jürgen Müller ... Militia member
Víctor Roca ... Militia member (as Roca)


* Plot :


Spring 1936, a young unemployed communist, David, leaves his hometown Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista).


After being wounded he goes to Barcelona, where he decides to join another group of fighters. They remain in Barcelona and end up fighting other anti-fascist groups. David is disappointed and decides to go back to his old band.

A Slave of Love (1976)

A Slave of Love (1976)
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Writers: Fridrikh Gorenshtein & Andrei Konchalovsky
Release Date: September 1976 (Soviet Union)
Genre: Drama - Romance
Runtime: 1:29:28


* Cast :

Yelena Solovey ... Olga Nikolayevna Voznesenskaya
Rodion Nahapetov ... Victor Pototsky
Aleksandr Kalyagin ... Kalyagin
Oleg Basilashvili ... Yuzhakov
Konstantin Grigoryev ... Fedotov

- Rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Yuri Bogatyryov ... Maksakov
Mikhail Chigaryov
Valentin Komissarov (as V. Kommissarov)
Vera Kuznetsova ... Lyubov Andreevna
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikolai Pastukhov ... Writer
Gotlib Roninson
Yevgeni Steblov
Inna Ulyanova
Vadim Vilsky


* Plot :


Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every day with Victor Pototsky, the film's cameraman.


Gradually, it comes to light that Victor uses his job as a cover for filming White atrocities and Red heroism: he's a Bolshevik. He asks her for help, and she discovers meaning in her otherwise flighty and self-centered life. Love blooms. Will the Red forces arrive in time to save them from a suspicious White military leader? Will she find courage?

MAHATMA: Life of Gandhi (1869-1948)

This is a 5 hrs. 10 min. documentary biography of Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi. All events and principles of Gandhi's life and thought are viewed as integrated parts of his truth-intoxicated life depicting permanent and universal values.


The purpose of the film is to tell the present and the future generations "that such a man as Gandhi in flesh and blood walked upon this earth", to acquaint them with his life and work and to spread his message of peace and universal brotherhood to the war-weary and fear-stricken world.


The film brings together a mass of visual record not only of 78-year life of Gandhi but also of an important period of India's history. The aim of the film being education and not entertainment, there is no attempt at dramatization of those exciting times. The story is told with an eye to truthful documentation of the main events within the limits of available documentary visual material.

The Situation

The Situation (2006)
Director: Philip Haas
Writer: Wendell Steavenson (writer)
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1:46:06


Part romantic thriller, part political drama, THE SITUATION is the first U.S. feature film to confront Americas occupation in the Middle East, exploring one of the countless stories hidden behind the headlines of the "War on Terror".


When Anna (Connie Nielsen), an American journalist, travels to Iraq to report on the conflict, she quickly becomes familiar with the grim day-to-day realities of the conflict. After an Iraqi leader and friend is assassinated, she is determined to uncover the truth behind his death.


As she becomes more entrenched, Anna finds herself pulled between the affections of an American intelligence official (Damian Lewis) and Zaid (Mido Hamada), a young Iraqi photographer.


After the death of an Iraqi boy at the hands of American soldiers, a perilous chain of events is set off that exposes corrupt associations, blurs the lines of justice, and ultimately leads Anna into grave danger.

Beat the Devil

Beat the devil
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Beat the Devil (1953)
Director: John Huston
Writers: James Helvick (novel) & Truman Capote (writer)
Release Date: 17 December 1953 (Italy)
Genre: Adventure - Comedy - Crime - Drama - Romance
Length: 01:29:17


* Cast :

Humphrey Bogart ... Billy Dannreuther
Jennifer Jones ... Mrs. Gwendolen Chelm

Gina Lollobrigida ... Maria Dannreuther
Robert Morley ... Peterson

Peter Lorre ... Julius O'Hara
Edward Underdown ... Harry Chelm
Ivor Barnard ... Maj. Jack Ross
Marco Tulli ... Ravello
Bernard Lee ... Insp. Jack Clayton
Mario Perrone ... Purser on SS Nyanga
Giulio Donnini ... Administrator
Saro Urzì ... Captain of SS Nyanga
Aldo Silvani ... Charles - Restaurant Manager
Juan de Landa ... Hispano-Suiza Driver


* Plot :

A quartet of international crooks -- Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello -- is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are the Dannreuthers.


The six are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but actually to buy land supposedly loaded with uranium. They are joined by others who apparently have similar designs.

Shame (1962)

Director: Roger Corman
Producer: Roger Corman
Production Company: Roger Corman Productions
Runtime: 01:22:00



Shame also known as "I Hate Your Guts" "The Intruder" is a 1962 film directed by Roger Corman starring William Shatner as a racist mystery man sent to stir trouble in a southern town that is about to integrate its high school.


* Synopsis :



The credits are shown as the camera follows Californian Adam Cramer (William Shatner), a member of a northern segregationist movement known as The Patrick Henry Society, as he arrives by bus in the small, fictitious town of Caxton, Missouri. Cramer moves into the local hotel, making friends with traveling salesman Sam Griffin (Leo Gordon) and his wife, the only other regular residents of the hotel. He also flirts with Ella McDaniels, a high school student and daughter of the editor of the town paper.


School integration is due to start that week in Caxton, and Cramer sounds out the feelings of the local residents about the issue. Many oppose the idea, but accept it as the law. Cramer urges organized resistance and starts working with Vern Shipman (Robert Emhardt), the town’s leading citizen. After a series of racist speeches, Cramer riles up the general populace. He joins the local Ku Klux Klan when they drive through the black section of town to burn a cross. When Sam Griffin is out of town, Cramer seduces his wife.


Events spiral out of Cramer’s control when a black church is bombed and the minister is killed. Accused of provoking the incident, Cramer is jailed, but the locals rally to his defense and he is released. Editor Tom McDaniels (Frank Maxwell) is incensed. When the local black students decide to pull out of the high school, McDaniels goes to them and urges them to continue. He personally escorts them to the school. Later, the editor is beaten by outraged citizens and hospitalized. Cramer knows that violence will hurt his cause, but he concocts a scheme that might help him to achieve his goal. He persuades Ella that her father will be killed unless she accuses one of the black students of trying to molest her. She fakes an attack in the supply room of the high school, and the accused young man is brought before the principal.


A mob gathers when news of the incident spreads. Cramer urges that the accused student be escorted to the police station, but the mob, led by Shipman, intends to lynch him instead. Griffin turns up with Ella McDaniels, who reveals her false accusation to be one invented by Cramer. Shocked at the crime they were about to commit, the crowd disperses, and Shipman strikes Cramer, knocking him down. Griffin helps the racist up, telling him that he is through in Caxton and offers to drive him to the bus depot.




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Communion (1976)

Director: Alfred Sole
Writers: Rosemary Ritvo(original screenplay) & Alfred Sole(original screenplay)
Release Date: 13 November 1976 (USA)
Genre: Horror - Mystery
Runtime: 01:47:00


* Nominations :


Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA


- 1982 Nominated By Saturn Award For Best Low-Budget Film


- 1979 Nominated By Saturn Award For Best Writing (Alfred Sole & Rosemary Ritvo)




* Plot :

After 10 year-old Karen (Brooke Shields) is killed in church on the occasion of her first communion in 1960s New Jersey, Alice, her seemingly innocent 12-year-old sister, becomes the prime suspect.


Matters are complicated when more of Alice's family members turn up dead along with residents of her apartment building. Is a twelve year-old girl capable of such mayhem, or is she too obvious a suspect?