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Eastern Europe
 A kind of road movie across Europa. From the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland. Always following the scenery's magically charged contours. Immersing yourself, letting yourself be infected, then travelling on. |
 A fascinating world of culture and humanity at the heart of which the literary text is essential. 5 “elephants” = 5 great books by Dostoyevsky. | ||
 At the grand old age of 70, Adrien is about to have a life-transforming experience. Until now, he has never moved from his “patch” on the Cotter mountain, where he lives with his cows. |
 In the center of the film are the two elderly jews Mr. Zwilling and Ms. Zuckermann, the last jews who were born in the old Czernowitz. | ||
 Two physically identical 20-year-olds young women are born at the same time in Poland and France – each with musical talent, each raised by her father, each somewhat confused concerning a lover, each troubled by a heart condition | |||
 From 1941 onwards 250 Swiss medical doctors and nurses on a humaniatrian mission of the Swiss Red Cross on the Eastern Front are integrated for several months into the Wehrmacht against their will. | |||
 What goes down in history? What will be remembered; what shapes the contours of an epoch? The 20th century: Pictures, dredged up from the remains of history. Historical events re-staged for the future. | |||
 During the Russian revolution of 1905 the sailors of a russian warship start a mutiny and sympathise with the uprising people of Odessa. |
 The worker Filip Mosz starts an amateur film club. His documentary films win prizes, but they upset also the citizens and the public. He has to take his responsibility. | ||
 In 1980, Wajda makes a film on the creation of the polnish union SOLIDARNOSC who defied Moskow. | |||
 During the occupation of Varsavia, a theatre group helps the resistants to get rid of a spy by playing gestapo officers. Then however the real nazis enter into the scene. |
 During the occupation of Varsavia, a theatre group helps the resistants to get rid of a spy by playing gestapo officers. Then however the real nazis enter into the scene. | ||
 Two films showing Kiewsloswkis political commitment. A director of a chemical factory tries to take car of the environment, but he is confronted with the local politicicans who want to keep the jobs. | |||
 When Lionel learns by chance that his family originates from Poland, a chain of events is set off that will change his and his sister Lucie’s lives forever. |
 For years Zainap Gashaeva has been documenting what is a daily occurrence in her home country of Chechnya: abduction, torture and murder. Filmmaker Bergkraut follows Gashaeva, nicknamed Coca – the dove – as she fights for an international tribunal. | ||
 Le live of a jewish European in the 20th century. Born in Eastern Europe, refugee twice in the second world war and from the polish regime, he finishes working as atomic engineer in Switzerland. |
 A russian poet is searching the traces of a compositor who lived in Italy in the 18th century. Helped by a translator, he travels throug italy, finds an old church and an eremite. | ||
 Dostojewski wanted to choose a good man, who chose an idiot. Kurosawa wanted to show how one must fail in a society where there is no justice. | |||
 Selected by the Central Comittee of the Party, Eisenstein remembers the last months of the russian revolution, inspired by the book of John Reed. |
 A postman in a suburban town falls in love with a an attractive artist. He supervises her with a telescope and reads her mail. | ||
 The western european films of Kieslowski: A box with LA DOUBLE VIE DE VERONIQUE and the trilogy TROIS COULEURS BLEU BLANC ROUGE (THREE COLORS). Coproduction | |||
 A taxi driver is washing his car. A young man is lost in town. A law student makes his last exam. When the young man takes the taxi, the three destinies cross each other. | |||
 Koepp’s first autobiographical film BERLIN-STETTIN begins in Berlin-Karlshorst, where he witnessed the arrival of Russian tanks in 1953, an event he discusses off-screen with an old class-mate. | |||
 Planned as the filmic documentation of a journey to find the last nomadic shamans in East Siberia, the film instead captures the failed search for these people, whose culture is characterised by living in harmony with nature. |
 Three documentaries on the work and live of the three artists living in Bali, Russia and Switzerland | ||
 The settlement of Pripyat is five kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Its population numbered 50,000 until 1986. Today, Pripyat is a heavily guarded and highly contaminated ghost town in the center of the radioactive zone. | |||
 A declaration of love to the city of Odessa and its equally extraordinary inhabitants composed by a trilogy of poetic silent movies. |
 Ania Temler is researching the past of his father, a polnish immigrant. | ||
 Irene Jacob as Valentine, a successful young student and model who accidentally hits a dog one night. She sees on the dog’s collar where she lives and takes the dog to its owner who shoos her away. |
 A man gets old and redecovers life. The old school professor is recycling himself in a bottle recovery station and dreams about young women. The most successful czech film of all times. | ||
 Yvonne Bovard, a violinist from Geneva, emigrated to the USSR in 1936. Working in radio, where she was in charge of children’s programmes, she was arrested in 1940 and sent to Siberia, a victim of Stalinism. |
 The assassination of Ignace Reiss illustrates the brutal changes of the soviet union society in the first twenty years and the upcoming of the Staline regime. | ||
 At the age of fourteen I find at the bottom of a closet photographs of a man who resembles my father. Ludwig was my grandfather who disappeared at the end of the second world war. In my family we don’t talk about Ludwig. | |||
 Concert of one of the most important choral ensembles in Ukraina. |
 Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. |
