History
Kojiki Taishô
HistoryDrama
Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa and leaves the clan. Seven years later, he joins Toyotomi Hideyori's army. Filmed in 1945 and released in 1952.
Chess!
AnimationHistory
An attempt to a reconstruct of a chess game between Alexander Bogdanov and Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin. Capri Italy. Tuesday April 28. 1908. The Villa of Russian Author Gorki.
Hürriyet Şarkısı
HistoryWar
The film tells the story of a soldier's struggle for freedom against the sultan. Hasan graduates first in his class from the Military Academy. When he returns home, he learns that his father will be executed for being a supporter of freedom. He takes revenge on the governor who ordered the execution. However, he is wounded while fleeing from the soldiers. Gypsies passing by hide Hasan and help him. Hasan and his friends will attempt to unite the scattered forces in the mountains and establish a regular army for the cause of freedom.
Dokuz Dağın Efesi: Çakıcı Geliyor
HistoryCrime
The film traces the life of Çakırcalı Mehmet Efe, a Zeybek (active as an outlaw in the region enclosing İzmir, Aydın, Denizli, Muğla and Antalya in modern western Turkey, from 1893 to 1910) whose father, Çakırcalı Koca Ahmet Efe was murdered by an Ottoman sergeant.
In the Area of Avalanches
HistoryDrama
A demobilized Red Army soldier from Gogoturi encourages his fellow villagers to join the neighboring agricultural commune. Village representatives claim the superiority of collective farming, but are opposed by rich local peasants. They decide to exterminate their fellow villagers who preach the new cause, but in the mountain where the kulaks gather to plan their evil plans, an avalanche descends and sweeps them into the abyss.
Women According to Men
DocumentaryHistory
Before the Islamic Revolution in Iran, women's lives were strongly determined by two contradictory factors: the traditional patriarchy and the shah's modernisation policies. This film-excerpt collage starts in 1932 – the year the first Iranian film with sound was made – and ends in 1979 revealing how, during this period, women were depicted by generally male film directors.
Max
HistoryDrama
During World War II, in a sealed room, a brutal psychological duel unfolds between Jean Moulin, the leader of the French Resistance, and Klaus Barbie, the Chief of the Gestapo.
