This film was considered a testing ground for young O.N.C.I.C. directors. Today there is no longer a copy and the negative was accidentally destroyed. The Algerian Cinematheque has a copy of the very beautiful part shot by Abderrahmane Bouguermouh "La Give": A young schoolgirl from Kabylia is tasked by the resistance fighters with transmitting a message which is hidden in a thrush...
Civil War drama directed by Whitney Hamilton. Grace Kieler disguises herself as a man and takes her brother's place in the Confederate army in an effort to protect him from the horrors of the war. When she meets young war widow Virginia Klaising (Dana Bennison), the two form a bond that may get complicated once Grace reveals her true identity. My Brother's War is based on Hamilton's novel
Montage film by Aymeric Caron, broadcast at the French National Assembly on May 29, 2024. “Is it a dream or a reality? » demands a little girl stunned by her injuries. It is a nightmare, without a doubt, and nothing can justify it, neither the crimes of October 7 nor the detention of Israeli hostages by Hamas. Condemning all the crimes of October 7, before and after, condemning anti-Semitism and all forms of racism is common sense. However, it seems that this needs to be clarified. Everyone present normally wishes that the surviving hostages can one day be reunited with their families and that the massacre in Gaza stops immediately. But to follow through with the process is to see things face to face, to see what has been happening in Gaza since October 7, what the Israeli army is doing, what the television channels are not showing.
About a brigade of young female turners who win the respect of the factory team by their labor.
Olga, who was taken to the West by Hitler's invaders, works as a switchman at a railway station. Echelons with prisoners of war - convicts - pass by her every day. Olga gets acquainted with the machinist Fyodor and with his help organizes the escape of her camp mates. But the plan fails, and the escapees are shot. Fyodor, who miraculously survived, gets to the homeland. And after the war, chance again brings him together with Olga, when the hero with severe burns after an accident falls into the hospital...
The Somme (also: The Tomb of the Millions) is the title of a silent documentary drama that Heinz Paul realized in 1930 for the Cando-Film Berlin based on his own script. Paul supplemented scenes with German actors with documentary footage from archive material of German, French and English origin. - Twelve years after the end of the First World War, Heinz Paul records the battle of the Somme in 1916 with original recordings, with over one million dead, the most lossy battle of the war. The archive images are supplemented by game scenes of a German mother who loses her three sons and by trailing front scenes. The Battle of the Somme, in which Allied troops bombarded the German front line, resulted in a months-long war of position. In documentary style, the film shows scenes of the most devastating battle of the First World War. It is narrated from the perspective of a mother who loses her three sons in battle.
A stop-motion animated account of the 1942 Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
About the Soviet border guards who declassified Operation Cobra, organized by foreign intelligence for the purpose of daily photographing a military facility. Participants of the "Cobra": a trained dog and an old watchman of the local hospital, Yusup. He is also the snake charmer Harun Baba, and the German spy Otto Grieg, already known from old sorties.
Flashbacks encompass the history of the Philippines as well as the life story of the elderly Daniel Aguila. The Aguila family gathers to celebrate Daniel's 88th birthday, but the old man is nowhere to be seen--he has been missing for a decade. Suspecting that his father is in Mindanao, one of his sons takes off for that region in a determined search. Along the way, his memories of the nation and his father's life tell the story of 80 tumultuous years of personal and historical development.
A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuality during World War II. The documentary includes interviews with several homosexual WWII veterans.
A German Shepherd Dog and the people he loves are entangled in World War One.
Athens, shortly before the outbreak of World War II and an Army General Staff official, Niki (Jenny Carezis), is charged with channeling confidential documents to an Italian agent. The category is right. The girl was blackmailing herself with the life of her brother studying in Italy. She does not make any effort to defend herself and is indifferent if she is sentenced to death, but she accepts the cooperative proposal proposed by General Darius, that is to continue to channel secret documents to the Italians, but now they are deliberately made to deceive the enemy . The whole case is also involved with a captain, Theodorou, who is in love with Niki. Theodorou is arrested for misappropriation of documents and goes through a military court where he is sentenced to demolition and death. Certainly, his execution was fictitious, and on the day Greek troops enter Korça, he is shown alive to Niki, which does not hide her surprise.
Benjamin is a young poet from Turkey, works in Bosnia as a volunteer to help the extrication of dead bodies from the mass graves. He comes to Bosnia in order to escape from his past. A childish game of Benjamin causes Joseph's lover-Zeliha's dead. The psychological pressure of his job revives his past in his dreams. Zrinka is Serbian-Bosnian psychologist who is helping to the people in post war syndromes.Benjamin meets her committing suicide on Mostar Bridge.By the time they fall in love. She releases Benjamin from his qualms of conscience. Benjamin goes back to Turkey to face with his brother and past. Zrinka saw a dream something bad happened to Benjamin. She goes to Turkey but she finds secrets and new description of love.
This is the story of a poet who lived at the time of the French Revolution. The poet's name was Andrea Chénier. He lived and died amongst love and bloodshed. The numerous words of truth spun by this revolutionary poet became poems for eternity. Even today, they continue to shine light on the hopes that rest in people's hearts. The tidal wave of the times, when everyone believes that the ideal kind of society has arrived, will in time move in the wrong direction. Ironically, Andrea and Maddalena will be joined together by a thing called love. Idealism, which has been pushed to the forefront of reality, is toying with Gérard's life. Before long, a raging torrent that provides an omen of the tragedy to come will overwhelm all three of them.
During World War II, one small band of brave soldiers is on a covert mission deep behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France. Their mission is to take out a secret Axis radar installation and pave the way for an all-out Allied air strike. Against harrowing odds, the resilient heroes will stop at nothing to complete their mission. This independent war drama from Kenneth W. Richardson stars James E. McLarty, Jim Westbrook and Robert Stolper.
Eyewitness explores the lives of three artists forced to work in secret while living in Nazi death camps: Jan Komski, Dinah Gottliebova, and Felix Nussbaum, and who all witnessed and painted the horrors of the Holocaust.
During World War II, Helmut Dantine specialized in playing villainous Nazis in Hollywood melodramas. He offers a compelling performance in a variation of these earlier roles in this suspense filled and politically loaded tale of intrigue. The story opens in German-occupied Athens during the darkest hours of the war. Civilians are not allowed on the streets after dark.
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