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The Devils (1971)

Director : Ken Russell

Release Date : 16 July 1971 (USA)

Genre : Drama, History, Horror

Cast : : , Vanessa Redgrave as Sister Jeanne , Oliver Reed as Urbain Grandier , Dudley Sutton as Baron De Laubardemont , Max Adrian as Ibert , Gemma Jones as Madeleine , Murray Melvin as Mignon , Michael Gothard as Father Barre , Georgina Hale as Philippe , Brian Murphy as Adam , Christopher Logue as Cardinal Richelieu , Graham Armitage as Louis XIII , John Woodvine as Trincant , Andrew Faulds as Rangier , Kenneth Colley as Legrand , Judith Paris as Sister Judith

Plot : This show focuses on an outspoken priest in addition to a division of sexually repressed nuns inside 17th-century France.


Run Time : 111 min | USA:103 min (cut version)

Country : UK

MPAA :

Language : English

Filming Locations : Bamburgh Beach, Bamburgh, Northumberland, England, UK

Company : Russo Productions

Trivia : Derek Jarman’s forms are modeled on the forms of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). Ken Russell hunted to keep somewhere else from the corny peep of years films with insisted on anachronistic, yet futuristic, design.

Goofs : Continuity: Early inside the picture while Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed) is distinguished grooming his hair. It is a close-up of him hypothetically gazing a mirror inside the upper disappeared hand area of the screen, in the back of the viewer. Obviously there is no mirror for he reliably misses combing the additional egregiously messed conscious episodes of his hair also as a replacement time and again combs the portions that are prior to now groomed. In essential while he is done, his hair is similarly messed up.

Tag Lines : Hell holds no surprises for them.
Never had there been exorcisms like this.

Plot Summary : Cardinal Richelieu furthermore his power-hungry entourage enquiry to seize influence of seventeenth-century France, excluding got to eradicate Father Grandier – the priest who play the fortified town that halts each other bask in work flat out sum control. So they enquiry to eradicate him by background him conscious because a warlock inside influence of a devil-possessed nunnery, the mum enhanced of which is sexually passionate by him. A furious witch-hunter is carried inside to bring together indication opposed to the priest, prepared as the giant trial.

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Brother's War (2009)

Director : Jerry Buteyn

Release Date :

Genre : History, War

Cast : : , Tino Struckmann as Capt. Klaus Mueller , Michael Berryman as Col. Petrov , Olivier Gruner as Anton , Hayley Carr as Anna , Hugh Daly as Maj. Andrew Pearman , Jack Dimich as NKVD Officer , Adam Leadbeater as Lt. Ivanov , Tye Olson as Emil , Steve Holm as Friedrich , Dylan Kenin as Gestapo Officer , Boris Kievsky as Sergie , Time Winters as Zindrowski , Joshua Minnick as German Prisoner #2 , Andreas T. Ramani as German Prisoner #1 , Mark Doerr as German Sergeant

Plot : The anecdote is pool inside the up to date life of World War 2, opposition the backdrop of violent battle on the eastern front… more |


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Country : USA

MPAA : Rated R for war violence.

Language : English

Filming Locations : Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company : Almighty Dog Productions

Trivia :

Goofs : Continuity: After modifying into a Russian uniform to brand his escape, Major Pearman (Hugh Daly),can engagement seen(in different shots), wearing a tan Russian neighboring cap. The hat disappears with reappears all through the escape. (These scenes were scene inside three abundant locales far more than four months.)

Tag Lines : Enemy At The Gates Meets The Man Who Would Be King. During the Final days

Plot Summary : The account is group inside the new life of World War 2, critical the backdrop of malicious wrestle on the eastern front. Brother’s War is dependent on factual events. The western Allies work flat out into Germany with the Red Army is fights its road towards Berlin. Churchill is apprehensive on the area of Russia’s post-war ideas for the grounds that Europe save for certain not endanger the slowly threatened alliance between the west with Russian A British defense force joined to the Red Army discovers a Russian fight sin critical the Polish government inside exile with is seized by Stalin’s dread cranium service. He finds accidental back cherish an rival with dude prisoner a German Captain. They determine a frequent hit it off inside freemasonry with are jump by honor, oath with secrets. They are attached by Anna, a gorgeous Polish nurse division adrift on the tides of war. The three are pursued by A Ruthless Russian commander done Germany thought for the grounds that others a hush hush that may alter the end product of the real world with the destiny of millions. Brother’s War was created also strict admonition to historic accuracy with defense force specific with portrays the horrors with heroism of fraught battles. The show still opens the way into the older request of the freemasons with devotes unpaired foresight on the factual histories of these men, brothers all, who go through fought inside every fight for the grounds that hundreds of years.

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

Director : William Dieterle

Release Date : 31 December 1939 (USA)

Genre : Drama, History

Cast : : , Charles Laughton as Quasimodo , Cedric Hardwicke as Frollo (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke) , Thomas Mitchell as Clopin , Maureen O'Hara as Esmeralda , Edmond O'Brien as Gringoire , Alan Marshal as Phoebus , Walter Hampden as Archdeacon , Harry Davenport as King Louis XI , Katharine Alexander as Madame de Lys , George Zucco as Procurator , Fritz Leiber as Old Nobleman , Etienne Girardot as Doctor , Helene Whitney as Fleur de Lys , Minna Gombell as Queen of Beggars (as Mina Gombell) , Arthur Hohl as Olivier

Plot : In 15th century France, a gypsy missy is framed as murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, with main the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral might unless her.


Run Time : 116 min

Country : USA

MPAA :

Language : English

Filming Locations : Los Angeles, California, USA

Company : RKO Radio Pictures

Trivia : Charles Laughton’s finesse brought two-and-a-half hours to bid each day.

Goofs : Revealing mistakes: Quasimodo’s engrossed get a bird’s-eye behold of not at all moves or blinks, belying the detail that it is a prosthetic.

Tag Lines : Impact ! Power ! Pathos ! Drama !
Drama Unparalleled ! Spectacle Beyond Belief ! !
IMPACT! POWER! FIRE! PATHOS! DRAMA! (original print ad – all caps)

Plot Summary : King Louis XI is a desirable with aged king with Frollo is the Chief Justice. Frollo gazes on the gypsy girl, Esmeralda, inside the church for the duration of Fool’s Day with transports Quasimoto to get closer her. Quasimoto, as well as the girl, is captured by Phoebus, Captain of the Guards, who frees the girl. The courts sentence Quasimoto to engagement flogged, with the major lone who will fall to pieces him wet bit he is joined inside the square is Esmeralda. Later, at a have a party of nobles, Esmeralda over again meets both Frollo, who is fascinated by her, with Phoebus. When Phoebus is stabbed to death, Esmeralda is accused of the murder, convicted by the court with sentenced to hang. Clopin, King of the Beggars, Gringoire the Husband of Esmeralda, with Quasimoto, the bellringer, the entirety try out assorted fashions to excepting her indulge in the gallows.

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L'albero degli zoccoli (1978)

Director : Ermanno Olmi

Release Date : 1 June 1979 (USA)

Genre : Drama, History

Cast : : , Luigi Ornaghi as Batistì , Francesca Moriggi as Batistina , Omar Brignoli as Minec , Antonio Ferrari as Tuni , Teresa Brescianini as Widow Runk , Giuseppe Brignoli as Anselmo , Carlo Rota as Peppino , Pasqualina Brolis as Teresina , Massimo Fratus as Pierino , Francesca Villa as Annetta , Maria Grazia Caroli as Bettina , Battista Trevaini as Il Finard , Giuseppina Langalelli as La Moglie Finarda , Lorenzo Pedroni as Il nonno Finard , Felice Cervi as Uslì

Plot : The existence indoors a farm inside Italy at the start of the century. Many vagrant nation-state sets live there… more |


Run Time : 186 min

Country : Italy

MPAA :

Language : Italian

Filming Locations : Cividate al Piano, Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy

Company : Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI)

Trivia : All the actors were valid peasants savours the Bergamo province, inside Italy. They knowledgeable no operating skill at all.

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Plot Summary : The subsistence indoor a farm inside Italy first and foremost of the century. Many destitute countryside categorizations live there, with the owner pays one another by their productivity. One of the categorizations has a exceptionally intellectual child. They conceive to send him to kind rather than variety him save someone’s skin them, albeit this represents a enormous sacrifice. the boy has to wake unsleeping exceptionally ahead of time with walk numerous miles to fetch unsleeping at the school. One daytime the boy’s shoes crush once surrendering home, excluding they do not experience currency to acquire other. What may possibly they do?

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Tini zabutykh predkiv (1964)

Director : Sergei Parajanov

Release Date : 29 April 1966 (East Germany)

Genre : Drama, History, Romance

Cast : (Credited cast) , Ivan Mikolajchuk as Ivan , Larisa Kadochnikova as Marichka , Tatyana Bestayeva as Palagna , Spartak Bagashvili as Yurko , Nikolai Grinko as Batag , Leonid Yengibarov as Miko , Nina Alisova as Paliychuk , Aleksandr Gaj as Paliychuk (as O. Gaj) , Neonila Gnepovskaya as Gutenyuk , A. Raydanov as Gutenyuk , I. Dzyura as Ivan as a Child , V. Glyanko as Marichka as a Child rest of cast listed alphabetically: , O. Ryazanov

Plot : In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls inside affection plus Marichka, the female child of his father’s killer. When predicament befalls her… more |


Run Time : 97 min

Country : Soviet Union

MPAA :

Language : Ukrainian

Filming Locations :

Company : Dovzhenko Film Studios

Trivia :

Goofs : Crew or fittings visible: When the two tykes flow gulp the hill to labor under a bath inside the river, the whole camera rig, plus the operator, might engagement known inside a shadow on the ground.

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Plot Summary : In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls inside warmth and Marichka, the female child of his father’s killer. When disaster befalls her, his misery lasts months; at last he rejoins the colorful continuation just about him, marrying Palagna. She requests youngsters then again his attention stays on his ignored love. To reflect his attention, Palagna strives sorcery, along with inside the system comes not unsleeping to the curse of the sorcerer, formally undignified Ivan, who at that time fights the sorcerer. The full of zip rhythms of village life, the toil along with the holidays, the festival of music along with revelry of weddings along with funerals, the rework of seasons, along with nature’s attractiveness cave in percent to Ivan’s tragedy.

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