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Easter (Old English: Ēostre) or Pascha (Greek: Πάσχα, Paskha; Aramaic: פַּסחא Pasḥa; from Hebrew: פֶּסַח Pesaḥ) is a Christian festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament. Easter is preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. The last week of Lent is called Holy Week, and it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating Maundy and the Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Easter is followed by a fifty-day period called Eastertide or the Easter Season, ending with Pentecost Sunday. The festival is referred to in English by a variety of different names including Easter Day, Easter Sunday,Resurrection Day and Resurrection Sunday.
Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox. Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years), and the "Full Moon" is not necessarily the astronomically correct date. The date of Easter therefore varies between 22 March and 25 April. Eastern Christianity bases its calculations on the Julian calendar whose 21 March corresponds, during the 21st century, to 3 April in the Gregorian calendar, in which the celebration of Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May.
Actors: Shaun Micallef (actor), Ben Plazzer (writer), Ben Plazzer (director), Patrick Brammall (actor), Robert Murphy (editor), Ann Murison (writer), Nicole da Silva (actress), Kate Jenkinson (actress), Andy McDougall (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Meto Jovanovski (actor), Andrija Zafranovic (editor), Dejan Acimovic (actor), Ivo Ban (actor), Milena Zupancic (actress), Petar Mircevski (actor), Janez Hocevar (actor), Lucija Serbedzija (actress), Irena Felicijan (costume designer), Dusan Jovanovic (writer), Bozo Sprajc (director), Bozo Sprajc (writer), Polona Juh (actress), Erika Sajgál (actress), Judita Zidar (actress),
Plot: This is a film about ordinary civilians, who on June 26, 1991, the day when war broke out in former Yugoslavia, find themselves in Slovenia. The main character of the story is an 11-year-old boy, Felix, who is trapped together with his classmates and teacher Jasna in an unmoving column of vehicles on a high mountain road, because of army barricades. The heroes of the story are involuntarily caught between the two enemy military groups. On this day in June, many others find themselves on this road together with the pupils on their school bus - people from various European countries who are traveling south: Frenchmen, Italians, Hungarians, Germans, and, of course, Slovenians; a blend of different professions, nationalities and religions. All of them are individuals who, on a warm summer day, suddenly find themselves in the midst of war.
Keywords: 1990s, former-yugoslavia, italian, school-busActors: Bob Minor (actor), Peter Maloney (actor), Ossie Davis (actor), Tim Guinee (actor), Richard Jenkins (actor), Dennis Haysbert (actor), James McDaniel (actor), David Dwyer (actor), Leo Burmester (actor), George Grizzard (actor), Victor Garber (actor), Danny Glover (actor), Ed Grady (actor), Tim Daly (actor), Danny Nelson (actor),
Plot: A plantation owner's son falls in love with a slave named Easter and together they have a Mixed race daughter named Queen. As Queen grows up, she faces the struggle of trying to fit into the troubled world around her. She tries passing for white, but it leads to sorrow in post-Civil War America. Everywhere she goes, she faces obstacles and hardships while searching for happiness and a place to belong.
Keywords: 1800s, 19th-century, african-american, antebellum, baby, baby-girl, based-on-novel, biracial, biracial-child, bonnetActors: Willie Nelson (composer), Gösta Stevens (writer), Amy Irving (actress), Gustaf Molander (writer), Emmylou Harris (actress), Sydney Pollack (producer), Dyan Cannon (actress), Willie Nelson (actor), Diana Scarwid (actress), Priscilla Pointer (actress), Pepe Serna (actor), Lane Smith (actor), Slim Pickens (actor), Howard R. Schuster (miscellaneous crew), Evan A. Lottman (editor),
Genres: Drama, Music, Romance,Actors: Michael Medwin (actor), Noel Purcell (actor), Maurice Denham (actor), Geoffrey Keen (actor), Frederick Piper (actor), Dirk Bogarde (actor), Martin Benson (actor), Paul Carpenter (actor), Cyril Chamberlain (actor), Fred Griffiths (actor), George Coulouris (actor), Raymond Huntley (actor), James Robertson Justice (actor), Harold Kasket (actor), Stuart Saunders (actor),
Plot: With a view to escaping both boredom as a junior G.P. and unwanted womanly advances, young doctor Simon Sparrow becomes a medical officer on "the Lotus", an all-male cargo ship. As soon as he sets foot on board, Simon encounters various eccentric characters (including quick-tempered, authoritarian, whisky- addicted captain Hogg)and gets involved in many an embarrassing situation (including seasickness). In Rio he gets to know Hélène Colbert , a sexy young French singer and falls under her spell. When woman hater Hogg is forced to take on two female characters, Muriel Mallet, the daughter of the shipping company and her friend ... Hélène on his freighter, Simon is delighted!
Keywords: based-on-novel, doctor, nurse, sequelActors: Buddy Roosevelt (actor), Beulah Bondi (actress), George Humbert (actor), John Qualen (actor), Wilbur Higby (actor), Louis Natheaux (actor), William Collier Jr. (actor), Walter James (actor), Allen Fox (actor), Richard Powell (actor), Eric Mayne (actor), Matt McHugh (actor), Walter Miller (actor), Russell Hopton (actor), Nora Cecil (actress),
Plot: In a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors of her residential building about the affair of Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey. When the rude Mr. Frank Maurrant arrives, they change the subject. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant is sexually harassed by her boss Mr. Bert Easter; however, she likes her Jewish neighbor Sam that has a crush on her. On the next morning, Frank tells that is traveling to Stanford on business. Mrs. Maurrant meets the gentle Sankey in her apartment, but out of the blue Frank comes back home in an announced tragedy.
Keywords: 1920s, adultery, african-american, ambulance, anti-semitism, asian-american, based-on-play, birth, boss-secretary-relationship, childbirthActors: Archie Mayo (director), Vince Barnett (actor), Frank Beal (actor), Robert Dudley (actor), Vera Lewis (actress), Patsy Ruth Miller (actress), Edna Murphy (actress), T. Roy Barnes (actor), Edward Everett Horton (actor), Lloyd Ingraham (actor), Fred Kelsey (actor), E.J. Ratcliffe (actor), Louise Beavers (actress), Louise Fazenda (actress), Louise Lester (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Louise Carver (actress), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Gus Leonard (actor), Jack 'Tiny' Lipson (actor), Lee Phelps (actor), Al St. John (actor), E.B. Derr (producer), Monte Carter (director), Bynunsky Hyman (actor), Billy Taft (actor), Ernest F. Young (actor), Helen Patterson (actress), Ella Van (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: William Beaudine (director), Julien Josephson (writer), David Butler (actor), Matt Moore (actor), George C. Pearce (actor), Russell Simpson (actor), Dorothy Devore (actress), Tempe Pigott (actress), Gertrude Short (actress), Madame Sul-Te-Wan (actress), Kate Toncray (actress), Joe Butterworth (actor), Edwin Bateman Morris (writer),
Genres: Comedy,