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A watchmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs watches. Since a majority of watches are now factory made, most modern watchmakers solely repair watches. However, originally they were master craftsmen who built watches, including all their parts, by hand. Modern watchmakers, when required to repair older watches, for which replacement parts may not be available, must have fabrication skills, and can typically manufacture replacements for many of the parts found in a watch.
Most practicing professional watchmakers service current or recent production watches. They seldom fabricate replacement parts. Instead they obtain and fit genuine factory spare parts applicable to the watch brand being serviced. The majority of modern watchmakers in the world, particularly in Switzerland and Europe, work directly for the Watchmaking Industry, and may have completed a formal watchmaking degree at a technical school. They also receive caliber-specific, in-house 'brand' training at the factory or service center where they are employed. However, some factory service centers have an approach that allows them to utilize 'non-watchmakers' (called "opérateurs") who perform only one aspect of the repair process. These highly-skilled workers do not have a watchmaking degree or certificate, but are specifically trained 'in-house' as technicians to service only one or more components of the watch in a true 'assembly-line' fashion, (e.g., one type of worker will dismantle the watch movement from the case, another will polish the case and bracelet, another will install the dial and hands, etc.). If genuine watchmakers are employed in such environments, their skill is usually relegated to only servicing the watch movement.
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982 he introduced an influential concept into evolutionary biology, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
Dawkins is an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—"a fixed false belief." As of January 2010 the English-language version has sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages.
Actors: Vlasta Velisavljevic (actor), Shigeru Umebayashi (composer), Gordan Mihic (writer), Hendrik Arnst (actor), Veit Helmer (director), Veit Helmer (writer), Veit Helmer (producer), Helder Freire Costa (actor), Blagoja Spirkovski-Dzumerko (actor), Vincent Assmann (editor), Max Mauff (actor), László Németh (actor), Gisela Fritsch (actress), Monica Calle (actress), Radomil Uhlir (actor),
Plot: An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple's first night of love.
Keywords: abstinence, absurd-humor, absurdism, astrology, azerbaijan, bus, caucasus, cave, childhood-sweetheart, coming-of-ageActors: Rodolfo Durán (producer), Alberto Benegas (actor), Miguel Ángel (actor), Ramiro López (actor), Daniel Núñez (actor), Alejandro Arroz (editor), Alejandro Arroz (director), Alejandro Arroz (producer), Alejandro Arroz (writer), Marcelo Flores (actor), Cecilia Agüero (actress), Guido Núñez (actor), Rodolfo Cejas (actor), Mary Gerbino (actress), Verónica Ardanaz (producer),
Plot: The film narrates three stories, which take place in the poor periphery of Salta, Argentina. Aside from a similar social situation, the different protagonists share the same view of life beyond any experience of success or progress. Every protagonist is going to experience a personal development to an at first sight invisible, positive change. As well, the necessity of living according to one's own personal values is playing a big role. One of the episodes, for instance, deals with a very poor family, who is winning a brand-new car at a competition. However, the pleasure about it is not lasting very long, as the question comes up on how to keep up the vehicle.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Karen Strassman (actress), Wendee Lee (actress), William Knight (actor), Stephanie Sheh (actress), Michael McConnohie (actor), Kô Ohtani (composer), Taliesin Jaffe (actor), Carrie Savage (actress), Hideki Goto (producer), Erika Lenhart (actress), Hunter Mackenzie Austin (actress), Sharon McWilliams (actress), Jessica D. Stone (actress), Tricia Dickson (actress), Akihiro Kawamura (producer),
Genres: Animation, Drama, Fantasy,Actors: Nicholas Hope (actor), Leif Andrée (actor), Francisco Rabal (actor), El Gran Wyoming (actor), Pilar Bardem (actress), Ingrid Rubio (actress), Finn Gjerdrum (producer), Sonia Grande (costume designer), Marianne Slot (producer), Bent Hamer (director), Bent Hamer (writer), Luis Cuenca (actor), Alfonso Vallejo (actor), Josep Lluís Fonoll (actor), Skafti Gudmundsson (editor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Nicholas Hope (actor), Leif Andrée (actor), Francisco Rabal (actor), El Gran Wyoming (actor), Pilar Bardem (actress), Ingrid Rubio (actress), Finn Gjerdrum (producer), Sonia Grande (costume designer), Marianne Slot (producer), Bent Hamer (director), Bent Hamer (writer), Luis Cuenca (actor), Alfonso Vallejo (actor), Josep Lluís Fonoll (actor), Skafti Gudmundsson (editor),
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Plot: The film switches back and forth between the adventures of Pu on a summer holiday in Norrland in Sweden and and the adult Pu visiting his father who lives in an old people's home. Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland in the 1920s with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns to shoot with a bow and follow his father on a bicycle trip.
Keywords: breast-feeding, child-nudity, childhood, defecation, family-relationships, father-son-relationship, killing-an-animal, masturbation, minister, preacherActors: Johan Söderqvist (composer), Marianne Johnson (miscellaneous crew), Allan Svensson (actor), Stina Ekblad (actress), Waldemar Bergendahl (producer), Suzanne Reuter (actress), Mimi Pollak (actress), Meta Velander (actress), Bojan Westin (actress), Måns Westfelt (actor), Percy Brandt (actor), Liselotte Sjöman (miscellaneous crew), Vanna Rosenberg (actress), Pia Karlsson (miscellaneous crew), Björn Andrésen (actor),
Plot: Nora lives with Anders and Karin and their son Dag. As they move into an old apartment, unexplainable things start happening. Who is the woman making the mysterious phonecalls? Why doesn't their dog want to set foot in the round room? Why does Nora keep hearing steps coming from the round room making her feel like someone is watching her? Nora's search to find out about the people that used to live in her apartment, develops when she receives a package the content of which she alone is allowed to see. And the name Agnes Cecilia becomes a key in solving the mystery.
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Plot: The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. He has no consciousness of any kind but is always on the verge of turning into a more coherent human being, only to be slapped down. It begins with the hero's childhood. Then comes the first love marred by his unwilling involvement in fascict politics, him being taken for a Jew because of his nose. Later he decides to join the army to charm the girl, but arrives too late for any fighting. He is arrested by entering German troops while he dresses in officer's uniform and mistakenly sent to POW camp as an officer.
Keywords: based-on-novel, communism, post-warActors: George Davis (actor), Glen Cavender (actor), Melville Cooper (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Rudolph Anders (actor), Maurice Cass (actor), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), John Bleifer (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Eugene Borden (actor), Egon Brecher (actor), George Bruggeman (actor), Lee Bennett (actor), Jean De Briac (actor),
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Genres: Adventure, Drama, War,