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Maharal - tajemstvi talismanu (2007)

Actors: Libuse Havelková (actress), Radovan Lukavský (actor), Miroslav Táborský (actor), Josef Somr (actor), Borivoj Navrátil (actor), Petr Hapka (composer), Milena Dvorská (actress), Karel Dobrý (actor), Zdenek Dusek (actor), Vladimír Kratina (actor), Matej Hádek (actor), Martin Bezouska (writer), Martin Bezouska (writer), Maros Kramár (actor), Lubos Veselý (actor),

Genres: Adventure,

Club der Träume - Mexiko, Yucatan (2003)

Actors: Leonard Lansink (actor), Hermann Lause (actor), Francis Fulton-Smith (actor), Katja Weitzenböck (actress), Berno Kürten (director), Berno Kürten (writer), Melvin Lipke (actor),

Genres: Family,

Club der Träume - Türkei, Marmaris (2003)

Actors: Francis Fulton-Smith (actor), Leonard Lansink (actor), Hermann Lause (actor), Christine Kaufmann (actress), Katja Weitzenböck (actress), Tayfun Bademsoy (actor), Barbara Philipp (actress), Idil Üner (actress), Marita Marschall (actress), Thorsten Nindel (actor), Thomas Balou Martin (actor), Berno Kürten (writer), Berno Kürten (director), Felicitas Woll (actress), Erhan Emre (actor),

Genres: Family,

Aria dla atlety (1979)

Actors: Janina Niedzwiecka (editor), Ryszard Pietruski (actor), Filip Bajon (director), Zdzislaw Wardejn (actor), Filip Bajon (writer), Wojciech Pszoniak (actor), Bogusz Bilewski (actor), Wirgiliusz Gryn (actor), Bogdan Baer (actor), Boguslaw Sochnacki (actor), Ludwik Benoit (actor), Emil Karewicz (actor), Krzysztof Litwin (actor), Roman Wilhelmi (actor), Jack Recknitz (actor),

Plot: Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. The wrestler goes on to fame, performing in the world's top arenas, and one day is serenaded by a tenor from the crowd. Fame brings him women and admirers but he is uncompromising on his profession. He has his revenge on one of his tormentors defeating him in the ring. One day, attending a game in a tuxedo, he is challenged by another of the brothers and drawn into a brutal game, in course of which he kills his opponent. Thus his career ends.

Keywords: 1890s, athlete, career, champion, cheating-on-husband, circus, circus-owner, circus-ring, emigration, fake-fight
Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport,

Fail-Safe (1964)

Actors: Edward Binns (actor), Dan O'Herlihy (actor), Fritz Weaver (actor), Anna Hill Johnstone (costume designer), Dana Elcar (actor), Henry Fonda (actor), Sidney Lumet (director), Larry Hagman (actor), Dom DeLuise (actor), Hildy Parks (actress), Walter Matthau (actor), Ralph Rosenblum (editor), Sorrell Booke (actor), Walter Bernstein (writer), Charles Tyner (actor),

Plot: A series of human and computer errors sends a squadron of American 'Vindicator' bombers to nuke Moscow. The President, in order to convince the Soviets that this is a mistake, orders the Strategic Air Command to help the Soviets stop them.

Keywords: 1960s, air-attack, air-base, air-defense, aircrew, airfield, airforce, airplane-shot-down, alarm, alaska
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War,
Taglines: The screen zeros in on the most suspenseful adventure drama of our age! It will have you sitting on the brink of eternity!

Quotes:

US Ambassador: [over the phone] I can hear the sound of explosions from the north east. The sky is very bright. All lit up. [phone melts and high pitched whining sound starts]

Prof. Groeteschele: [viciously slapping a beautiful young woman who has tried to seduce him after a cocktail party] I'm not your kind.

Prof. Groeteschele: [after recommending an unprovoked attack by the U.S. on Moscow] And the Lord said, gentlemen, "He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone."

Defense Secretary Swenson: General Stark, are there any papers or documents in New York which are absolutely essential to the running of the United States? General Stark?::Gen. Stark: No sir. There are important documents, but none of them absolutely essential.::Admiral Wilcox: Will there be any warning given? A lot of lives could be saved if people had a few minutes.::Defense Secretary Swenson: On this short notice, an alert to a big city would do more harm than good. It only produces panic.::Admiral Wilcox: What about this?::[Wilcox tosses a newspaper onto the table, showing the First Lady in NYC, prominently featured on the main page. Swenson sees it, then gives the paper to General Stark]::Gen. Stark: Maybe... maybe he doesn't know his wife is there.::Defense Secretary Swenson: [shaking his head] He knows.::[Groeteschele finishes writing something onto some paper]::Prof. Groeteschele: Gentlemen, we are wasting time.::Prof. Groeteschele: [walking to the podium] I've been making a few rough calculations based on the effect of two twenty megaton bombs dropped on New York City in the middle of a normal workday. I estimate the immediate dead at about three million. I include in that figure those buried beneath the collapsed buildings. It would make no difference, Admiral Wilcox, whether they reached a shelter or not. They would die just the same. Add another million or two who will die within about five weeks. Now our immediate problem will be the joint one of fire control and excavation. Excavation not of the dead, the effort would be wasted there. But even though there are no irreplaceable government documents in the city, many of our largest corporations keep their records there. It will be necessary to... rescue as many of those records as we can. Our economy depends on this.::Prof. Groeteschele: [walking disgustedly back to his seat before noisily opening and closing his briefcase] Our economy depends on this.::[after closing briefcase]::Prof. Groeteschele: And the Lord said, gentlemen, "He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone."

[last lines]::Brigadier General Warren A. Black: The Matador, the Matador... me... me

The President: How did you get to be a translator, Buck? You don't seem the academic type.::Buck: [nervously] I guess I have a talent for languages, sir. I hear a language once I pick it right up. I don't even know how. They found out about it in the Army.::The President: You sound sorry they did.::Buck: No, sir. It's a very interesting job. [pauses] That is, most of the time.::The President: Well, you did a good job today, Buck.::Buck: Thank you, sir. All I did was repeat what he said.::The President: You didn't freeze up. Another man might have.::Buck: You're the one who didn't, sir.::The President: I wonder what it's like outside? Looked like rain before.::Buck: The radio said it would clear by the afternoon.

Defense Secretary Swenson: The President says he may have to order our fighters to shoot down Group Six. He wants our opinion.::Prof. Groeteschele: I oppose it, sir, on the grounds that it's premature. Our planes have not yet reached Soviet territory, they're still hundreds of miles away.::Brigadier General Warren A. Black: We've got to do it, and fast! Right now before it's too late!::Gen. Stark: It might be too late anyway. Those fighters swung away from the bombers when they got the all-clear signal, they've been flying in opposite directions.

Gen. Stark: They're good men, we've seen to that. If their orders are attack, the only way you're going to stop them is to shoot them down.::Brigadier General Warren A. Black: We've got no alternative! This minute the Russians are watching their boards, trying to figure out what we're up to. If we can't convince them it's an accident we're trying to correct by any means, we're going to have something on our hands that nobody bargained for, and only a lunatic wants!

Gen. Bogan: Sergeant Collins! On the double!::[Collins races to General Bogan at the main communication board of SAC headquarters]::Gen. Bogan: You're backup man on fire control, aren't you?::TSgt. Collins: Yes sir.::Gen. Bogan: Do our Vindicator missiles have both infrared and radar-seeking capacity?::TSgt. Collins: [tentatively] Yes sir.::Gen. Bogan: [grabbing Collins forcefully toward the radio mike] Loud and clear! They've got to know we're on the level!::TSgt. Collins: [fearfully] It has both capacities, sir!::Marshall Nevsky: [Over the radio] Can the radar-seeking mechanism be overloaded by increasing the strength of the signal?::Gen. Bogan: Tell him!::TSgt. Collins: [fearfully] Yes, sir. It can be overloaded, by increasing the power output and sliding through radar frequencies as fast as possible, what happens is the firing mechanism reads the higher amperage as proximity to the target, and detonates the warhead.::Marshall Nevsky: [Over the radio] Thank you General Bogan, we will get back to you.::Gen. Bogan: [quietly] That's all, Sergeant.::[Collins slowly returns to his station within the mammoth bunker, head bowed down in shame]::Congressman Raskob: What does it mean?::Gordon Knapp: We've told them how to blow up our air-to-air missiles, and with them our planes.

Prof. Groeteschele: In my opinion they will take no action at all.::Gen. Stark: They're not going to just sit there, Professor::Prof. Groeteschele: I think if our bombers get through the Russians will surrender.::Gen. Bogan: Who's this professor, Mr. Secretary? What's he doing there?::Defense Secretary Swenson: Professor Groeteschele is a civilian advisor to the Pentagon, General. Will you explain your statement, Professor?::Prof. Groeteschele: The Russian aim is to dominate the world. They think that Communism must succeed eventually if the Soviet Union is left reasonably intact. They know that a war would leave the Soviet Union utterly destroyed. Therefore, they would surrender.::Gen. Stark: But suppose they feel they can knock us off first?::Prof. Groeteschele: They know we might have a doomsday system, missiles that would go into action days, even weeks after a war is over and destroy an enemy even after that enemy has already destroyed us.::Brigadier General Warren A. Black: Maybe they'll think that even capitalists aren't that insane, to want to kill after they themselves have been killed.::Prof. Groeteschele: These are Marxist fanatics, not normal people. They do not reason they way you reason, General Black. They're not motivated by human emotions such as rage and pity. They are calculating machines. They will look at the balance sheet, and they will see they cannot win.::Defense Secretary Swenson: Then you suggest doing what?::Prof. Groeteschele: [leans forward] Nothing.::Defense Secretary Swenson: Nothing?::Prof. Groeteschele: The Russians will surrender, and the threat of Communism will be over, forever.::Gen. Bogan: That's a lot of hogwash. Don't kid yourself, there'll be Russian generals who will react just as I would - the best defense is a good offense. They see trouble coming up, take my word for it, they'll attack, and they won't give a damn what Marx said.::Prof. Groeteschele: Mr. Secretary, I am convinced that the moment the Russians know bombs will fall on Moscow, they will surrender. They know that whatever they do then, they cannot escape destruction. Don't you see, sir, this our chance. We never would have made the first move deliberately, but Group 6 has made it for us, by accident. We must take advantage of it - history demands it. We must advise the President not to recall those planes.

Film Tactics (1945)

Actors: Dave Willock (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Tom Keene (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Roger Moore (actor), George Offerman Jr. (actor), Walter Sande (actor), Phil Tead (actor), Ray Teal (actor), Charles Kemper (actor),

Plot: Orders are passed down the line from the Commodore to the team of instructors on how to use motion pictures in training PT Boat commanders how to make 180 degree turns on signal. Five instructors are shown with the first four displaying different aspects of dereliction in using film as an instructional tool. The fifth instructor, Smith, displays preparation, keeps his audience attentive, reviews content and then examines each commander. The last portion shows the results of the highlighted commanders displaying their knowledge. Only one, Smith's student, performs the turn correctly. FILM TACTICS is very imaginative and played much for comedy. Many familiar faces appear in this Naval short.

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Monika (1938)

Actors: Julia Serda (actress), Oskar Höcker (actor), Walter Steinbeck (actor), Fritz Draeger (actor), Erich Dunskus (actor), Maria Andergast (actress), Max Wilmsen (actor), Gerhard Dammann (actor), Theodor Loos (actor), Iván Petrovich (actor), Karl Platen (actor), Rudolf Platte (actor), Gustav Püttjer (actor), Willi Schaeffers (actor), Gustav Althoff (producer),

Genres: Drama,

Hollywood Party (1934)

Actors: Jimmy Durante (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Harry Barris (actor), Frank Austin (actor), Billy Bletcher (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Charles Butterworth (actor), Jack Byron (actor), Richard Carle (actor), George Beranger (actor), Baldwin Cooke (actor), Ray Cooke (actor), Richard Cramer (actor), Walt Disney (actor), Jimmy Durante (actor),

Plot: Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big party with so that he might use the lions in his next movie. His film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.

Keywords: actor, actress, blowing-raspberry, dancer, disguise, dream, egg, gorilla, hollywood, inanimate-object-in-cast-credits
Genres: Comedy, Musical,