El efecto K. El montador de Stalin (2012)

Actors: Jordi Boixaderas (actor), Helena Sánchez (editor), Helena Sánchez (producer), Helena Sánchez (writer), Valentí Figueres (director), Valentí Figueres (writer), Valentí Figueres (producer), Valentí Piñot (actor), Carles Candela (editor), Helena Sanchez (writer), Jordi Collado (actor), Luis Prado (composer), Marisa Ibañez (actress), Anthony Senen (actor), Antonio Bachero (actor),

Plot: A fiction film made with fragments of reality. An historical documentary made by cogging fictional elements. This is the odyssey of those who dared dreaming and were devoured by their dreams. An adventure into the origins of cinema and utopias, an historical road movie. The K Effect recounts Maxime's passionate life during the 20th century: a century shaken by fascinating utopias that spawned cheerful dreams and dreadful nightmares. Lights and shadows. The great metaphor of cinema. Una película de ficción realizada con fragmentos de realidad, un documental histórico filmado con los engranajes de la ficción. La odisea de aquellos que se arriesgaron a soñar y fueron devorados por sus sueños. Una aventura en los orígenes del cine y las utopías, una road movie histórica. El Efecto K nos narra la vida de Máxime en un siglo XX convulso por las hermosas utopías que engendraron sueños felices y pesadillas atroces. Luces y sombras. La gran metáfora del Cine.

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History,

Dante's Inferno (2007)

Actors: Tony Hale (actor), Tony Hale (actor), James Cromwell (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Matt Besser (actor), John Fleck (actor), Matt Besser (actor), Matt Besser (actor), Matt Besser (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Dermot Mulroney (actor), Tony Hale (actor),

Plot: Melding the seemingly disparate traditions of apocalyptic live-action graphic novel and charming Victoria-era toy theater, Dante's Inferno is a subversive, darkly satirical update of the original 14th century literary classic. Retold with the use of intricately hand-drawn paper puppets and miniature sets, and without the use of CGI effects, this unusual travelogue takes viewers on a tour of hell. And what we find there, looks a lot like the modern world. Sporting a hoodie and a hang-over from the previous night's debauchery, Dante wakes to find he is lost - physically and metaphorically - in a strange part of town. He asks the first guy he sees for some help: The ancient Roman poet Virgil, wearing a mullet and what looks like a brown bathrobe. Having no one else to turn to, Dante's quickly convinced that his only means for survival is to follow Virgil voyage down, down through the depths of Hell. The pair cross into the underworld and there Virgil shows Dante the underbelly of the Inferno, which closely resembles the decayed landscape of modern urban life. Dante and Virgil's chronicles are set against a familiar backdrop of used car lots, strip malls, gated communities, airport security checks, and the U.S. Capitol. Here, hot tubs simmer with sinners, and the river Styx is engorged with sewage swimmers. Also familiar is the contemporary cast of presidents, politicians, popes and pop-culture icons sentenced to eternal suffering of the most cruel and unusual kind: Heads sewn on backwards, bodies wrenched in half, never-ending blow jobs, dancing to techno for eternity, and last, but certainly not least, an inside look at Lucifer himself, from the point of view of a fondue-dunked human appetizer. Each creatively horrific penance suits the crime, and the soul who perpetrated it. As Dante spirals through the nine circles of hell, he comes to understand the underworld's merciless machinery of punishment, emerging a new man destined to change the course of his life. But not, of course, the brand of his beer.

Keywords: allegory, anger, astrologer, based-on-novel, catholic, dante's-inferno, dick-cheney, divine-comedy, fraud, gluttony
Genres: Animation, Comedy,
Taglines: The epic film of a lost young man's journey through hell. Dante. Virgil. Hell. Puppets. Questions? To Hell and back through the streets of America: a journey in toy theater.

Quotes:

Virgil: This is Hell, Dante. Not your personal fantasy.

Ulysses - Strom Thurmond: I'm not Mrs. Butterworth, God Dammit. I'm Senator Strom Thurmond.

Stalin (2006)

Actors: Brahmaji (actor), Brahmanandam (actor), Chiranjeevi (actor), Khushboo (actress), Sharada (actress), Nagendra Babu (producer), Gopalakrishna Paruchuri (writer), Venkateswara Rao Paruchuri (writer), Mani Sharma (composer), Anthony (editor), Lawrence Raghavendra (miscellaneous crew), Raju Sundaram (miscellaneous crew), Lakshmi Venugopal (miscellaneous crew), Sriram L.B. (actor), Prakash Raj (actor),

Plot: Stalin is an ex-military man who spends his time in helping people. He usually gets peeved that the apathy in the society and how it affects in turn. He wants to bring change in the society by implementing a simple formula of extending unconditional help to those are in need. The rest of the story is all about how he transforms the society with that simple formula.

Keywords: action-hero, arm-cut-off, army, attempted-murder, bullet-in-body, car-chase, character-name-in-title, do-gooder, evil-politician, ex-army-officer
Genres: Action, Drama,
Taglines: Man for the Society

Quotes:

Stalin: If you were born to a mother and a father, then attack me before you attack my family.

Stalin: While you are holding me back to stop me, your hand is touching my heart. Dont you feel the power inside my heart?

Virtual History: The Secret Plot to Kill Hitler (2004)

Actors: David Fairhead (editor), Joachim Fest (actor), David McNab (director), Aileen McAllister (miscellaneous crew), Dunja Noack (producer), Andrew Roberts (actor), Berthold Graf von Stauffenberg (actor), Simon Sebag Montefiore (actor), Tom Streithorst (actor), Vic Chester (actor), Warren Kimball (actor), Lothar Kettenacker (actor),

Genres: Documentary, History, War,

V avguste 44-go (2001)

Actors: Yevgeny Mironov (actor), Beata Tyszkiewicz (actress), Ramaz Chkhikvadze (actor), Aleksey Petrenko (actor), Aleksandr Baluev (actor), Aleksandr Feklistov (actor), Albert Filozov (actor), Viktor Pavlov (actor), Aleksey Panin (actor), Radoslaw Pazura (actor), Yuriy Kolokolnikov (actor), Vladislav Galkin (actor), Karolina Gruszka (actress), Andrzej Pieczynski (actor), Yaroslav Boyko (actor),

Plot: The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.

Keywords: 1940s, based-on-novel, belarus, firearm, great-patriotic-war, month-in-title, russian-soldier, spy, world-war-two, year-1944
Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War,

Angelus (2000)

Actors: Andrzej Mastalerz (actor), Wlodzimierz Niderhaus (producer), Lech Majewski (director), Lech Majewski (writer), Lech Majewski (composer), Lech Majewski (editor), Adam Baumann (actor), Henryk Romanowski (producer), Pawel Mossakowski (producer), Malgorzata Zacharska (costume designer), Jan Bógdol (actor), Kazimierz Krzaczkowski (actor), Elzbieta Okupska (actress), Józef Skrzek (composer), Tomasz Zaród (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Children of the Revolution (1996)

Actors: Rachel Griffiths (actress), Geoffrey Rush (actor), Judy Davis (actress), Joseph Stalin (actor), Roy Billing (actor), Richard Roxburgh (actor), Ronald Reagan (actor), Sam Neill (actor), Mikhail Gorbachev (actor), F. Murray Abraham (actor), Ron Haddrick (actor), Václav Havel (actor), Marshall Napier (actor), Tom Burstall (miscellaneous crew), Heather Mitchell (actress),

Plot: Few knew that Stalin spent his last night in the arms of a young Australian woman. Few still knew that their "love-child" brought Australia to the brink of civil war. Until now ...

Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, abandoned-by-husband, abduction, accountant, activism, activist, angina
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: What do you do when your father is no ordinary Joe? A red comedy about the ultimate party animals.

Quotes:

Joan Fraser: Discreet! Oh, for God's sake! We're not talking about dance classes, we're talking about the bloody proletariat revolution!

Zachary Welch: [in reference to the pub closing] I don't know, frankly, how we'll ever get the revolution going with 6 o'clock closing.

David Hoyle: Stalin? You killed Josef Stalin?::Joan Fraser: Yes.::David Hoyle: What did you do to him?::Joan Fraser: I don't know I don't remember... I don't recall. I think we were in his room.::David Hoyle: You were in his... bedroom, Joan? His bedroom!::Joan Fraser: I think so.

Joan Fraser: There's no father Welch.::Zachary Welch: Joan I'm not an educated man but I do understand a few basic facts.

Joan Fraser: [in reference to her unborn child] It's a bastard of a world out there if you know what I mean.

Joan Fraser: All your life you'll here a lot of things about important people and some of them will be true and some of them will not.

Police: [Joe trying to get himself arrested] Well, if it isn't public enemy number one? Have you been robbing banks again?::[Joe nods eagerly]::Police: Very naughty, hold out your hands.

Constable Anna: Yes, it was strange, and rather perverse. But... that's love for you.

Joe: Isn't the point to help people?::Joan Fraser: Well, people, yes. Not the police!

Stalin: Yuri, have you been smoking?::Yuri Nikolayev: No, Comrade Secretary.::Stalin: [sniffs air] Who has been smoking?::Yuri Nikolayev: Punin. Pezyriv. Slepak. Druchin. Yermolinsky.::Stalin: [pats Yuri's back] Good.::Yuri Nikolayev: Askenov.::Stalin: Ah.::Yuri Nikolayev: [turns to leave, continues denouncing people] Troepolski. Ezvekov.::Stalin: Good.::Yuri Nikolayev: [walking away] Yegorov.::Stalin: Yeah.::Yuri Nikolayev: [exits Stalin's office] Mikhalov.::Stalin: Good.::Yuri Nikolayev: [from next room] Troegubov.::Stalin: That's enough!

Ofitsiant s zolotym podnosom (1992)

Actors: Tatyana Kravchenko (actress), Ramaz Chkhikvadze (actor), Vatslav Dvorzhetsky (actor), Valentina Titova (actress), Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy (actor), Nikolai Parfyonov (actor), Aleksandr Abdulov (actor), Sergey Stepanchenko (actor), Boris Tsipuria (actor), Archil Gomiashvili (actor), Andrei Kharybin (actor), Larisa Polyakova (actress), Dmitriy Buzylyov-Kretso (actor), Yuri Shumilo (actor), Aleksandra Brazhnikova (actress),

Genres: Comedy,

Pobeda (1984)

Actors: Ramaz Chkhikvadze (actor), Viktor Ilichyov (actor), Algimantas Masiulis (actor), Klaus-Peter Thiele (actor), Mikhail Ulyanov (actor), Yevgeni Matveyev (writer), Yevgeni Matveyev (director), Andrey Mironov (actor), Aleksandr Mikhaylov (actor), Günther Grabbert (actor), Yevgeni Ptichkin (composer), Oleg Golubitsky (actor), Vladimir Zeldin (actor), Valentin Kulik (actor), Girts Jakovlevs (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Red Monarch (1983)

Actors: Renée Glynne (miscellaneous crew), David Kelly (actor), Jack Gold (director), Nigel Stock (actor), Lee Montague (actor), Colin Blakely (actor), David Puttnam (producer), Carroll Baker (actress), David Suchet (actor), George A. Cooper (actor), Wensley Pithey (actor), Brian Glover (actor), David Threlfall (actor), Tim Preece (actor), Glynn Edwards (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: Taking the Red Out of Stalin