Justice/Vengeance (2009)

Actors: Roy Scheider (actor), Helmut Berger (actor), Helmut Berger (actor), Scott Cohen (actor), Roger Bellon (composer), Eric Klein (miscellaneous crew), Veronica Milagros (actress), JB Blanc (actor), Ben Rimmer (producer), Justin Caine Burnett (composer), Sarah Bolger (actress), Ned Thorne (miscellaneous crew), Joshua Newton (editor), Joshua Newton (director), Joshua Newton (writer),

Plot: Joseph, a retired New York police officer, played by the late Roy Scheider, travels to Nuremberg to visit his son Ronnie years after turning his back on him for rejecting a promising career in the NYPD and marrying a local artist, Anna. No sooner does Joseph attempt to heal the rift with Ronnie, when he swears that living in the apartment above, under the false name of Shrager, is the now aging SS Commander who murdered his entire family in a Polish forest during WW2. With little hope of seeing him stand trial, Joseph talks Ronnie into exacting justice - and vengeance - and together they set out to kill him. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman, Gaby, has an agenda of her own. With flashbacks to the past, revealing the teenage love of Young Joseph for a heroic Polish girl, Kashka and his narrow escape from the massacre, the story reaches a gripping and unforgettable climax.

Body of Work (2009)

Actors: Justin Dray (actor), Joe Russell (actor), Tonya Cornelisse (actress), Renee Pezzotta (editor), Peter Bateman (composer), Renee Pezzotta (producer), Stephanie Ann Rose (miscellaneous crew), Renee Pezzotta (actress), Leah Ann Cevoli (actress), Leah Ann Cevoli (producer), Shayla Beesley (writer), Shayla Beesley (writer), Sunna Wehrmeijer (composer), Alex Bram (writer), Alex Bram (producer),

Puccini (2009)

Actors: Franco Castellano (actor), Stefania Sandrelli (actress), Antonio Siciliano (editor), Giorgio Capitani (director), Fritz von Friedl (actor), Francesco Scardamaglia (writer), Francesco Scardamaglia (producer), Nino Fuscagni (actor), Aurelio Marino (miscellaneous crew), Alberto Gimignani (actor), Sophie von Kessel (actress), Alessio Boni (actor), Marco Frisina (composer), Andrea Giordana (actor), Enzo Marino Bellanich (actor),

Plot: Vienna, 1924: Puccini, the world-famous composer of operas finds a confidante in the journalist Liza Berman, who will accompany him on a trip into his past: The unrequited love he feels for Elvira, a married woman, who secretly returns his feelings. As a 20-year-old he is living in Milan, in bitter poverty, and barely struggles along as a musician, but upon finishing his studies he makes quite an impression. Full of hope he applies to take part in a contest for opera composers, but he is turned down. Puccini had firmly counted on winning the prize money and now faces financial straits. Thanks to the librettist Fontana, his one-act opera "Le Villi" is performed all the same. The established music publisher Ricordi now commissions Puccini to write the opera "Edgar", which turns out a flop. When Elvira leaves her husband to live with Puccini, the lovers are beset by feelings of guilt. Puccini begins to doubt himself, but due to Ricordi's support, Puccini can write in peace. Soon he triumphs in opera houses all over Europe with "Manon Lescaut", but Ricordi demands fresh supplies. A former lover, who used to be a dancer in the Cabaret, brings the novel "Vie Bohème" to his attention, a subject, which his colleague Leoncavallo is already working on. But it is Puccini who prevails with Ricordi. When Puccini tries to get rid of the overbearing conductor Toscanini as well, Ricordi resists him. "La Bohème" becomes a giant success under Toscanini's musical direction. As Puccini later gets stuck in his work at "Tosca" he waits for inspiration at night in shape of his muse Antilisa, a shy mythological animal. Again Puccini experiences a triumph. Always on the lookout for a new subject, a frustrated Puccini travels to London. There he accompanies his friend Sybil Seligman to the theatre, where "Madame Butterfly" electrifies him. Back in Italy, he develops a platonic relationship with the servant girl Doria. Elvira fires Doria and makes Puccini promise never to see her again. The young woman commits suicide. After initially failing in Milan, "Madama Butterfly" triumphs a few months and several changes later in other European cities. In Vienna, Elvira surprises Puccini with the journalist Liza Berman, but by that time Elvira's love is above the slights Puccini has inflicted on her over the years. She demands that Dr. Landauer thoroughly examines her husband, who is suffering from a chronic sore throat. The final diagnosis shows a malign tumor of the larynx. Meanwhile, the work on "Turandot" has ground to a halt. Liza takes him along to a concert of contemporary music, which he finds fascinating and unsettling at the same time, because it makes him feel that his own music sounds old-fashioned by comparison. While undergoing treatment at a Brussels hospital, Puccini confesses to Elvira that he blames himself for Doria's death. During a sleepless night he tosses the unfinished score to "Turandot" into the fireplace, but Elvira saves the manuscript. Puccini dies not long after-wards. Milan, 1926: "Turandot" is performed for the first time in the presence of Elvira and their children Tonio and Fosca, with Toscanini at the baton. He has the performance interrupted at the exact spot where Puccini had to give up his composition.

Napola - Elite für den Führer (2004)

Actors: Michael Gerber (actor), Justus von Dohnányi (actor), Normand Corbeil (composer), Götz Schubert (actor), Angelo Badalamenti (composer), Claudia Michelsen (actress), Devid Striesow (actor), Gerald Alexander Held (actor), Joachim Bißmeier (actor), Michael Schenk (actor), Tom Schilling (actor), Bohumil Svarc (actor), Max Riemelt (actor), Karel Dobrý (actor), Maggie Peren (writer),

Plot: In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) - high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls, seeing this as his ticket out of factory life to university and a good salary. During his year in seventh column (fifth form), this innocence is altered as Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education; a night in the forest hunting for escaped Russian POWs brings things to a head.

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Il giovane Mussolini (1993)

Actors: Vincenzo Cerami (writer), Domenico Rafele (writer), Vlastimil Zavrel (actor), Václav Kotva (actor), Gabriela Wilhelmová (actress), Luca Zingaretti (actor), Jan Preucil (actor), Jan Hrusínský (actor), Karel Hábl (actor), Toni Bertorelli (actor), Susanne Lothar (actress), Anna Geislerová (actress), Franco Castellano (actor), Nicola Piovani (composer), Jirí Nemecek (actor),

Plot: The story starts at the point in Benito Mussolini's life when, at the age of nineteen, he gave up being a schoolmaster, left his home town of Forli and, as a guest worker on a building-site in Lausanne, Switzerland, underwent his own personal experience of the darker sides of the capitalist system. The speed with which the rhetorically gifted demagogue manages to assemble whole crowds of friends and followers around him - including above all his "protectress", the enigmatic Russian woman Angelika - is reflected in the speed at which he succeeds in attracting enemies from church and state. His love for the beautiful Eleonora, the daughter of a middle-class family, studying medicine at the University of Geneva - a city where Mussolini himself has been carrying stone around as an unskilled worker - even convinces him to take up studying. When a fatal accident occurs on the building-site - a worker plunges to his death from a badly-secured section of scaffolding - the young student Mussolini calls for a general strike. Arrest and expulsion are the consequences of this first piece of agitation, and it is only the intervention of his influential friend Angelika which saves him from being thrown into jail. But Mussolini is not a man to give up easily. Soon he's successful again, in Trieste, working as editor of the socialist newspaper "L'Avventure del Lavoratore", and a conflict soon arises between himself and the local clergy. This, however, provides the local imperial Austrian authorities with the excuse they need to expel this troublemaker and agitator from the country. Back in his native town of Forlì, Mussolini marries Rachele, his childhood sweetheart. But he's still a long way from settling down into a "bourgeois" lifestyle - he spends far more time with his comrades, and especially the pretty female comrades, than with Rachele and the family. It's not long before Mussolini becomes local chief of the Italian Socialist Party, in which he reveals his secure instinct for power and his talent for intrigue as he plays off various sections of the left against each other. Very soon he's levered his arch-rival Bissolati out of office: in Milan Mussolini becomes editor-in-chief of the country's largest socialist newspaper, "Avanti!". Mussolini exploited the escalation in violence among the country's workers for his own ends. The "reds" - the left-wing Socialists - and the "yellows" - the Republicans - were involved in a bitter war with each other. At the peak of this crisis, however, World War I broke out. While the Italian Nationalists are urging the country to take part in the war, the left wing builds its support on the pacifist strength of the "Socialist International": the workers of Europe must unite against the imperialist warmongers! Now that those in power represent a common enemy, Mussolini - via an adroit move - succeeds in uniting the warring left-wing factions. Although hopes that a united European left will be able to stop the war are soon dashed, Mussolini is now more powerful than ever before. It is at this period of his life that he begins to have growing doubts about neutrality and pacifism being worthy aims for a true revolutionary. Gradually he turns all his allies, even the staunchest ones, into enemies, including his beloved Angelika, by showing a lot of sympathy towards the landowning classes. The last great chapter in the history of Mussolini the socialist is now played out against the backdrop of World War I, and the transformation begins which will eventually lead him to found an entirely different type of socialism altogether - Fascismo. While the pacifists in his party are pressing for neutrality, Mussolini finally allows himself to be "bought" by the Conservative government. The former anti-war campaigner turned opportunist now supports the war. Now he's on his own - and at the turning-point of his political career...

Watch All Night (1980)

Actors: Tony Caunter (actor), Ahmed Khalil (actor), Johnny Shannon (actor), Robert Longden (actor), Souad Faress (actress), Tony Alleff (actor), Alkis Kritikos (actor), Doug Wootton (composer),

Karl Marks. Molodye gody (1979)

Actors: Leon Niemczyk (actor), Kaspar Eichel (actor), Erik S. Klein (actor), Helmut Schreiber (actor), Valentina Titova (actress), Erika Pelikowsky (actress), Klaus Piontek (actor), Hannjo Hasse (actor), Juozas Budraitis (actor), Wilhelm Koch-Hooge (actor), Jürgen Holtz (actor), Rudolf Christoph (actor), Leonid Kulagin (actor), Renate Blume (actress), Blanche Kommerell (actress),

Jej powrót (1975)

Actors: Jerzy Moes (actor), Jerzy Zelnik (actor), Joseph Conrad (writer), Leon Niemczyk (actor), Beata Tyszkiewicz (actress), Eugeniusz Korczarowski (actor), Barbara Ptak (costume designer), Jerzy Januszewicz (actor), Andrzej May (actor), Andrzej Bogucki (actor), Maria Wachowiak (actress), Julian Jabczynski (actor), Miroslaw Szonert (actor), Maria Mastalinska (editor), Andrzej Mrozewski (actor),

Rheinsberg (1967)

Actors: Harald Leipnitz (actor), Anita Kupsch (actress), Cornelia Froboess (actress), Erich Fiedler (actor), Werner Hinz (actor), Bruno Fritz (actor), Karl Hellmer (actor), Franz Nicklisch (actor), Bruno W. Pantel (actor), Jo Herbst (actor), Willi Rose (actor), Werner Stock (actor), Herbert Weissbach (actor), Christian Wolff (actor), Monika Peitsch (actress),