What was this woman? The tragic victim of the SS or the female executioner of the Hitler's camps? What was it all about? A satan or an angel? Why, in peacetime, the old nightmares come back and drift into this shocking adventure of love, hatred and action with an unexpected ending?
Before and during WW II and the German occupation of Serbia, in a village in Vojvodina, inhabitants are separated based on their nationality. Local Volksdeutschers (ethnic Germans) enlist with the Nazi occupiers. The village bum, Leksi, jumps at the opportunity to put on a uniform and parade around with a gun. Leksi gets into an argument with villagers Marko and Joca, who devise a plan to get rid of him. At the same time, Marko tries to seduce Leksi's wife, Anika.
Tom was a soldier, a British veteran of an anonymous war from the 1990's. Whilst serving, soldiers under his command were separated from the rest of his patrol and ambushed. His search for them leads him to a traumatized soldier, shaken and confused by something he has seen inside a farm building. Tom enters the building. What happened in there will haunt him forever. He returns a decorated hero but he can't forget.
May 1940, in the French Ardennes. The German Army is getting ready to invade France. Old Gustave lives alone in his village with Camille, his teenage granddaughter and Etienne, his grandson. All the other inhabitants have evacuated the village, which makes Gustave very happy as he is the sole master there. Etienne, does not care because he is too young but Camille is beginning to suffer from her solitude and finds it hard to put up with her granddad's selfishness and bossiness. One day a patrol of African-born soldiers ("Tirailleurs Sénégalais") comes to the deserted village...
Against all odds an amazing 75 of the Jews in France survived the Nazi Holocaust They were saved by citizens determined to keep their identity a secret This is a neverbeforetold chapter of the intertwined history of Germany and France from the perspective of someone who had experienced it all who was saved and is now adamant about giving these silent saviors the recognition they deserve
50 years after its beginning, it's still a delicate and hermetic subject today, based on an exclusively male speech, as if veterans were war's only owners and victims. When a country is at war though, is there anybody left out? Warriors is a generation's war movie, told by those who were left behind to wait, those who chose to be there and those who ran to rescue the soldiers from the battle's front lines. A female insight on war.
In the Carpathians during 1945, near the borders with Czechoslovakia, the last battles are going on. No one expects major military operations on this sector of the front. Peaceful life ahead. The German group, leaving the encirclement, is rapidly heading towards the city of Maritsa, where the Slovak partisans have just entered. Captain Novikov's small artillery battery receives an order to stop the German tanks at all costs...
A biography of Karađorđe, the famed leader of the rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in 1804, tracing his whole life from childhood until his death in 1817.
The armouring soldier and writer Werner Bertin is ordered to the Western Front to France during the First World War. The use before Verdun - with all the horrors of war in the period 1916/1917 - brings a fundamental change of consciousness for the academic from Berlin. The intellectual devoted to bravery by fate develops into a disappointed but rebellious being. He sees more and more the injustices of warlike conflicts and their social causes.
Soldiers ambush a house. This is Gaumont's version, not to be confused with the less accessible Lumière of the same title from the same year. There is no director credited for this film, but the GP archives attributes it either to Gaston Breteau or to Georges Hatot (but not to Alice Guy). Since Gaston Breteau worked earlier for Lumiére and remade some of his films for Gaumont, he seems the most probable option.
Four hard-hitting stores, from the deadliest period in U.S. Army Aviation, since Vietnam. Actual footage from the events, and interviews from the Soldiers, who were there - bring these intense and touching stories of courage and sacrifice to life.
The first of six episode compilations of the TV show released theatrically, featuring episodes 1 and 3. In 1941, Polish soldier Stanisław Kolicki escapes German captivity only to be mistaken for the dashing Abwehr lieutenant Hans Kloss and recruited by the Soviets as their secret agent J-23. Under deep cover behind enemy lines, he feeds crucial intelligence to the Red Army while outwitting suspicions and dueling wits with the formidable SS officer Hermann Brunner.
Mariia lost her husband and three children in the war. Having lost all her loved ones, she decided to help other victims of the bloodshed. Adopting three orphans, she moves far away from the places that awaken the pain of her lost family in her heart, and raises her new charges under a peaceful sky...
The film tells the epic life story of Duangjai, a northern woman who falls in love with Kritsada, a handsome and high-ranking military officer from the city. She gives him a brass ring as a token of her love. But suddenly, Kritsada disappears as World War II rages on. Pregnant and heartbroken, Duangjai decides to embark on a long journey to search for her lover. Along the way, she encounters various people and experiences that shape her life.
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