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The Children’s Crusade (1988)

October 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: La croisade des enfants
Year: 1998
Runtime: 2 hours, 37 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: None
Genre: History | Drama

Director: Serge Moati

Cast:
Simon Duprez … Étienne
Marie Fugain … Isegault
Cédric Dumond … Mathieu
Thierry Magnier … Éric
Hervé Rey … Noirot, ex-Rougeaud
Arnaud Lienard … Boulu
Jean-Claude Drouot … Raoul
Jean-Pierre Bisson … Sire Hugues
Pierre-Loup Rajot … Le curé de Cloyes
Yves Beneyton … Guliard
Robert Hossein … Philippe-Auguste
Dani … Une prostituée
Pierre Forget … Payen Thousel
Michelle Goddet … Auviette
Lucky Blondo … Le père Rougeaud

Plot/Synopsis:
The Children’s Crusade is the name given to a variety of fictional and factual events which happened in 1212 that combine some or all of these elements: visions by a French or German boy; an intention to peacefully convert Muslims in the Holy Land to Christianity; bands of children marching to Italy.

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Territories (2010)

October 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Territoires
AKA: Checkpoint
Year: 2010
Runtime: 1 hour, 31 minutes
Country: France | Canada
Language: English | French
Subtitles: None
Genre: History | Horror

Director: Olivier Abbou

Cast:
Roc LaFortune
Sean Devine
Nicole Leroux
Cristina Rosato … Michelle
Michael Mando
Alex Weiner
Stephen Shellen
Tim Rozon … Gabriel Delgado
Lena Kleine … Mother
Caroline Redekopp … Doris

Plot/Synopsis:
Five friends returning from a marriage in Canada return home to the United States. Not far from the border, two customs officers stop them to check their identity. Suspicious, they take their time especially with Jalil, a man of Arab origin. The situation worsens when a customs officer finds a small bag of marijuana in the luggage. Then things degenerate rapidly: a customs officer grabs the little dog that’s part of the group and slits open its belly to be sure it’s not a mule. When Gab makes a move, he’s shot. The customs officer orders the surviving friends to undress and put on orange coveralls. Gradually, it dawns on the four tourists that they are in the hands of former torturers from Guantanamo.

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The Last Relic (1969)

October 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Viimne reliikvia
Year: 1969
Runtime: 1 hour, 26 minutes
Country: Estonia
Language: Estonian
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Adventure | History | Romance

Director: Grigori Kromanov

Cast:
Aleksandr Goloborodko … Gabriel
Ingrid Andrina … Agnes
Elza Radzina … Abtiss
Rolan Bykov … Brother Johannes
Eve Kivi … Ursula
Uldis Vadziks … Siim
Raivo Trass … Hans von Risbieter
Peeter Jakobi … Ivo
Karl Kalkun … Rebel leader
G. Hamrajeva
Kalju Komissarov … Monk 2
Ants Lauter … Old man
Valdeko Ratassepp … Von Risbieter Sen.
Juri Uppin … Delvig
Feliks Kark

Plot/Synopsis:
A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled – there’s a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promises to get it if he gets beautiful Agnes as a reward. But she fells in love with a handsome adventurer. The monastery has to act shrewd now and play double game. The movie is still the best achievement of the Estonian cinema. Based on a novel.

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Burnt by the Sun (1994)

October 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Utomlyonnye solntsem | Утомлённые солнцем
Year: 1994
Runtime: 2 hours, 22 minutes
Country: Russia | France
Language: Russian | French
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama | History

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov

Cast:
Oleg Menshikov … Dimitri (Mitya)
Nikita Mikhalkov … Col. Sergei Petrovich Kotov
Ingeborga Dapkunaite … Marusia
Nadezhda Mikhalkova … Nadya
André Oumansky … Philippe
Vyacheslav Tikhonov … Vsevolod
Svetlana Kryuchkova … Mokhova
Vladimir Ilin … Kirik
Alla A. Kazanskaya … Lidiya Stepanovna
Nina Arkhipova … Yelena Mikhajlovna
Avangard Leontyev … Chauffeur
Inna Ulyanova … Olga Nikolayevna
Lyubov Rudneva … Lyuba
Vladimir Ryabov … NKVD officer
Vladimir Belousov … NKVD man #1

Plot/Synopsis:
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn’t fooled: this is the time of Stalin’s repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom – and he knows that Dmitri isn’t paying a social call…

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The Emperor Caligula The Untold Story (1982)

October 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Caligola: La storia mai raccontata
Year: 1982
Runtime: 2 hours 4 minutes
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Adult | Drama | History | Horror

Director: Joe D’Amato

Cast:
David Brandon … Caligula (as David Cain)
Laura Gemser … Miriam
Luciano Bartoli … Messala (as Oliver Finch)
Charles Borromel … Petreio
Fabiola Toledo … Livia
Sasha D’Arc … Ulmar
Alessandro Freyberger … Ezio (as Alex Freyberger)
Larry Dolgin … Cornelius
Gabriele Tinti … Marcellus Agrippa
John Alin … Tullio Gallio
Ulla Luna … Clizia
Michele Soavi … Domitius
Joan McCoy
Didi Franks
Giorgia Williams

Plot/Synopsis:
If you thought the Tinto Brass movie about loony Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (better known to most as Caligula) was shocking, wait till you see what seasoned sleaze merchant Joe D’Amato does with the story.

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The Conquest of Albania (1984)

October 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: La conquista de Albania | Albaniaren konkista
Year: 1984
Runtime: 1 hour, 51 minutes
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: None
Genre: Adventure | Drama | History | War

Director: Alfonso Ungría

Cast:

Xabier Elorriaga … Louis of Navarre
Klara Badiola … Juana de Anjou
Chema Muñoz
Walter Vidarte
Miguel Arribas
Ramón Barea
Patxi Barko
Patxi Bisquert
Carla Calparsoro
Amaia Lasa
William Layton
Félix Rotaeta
Paco Sagarzazu
Francisco Sanz … Obispo
Alicia Sánchez

Plot/Synopsis:
The first Navarrese Company was formed to fight for Charles II of Navarre against Charles V of France. In 1366, after peace was made, the mercenaries were organised into a coherent company of soldiers under Louis, Count of Beaumont-le-Roger in his own right and Duke of Durazzo in right of his wife, Joanna. Louis was a brother of Charles of Navarre, who supported his endeavour to recapture lost Durazzo and the regnum Albaniae. Charles of France likewise aided him with 50,000 ducats.
In 1372, the Navarrese ranks began to swell through the recruiting techniques of Enguerrand VII de Coucy, who was hired to form a force of 500 lances and 500 cavalry archers, mostly from Gascony. Though these soldiers were recruited for service in Albania, they were first organised in Naples. In 1375 and 1376, many men from Navarre began enlisting and travelled directly to Albania to join their countrymen. The enrollment lists for those years have been preserved in Pamplona and reveal the important presence of many engineers. The total number of men which left Tortosa between February 1375 and June 1376 was in the thousands. They were paid thirty gold Aragonese florins a month.
In 1376, Louis and the Navarrese captured Durazzo, thus reestablishing the regnum Albaniae.

Louis died that same year, leaving the Navarrese unemployed. They put themselves under at the command of the Peter IV of Aragon early in 1377 and were formed as four companies, commanded by four captains: the Gascon Mahiot of Coquerel and Pedro de la Saga and the Navarrese Juan de Urtubia and Guarro.

La conquista de Albania (The Conquest of Albania) is a 1984 Spanish film about this episode.

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Utterly Alone (2004)

October 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Vienui vieni
Year: 2011
Runtime: 1 hour, 26 minutes
Country: Lithuania
Language: Lithuanian
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama | History

Director: Jonas Vaitkus

Cast:
Saulius Balandis … Juozas Luksa-Daumantas
Brigita Bublyte … Nijole
Povilas Stankus … Father
Danute Vidugiryte … Mother
Arunas Samys
Vidmantas Fijalkauskas
Kestutis Luksa
Albertas Vidziunas
Aurimas Meliesius … Kazimieras Audronis-Pyplys
Vladas Bagdonas
Darius Meskauskas … Jonas Deksnys
Ramunas Rudokas
Rolandas Kazlas … Partisan
Vytautas Rumsas … Juozas Markulis-Erelis
Liubomiras Lauciavicius … NKVD Interogator

Plot/Synopsis:
Jonas Vaitkusÿs patriotic war film paints a poignant portrait of Lithuania’s ten-year struggle against Soviet occupation and casts new light on folk hero Juozas Lukða-Daumantas, the legendary partisan who sought to bring Lithuania’s plight to the West. Set in 1950, Utterly Alone powerfully depicts the bloody and brutal treatment meted out by Soviet Russia, aided by Lithuanian collaborators, as it systematically hunts down and kills resistance fighters. Reminiscent of the mood of Schindler’s List, it pays tribute to the courage and fortitude of Daumantas and his fellow fighters as they battle valiantly against the might of Stalin’s empire. Shot in atmospheric black-and-white, Utterly Alone has a documentary feel that only serves to bolster its starkness and the hopelessness of the partisans cause. Utterly Alone is preceded by a short explanatory documentary.

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The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)

October 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Le retour de Martin Guerre
Year: 1982
Runtime: 2 hours, 3 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English | Finnish | Spanish | Turkish (.srt)
Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama | History | Mystery | Romance

Director: Daniel Vigne

Cast:
Gérard Depardieu … Arnaud de Tihl
Nathalie Baye … Bertrande de Rols
Maurice Barrier … Uncle Pierre Guerre
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu … Martin Guerre
Isabelle Sadoyan … Catherine Boëre
Rose Thiéry … Raimonde de Rols
Chantal Deruaz … Jeanne
Maurice Jacquemont … Judge Rieux
Roger Planchon … Jean de Coras
Francis Arnaud
Philippe Babin … Jacques
Axel Bogousslavsky
Valérie Chassigneux … Guillemette
Neige Dolsky
Adrien Duquesne … Sanxi Guerre

Plot/Synopsis:
During the medieval times, Martin Guerre returns to his hometown in the middle of France, after being away in the war since he was a child. Nobody recognise him, and the people who knew him suspect he is not Martin, but he knows all about his family and friends, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre?

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Castles Aflame in Transylvania (1984)

October 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Horea
AKA: –
Year: 1984
Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes
Country: Romania
Language: Romanian
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama | History

Director: Mircea Muresan

Cast:
Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan … Horea
Mircea Albulescu
Radu Beligan
Ion Besoiu
Rogin Constantin … Taran
Mircea Diaconu
Petrica Gheorghiu
Serban Ionescu
Alexandru Repan
Enikõ Szilágyi

Plot/Synopsis:

The movie is about Horea, one of the three leaders of the peasant uprising of the Transylvania serfs against the Hungarian nobility. Although Cloşca and Crişan has a egual role in the revolt, Horea is considered the most brilliant of these three, partially due to his military service in Austria, were he learned the German language.

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Khan Asparoukh (1981)

September 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Han Asparuh
Year: 1981
Runtime: 5 hours 22 minutes
Country: Bulgaria
Language: Bulgarian
Subtitles: English | Bulgarian (.srt)
Genre: Drama | History | War

Director: Ludmil Staikov

Cast:
Stoyko Peev … Khan Asparoukh
Antony Genov … Velizariy
Vassil Mihajlov … Khan Kubrat
Vania Tzvetkova … Pagane
Stefan Getsov … The High Priest of Tangra
Georgi Cherkelov … Velizariy’s father
Iossif Surchadzhiev … Constantine IV
Mari Szür … Iv
Lora Kremen … Velizariy’s mother
Djoko Rosic … The Icherguboil
Velko Kynev
Anya Pencheva
Bogomil Simeonov
Stoycho Mazgalov
Petar Slabakov

Plot/Synopsis:

The 7th century is the time of the Great Migration of the Peoples. Under the pressure of the invaders the proto-Bulgarian tribes of Khan Kubrat are forced to split in four parts in the hope that one would survive. For twenty long years Kubrat’s youngest son Khan Asparoukh led his people across many foreign lands to find eventually a new homeland on the Balkan Peninsula and this time forever. The story is told by Byzantine Velisarius, a hostage with the Bulgarian who witnesses the whole of their difficult march. He sees the suffering of the people whom he already feels close to his heart and the personal drama of their Khan Asparoukh. In 681, in alliance with the local Slav tribes, the proto-Bulgarian deal a decisive blow on numerous Byzantine army, thus 13 centuries ago the foundations of the Bulgarian state and nation were laid down.

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