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Africa United (2005)

April 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Africa United
Year: 2005
Runtime: 1 hour, 20 minutes
Country: Iceland
Language: Icelandic | English
Subtitles: English (hard-subbed)
Genre: Comedy | Sport

Director: Olaf de Fleur Johannesson

Cast:
Einar Xavier Sveinsson … Himself
Saint Paul Edeh … Himself
Zakaria Anbari … Zico
Cheik Bangoura … Himself
Arnar Björnsson … Himself
St Paul Edeh … Paul
Mohamed Jónas El Asri … Himself
Alhagie Abdoulie Joof … Himself
Zlatko Krickic … Zlatko
Alexander Munos … Alex
Ólafur Magnús Ólafsson … Himself

Plot/Synopsis:
Zico came to Iceland from Marocco to seek his fortune. After ten years Zico becomes bankrupt, meaning he can’t work anymore. Left desperate and depressed Zico decides to bring life to his amateur team called Africa United and take them into the semi-professional 3rd division. He calls upon immigrants all-over Iceland, players from Marocco, Nigeria, Columbia, Serbia, Kosovo, Gambia and Guinea to help realize his vision. ~ Olaf de Fleur Johannesson

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Fifty-Fifty (2004)

March 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Shiza
AKA: The Recruiter | Schizo
Year: 2004
Runtime: 1 hour, 26 minutes
Country: Kazakhstan | Russia | France | Germany
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Crime | Drama | Romance | Sport | Thriller

Director: Gulshat Omarova

Cast:
Oldzhas Nusupbayev … Shiza
Olga Landina … Zinka
Eduard Tabishev … Sakura
Viktor Sukhorukov … Doctor
Gulnara Yeraliyeva … Kulyash
Hurtaj Kanagat … Sandzhik
Khorabek Musabayev … Almaz
Bakhytbek Bajmukhanbetov … Dzhaken
Mukhit Izimov … Nurlan
Gajratdzhan Tokhgibakiyev … Uzbek
Emine Ismailova … Ballet dancer
Dzhasulan Makhanov … Almaz’s bodyguard

Plot/Synopsis:
Shiza is the nickname of a 15-year-old boy. Money, power, and women – he has none of these, yet, in his young life. But, he does have the illegal, underground circuit of bare-knuckle fist-fighting, where he is able to eke out a living by scouting for fighters. When a man is accidentally killed in the ring, though, his life is changed forever. He decides that he should return the dead man’s money to his widow and child. But, after he meets the woman, Shiza understands that he has real feelings of love for her. Now, he knows for whom he must earn money, no matter what the cost…

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Filed Under: Crime, Drama, Kazahkstan, Romance, Sports

Summer Storm (2004)

February 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Sommersturm
Year: 2004
Runtime: 1h 38mn
Country: Germany
Language: German
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sport

Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner

Cast:
Robert Stadlober … Tobi
Kostja Ullmann … Achim
Jürgen Tonkel … Hansi
Miriam Morgenstern … Sandra
Alicja Bachleda … Anke (as Alicja Bachleda-Curus)
Angelika Brennfleck … Thea
Josefine Müller … Claudia
Joseph M’Barek … Ferdinand
Tristano Casanova … Georg
Roman Storm … Günther
Jeff Fischer … Flasche
Johannes Franke … Martin
Anton Rattinger … Gruber
Gerhard Oberwetter … Busfahrer
Tobias van Dieken … Naturschützer (as Tobias Vandieken)

Plot/Synopsis:
Tobi and Achim, the pride of the local crew club, have been the best of friends for years and are convinced that nothing will ever stand in the way of their friendship. They look forward to the upcoming summer camp and the crew competition. Achim’s girlfriend Sandra is on the girl’s team and he enjoys spending more time with her. Tobi becomes increasingly skeptical of their relationship. Anke, the pretty girl who has fallen for Tobi, doesn’t make things any easier. Then the gay team from Berlin arrives and Tobi is totally confused. The evening before the races begin, the storm that breaks out is more than meteorlogical… A sensitive story about the complexities of growing up.

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Virgil (2005)

November 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Year: 2005
Runtime: 84 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English (.sub/.idx)
Genre: Genre: Comedy | Drama | Sport

Director: Mabrouk El Mechri

Cast:
Jalil Lespert … Virgil
Léa Drucker … Margot
Jean-Pierre Cassel … Ernest
Philippe Nahon … Louis
Patrick Floersheim … Dunlopillo
Karim Belkhadra … Sid
Sami Zitouni … Kader
Jean-Marie Frin … Mario Taliori
Tomer Sisley … Dino Taliori
Jean-Luc Abel … Marcel the guard
Michel Trillot … The showers guard
Marc Duret … Prison kitchen guard
Philippe Manesse … Prison hospital guard
Antoine Chain … Prisoner in hall
Ouassini Embarek … Greek client

Plot/Synopsis:

Virgil hopes to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a champion boxer. But not long after his father is sent to prison for murder, he loses his motivation and his licence.
So as not to disillusion his father, Virgil visits him every week and tells him that he is making a great career as a professional boxer. Then, one week, Virgil learns that his father is shortly to be released from prison. There is only one thing he can do. He must put on his boxing gloves and return to the ring… ~ Films de France

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Before the Fall (2004)

September 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: NaPolA
Year: 2004
Runtime: 109 minutes
Country: German
Language: German
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama | Sport | War

Director: Dennis Gansel

Cast: Max Riemelt (Friedrich ) | Tom Schilling (Albrecht) | Devid Striesow (Heinrich Volger) | Michael Schenk (sportsmaster) | Justus von Dohnanyi (Heinrich Stein)

Plot/Synopsis:

One of the Third Reich’s sinister plans for training a legion of strong and obedient young men to do their bidding is exposed in this historical drama, inspired by true-life events. In 1942, Friedrich Weimer is a 16-year-old amateur fighter who is spotted while working out at a boxing club by Heinrich Vogler. Vogler is a recruiter for the National-Political Institutes of Learning (called “NAPOLA” for short), where promising young men with various talents will be taught to hone their strength, cunning, and fearlessness to a fine point, with the ultimate goal of using NAPOLA graduates to help rule the territories Nazis will overtake once they’ve won the war. Vogler invites Weimer to join the NAPOLA training facility in Allenstein, and he accepts, despite the strong misgivings of his family. Weimer is at first enthusiastic and committed to his new regimen, and becomes friendly with a fellow student, Albrecht Stein, an aspiring writer whose father, a important man in the German military, would like to see him join the SS. Stein does not embrace the training with the same enthusiasm as many of his fellows, and in time he and Weimer develop feelings for one another that go beyond friendship. In time, Weimer begins to lose his enthusiasm for NAPOLA, especially after a mission to find escaped Russian prisoners leads to the death of unarmed teenagers, and he looks for a way to rebel against the repressive system.
Filmmaker Dennis Gansel dedicated Before the Fall to his grandfather, Peter Fritz Gansel, a NAPOLA veteran whose stories of the school’s brutality inspired the movie. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide / AllMovieBlog

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Fast Track: No Limits (2008)

September 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Fast Track – No Limits
Year: 2008
Runtime: 96 minutes
Country: Germany
Language: English
Subtitles: English | Chinese (.srt)
Genre: Action | Sport | Thriller

Director: Axel Sand

Cast:
Erin Cahill … Katie Reed
Andrew W. Walker … Mike Cassidy
Joseph Beattie … Eric Visnjic
Alexia Barlier … Nicole Devereaux
Nicholas Aaron … Wolf
Pasquale Aleardi … Gregor Gargolov
Jack Bence … Rainer
Tim Dantay … Neubeck
Ill-Young Kim … Markus
Shaun Prendergast … Heinrich
Carl Stück … Porsche Driver
Anna Tkatschenko … Race Driver

Plot/Synopsis:

Our main quartet of characters cross paths in a fast-paced beginning wherein Devereaux is pulled over for reckless endangerment and speeding by the handsome detective Eric Visnjnic (Joseph Beattie) whom she’s unable to convince to let her off of the hook with her rationale that had she injured or killed anyone, it would’ve been natural selection of weeding out those too stupid to get out of the way.

With Katie and her coworkers perpetually striving to get free pizza by strategically planning when their tow truck will be blocking his path, the local motor scooter driving pizza delivery man Mike (Andrew W. Walker) finds himself in the midst of more than just another joke when it’s Nicole’s car blocking his way and as we later discover Katie’s boyfriend Eric who sends him flying off the bike while in pursuit of criminals.

Although it’s the first times the characters will all intersect, it definitely isn’t the last as Mike later “borrows” the keys for Nicole’s car when it’s in Katie’s garage and proceeds to total it while taking part in one of their ritualistic street races– incidentally the same one Eric participates in to help Katie try to pay off her debt while fully realizing he’ll lose his badge if anyone catches him. As the plot circles around the track closer to the finish line when a local mobster and his associates are also tied into the situation, the film continually picks up momentum, only hitting a few speed bumps along the way in some dubious suspension of disbelief moments, some exploitative “sex on the car” sequences and a few instances wherein the payoff feels rushed and doesn’t fully satisfy our questions or the dilemmas raised earlier on in the movie.

Despite some of the flaws, they’re never enough to make us hit eject and much easier to forgive with the solid production values of the work. And aside from making our female lead prostitute herself out of debt in a rushed yet sleazy moment once onscreen, it’s nonetheless refreshingly to find that unlike American movies where we would’ve just cast her as the feisty girlfriend who stands by her man whether it’s Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Jason Statham, Nicolas Cage or Mark Wahlberg, the film ultimately centers on a strong-willed, independent female with a feisty boyfriend.

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The Miracle of Bern (2003)

June 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Das Wunder von Bern
Year: 2003
Runtime: 118 minutes
Country: Germany
Language: German | Swiss German
Subtitles: English (.srt) | Chinese (hard-subbed)
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Sport

Director: Sonke Wortmann

Cast:
Louis Klamroth … Matthias Lubanski
Peter Lohmeyer … Richard Lubanski
Johanna Gastdorf … Christa Lubanski
Mirko Lang … Bruno Lubanski
Birthe Wolter … Ingrid Lubanski
Katharina Wackernagel … Annette Ackermann
Lukas Gregorowicz … Paul Ackermann
Péter Franke … Sepp Herberger
Sascha Gopel … Helmut Rahn
Knut Hartwig … Fritz Walter
Holger Dexne … Horst Eckel
Simon Verhoeven … Ottmar Walter
Jo Stock … Toni Turek
Martin Bretschneider … Hans Schafer
Christian Broos … Werner Kohlmeyer (Im Endspiel)

Plot/Synopsis:

Richard, a coal miner from Essen, returns after nearly a decade of being a Soviet prisoner of war in Siberia. In the meantime, his wife, two sons and one daughter have reached a minimum standard of living without him. When he is unexpectedly repatriated in 1954, he has severe problems in reintegrating himself with his family and country. His wife is running a small business, his elder son has become a Communist challenging his father’s ideals of the Nazi time, his daughter flirts with his former enemies, British soldiers, and his 11-year-old son Matthias, who never knew his father, admires a local soccer hero instead, Helmut Rahn of Rot-Weib Essen.

While Richard is initially very stern about Matthias’ love for soccer, he gradually softens such that, on the night before the final, father and son drive to Bern to see the match.

An additional plot of the movie is the personal triumph of Helmut Rahn, for whom Matthias becomes a lucky mascot. Rahn, nicknamed “The Boss”, has a successful record at club level, though is rarely chosen to play at national level in trainer Sepp Herberger’s team.

There are several miraculous events in the movie. For Richard, it is the sudden joy of scoring a goal with an abandoned soccer ball. For Rahn, it is seeing Matthias on the sideline that spurs him into scoring the winning goal. For Sepp Herberger, however, the miracles are more mundane: the sudden rain that slows down the Hungarians (although it should be noted that German captain Fritz Walter tended to perform better in stormy conditions), but not so much the Germans fitted with Adi Dassler’s revolutionary screw-in soccer spikes. For all Germans, it’s the unexpected euphoria of a win that heals many wounds, becoming a symbol of the ongoing economic ‘miracle’.

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Fehér tenyér (2006)

June 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Fehér tenyér
AKA: White Palms
Year: 1965
Runtime: 97 min
Country: Hungary
Language: Russian | English | Hungarian
Subtitles: English (.srt) | Polish (.txt)
Genre: Drama | Sport

Director: Szabolcs Hajdu

Cast:
Zoltán Miklós Hajdu … Miklós Dongó
Kyle Shewfelt … Kyle Manjak
Gheorghe Dinica … Ferenc Szabó aka ‘Puma’
Andor Lukáts … Dad
Oana Pellea … Mom
Orion Radies … 10-year-old Dongó
Dávid Horváth … 10-year-old Józsi
Dávid Vecsernyés … 10-year-old Bakos
Péter Déri … 10-year-old Fónyi
Krisztián Oltyán … 10-year-old Csaba
Illés Vér … 10-year-old Miki
Csaba Mészáros … 10-year-old Sztelek
Tibor Géza Papp … 10-year-old Vágányik
Olivér Bajnóczi … 10-year-old Vágó
Ábel Dénes … 10-year-old gymnast

Plot/Synopsis:

Having suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, champion Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves to Calgary years later in search of a new start – only to find himself unwittingly perpetuating the very same cycle of abuse. Redemption appears in the unlikely form of Kyle, a troubled young Canadian teen with the potential to become a world champion, and the friendship and rivalry between teacher and student – each played by actual gymnasts – forms the basis of this gripping, uncommonly resonant sports drama. Beautifully shot and edited, effortlessly evoking its respective time-periods, and through them, the clash of different cultures and values.

One does not have to be a gymnastics fan to like this movie, but if one is, then the scenes of practice and competition are a real bonus.

The actor in the main role of Dongo (Zoltan Miklos Hajdu) is the director’s brother and a professional gymnast.

Brutal at times, this movie shows how over the years abuse is handed down from one to another.

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Children of Glory (2006)

May 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Szabadság, Szerelem
Year: 2006
Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes
Country: Hungary
Language: Hungarian / Russian / English
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama / History / Sports / War

Director: Krisztina Goda

Cast:
Kata Dobó: Viki Falk
Iván Fenyö: Karcsi Szabó
Sándor Csányi: Tibi Vámos
Károly Gesztesi: Coach Telki
Ildikó Bánsági: Karcsi’s Mother
Tamás Jordán: Karcsi’s Grandfather
Viktória Szávai: Eszter Hanák
Zsolt Huszár: Jancsi Gál
Tamás Keresztes: Imi Ács

Plot/Synopsis:

Budapest, 1956. A young waterpolo star, Karcsi, becomes embroiled in the anti-Soviet Revolution that is brewing in the streets. At first, he is only out for adventure, but a fiery student, Viki, catches Karcsi’s eye. And in following her steps he finds himself right at the heart of the uprising. Soon, with the subsequent retreat of the Red Army, the Revolution seems to be a success. Karcsi returns to his team to play at the Melbourne Olympics. Little does he know that the Soviets are marching right back into Hungary…. It is now up to Karcsi and his team mates to show the world that this small nation will not be defeated.

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