דרמה עלילתית באורך מלא. קאזיוק, איכר עיקש ואשתו ההרה גרים בכפר עם תאורה לא מושפעת מהציוויליזציה. בכפר מבקרים פעם זוג שוטטות, ודברים מוזרים מתחילים להתרחש אחר כך. תלמיד בית ספר חדש נשלח לאזור. היא מעוררת פנטזיות ארוטיות בקאזיוק. בערבוב של תסכול קאזוק כורת עץ משפחה - מעשה מקריב בעיני משפחתו. ללכת צעד אחד קדימה ולהשתמש בחרמש לחיתוך השיפון במקום מגל מביא את כל הכפר נגדו.
Seventy-three year old Wasserman swore never to pray again. He blames God for his family`s annihilation during the Holocaust. He is unwilling to forgive.But a dire situation forces Wasserman to reconsider. He needs money;
his creditors are knocking on his door. The only way his religious neighbors will help him out is if he agrees to join them in the synagogue for a communal prayer to end the devastating drought that is plaguing their region.
Now Wasserman has to confront his two daughters and grandson in a final attempt to hold on to his family and his land. He has 24 hours to make a decision...
This drama is based on the book by Joszef Balazs and tells the story of Hungarian peasants who went to work on a farm in North Germany during the time of the Second World War. This Hungarian film was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category.
German Newsreel no. 731 (7 September, 1944):
Agriculture: mountain-farmer family working; 70-year-old farmer working his hereditary farm (Erbhof); Reich Labor Service men and women help. Women working to aid war effort: women register for work; members of German Film Ballet work in Berlin defense plant; women do factory work once done only by men; kindergarten at defense plant for working mothers' children. Vice Admiral Heye decorates a lieutenant and one-man-torpedo pilots; Admiral Doenitz adds his congratulations. Western Front: motorized units roll to front; crossing streams on ferries and pontoon...
Drama, at the center of which is a bittersweet story about WWII and its influences told from the point of view of two children in occupied France; Paulette a girl from Paris who loses her parents in an aerial attack, and Michel son of a family of farmers that takes her into his parents' home until a permanent solution can be found for her. The two who become close friends decide to imitate the burial ceremonies of the adults around them and build a cemetery for pets. Winner of the Oscar Award in the category of best foreign film 1952.
Newsreel no. 525 (25 September, 1940):
Fascist labor corps in Norway. Hitler grants Hungary disputed Romanian territory; Reich Regent Admiral Horthy celebrates. Franco's envoy visits Hitler at chancellery; SS platoon in camouflage suits; Reich Party Labor Director Ley shows the Spanish minister Volkswagen models. Italy's colonial minister Teruzzi meets Hitler, tours western front. Festive Saarbruecken greets repatriated Germans. Todt organization in Saarbruecken. Mine warfare - from factory assembly to mine laying at sea. Italian bombers raid British base at Sollum, Egypt British air raid kills German...
The "Panorama" shows in the way of the renown "Wochenschau" scenes from the war and everyday life in wartime Germany between 1944 and 1945. All the footage of "Panorama" is in color and partly of very good quality.
museum, art exhibits, artistic and political motifs, motif
of the soldier willing to sacrifice himself for the nation.
Footage, From the film "Request Concert", 1940.
Music.
Footage: from a Nazi propaganda film, female typists singing.
Along with documenting the land battles of the eastern front, German army cameraman documented the lives of Russian citizens as well. This original Nazi propaganda footage was presented as true documentation of life in Russia after more than twenty years of the "Jewish-Bolshevik reign of terror". After manipulative editing by Nazi propagandists, a gloomy picture of the Soviet "paradise" is depicted.