The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 1946-1992
International Film Festival in what used to be Czechoslovakia.
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- DirectorIulian MihuStarsZephi AlsecMarga BarbuEmil BottaAdaptation based on the novel "Soseaua Nordului" by Eugen Barbu.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsSergey GerasimovTamara MakarovaBorivoj NavrátilThe film concentrates on the late years of the life of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy leading up to his death, telling about his disenchantment with the system and exploitation of the common people by the privileged classes.
- DirectorVictor J. TognolaStarsDino ContiAdelheid KochFranca Maria De MontiJohnny is an illusionist who tours the various local theaters with his magic box act. The act involves his wife, Ramona, who steps into a large box which is then pierced with swords and knives. A crank is turned and sausages emerge from the other side which are then offered to the audience. One night when he opens the box the audience reaction is unusually ecstatic. Johnny looks inside and discovers to his horror that his wife is no longer there. She has simply vanished. His colleagues and the director of the theatre ask him how he managed to make the woman disappear, but Johnny has no idea how it happened. He rushes off to look for her. He returns to his home town where he first met her and visits her mother. He goes back to all the places of his childhood and to all the possible places where he might find her. But his search is fruitless. He begins to realize that he was living in a dream world before, but the sudden jolt caused by Ramona's disappearance has now made him feel oddly much more alive. The show must go on, however, and he must find another woman to replace Ramona. Life goes with its daily engagements and commitments. Johnny, having once had a glimpse of objective reality, feels its intensity fading away. Ramona turns up unexpectedly one evening - but only for a moment. She slips away again, leaving Johnny bewildered. When he finally finds her he realizes that she, like he and everyone else, has only played her own rôle in a world of habits and conventions that has little to do with reality. Johnny sadly comes to understand that life is closer to a dream, an illusion, and that objective reality (that which makes us feel intensely alive and separates us from the dream) is almost always out of our reach.
- DirectorRoberto G. RiveraStarsHéctor SuárezRafael InclánRoberto CañedoThe tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.
- DirectorJirí SvobodaStarsJana BrejchováLadislav KrivácekMilan KnazkoNazi guerrillas rove the countryside after the end of WWII causing problems for farmers who want to move on with life.
- DirectorGovind NihalaniStarsOm PuriSmita PatilAmrish PuriA newly appointed police rookie deals with corruption, romance, and brutality.
- DirectorJaime ChávarriStarsAmparo Soler LealAgustín GonzálezVictoria AbrilThe story of a boy and his family during the Spanish Civil War.
- DirectorMaría Luisa BembergStarsSusú PecoraroImanol AriasHéctor AlterioIn 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ultimately succumbs to her. The two later escape to a far off, secluded village where they assume new identities as husband and wife and begin running a children's school. After several months of relative happiness, the couple's identity is discovered by a local priest. Under moralistic pressure from both Camila's family and the Catholic church the authorities apprehend the lovers, and imprison them for sacrilege.
- DirectorHark BohmStarsMarie ColbinMichael GwisdekChristine LimbachA mother shoots the murderer of her daughter in the courtroom.
- DirectorSerif GörenStarsHülya KoçyigitTarik AkanTalat BulutProblematic life of a newly graduated midwife in a remote village, where winters are really harsh.
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsAndré ValmyJean GavenMarc CassotCrew members of a French fishing ship in the North Sea fall ill one by one, poisoned by rotten meat. They can only survive by getting serum within the following hours. Joint actions of rescuers from different countries commence.
- DirectorJack LeeStarsVirginia McKennaPeter FinchKenji TakakiA newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Thinking back, she recalls the Australian man who made a great sacrifice to aid her and her fellow prisoners of war.
- DirectorIosif KheifitsStarsAleksey BatalovNelli PodgornayaSergei LukyanovA motor depot boss with links to black market traders sends the unsuspecting Rumyansev on a flight with stolen goods. On the road, the chauffer is arrested and put in prison. To cover their tracks the real criminals do everything possible to ensure Rumyansev receives the full blame. The heartless and suspicious chief of police isn't up to finding the real crooks and so Rumyansev's case gets passed to a clever and experienced General.
- DirectorArthur Maria RabenaltStarsMarianne KochKarlheinz BöhmHeidemarie HatheyerDr. Danwitz (Karlheinz Böhm) and Dr. Hauser are assistant doctors at a hospital and they are not getting paid for their work, like it was usual in the Fifties of post-war Germany. While Dr. Danwitz' wife Edith (Marianne Koch) is working part- time as a model to bring home some money, Dr. Hauser has to drive a taxi at night for his living. When Edith' superior Mrs. Hambach (Heidemarie Hatheyer) finds out that she is pregnant, she doesn't want to have the child, because her husband is stepping out on her for so many times. After all Edith finds out that she is pregnant herself and she tells Mrs. Hambach that she can't go on working as a model, although there won't be any income for the Danwitzes anymore. Mrs. Hambach, very desperate, takes the chance and offers Dr. Danwitz and Dr. Hauser a very large amount of money for giving her an illegal abortion. But then something terrible happens.
- DirectorNikola KorabovDucho MundrovStarsGeorgi KaloyanchevMariya RusalievaIvan DimovThe construction of the first socialist town in Bulgaria - Dimitrovgrad.
- DirectorFélix MáriássyStarsÉva RuttkaiTibor BitskeyElma BullaMarci has long had a crush on Julika, who lives in the same house as him, but before their love could blossom, he is drafted into the army. Juli is sent to work in a factory, where she falls in with the wrong crowd, often partying until dawn consuming "piccolo lights". After a year, Marci returns home and gets deeply disappointed in her and breaks up with her. But Juli loves him too and hopes that he will give her the security she needs to return to her old self.
- DirectorGerhard KleinStarsAnnekathrin BürgerUlrich TheinUwe-Jens PapeDie 16-jährige Ostberlinerin Uschi (Annekathrin Bürger) lernt im HO-Bekeidungswarenhaus am Alexanderplatz den Beruf einer Verkäuferin. Als sie bei einer Modenschau Kleider vorführen darf, kommt sie auf die Idee, Mannequin zu werden. Aber ihre Eltern (Erika Dunkelmann und Erich Franz) sind damit nicht einverstanden. Eines Tages begleitet Uschi ihre Freundin nach Feierabend wieder mal in den Westsektor der Stadt. An einem Stand möchte sie sich etwas zum Naschen kaufen. Der Händler will zwar ihr Ostgeld annehmen, aber den Schein nicht wechseln. Das bekommt ein in der Nähe stehender junger Mann mit und bezahlt die Summe. "Lord" (Uwe-Jens Pape), seine lustige, unbekümmerte Art und auch sein Kofferradio gefallen Uschi, und sie geht noch ein Stück mit ihm spazieren. Er und sein Freund Hans (Ulrich Thein) wohnen im Westsektor und verdienen ihr Geld mit dem Waschen von Luxuslimousinen. Für Hans ist Uschi Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Als die Autowäscherei eines Tages dicht macht und "Lord" Berlin verlässt, ergreift Hans seine Chance bei der jungen Frau. Mit seiner ruhigen, zuverlässigen Art verzeichnet er bald Erfolge, und es entwickelt sich zwischen beiden eine zarte Liebe. Nach mehreren erfolglosen Versuchen findet er eine neue Arbeit bei einem Abbruchunternehmen. Er ermutigt Uschi, sich bei einer Mannequinschule anzumelden und übernimmt die Kosten. Sie verbringen sehr viel Zeit miteinander, und eines Tages, während eines starken Regens, geht Hans mit ihr in die Wohnung eines Freundes. Uschi vermutet, dass es seine ist, doch auch er wohnt noch bei seiner Mutter (Marga Legal). Da Uschi immer öfter spät nach Hause kommt, gibt es Ärger mit ihren Eltern. Nach einem heftigen Streit beschließt sie, zu Hans zu ziehen. Doch in seiner vermeintlichen Wohnung öffnet eine junge Frau, die ihr erklärt, dass Hans gar nicht hier wohnt. Mit einem Hoffnungsschimmer für eine gemeinsame Zukunft endet die Liebesgeschichte zweier junger Menschen - einem Mädchen aus Ostberlin und einem jungen Mann aus dem Westsektor der Stadt. Die noch vor dem Mauerbau entstandene Komödie steht in ihrer unpathetischen Romantik dem italienischen Neorealismus nahe und ist ein hochinteressantes Zeitdokument. Für Regisseur Gerhard Klein war Hauptdarstellerin Annekathrin Bürger eine Notbesetzung. Doch die damals 17-Jährige bescherte dem Film mit ihrer unbekümmerten, natürlichen Ausstrahlung großen Erfolg beim Publikum. Die Rolle der Uschi in "Eine Berliner Romanze" wurde zum Auftakt ihrer großartigen Schauspielkarriere - und aus der Romanze im Film wurde auch im wirklichen Leben Liebe: Annekathrin Bürger und ihr Filmpartner Ulrich Thein waren bis 1961 ein Paar.
- DirectorKurt MaetzigStarsGünther SimonHans-Peter MinettiErich FranzThis historical-biographical film begins in the first days of November 1918 on the western front. News comes to the soldiers of a revolutionary uprising in Kiel. Young Thälmann, a soldier against his will, would like to join the expanding conflict on the side of his comrades in Hamburg. As the revolution becomes threatened by the betrayal of the right-wing Social Democrats and the splintering of the working class, he nevertheless tries unremittingly to unite the workers. The reactionaries grow ever stronger and the neediness of ordinary people multiplies. In this dire situation, the Hamburg police commissioner would like to block the unloading of a ship full of provisions that were sent from Petrograd as a message of solidarity. But Thälmann prevails in unloading it. The high point and conclusion of the first part of the Thälmann films is established at the Hamburg Uprising in October 1923.
- DirectorArne MattssonStarsErik StrandmarkHjördis PettersonNils HallbergThe widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson, who quickly wins the heart of Anna Eva.
- DirectorYves AllégretStarsGérard PhilipeMichèle CordoueUmberto SpadaroPhilippe Morin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteriorates but he refuses to follow the doctor's orders as well as the advice of Micheline, a young nurse who has fallen in love with him. However, driven by the evolution of his illness, Philippe finally makes up his mind to go down to the valley for a treatment. On the very day of his departure though, a young Arab worker gets killed in a rock crusher...
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsKôjirô KusanagiSachiko HidariTaketoshi NaitôWhen an elderly couple is murdered, the police pick up the most likely suspect, a young loner. The authorities force a confession out of the suspect, who then insists that he had a pair of accomplices.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsErnest BorgnineBetsy BlairEsther MinciottiA middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.
- DirectorGiorgos ZervosStarsEllie LambetiNikos HatziskosAthanasia MoustakaReturning to Athens after the end of the World War II, Captain Nikolas finds out what happened to his family from a neighbor.
- DirectorPaul CalinescuStarsIurie DarieIleana IordacheMarcel AnghelescuA fashion designer releases an ugly model for his new collection, and although everyone catches his eye, the man doesn't want to admit his failure. Until the moment when his acquaintances make an unusual decision to open his eyes.
- DirectorZorz SkriginStarsLjubisa JovanovicVasa PantelicJovan KonjovicJelena and doctor Mirkovic realize that their relationship is not just fulfilling the party's task of better maintenance of the illegal press. When Mirkovic joined partisans, one of the illegal fighters didn't endure interrogation of the police and reveals the press-room's location. Jelena manages to save herself and the press continues its work.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniStarsAntonio CifarielloFranco FabriziGiovanna RalliAlvaro is been in jail, so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello, and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They only need a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?
- DirectorNelson Pereira dos SantosStarsModesto De SouzaRoberto BataglinJece ValadãoA semi-documentary on the people of Rio de Janeiro. The camera follows boys from a hillside shanty town who sell peanuts at Copacabana, Sugar Loaf Mountain, and a soccer game. Various subplots, involving characters they meet along the way, are interspersed.
- DirectorMichael ForlongStarsLeif LarsenPalmar BjørnøyAnthony OliverDuring World War II, a small group of Norwegian sailors take refugees from Norway to the Shetland Islands in small fishing boats, equipped only with low-caliber weapons to protect themselves from German airplanes and patrol boats.
- DirectorLászló RanódyStarsMargit BaraFerenc BessenyeiJózsef BihariA boy from a peasant family returns grown up to his village as a teacher and tries to use his new role to bridge the gap (abyss of the title) between rich and poor, only to blamed for a death that happens.
- DirectorCecil HolmesStarsJohn McCallumEdmund AllisonReg LyeThis film contains three short stories about life in Australia in the 1950's.
- DirectorYanko YankovStarsApostol KaramitevPetrana LambrinovaZheni BozhinovaLyrical comedy. The positive changes in a young man under the influence of love.
- DirectorGlauco PellegriniStarsRoberto RissoGiovanna RalliTina PicaNewlyweds "Gabriela" and "Franco" win a mink fur in the lottery. How might it affect their lives?
- DirectorVáclav GajerStarsEduard CupákJirí BrozAlena Vránová
- DirectorGrigoriy RoshalStarsMikhail MerkulovRufina NifontovaVsevolod PlatovA boy and his mother leave their village to work for a merchant who runs a fishery.
- DirectorLuciano EmmerStarsPablo PicassoJean DavyThe evolution of Picasso's painting up to his «pink phase».
- DirectorAlberto CavalcantiStarsCurt BoisHeinz EngelmannMaria EmoThe sole film version of one of his plays that the demanding Brecht approved of: A drunken rich man breaks up the engagement of his daughter to a respectable ambassador and wants her instead to wed his trusted valet.
- DirectorWanda JakubowskaStarsWanda BartównaHuguette FagetTatyana GuretskayaFemale prisoners of various ethnic background struggle to survive the hardships of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
- DirectorLuis César AmadoriStarsPedro López LagarSabina OlmosMarisa RegulesThe film is based on the life of Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Albéniz. In this story Albéniz is represented since he was a child prodigy, so talented that even comes to say that his presentations were a fraud. The film also shows the child as the victim of a tyrannical father, who tries to fulfill his own desires through his son. To escape the pressure of his father, Albéniz fled his home, first to South America and then to the United States. The musician's personal life was marked by tumultuous romances. Albéniz returned to Spain, but received a scholarship at the Brussels Conservatory awarded by King Alfonso XII, but once again the focus of his attention was on women, rather than on music. The musician achieved international fame through concerts that he financed himself, obtaining many awards.
- DirectorJacques BeckerStarsRoger PigautClaire MafféiNoël RoquevertWorking class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life. In the midst of constantly fending off the unwanted attention of men, especially the grocer Monsieur Roland, Antoinette purchases a winning lottery ticket. But when Antoine loses their ticket out of poverty, their dreams seem like they'll remain just that.
- DirectorMárton KeletiStarsKlári TolnayIda TurayAndor AjtayIstván Pongrácz, the Lord of Nemec dislikes living in his age, so he lives his life like a medieval nobleman.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonFelix BressartAfter losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children.
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsVivi GioiAndrea ChecchiCarla Del PoggioImmediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBarbro KollbergBirger MalmstenGösta CederlundYoung love confronts stupidity and boredom of society.
- DirectorBjarne Henning-JensenStarsTove MaësKaren PoulsenRasmus OttesenDitte grows up with her grandparents. When the mother moves with Lars Peter, Ditte is taken home to take care of her siblings. She comes to work at Bakkegården, but is thrown out as she awaits children.
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsCarla Del PoggioMassimo GirottiJacques SernasA psychopath leads students into crime. He is shot by the police after a detective has become involved with his sister.
- DirectorRobert HamerStarsGoogie WithersJack WarnerJohn McCallumAn escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
- DirectorLouis DaquinStarsAlbert PréjeanMadeleine RobinsonRoger PigautProvincial girl Julie Moret arrives in Paris to serve in a residential house. She soon married seemingly nice guy Leo Bouquinquant, but he uncovers as brutal drunkard and lazy.
- DirectorHerbert KlineJoseph LejtesBen OysermanStarsY. AdakiIrene BrozaMichael CohenA boy who survived the Holocaust hopes to be reunited with his parents in the Holy Land.
- DirectorHampe FaustmanStarsSigurd WallénDagny LindBirger MalmstenThe farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevStarsKonstantin SkorobogatovVladimir ChestnokovOlga LebzakOn the life of Russian doctor Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov who used field surgery in the 1853 Crimean War.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsVsevolod AksyonovYelena KuzminaMikhail AstangovMcPherson and Gould, the owners of a dozen reactionary American newspapers, are systematically conducting a slanderous campaign against the Soviet Union. In order to get "fresh" material, they send journalist Harry Smith to Russia. Returning from Russia, Smith feels that he is not able to fulfill the order of the newspaper owners. Contrary to everything, Smith decides to write the truth about the Russian people. McPherson widely advertises a future book. But after reading the true work of a journalist, McPherson enters into a frantic rage.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsMaría FélixCarlos López MoctezumaFernando FernándezCalled by the Mexican President himself, and in spite of a heart condition, young teacher Rosaura Salazar travels to the deserted town of Rio Escondido to accomplish the mission of bringing education to the poorest people. Being there, Salazar has to fight Regino Sandoval the evil landlord of the town. He has transformed the town into his own property, imposing his will and spreading death everywhere.
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsVladimir DruzhnikovMarina LadyninaBoris AndreyevHis right hand having been wounded during the war, concert pianist Andrei Balashov is unable to perform his art. As a result, the young man feels so depressed that he considers his life wasted. One day, he decides to leave the capital and flee from the woman he loves, Natasha, a rising singing star. Andrei takes refuge in Siberia, his native land. Once there, he gets a job in a sawmill, where he entertains his fellow-workers playing the accordion during leisure hours. Some time later, Natasha and her company are expected in America where they are to do a tour. But an airplane breakdown forces the pilot to land next to the village in which Andrei lives and works...
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMyrna LoyDana AndrewsFredric MarchThree World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsMontgomery CliftIvan JandlAline MacMahonIn post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.
- DirectorIgor SavchenkoStarsAleksei DikijNikolay BogolyubovYuri ShumskyOne of the first Soviet films made after WWII that, looking back at the conflict (here specifically the counteroffensive to liberate the Crimea and Sevastopol) stresses the supposed role of Stalin in planning every detail of strategy.
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsRita TushinghamDora BryanRobert StephensA pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsFranco CittiFranca PasutSilvana CorsiniA pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
- DirectorVladimír SísStarsPitradjaya BurnamaBambang HermantoGustav HeverleAfter the end of the Second World War, the fighting continued in some parts of the world, as colonized countries struggled for independence. In the setting for this film, Indonesian soldiers have already won freedom for the island of Java, but on Kalimantan, called Borneo by the colonizers, Dutch soldiers remain. One day they bombard a village and only the Indonesian Captain Bitah survives. Under dramatic circumstances, he manages to reach Java on a raft. There, he establishes a small partisan unit dropped from an airplane over the Kalimantan jungle. During the descent, one of the paratroopers is severely injured and another one, the telegraphist Sarto, loses the transmitter in the moorland. Dutch soldiers find the parachute and begin to pursue the partisans.
- DirectorGlauber RochaStarsAntonio PitangaLuiza MaranhãoLucy de CarvalhoIn the State of Bahia, Brazil, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé religion, which he considers a factor of political and social oppression.
- DirectorMihai IacobStarsRadu BeliganSanda TomaIon Fintesteanu
- DirectorJulio García EspinosaStarsBlas MoraWember BrosJosé Yedra
- DirectorFrigyes BánStarsLászló BánhidiAntal PágerJános Rajz
- DirectorAlfredo GiannettiStarsTomas MilianNino CastelnuovoMadeleine RobinsonThe mental illness that struck young Dario, one of the two children of the Dominici family who lives in a magnificent Roman palace, disrupts the life of all its members.
- DirectorNitin BoseStarsDilip KumarVyjayanthimalaNasir KhanGungaram, a poor, indebted farmer, works hard to educate his younger brother Jumna and make him a police officer. Years later, circumstances force Gungaram to become an outlaw and now the brothers confront each other as enemies.
- DirectorBent ChristensenStarsOsvald HelmuthEbbe RodeGunnar LauringSet in the late fifties in Denmark the poor junk yard assistant Harry inherits some money. He decides to use the money to hire a butler. The butler isn't too keen on the job at first, but he takes it because there aren't that many butler-jobs around at the moment. In the beginning both of them don't know what to expect of the other, but find a way to satisfy both of them. The people in the neighborhood at first make jokes about Harry and his butler, but in the end they start to accept him when he starts to help them.
- DirectorMartin RittStarsRichard BeymerDiane BakerCorinne CalvetAn immature young man from Middle America grows to manhood after a cross-country journey and his military service in World War I.
- DirectorAlfred WeidenmannStarsLilli PalmerCharles BoyerJean SorelA successful and married, although not quite young, actress at a London theatre, falls for a young man, only a little older than her son, involved with a young actress who uses him to advance her career and upstage the leading lady.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsKeiko KishiTatsuya NakadaiSô YamamuraA dying businessman intends to will two hundred million yen to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.
- DirectorFrank BeyerStarsAnnekathrin BürgerArmin Mueller-StahlUlrich TheinSet in the historical context of anti-Nazi resistance, this love story explores the moral issues of the period. Beyer's second antifascist film, it stands out stylistically due to the clear references to the work of Tarkovsky.
- DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsAleksei DikijMaksim ShtraukhViktor KhokhryakovA large-scale battle between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany from the point of view of Stalin.
- DirectorLouis DaquinStarsJean DesaillyRené LefèvreMarie-Hélène DastéSocially conscious and realistic treatment of hard working coal miners in the north of France, and a struggle between a younger and older engineer.
- DirectorJirí WeissStarsJosef CervinkaOldrich HoblíkBohus Ujcek
- DirectorGrigoriy RoshalStarsAleksandr BorisovNina AlisovaNikolai PlotnikovBiography of Russian scientist and teacher Ivan Pavlov (1846-1936) famed for his theory of conditioned reflexes.Stresses that he was no yes man but instead a true non conformist.
- DirectorMikheil ChiaureliStarsMikheil GelovaniBoris AndreyevVladimir SavelevA years-long struggle of the Soviet people against the German war machine is shown from the point of view of Stalin and from the point of view of an ordinary soldier and his beloved girl.
- DirectorErji GuangbudaoMeng ShaStarsLianxing ShiYan WangYing ZhangBiography of heroine Zhao Yi-Man who fought and died valiantly in northeast China during the anti-Japanese war.
- DirectorZifeng LingQiang ZhaiStarsShen YueLi BoBuhua QinWomen play a heroic role in the Volunteer Army fighting the Japanese in the puppet state of Manchukuo.
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinDmitriy VasilevStarsYuri YurovskyIlya SudakovVladimir BelokurovBiopic on Nikolay Zhukovsky, a scientist, mathematician and engineer who is considered the father of Russian aviation.
- DirectorYuli RaizmanStarsSergey BondarchukAnatoli ChemodurovKira KanaevaA soldier returns from war to the picturesque Kuban farmland of the Caucasus and convinces the people in his collective to progress technically by digging a canal and building a power station.
- DirectorChoui KhouaBin WangStarsLu ZhaoShouwei ZhangHua TianThe story centers on a well-known Chinese folk tale about a girl named Xi'er, the daughter of a poor farmer in Shaanxi province, whose family is persecuted by a brutal landlord.
- DirectorBan LüDongshan ShiStarsXin JinXiangli YaoZhenhe YanThe fate of a young Chinese woman in the struggle for people's freedom in 1937.
- DirectorJerzy ZarzyckiStarsJan KurnakowiczZofia MrozowskaIgor SmialowskiThe story of those who stayed in the ruins and rubble of Warsaw after the failed 1944 uprising.
- DirectorJean-Paul Le ChanoisStarsBernard BlierDanièle DelormePierre TrabaudThérèse Ravenaz is a charming young woman but also the victim of a seducer who abandoned her as soon as she told him that she was expecting his baby. To trace her unworthy lover, she boards a taxi driven by friendly cabdriver Emile Gauthier, who agrees to help her. But street after street, district after district, the seducer is nowhere to be found in Paris. And when she finally achieves the end of her quest, there is no Holy Grail. She learns that the rotter is already married. Fortunately, Emile has a heart of gold.
- DirectorGeorg C. KlarenStarsKäte AlvingUrsula BurgMaly DelschaftIn 1943, a Göttingen university professor celebrates 30 years teaching. A son with the SS in Norway is expected as well as a daughter, a pianist in occupied France.But a former colleague , escaped from a camp,also comes, and asks for help.
- DirectorJirí WeissStarsOtomar KrejcaAntonie HegerlíkováSvetla AmortováLadislava Zápotocký is exiled to Zákolany where he works as a tailor. He organizes a local workers' association that, despite prosecution, manages to win election in 1897 for the social democratic party in the voting district.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsLutz MoikHanna RuckerPaul BildtPeter Munk, a poor charcoal burner, lives with his mother in The Black Forest. Poverty prevents him from marrying Lisbeth, the girl he loves. When he comes across the Little Glass Man, the good spirit of the forest, the young man asks him for assistance. His wish is granted and he becomes rich. But the fool soon loses all his money after gambling at the inn. In desperation, he asks Dutch Michael, the evil spirit of the forest, to help him to become rich again. The mean giant agrees and gives Peter all the riches in the world, but on one condition: the young man will exchange his heart for a cold stone. He can now marry Lisbeth but can a heart of ice make you and the others happy...?
- DirectorAndrew Thorndike
- DirectorMikheil ChiaureliStarsPavel MolchanovMikheil GelovaniBoris AndreyevDuring the Russian Civil War, the Reds and the Whites clashed over possession of the former capital.
- DirectorJean GeorgescuVictor IliuStarsConstantin RamadanGeorge ManuNana IanculescuThe film shows that Romanian peasants were divided between those opposing and those embracing collectivization. The heated debates between the pro and con camps would ultimately lead to murder.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsGina LollobrigidaAndrea ChecchiVittorio DuseAbout a group of Italian resistance fighters from Genoa and led by Commander Vento. They must seize a shipment of weapons destined for the German occupation.
- DirectorSlatan DudowStarsSonja SutterLotte LoebingerAnneliese BookBerlin, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for happiness and a good man in the divided city. Their destinies are loosely connected through one person: the West Berlin dandy and womanizer, Conny. Released at the peak of East German cultural and political dogmatism, the film was heavily critiqued, especially by female party leaders who objected that its portrayal of the four women did not represent the qualities that characterized women in the new society. Now considered as a richly contradictory work, Destinies of Women represents an encore production by the Dudow/Eisler/Brecht creative team that also made Kuhle Wampe in 1932.
- DirectorHenri Diamant-BergerStarsPierre FresnayElina LabourdetteAndré RandallPierre Fresnay plays the title role of a dedicated man, living in the south of France in the 19th-century and somewhat ahead of his time. Fabre ekes out a meager existence for his huge family as a mathematics instructor who studies insects. Recognition of his work, both in the field of entomology and as it related to man's behavior, came slowly over a 50-year period that showed him that man alone possesses a soul and free will.