Peter Hradil, a former doctor, arrives in a small mountain village to work in the local sawmill. Here he meets for the second time Marta Vlachová, his last patient. When he met her for the first time, he was at the beginning of his career as a doctor, and for her he carried out an illegal abortion which cost him his degree in medicine. She asks him to leave the village, but ...
A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf and, although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him to read and count. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where ...
Michael Lamb, a young priest who teaches in a Roman Catholic institution for troubled boys on the Atlantic coast of Ireland, becomes responsible for a 10-year-old epileptic boy, Owen Kane. Michael has formed an attachment to Owen and he takes him with him to London when he decides to secretly leave the school. His escape will be seen as a scandalous kidnapping.
rm sea, but Giò, the group leader, can't understand Edda's expectations. In the meantime, Hermann, a young German guy, decides to leave on a journey with his camera. Edda, after a failed debut, abandons the theatre company and meets Hermann. It's love at first sight. Thanks to the black and white and the cinema scope, Konermann's on-the-road movie, ric...
The movie follows Ah Xiao's life, who lives with his family, emigrated from China to Fengshan, in the southern part of Taiwan. As a teenager, Ah Xiao joins a gang, but he would like to attend the Military Academy. His mom dies because of a cancer. At her funeral, Ah Xiao cries for the first time in his life. Even the director, considered the first in line amongst the ones w...
Qin works as an assistant of a manager and her good working position allows her to buy a house. Lon, her boyfriend, is always talking about vague American dreams into which he wishes to involve her. When her company merge with a bigger one, she finds herself without a job. On top of that, her love story with Lon seems to finish, because he is too similar to her father. One o...
Il film, girato nel 1985, racconta la storia della prima ascensione solitaria del Cerro Torre in Patagonia, Argentina, effettuata dallo scalatore ticinese Marco Pedrini sulla “via del compressore”. Pochi giorni dopo la salita in solitaria, Pedrini affrontò la parete con il regista. Memorabili le riprese di Pedrini proprio alle prese con il compressore lasc...
«Non sei mai veramente in alto», una frase di Reinhard Karl che spinge Wolfgang Güllich e Norbert Sandner, fortissimi free climber, a compiere un viaggio negli Stati Uniti alla ricerca del superclimb. Yosemite, Joshua Tree, Monument Valley, Canyons. Un film storico dagli archivi della Cineteca del Cai.
Werner Herzog e Reinhold Messner si incontrano e si confrontano durante il riuscito tentativo di enchainement ai Gasherbrum I e II. Herzog si ferma al campo base e scava nell’animo dell’alpinista e del suo compagno di cordata Hans Kammerlander attraverso interviste furbe e spiazzanti. Il regista bavarese riuscirà addirittura a fare piangere Messner con una...
Quattordici minuti di esitazione sulla vetta del Piz Palù prima della discesa per il versante est. La decisione – forse – a sorpresa.
