Soon after the end of the Second World War, in the small orthodox village of Vitanija, the new communist authorities starts the so called "God's uprooting" process. They enter the church, hanging the flag of the Communist Party and overpaint frescoes, but frescos each time miraculously return, so the people start thinking that the Messiah is in the village and he is doing mi...
Claudia, Jürgen and Michael - all of them twenty years old - have decided to kill a leading politician. They organize a robbery, to get enough money to buy weapons and explosives. They have rented an apartment from where they can study the habits and movements of the victim. They prepare every tiny detail, but something will not go as planned.
Interviews made by Kieslowski to seventy-nine Polish persons of different ages. The three questions they have to answer are: When were you born? What do you do? What do you desire the most and who is the most important person in your life?
A rich widow gets killed and Vole (Power), her lover, is suspected of murder. The only hope for the man to clear his name is that his wife (Dietrich) witnesses in his favor, but also the woman has some secrets to protect. Based on a play by Agatha Christie, Witness for the Prosecution, the movie is a tensed drama that won six Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Ro...
In the spring of 1896, five years after the mysterious exile, Tiburzi, an highwayman, suddenly reappears in the Maremma area, in Tuscany, Italy, the place where he had been ruling for twenty-five years. But something has changed. Now the house of Savoy reign on those territories, which were once considered wild and dangerous. A manhunt is organized by the local police and th...
Tano, the old barber of the village, promises to his son Tino, who dreams to become a barber like his dad, that the day of his fifteenth birthday he will be allowed to shave his first client. But that day, Tino dies. Tano, who has lost his mind, closes the shop and tries to resuscitate him in a quite curious way…
Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress, Lena, is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. We will discover that Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, once a virtuose who gives up after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal with Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido...
In Miskolc, in 1982, a teenager shoots with a rifle to his father, without any reason, apparently. The mother, who just came back for the hospital, will find out what her son did a few days after. The boy is now in prison, where he must stay for thirteen years. His father's dream was to open again a shooting gallery. The film won the Rosa Camuna prize at Bergamo Film Meetin...
Two fortyish men who haven't seen each other for two decades bump into each other one grey afternoon in the Place de la Bastille. Joseph has been just fired from the typography where he worked, while Alexandre, who dreamt to become a writer, ended up writing investigative reports as a pen pusher. On top of that, libido is decreasing, and they share the impression that nobody...
Storia poetica e folle di Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), una ninfomane, come lei stessa si autoproclama, dalla nascita fino all’età di cinquant'anni. Una sera d’inverno l'affascinante scapolo Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), incontra Joe, che è stata picchiata e lasciata in un vicolo. Inizia così il racconto, diviso in otto capitoli, ...
