Kalmán Furtek, a worker in charge of feeding the beasts in a zoo, loves his job and animals. He lives according to a system of values which he has built thanks to his close relationship to the beasts. The arrival of an helper will unsettle his ordinate life.
Vilian, a young professor with a passion for astronomy, discovers a comet and, together with his friend, Fiala, they dream of naming it after them. Meanwhile, Vilian's wife stresses him because she wants a bigger apartment. Later on, Vilian finds out that his friend gave the comet only his name, betraying his trust. Vilian gives up his job as a professor, but manages, anyway...
Rado is a driver who carries vegetables and fruits, but covertly he is also a smuggler. When Plamen, his 14 years old kid, finds out his dad's shady deals he turns into a rebel. Rado recognizes his mistakes, but Plamen deserts his home. With an extreme act, Rado will try to recover his kid's respect.
In 1968 Sybilla is eighteen years old. The story takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria, during a time of great political and social fights, rebellion and sexual revolution. Amidst the political upheaval, she is sent to a girls' re-education camp when she is caught using drugs. After a failed affair and an abortion, Sybilla's drug use lands her in a mental clinic where she resists e...
The director has lost his brother, his father and his mother and tells about these three deaths in this autobiographical film. A senseless death, the one of his brother Armand, caught in a fire during a party. A heartrending death, the one of his father, who has to submit to a devastating cancer. A conscious death, the one of his mother, overcome with grief by the death of o...
the night by a huge wall that divides the French speakers from the Flemish speakers.
SYNOPSIS Africa. In the wild expanses, where bushbucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush, lie in wait, stalk their prey. They shoot, sob with excitement and pose before the animals they have bagged. A vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature. ...
Sent on a mission to Paris to control the work of three Soviet agents, a rigid and stern Russian Communist commissary opens her heart for the beautiful eyes of an aristocratic man and a neat little hat. Based on a screenplay written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, Lubitsch's movie depicts a world of luxurious hotels, revolving doors, penniless nobility and moral aristo...
In questa emergenza sanitaria, anche il regista e nostro grande amico Davide Ferrario – tra i soci fondatori della nostra casa di distribuzione – ha voluto regalarci alcuni dei suoi lavori da mettere a disposizione on demand sul nostro canale Vimeo: Pillole di Ferrario sono quattro importanti titoli della sua filmografia + ...