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My Father Gulag

My Father Gulag
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None of his names is his real one. He never met his father, he doesn`t know whether he is a child of love or violence. He doesn`t even know his homeland. This documentary is a story of Jan Antal who was born 57 years ago in a Russian gulag to a wrongfully deported Slovak mother. This is the first time he has traveled to where he was born and spent the first three years of his life. He reached the end of the world with one question: "Did you know my father?". A story of a man deeply troubled by his unknown origin. He has had three names during his lifetime, yet none of them was really his own. He has never known whether he was born out of love, or crime. Will he find it out now? In an old blue-collar quarter, in a small apartment, there lives Jan Kawasch with his wife and four daughters. He is 54 years old, he was born in the middle of the last century. Four years after his birth, an empire of evil and violence, the empire of Stalin´s Russia started to fall apart. Jan Kawasch hates the stalinist regime, because it robbed his mother of her family, her husband and daughter, her property and eight years of her life which she had to spend as a convict in the gold mines of Magadan. His mother gave birth to him in the labor camp of the gold mines, where the Soviet Army dragged her after she was accused of espionage. Since she spoke German, her mother´s tongue, in everyday life, Soviet Army martial court convicted her to 15 years in prison in the early days after the end of war. His father was an unknown guard in the camp and the circumstances of his mother pregnancy are not known. Jan Kawasch himself believes that his father was a good man and even wanted to marry his mother. But no evidence supports his point. The fact is, that an undernourished child around 1 kilogram of weight was born to Irena Kawaschova and unlike most of the camp children who were left to a certain death, they found a wet-nurse in nearby village for the baby boy and Irena Kawaschova was even allowed to visit her son from time to time as a reward for good work. When the boy turned three years old, he was taken to a foster home. After Stalin´s death the falsely accused prisoners started to be released and so was Irena Kawaschova. She returned to her home town just to fi nd out that the she was pronounced dead and her husband started a new family. She found refuge with her mother and started looking for her lost son in Russia. The baby was found in a Moscow orphanage and sent to his mother. In the documentary fi lm, the man who was born due to an injustice and crime against his mother, speaks about his life, why he in spite of all that loves to live. The crew will visit the site of the camp in Magadan and will try to locate the village, where Jan lived the fi rst three years of his life, and to fi nd his “milk brother”, the wet-nurse´s own baby of nearly the same age. This documentary is a part of three part documentary series on innocent people taken to Soviet prisons and gulags, and their life experience.

Holky z fildy

Holky z fildy
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Revolution Girls is the story of one generation of Czech women who took part in the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Though their lives took different directions after the student strike in 1989, they still share some of the zeal required to achieve the things they believe in. Jana, a representative in the EU Parliament, is passionate about saving the world. Alena writes one book after another, searching the past for hints that would inspire the present. Alice is a successful entrepreneur who raises an adopted Roma daughter and fulfills her childhood dream of having a big family. Pavla puts her energy into a career in the music business while searching for her place in life. Are they living their dreams? How many revolutions does a woman go through by the time she is forty? What can their stories tell us about the time and place they live in?

Revue

Revue
  • Director
    Sergei Loznitsa
  • Producer
    Heino Deckert
  • Country
    Germany, Russia, Ukraine
  • Related to film
    Revue
  • Language
    No dialogue
  • Category
    Archive , History, Society
  • Length
    1' 00''
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Revue is based on archive propaganda newsreels produced in the USSR in the 50's and 60's. The film shows the almost forgotten side of the Soviet times and the way of thinking at that period. It explores the life of people all across the vast expanse of the Soviet Motherland, full of hardship, deprivation and absurd rituals, and at the same time illuminated by the glorious shining of the communist illusion.

Making rain

Making rain
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The Vumba Hills in central Mozambique, close to the Zimbabwe border, are the kingdom of Mambo (Chief) Chirara. The Mambo's leading position is acknowledged by the government, and in addition to being the region`s most important spiritual leader, the Mambo has the right to hold court cases that deal with minor crimes, problems involving spirits and domestic affairs. In the northernmost corner of the Mambos kingdom, Mbuya Gondo, a woman in her seventies, is a spiritual medium. In the film, gender issues and local politics are brought to the surface as we follow these two leaders during a period of preparing for and performing the annual rainmaking rituals.

Ramadan - Guide to fame

Ramadan - Guide to fame
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Have you ever heard Bulgarian folk music? In this documentary which main characters have dedicated their lives to bring this music through centuries you certainly will. This film will present the spiritual leader of this music style – the charming and extremely gifted clarinetist Ramadan Lolov. By following his ghost from early 20 th century fairs to the modern cities streets we will explore the strength of personal charisma and illusions.

Lost World

Lost World
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The life, demolition and reconstruction of the Kopaszi dam between 1998 and 2007. A mostly black & white 35mm documentary shot over ten years in a forgotten landscape in the center of Budapest. People living in houseboats and wooden houses, struggling against flood, snow and investors who want them to evict. The second part of The Dike of Transience.

Lotmans World

Lotmans World
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The world is in every person. Microcosms have no boundaries. They are exactly as big as the imagination of their owner. Juri Lotman's imagination was clearly very big. The entire universe fit into it - a large portion of Russian literature, the semiosphere, the size of the galaxy, and detailed knowledge of wartime lines of communication. As a cosmopolitan, he travelled about various orbits, gathering and recording different kinds of information. The time came when the ideas that resulted from the of processing information started to look for a means of expression. Some of them found their way out through picture drawings, others by way of written words. In Lotman's world, Hitler and Stalin meet, and images of St. Petersburg and Tartu intertwine. The roundtable of semioticians such as Eco, Uspenski, Toporov, Jegorov, Ivanov, Pjatigorski have the floor. There are as many worlds as there are people. But there is only one Lotman's World.

Liliputian Mimicri - part one: The Blinking Sand

Liliputian Mimicri - part one: The Blinking Sand
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Of all marine creatures the smallest are the hardest to film. Due to their size and amazing ability to hide, they are almost invisible to the human eye. Underwater cameraman and wildlife-filmmaker Dávid Attila Molnar gives an amazing introduction into the hidden world of marine liliputians. Geared up in technical scuba diving equipment, he talks about his underwater adventures from a sea aquarium. Thanks to a 2-way underwater communication system he talks to a group of school children who listen outside.Special sound and visual effects, funny animations and fantastic wildlife stories. A joyful, happy documentary recommended for every age group.

Restaurant Bakhmaro

Restaurant Bakhmaro
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A journey into a lively, yet desolate building in a provincial Georgian town. It once used to be a hotel called ‘Bakhmaro’. At the center of the building there is a restaurant with its walls covered in bright green and orange plastic foam and where the tables are set waiting for customers who rarely come. A Chinese shop, slot machines and a political party office can also be found here. The building is a microcosm sodden with the constant anticipation of change. It is a model of one troubled country with its endless demonstrations and opposition rallies. At the same time the backdrop of political situation only mirrors the life people live here.

Of Course to America!

Of Course to America!
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In 2000, Ketevan decided to leave her hometown Tbilisi and depart for the West. Being refused a normal visa, she booked an airplane ticket from Georgia to Mexico and with the help of smugglers swam across the muddy waters of the Rio Grande and crawled through the sewers of El Paso, illegally entering the USA. At the other end of the tunnel border police were waiting for her. Ketevan was detained. Her lawyer Sister Marlene lost Ketevan's asylum case and even her American husband, John, could not legalize her stay in "the land of the free". Ketevan is an accomplished theatre director. She dramatizes and stages her story for her Georgian friends in a one-woman show. In the theatre she finds her freedom.

 

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