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Habermann (film) Habermann (Czech: Habermannův mlýn) is a 2010 Czech-German-Austrian drama film directed by Juraj Herz. In the story, a German mill owner in the Sudetenland and his family's lives are changed as Europe heats up in 1938. Mark Waschke - August HabermannHannah Herzsprung - Jana HabermannWilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht - Hans HabermannKarel Roden - Karel BřezinaFranziska Weisz - Martha BřezinaBen Becker - KoslowskiErika Guntherova - Village GirlAndrej Hryc - HartelZuzana Kronerová - Eliška Habermann at the Internet Movie Database. &ME. &ME is a European film, written and directed by Norbert ter Hall and produced by Phanta Vision Film International. The film was shot across four countries in eight weeks, is told in five languages and employed an international cast and crew, claiming eight different nationalities. &ME will be released on March 14, 2013. Plot[edit] Every month the European Parliament moves from Brussels to its seat in Strasbourg.

A week later everything is moved back again. &ME tells the story of Eduard (Mark Waschke), a gay and disillusioned bureaucrat, who leaves Berlin for Brussels to take up a post within the European Parliament. But then the attractive Richard (Teun Luijkx) comes on the scene, and is soon to be the focus of both Eduard and Edurne's attention. The &ME screenplay is based on the novel "Fremdkörper" by bestseller author Oscar van den Boogaard. Cast[edit] Background[edit] Setting[edit] The romantic love story &ME takes place against a strange and ritualistic setting. Novel[edit] Girl on the Bridge. Intimate Strangers. Neo Ned. The New World (2005 film) The cast includes Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, August Schellenberg, Wes Studi, David Thewlis, and Yorick van Wageningen. The production team includes director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki, production designer Jack Fisk, costume designer Jacqueline West, and film editors Richard Chew, Hank Corwin, Saar Klein, and Mark Yoshikawa.

While the prospects for the settlement are initially bright, disease, poor discipline, supply shortages, and tensions with the local Native Americans (whom Newport calls "the naturals") place the expedition in jeopardy. Smith takes a small group of men up river to seek trade while Newport returns to England for supplies. While on this mission, Smith is captured by a group of Native Americans and brought before their Chief Powhatan. After being questioned, the captain is nearly executed. He is spared when Pocahontas intervenes and saves his life. The reunion is uncomfortable at times. Hiroshima mon amour. Plot[edit] Hiroshima mon amour concerns a series of conversations (or one enormous conversation) over a 36-hour long period between a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva), referred to as She, and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada), referred to as He.

They have had a brief relationship, and are now separating. The two debate memory and forgetfulness as She prepares to depart, comparing failed relationships with the bombing of Hiroshima and the perspectives of people inside and outside the incidents. The early part of the film recounts, in the style of a documentary but narrated by the so far unidentified characters, the effects of the Hiroshima bomb on August 6, 1945, in particular the loss of hair and the complete anonymity of the remains of some victims.

Cast[edit] Production[edit] The film was a co-production by companies from both Japan and France. Reception[edit] It was shown as part of the Cannes Classics section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[8] Film references[edit] Music[edit] Talk to Her. Boyhood Loves. Boyhood Loves (French: Amour d'enfance) is a 2001 French drama film directed by Yves Caumon. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Un Certain Regard Award.[1] Cast[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Boyhood Loves at the Internet Movie Database. The Apartment. Dogville. Un chien andalou. Bicycle Thieves. Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette), also known as The Bicycle Thief, is director Vittorio De Sica's 1948 story of a poor father searching post-World War II Rome for his stolen bicycle, without which he will lose the job which was to be the salvation of his young family.

Adapted for the screen by Cesare Zavattini from a novel by Luigi Bartolini, and starring Lamberto Maggiorani as the desperate father and Enzo Staiola as his plucky young son, Bicycle Thieves is one of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism. It received an Academy Honorary Award in 1950 and, just four years after its release, was deemed the greatest film of all time by Sight & Sound magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics;[3] fifty years later the same poll ranked it sixth among greatest-ever films.[4] It is also one of the top ten among the British Film Institute's list of films you should see by the age of 14. Plot[edit] At the Porta Portese market Antonio and Bruno spot the thief with an old man. Cast[edit] Once Upon a Time in the West. Metropolis. Swept Away. Requiem for a Dream. Breathless. Buffalo '66. The Night Porter. Persona. Il Portiere Di Notte (regia di Liliana Cavani Ita-USA 1974) New Foreign Film Releases - ForeignFilms.com.

Hideaway - Official Trailer.