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From where they stood [videorecording] / by Bruttman, Tal,on-screen participant.; Cognet, Christophe,on-screen participant,film director.; Halter, Corinne,on-screen participant.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,publisher.;
Christophe Cognet, Tal Bruttman, Corinne Halter.It is not widely known that a handful of prisoners in the Nazi death camps managed somehow to take clandestine photographs of the hell that was being hidden from the world. Director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs.E.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Foreign films.; Historical films.; Motion pictures, French.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; War films.; Nazi concentration camp inmates; Nazi concentration camps; War photography.; War photography; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Faire des bombes pour Hitler / by Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk.; Faubert, Martine.;
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Subjects: Roman historique.; Historical fiction.; Sœurs; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945; Sisters; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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The intouchables [videorecording] / by Cluzet, Francois.; Le Ny, Anne.; Nakache, Olivier.; Sellou, Abdel,1971-Tu as changé ma vie.Videorecording.; Sy, Omar.; Toledano, Eric.; Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm.; Alliance Films.;
Director of photography, Mathieu Vadepied ; music by Ludovico Einaudi ; edited by Dorian Rigal-Ansous.François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot, Clotilde Mollet.A young man from the projects and just out of prison is hired by a French millionaire quadriplegic to be his caretaker, beginning an unlikely friendship between the two men.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Sellou, Abdel, 1971-; Sellou, Abdel, 1971-; Feature films.; Foreign films; Male caregivers; Male friendship; Motion pictures, French.; Quadraplegics; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2013., Distributed by Alliance Films,
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Sweep It Up. by Kroske, Gerd,film director.; DEFA Film Library (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1990.The city of Leipzig made headlines with its peaceful Monday Demonstrations before the collapse of the Berlin Wall in the fall of 1989. The uproar at that time was replaced by the hectic electoral campaign in the spring of 1990. Nightly conversations with three street sweepers, Gabi, Henry and Stefan, whose life took place between children’s homes and prison, are dominated by hopelessness and broken self-confidence, but one can also feel a keen sense for the changes in the social and political climates in East Germany. Part 1 of the long observation project known as the Sweep It Up trilogy.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Social sciences.; History, Modern.; German language.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; History.;
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My Brothers Dream Awake. by Huaiquimilla, Claudia,film director.; Bargsted, Andrew,actor.; Herrera, César,actor.; Cáceres, Iván,actor.; García, Paulina,actor.; Pragda (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Andrew Bargsted, César Herrera, Iván Cáceres, Paulina GarcíaOriginally produced by Pragda in 2021.Ángel and his younger brother Franco have been incarcerated in a juvenile prison for a year. Despite the difficulties, they have formed a solid group of friends.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.;
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Mustang. Turkish with English subtitles [1 DVD - 94 min.] / by Sensoy, Gunes.; Iscan, Elit.; Sunguroglu, Tugba.;
Director, Deniz Gamze Erguven.Günes Sensoy, Elit Iscan, Tugba Sunguroglu.It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale (Sensoy) and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD.1
Subjects: Coming-of-age films.; Feature films.; Foreign films; Sisters; Gender and society;
© 2016., Cohen Media Group,
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The Border Crossing. by Lübbert, Orlando,film director.; Arias, Adelaide,actor.; Reyna, Aníbal,actor.; Medina, Hugo,actor.; Castro, Oscar,actor.; DEFA Film Library (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Adelaide Arias, Aníbal Reyna, Hugo Medina, Oscar CastroOriginally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1978.In 1973, shortly after the military Junta coup in Chile, three men—the worker Carlos, the student Juan and the government official Lorenzo—tried to escape to Argentina over the Andes. Along the way, they witness the murder of a farmer by Chilean policemen. Juan urgently needs medical attention for torture wounds from his time in prison, and they end up at the home of the farmer’s heavily pregnant wife. She takes them in, and the three men help her give birth. Once they finally cross the border, their application for asylum is denied. Carlos and Lorenzo are captured and brought back to Chile, but Juan escapes and tries to rescue his companions.Chilean director Orlando Lübbert worked in East Germany from 1977 to 1979. The Border Crossing is the only film he directed for the DEFA Studios.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Motion Pictures.; Crime.;
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Corpus Christi [videorecording] / by Bielenia, Bartosz,actor.; Komasa, Jan,1981-film director.; Konieczna, Aleksandra,1965-actor.; Kurzaj, Barbara,actor.; Lichota, Leszek,actor.; Rycembel, Eliza,1992-actor.; Wardejn, Zdzisław,actor.; Ziętek, Tomasz,1989-actor.; Film Movement (Firm),film distributor.;
Bartosz Bielenia, Aleksandra Konieczna, Eliza Rycembel, Tomasz Zietek, Barbara Kurzaj, Leszek Lichota, Zdzislaw Wardejn.After spending years in a Warsaw prison for a violent crime, twenty-year-old Daniel is released and sent to a remote village to work as a manual laborer. The job is designed to keep the ex-con busy, but Daniel has a higher calling. While in prison, he found Christ and aspires to join the clergy, but his criminal record means no seminary will accept him. When Daniel arrives in town, one quick lie allows him to be mistaken for the town's new priest, and he sets about leading his newfound flock.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Motion pictures, Polish.; Foreign films.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Religious films.; Clergy; Ex-convicts; False personation;
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Yellow wife : a novel / by Johnson, Sadeqa,author.;
Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Prisons; Slavery; Women slaves;
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Blond Tango. by Warneke, Lothar,film director.; Quintana-Contreras, Alejandro,actor.; Steyer, Christian,actor.; Meyer, Gerhard,actor.; Schall, Johanna,actor.; Düwel, Karin,actor.; DEFA Film Library (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Alejandro Quintana-Contreras, Christian Steyer, Gerhard Meyer, Johanna Schall, Karin DüwelOriginally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1986.Rogelio was forced into exile by the Chilean military Junta after being arrested and put into the Antofagasta prison camp. For five years, he has lived as a Chilean exile in the GDR, where he works as a lighting technician at a small local theater. Rogelio is lonely and isolated. He fantasizes about the opera singer Cornelia, and in his letters to his mother, he spins his dream into reality. He writes to her about his happy relationship and plans of marriage as if they were real. On the same day that Rogelio decides he cannot keep up the lie, he receives a letter from back home that turns his life upside down. The film is based on the 1983 novel by Chilean writer Omar Saavedra Santis (1944-2021), who spent many years in East German exile before he returned to Chile in 2009.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.;
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