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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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- Josee, the Tiger and the Fish. by Inudô, Isshin,film director.; Ikewaki, Chizuru,actor.; Arai, Hirofumi,actor.; Ueno, Juri,actor.; Tsumabuki, Satoshi,actor.; Cineverse (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Chizuru Ikewaki, Hirofumi Arai, Juri Ueno, Satoshi TsumabukiOriginally produced by Cineverse in 2004.Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah jong parlor. Lately customers in the parlor have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. One day, the baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guardrail. The old lady asks Tsuneo to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself 'Josée.' Her real name is Kumiko, and she is unable to walk, so her grandmother takes her out early every morning in the old baby carriage. Tsuneo begins to fall under the spell of the young woman's unusual charm, and he grows more and more attracted to her in this offbeat love story of artless purity in collision with the real world.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Romance.; Motion pictures--Japan.; Motion pictures--Asia.;
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