Berlin, avril 1945. Le IIIe Reich agonise. Les combats font rage dans les rues de la capitale. Hitler, accompagné de ses généraux et de ses plus proches partisans, s'est réfugié dans son bunker, situé dans les jardins de la Chancellerie. À ses côtés, Traudl Junge, la secrétaire particulière du Führer, refuse de l'abandonner. Tandis qu'à l'extérieur la situation se dégrade, Hitler vit ses dernières heures et la chute du régime.
Marisa, 20 ans, fait partie d’un gang de néo-nazis au nord de l’Allemagne. Tatouée de swastikas, le crâne rasé, elle déteste les étrangers, les juifs, les noirs et flics, à ses yeux tous coupables du déclin de son pays et de la médiocrité de son existence. Manifestations de haine, violence et beuveries rythment son quotidien, jusqu’à l’arrivée en ville d’un réfugié afghan et l’irruption dans son gang d’une adolescente de 14 ans. Ces nouveaux venus mettent à mal le fanatisme de Marisa…
En 1975, tout comme l'ensemble du monde occidental, la Suède est soumise à une remise en question assez radicale de son mode de vie par une jeunesse avide d'expériences nouvelles.
A Stokholm, une communauté hippie vit dans une promiscuité joyeuse : les couples se font et se défont, regardent pousser leurs légumes, ne mangent jamais de viande et ont juré la perte du Grand Capital. Les contraintes sociales sont oubliées, les enfants s'épanouissent à l'écart du cadre scolaire, les discussions sont libres et l'amour aussi.
Cependant, un beau jour, la sérénité de ce microcosme est perturbée par l'arrivée impromptue d'une inconnue, Elisabeth (Lisa Lindgren), la soeur de Göran (Gustav Hammarsten). Celle-ci, lassée des violences répétées de son mari, débarque avec enfants et bagages. La vie des uns et des autres va s'en trouver changée à jamais.
A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
"Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of nature and promises a life without any problems in a country where the difference between rich and poor could hardly be greater. Namibia does not give that impression of it. If you look at its surface it seems like Africa in its most innocent and civilized form. It is a country that is so inviting to dream by its spectacular landscape, stunning scenery and fascinating wildlife. It has a very strong tourism structure and the government gets a lot of money with its magical attraction. But despite its grandiose splendor it is an endless gray zone as well. It oscillates between tradition and modernity, between the cattle in the country and the slums in the city. It shuttles from colonial times, land property reform to minimum wage for everyone. It fluctuates between socialism and cold calculated market economy.
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives.
Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.
A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before he is fascinated by her and agrees. She wishes to learn a particular thrust which he is famous for. When a local nobleman becomes involved with her the intrigue begins.
Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia's popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally – embraced Vladimir Putin and his promise of a greater Russia, her dedication as an organizer is rewarded with a university scholarship, an apartment, and a job as a spokesperson. But her bright political future falters when she befriends a group of liberal journalists who are critical of the government, including blogger Oleg Kashin, who calls Nashi a "group of hooligans," and she's forced to confront the group's dirty – even violent – tactics.
The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political currents of his day. Ferlinghetti's quiet, behind the scenes demeanor and disarming mien may have assuaged, or even fooled, certain opponents, while in reality he was a literary mercenary, a rebel at the forefront of our own cultural revolution.
An unsettling mystery about desperation and class divisions in the age of digital capitalism.
Angi Vera, as a promising young woman, gets invited to a Communist training center to undergo the next level of indoctrination into Party life. She begins to realize how people get ahead in the Party: by saying things they don't mean but think are politically correct; by becoming friends with Party dignitaries, even if you don't like them; by being seen as a dedicated worker (as opposed to actually being a dedicated worker).
In true 1950's educational film style we watch as high school boy Johnny wrestles with a terrible secret. Johnny is a closeted-heterosexual. What will his dads do when they discover he's only pretending to be like everyone else.
Déçu de ne pas avoir reçu l'aval des autorités pour poursuivre son projet de recherche - qui dérange apparemment - sur la mortalité des prématurés, le médecin-chef Schmith envisage de quitter la RDA. Il prend contact avec des collègues de l'Ouest, prêts à organiser sa fuite et à lui trouver un poste. Mais quelque temps plus tard, la situation a changé : le docteur Schmith apprend que son projet est approuvé et il obtient même une promotion. Sur le plan personnel aussi, sa vie s'améliore. Il a entamé une liaison avec sa collègue Katharina. Plus question pour lui de passer en République fédérale allemande. Mais les passeurs qui devaient s'occuper de son cas ne l'entendent pas de cette oreille...
In the early 1970s, Otto Schily and Hans-Christian Ströbele were part of the group of attorneys of the left-wing extraparliamentary opposition in Germany. In this function, they, for instance, represented the militant Horst Mahler in court. One thing that united all three of them was their goal to create a new and different republic. They viewed Federal Germany as an oppressor of political freedom and as a vassal of the United States. Today, Schily is a former Federal Minister of the Interior with a firmly conservative stance and Ströbele is a well-respected member of the left wing of the Green Party in the German parliament while Mahler has again come into conflict with the law because of his extremist right-wing activities.
The Masters of Terror details the execution of the September 11th attacks and the ensuing whitewash, the cashless society control-grid, implanted microchips, mind-control, militarization of police, concentration camps, foreign troops massing on US soil, the USA Patriot Act, and Homeland Security taking over the states.
In 1987 GDR citizen Mario Röllig was arrested in Hungary for attempting to flee the GDR. Nowadays he gives talks about his experiences. This portrait shows just how subjective and riddled with taboos attempts to interpret GDR history can be.
An hour long interview with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek made by Russia Today for his 70th birthday. In this documentary Žižek answers questions from the public in regards to politics and ideology, gender and sex, philosophy and psychoanalysis, hardcore pornography and sexual liberation in the West, in his usual style of polemics and comedy.