Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.
Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer - but he just can’t shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover – and love child – under wraps. That’s when his wife announces she’s pregnant.
A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust…
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?
The film is about a Hindu Nair boy, Vinod, and a Muslim girl, Aisha, and the conflict arising out of this inter-faith relationship.
The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National Archives of Romania.
In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.
How does a country go from a dictatorship to a democracy? A detailed report on the political representation in the heart of the Spanish Transition, only a few months after General Franco’s death, when the sincere democratic vocation of Spanish people must effort to destroy, one heavy brick after another, the wall that those who supported the dictatorship and those who fought it from the exile built with resentment, hatred and prejudices.
A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything.
In 1948, decades after fleeing Armenia to the US as a child, Charlie returns in the hopes of finding a connection to his roots, but what he finds instead is a country crushed under Soviet rule. After being unjustly imprisoned, Charlie falls into despair, until he discovers that he can see into a nearby apartment from his cell window - the home of a prison guard.
The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding over a meeting of the party's central committee. The film is a thriller with ironic political overtones.
Neuveriteľný, ale pravdivý príbeh rozporuplnej osobnosti Zdeňka Tomana, vlastným menom Zoltána Goldbergera, pochádzajúceho zo slovenských Sobraniec. Toman bol mužom mnohých tvárí a mien, šéfom zahraničnej rozviedky a bezškrupulóznym obchodníkom a kariéristom. Poverili ho zásadnou úlohou - zohnať peniaze, ktoré komunistom vyhrajú voľby. A Toman peniaze zohnať vedel. Pre seba, pre rodinu i pre stranu. Šmelinou, vydieraním, obchodmi s vojnovými zločincami aj ich obeťami. Práve on umožnil presun východoeurópskych Židov, ktorí prežili holokaust a unikali pred povojnovými pogromami cez Československo do Palestíny - samozrejme za tučnú províziu. Neštítil sa ničoho. Cena, ktorú za svoju kariéru zaplatil on i jeho blízki, však bola príliš vysoká. Film odkrýva pozadie tzv. tretej republiky, rokov 1945-48 a rozpráva príbeh muža, ktorý významne ovplyvnil vývoj povojnového Československa a o ktorom sa nikdy doteraz nehovorilo.
The full-length television documentary, using currently found audio-visual records, tells the story of the fabricated political process from November 1952, the story of its victims and its masterminds. At its end, 11 executed high-ranking officials of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic, committed to the communist party, who mechanically "recited" memorized confessions and accusations of "accomplices", former friends and colleagues in front of the court in response to prearranged questions from the prosecutors and judges.
Československo, 1982. Totalitný režim sa zdá ako nekonečný a neukončiteľný. Antonín, príslušník tajnej polície, je vnútorne nepokojný, možno až psychopatický násilník, plný neartikulovaného hnevu a zúfalstva. Znudený všetkým okolo seba nasmeruje svojich démonov ku zdanlivo čistému, skôr ale neuchopiteľnému bodu - k mladej žene Kláre. Nie je to láska ani iný druh čistej vášne - iba spaľujúca túžba po ilúzii úteku z šedivej klietky a nudy. Antonínova nezmyselná snaha získať Kláru pre seba ho obracia nielen proti tradičným nepriateľom režimu, ale aj proti vlastným ľuďom a systému samotnému. Pokiaľ ale Antonín porušuje pravidlá organizácie, ktorej slúži, nie je to gesto občianske alebo dokonca politické - je to vzbura čisto osobná a zbesilá.
How did the end of the Soviet Union change the way of thinking, the way of behaviour of militant French Communists ? For the first time and during several months meetings of a Communist Party cell in one of Paris' industrial suburbs were filmed by André Van In. Set against these meetings, the militants are filmed discussing their commitments, their dreams, their mistakes. Beyond questions about power or the political machinery, they share their faith in militancy and their hopes for a fairer society.
The Way of the Psychonaut explores the life and work of Stanislav Grof, Czech-born psychiatrist and psychedelic psychotherapy pioneer. Stan’s quest for knowledge and insights into the healing power of non-ordinary states of consciousness, influenced the discipline of psychology and profoundly changed many individual lives. One of those transformed by Stan is filmmaker Susan Hess Logeais. The documentary utilizes Susan’s personal existential crisis as a gateway to Grof’s impact, from the micro to the macro.
Tragicomic story about Communist activist who wants to bring the benefits of Communism to the inhabitants of a Serbian village after WW2.