June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City .
Marlon Brandos Kinodebüt unter der Regie von Fred Zinneman. Ein Veteran des Zweiten Weltkriegs fällt in eine tiefe Depression während eines Aufenthaltes in einem Veteranenkrankenhaus.
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Episodenfilm von Tony Bui über das moderne, zerrissene Vietnam. Der Film wurde auf dem Sundance Festival ausgezeichnet.
Island nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs: Freya, die junge Witwe eines US-Soldaten, kehrt in ihre Heimat zurück. Ihr unangepasstes Verhalten verdreht den Männern den Kopf und irritiert die Frauen. Doch die Heimkehrerin hat es auf den begehrtesten Mann des Dorfes abgesehen... In dem Chaos behält nur noch die elfjährige Agga den Überblick.
Immediately after the prom, Olya Rusanova arrives in the city where her father worked and tragically died. Many years ago he dreamed of building a city, and now she is walking along the street bearing his name, a street without end. Having met her father’s friends, Olya learns him anew. They tell the girl how her father wanted to see large houses and wide streets on the site of the tent city. How he knew how to be friends and to love, and how longed for Olya when he broke up with his wife, who didn't agree to go with him.
An Army veteran finds his re-entry into civilian life easier through the efforts of his younger brother and a donkey.
Post-war Germany in 1946 while people are struggling to make ends meet, the film follows Hermann, a war veteran who finds employment at a train station. As he falls in love with an agricultural worker and starts comitting thefts, his fragile psyche seems to fall more and more out of balance.
Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.
The effortlessly comic abandons the stress of his city job to work on a farm.
In the underground of a besieged city, a soldier awaits his fate. Meanwhile, in the ruins of the surface, the dangerous Cannibal runs wild.