Categories: 1998, Melodrama, USA
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| George Stevens' epic production. "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?" It is towards this climactic crossroads that the story of Jesus of Nazareth leads, and to which, at the final moment, it again looks back in triumphant retrospect. It is the anguishing crossroads where the eternal questions of faith and doubt become resolved. Star-studded cast includes Max Von Sydow (as Jesus), Dorothy McGuire (as Mary), Robert Loggia (as Joseph), Charlton Heston (as John the Baptist), Michael Anderson, Jr., Robert Blake, Jamie Farr, David McCallum, Roddy McDowall, Ina Balin, Janet Margolin, Sidney Poitier, Carroll Baker, Pat Boone, Van Heflin, Sal Mineo, Shelley Winters, Ed Wynn, John Wayne, Telly Savalas, Angela Lansbury, Paul Stewart, Harold J. Stone, Martin Landau, Joseph Schildkraut, Victor Buono, Jose Ferrer, Claude Rains, Donald Pleasence, Richard Conte and Cyril Delevanti. Search keywords
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Categories: 1965, Biography, Drama, History, USA
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| A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism. Search keywords
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Categories: 1965, Drama, Romance, USA, War
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| A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism. Search keywords
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Categories: 1965, Drama, Romance, USA, War
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| Adela Quested, a young Englishwoman, travels to India in the late 1920s to visit her fiancé, a British magistrate posted in a small town; her traveling companion is his mother Mrs. Moore. They want to see something of the country and to meet everyday Indians, but are frustrated by the British community's insistence that relations with the locals are best experienced from a distance. Finally, a friend introduces them to a Muslim doctor whom Mrs. Moore had seen briefly on her visit to a mosque. He takes them on an outing to the nearby caverns (a local attraction), but what happens there threatens to destroy any civility between the British and Indian societies. Search keywords
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Categories: 1984, Adventure, Drama, UK, USA
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| T. E. Lawrence is a young not conformist second lieutenant in the British army in northern Africa during the First World War. Unhappily with his present instruction coloration maps he is ecstatic if he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. In this point the history of his life becomes the stuff from which legends are made.
T. E. Lawrence ist ein junger nicht angepasster Leutnant in der britischen Armee im Nördlichen Afrika während des Ersten Weltkriegs. Unglücklich mit seinen gegenwärtigen Anweisungsfärben-Karten ist er ekstatisch, wenn er ein Job als ein Beobachter darin angeboten wird, was jetzt Arabien ist. An diesem Punkt wird die Geschichte seines Lebens das Zeug, aus dem Legenden gemacht werden. Search keywords
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Categories: 1962, Adventure, Biography, Drama, UK, War
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| The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during the second world war whom is ordered to build a bridge to adapt the railway of Burma Siam. Their instinct has to do the bridge, but, under guidance of the colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) sabotage, they are persuaded that the bridge should be built as a symbol of the British morality, the mind and the dignity in disadvantageous relations. First the caught Nicholson admire if he courageously does not suffer torture, however, compromise his principles in favour of the Japanese commander Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honourable, but haughty man who is slowly revealed to be more compulsive a deceived one. He persuades that the bridge is a monument to the British character, but really a monument is to itself, and his persisting on his building a fine form of the collaboration with the enemy becomes. The allies have sent unknown him a mission in the jungle, led by the manager (Jack Hawkins) and an American to destroy Mowing (William Holden), the bridge.
Der Film befasst sich mit der Situation von britischen Kriegsgefangenen während des Zweiten Weltkriegs, denen befohlen wird, eine Brücke zu bauen, um die Eisenbahn des Birmas-Siam anzupassen. Ihr Instinkt soll die Brücke, aber, Unter Führung des Obersten Nicholson (Alec Guinness) sabotieren, sie werden überzeugt, dass die Brücke als ein Symbol der britischen Moral, des Geistes und der Dignität in nachteiligen Verhältnissen gebaut werden sollte. Zuerst bewundern die Gefangenen Nicholson, wenn er tapfer Folter aber nicht Kompromiss seine Grundsätze zu Gunsten des japanischen Kommandanten Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) erleidet. Er ist ein ehrenhafter, aber arroganter Mann, der langsam offenbart wird, um ein getäuschter zwanghafter zu sein. Er überzeugt, dass die Brücke ein Denkmal zum britischen Charakter ist, aber wirklich ein Denkmal zu sich selbst ist, und sein Beharren auf seinem Gebäude eine feine Form der Kollaboration mit dem Feind wird. Unbekannt ihm haben die Verbündeten eine Mission in den Dschungel, geführt vom Direktor (Jack Hawkins) und ein Amerikaner gesandt, Mäht (William Holden), die Brücke zu vernichten. Search keywords
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Categories: 1957, Adventure, Drama, UK, USA, War
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