The Protar Affair (Romanian: Afacerea Protar) is a 1956 Romanian comedy film directed by Haralambie Boroș. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
Magda Mihu
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The Protar Affair (Romanian: Afacerea Protar) is a 1956 Romanian comedy film directed by Haralambie Boroș. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
1956-10-05
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The out-of-time ambiance of Sulina/Europolis between wars is shaken up by the arrival of a former local from America.
This behind-the-scenes sports documentary follows the careers of three young German professional soccer coaches over the course of a single season.
She watches him through the window as he loads the final pieces of furniture into the truck. They are counting down the last hours in their home. Their seven-month-old baby is asleep, unaware of the trouble brewing. They will either vacate the apartment peacefully, or they will be forcefully evicted. Their home, her father's legacy, used to be their safe haven, their family nest. Now, corrupt courts, greedy bankers, and unscrupulous real estate investors have turned it into a site of their worst nightmares. As tension rise, they struggle to preserve their relationship. In the morning, as police knocks on their door, their future seems uncertain, but their options are very clear: either accept injustice or show resistance.
A group of students are preparing works for an art exhibition, they belittle a myth that "Any inanimate object that resembles a living thing, is not just a dead-object"
Guillaume Brac films Linda and Irina in this pivotal time of adolescence, where everything is a balancing act between doing what one wants and living up to parents’ expectations, in the run-up to that long-awaited adulthood.
A 'reversal' of Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1872 painting Pollice Verso.
An adult Korean woman remembers her childhood when her parents dragged her to a new life in Australia where she would never speak her native language again.
A pair of robbers break into a house, expecting to snatch a quick buck. What they find is far less appetizing.
Prepare yourself for an hour of Britains favourite comedian as he entertains a riotous crowd live in Northampton. Filmed in April 2002 Chubby is more outrageous and filthy than ever before - even the Queen Mother can't escape the famous Chubby treatment! Enjoy Roy Chubby Brown at his rudest and crudest best and see why all his live shows really are "Standing Room Only"!
A woman finds out that her husband has been cheating on her and, as she tries to get custody of her son, events spiral out of control, leading to blackmail and murder.
E:60 Pictures presents WWE: Behind The Curtain, a one-hour documentary film featuring unprecedented access behind the scenes of Vince McMahon's empire, set to air May 5th on ESPN.
A glory-obsessed, female cop comes face-to-face with killings no training could've prepared her for.
Violeta, a manic and stalker mythomaniac, becomes obsessed with a client of her photocopier shop
A group of children are playing hide and seek. Lei goes the furthest. He sits by the river and nobody finds him. 20 years pass in the blink of an eye.
Jazz guitarist Mike Stern and fusion violin player Didier Lockwood perform a unique duo concert at the beautiful antique theatre in Vienne, France.
Kid Reagan is a prizefighter who poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. Jane, an actress hired to impersonate his high-class love interest, can’t help falling for the big lug.
For centuries, the Murgatroyd family, the Baronets of Ruddigore, have been under a witch's curse — commit a crime every day, or die in agony. Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, the rightful heir, has run away to live as innocent peasant Robin Oakapple in the Cornish village of Rederring, sticking his brother Despard with the curse. But on the very day that "Robin" is to marry sweet, beautiful Rose Maybud, it all falls apart. Can Sir Ruthven outwit a picture gallery full of his ancestors' ghosts to save the day?
A beautiful young woman is arrested by a wonderful policeman, due to her effort to steal letters from a gigolo's house.
David, a riot policeman who caused Nacho, a protester, to lose an eye during a demonstration, meets him at a dinner party.
A decrepit house in Badajoz, Spain, on a cold winter night in 1925. Laura and her mother Adela, who is confined to a wheelchair, are faced with the possibility of putting an end to the grumpy grandfather's life, who is around ninety-two years old. But then, suddenly, cousin Enrique, a doctor by profession, shows up, which will change the course of events…
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.
Using a marriage broker,a Prince in dire financial straits plans to marry the wealthy daughter of a merchant, The girl is in love with the nephew of the prince. Forced by her father into the unwelcome match, she finds a friend in another matchmaker. They arrange it so that the prince will not like the girl when he meets her.
Cavalryman Kalle Kollola makes a fool of himself in order to get by with less service during his time in the army. Aunt Loviisa, who has come to see him, urges her witty but lazy cousin to straighten up. Aunt Loviisa also helps Miss Hilja Aro settle her differences with the horse master Kalpa.
Palace Hotel, Rome, the story begins with the Demitri couple, who turn out to be in a marital crisis due to their not having sex for quite some time. The husband says he has no time for that because it has to go to the interior of the Quirinal offices, but in secretly he has a date with a married woman, Mrs. Rolandi.
Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend, Jack Martin, show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile Angie Howard, Lora's friend, chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.
A teenage girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" meets a dashing rebel who teaches her a more sinister way to play social politics.