Features pianist Arkadi Zenziper performing Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor Op. 18, followed by the St. Petersburg State Orchestra's recital of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64, conducted by V. Tschemuschenko. Also featured is an interview with Zenziper, plus information about Zenziper, Tschemuschenko, the St. Petersburg State Orchestra and the Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky pieces.
1990-01-01
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John and Ben go on a survival-games weekend together where they intensely annoy the sergeant in charge. After the games are over John and Ben hang around and meet up with the sergeant who drunkenly challenges them to another game the next day. This time the sergeant and his friends turn up with real guns.
Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.
Danish author Soya's acidly funny turn-of-the-century memoir novel turned into a robust black comedy. After his mother's death, tiny tot Søren goes to live with his wilful, rich and stingy Granny, who wants to improve his manners. She also wants to make him sole heir to her fortune, which everybody else covets. Mutual respect, even love, develops between the two. And death by poison enlivens things.
Countess Ysabel is a young and rich woman with many suitors. An elegant and adventurous baron has managed to win her heart, but she anyway continues to play with other men’s feelings. Nemesis hits her when a young man with a broken heart kills himself, and the baron at the same time reveals a horrible secret. Ysabe'ls world seems to fall apart.
Actor-director Hamid Jebelli (Pastry Girl) offers a charming portrait of a mentally challenged man looking for love in a world that largely ignores him. Feeble-minded Reza works at a bridal shop where he transports wedding dresses on his old, rickety bicycle. Reza spends his time communing with his long-dead mother at the cemetery, or with a dress mannequin in the shop window. One day, not long after the mannequin loses its head, Reza's life changes when a beautiful woman, accompanied by her maid, arrives at the store looking for bridal veils.
Sylvester Cat starts to saw down Tweety Bird's house. Tweety flees into a badminton court, where he becomes the birdie in the game. Sylvester disguises himself as a player, and Tweety drops a TNT stick into Sylvester's mouth.
A group of friends meet after some years apart and decide to go on a treasure hunt.
Rigo and la Tulipana meet at the cabaret where they work, he as a singer and she as a fichera. They live an intense love, but Rigo's alcoholism is a source of constant tension.
Composed of archive images narrated by the writer, anthropologist and linguist Mouloud Mammeri, the film offers a reflection on the anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist struggle movements of the 1970s around the world.
A group of journalists used to covering international war zones travel to a remote island on a no holds barred survival training course which swiftly gets out of hand under the tuition of two unhinged ex-military types. Running in the background, we hear news of impending nuclear war, which further affects the behaviour of the crazy 'tutors'.
Ron White does an hour long standup routine about his life, things that bother him, and other thoughts.