5 min movie guide
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PROTEKTOR
It’s World War 2 (again) and when the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia , Emil a local journalist agrees to read out German Propaganda on Prague Radio to protect Hana his Jewish wife. You think she’d be grateful for this but she’s rather a cold fish who shows little emotion to Emil, and has an affair and…
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RESTLESS
A beautiful young girl dying of cancer falls in love with a young man who she coaxes back to the world of the living after both his parents die, sounds like a tear-jerker sappy story that I would run from BUT add filmmaker extraordinaire Gus Van Sant into the mix, and you know this will…
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PLASTIC PLANET
Werner Boote’s revealing documentary is one of those movies that you know you must watch, and then are so depressed afterwards that you wished you hadn’t. There’s probably no startling new facts that he has gathered as he traipsed around the world trying to find out the real truth about plastic, but all lumped together…
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20 CIGARETTES
In 2003 the director Aureliano Amadei was a young ant-war activist who was invited by his mentor/teacher Steffano Rolla the filmmaker to go to Iraq in the company of a battalion of Italian solders to help make a movie. Whilst he was there he was got caught up in suicide truck bombing that killed 19 of…
