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10:20 | Piranhas (La Paranza dei Bambini) |
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Drama, crime. Italy 2019, 115 min. Directed by Claudio Giovannesi. Starring: Francesco Di Napoli, Viviana Aprea, Mattia Piano Del Balzo, Ciro Vecchione, Ciro Pellechia. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Claudio Giovannesi and Roberto Saviano are the authors behind the TV show Gomorrha (Gomorra), about the everyday lives of the Naples Mafia, and they return once again to the streets of Italy’s criminal capital. But this time, they focus on very young boys, obsessed with the deceptive appeal of life on the other side of the law. They are only 15, and they want money, luxury brands, and new scooters. They play with guns like children, and aren’t afraid of either death or jail. They’re ready to take risks to take power in the criminal district of Sanita. With all the carelessness of youth, they get mixed up in a war that will soon take everything from them, from friendship and love ultimately to life itself. The film won the Silver Bear for best screenplay at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival.
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12:40 | The Professor and the Madman |
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Biography, drama, mystery. Ireland 2019, 100 min. Directed by Farhad Safinia. Starring: Natalie Dormer, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Irvine. In English with Russian subtitles. Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
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21:15 | The Sacrifice (Offret) |
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Drama. UK, France, Sweden 1968, 149 min. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Starring: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall. In Swedish, French, English with Russian subtitles. Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happen at all. "The Sacrifice" was Tarkovsky's third film as a Soviet expatriate, after "Nostalghia" and the documentary "Voyage in Time", and was also his last, as he died shortly after its completion. Like 1972's "Solaris", it won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
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