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12:08 east of Bucharest
(2006)
A fost sau n-a fost?
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Director:
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Corneliu Porumboiu
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| Starring:
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Mircea Andreescu, Teo Corban
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Sixteen years after the Romanian revolution, guests on a news program remember how they stormed their town hall calling "down with Ceausescu." Or did they?
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A matter of dignity
(1957)
To teleutaio psemma
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Director:
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Mihalis Kakogiannis
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| Starring:
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Ellie Lambetti, Michalis Nikolinakos
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A girl from a family on the verge of bankruptcy is forced to marry a boring Greek-American millionaire whom she despises.
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Black cat, white cat
(1998)
Crna macka, beli macor
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Director:
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Emir Kusturica
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| Starring:
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Bajram Severdzan, Srdan Todorovic
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A gangster agrees to erase a small-time hustler's debt in exchange for marrying his sister.
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Closely watched trains
(1966)
Ostre sledované vlaky
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Director:
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Jiri Menzel
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| Starring:
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Vaclav Neckar, Josef Samr
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An apprentice at a remote Czech railway station is more preoccupied with losing his virginity than the German occupation during WW II.
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Grbavica: The land of my dreams
(2006)
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Director:
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Jasmila Zbanic
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| Starring:
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Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Mijovic
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A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
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Innocence unprotected
(1968)
Nevinost bez zastite
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Director:
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Dusan Makavejev
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| Starring:
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Dragoljub Aleksic, Bratoljub Gligorijevic
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A famous Serbian athlete makes a feature film during Belgrade's Nazi occupation and consequently has problems after the liberation.
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Iphigenia
(1977)
Ifigeneia
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Director:
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Mihalis Kakogiannis
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| Starring:
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Irene Pappas, Tatiana Papamoschou
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King Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to appease the angry gods.
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Kontroll
(2003)
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Director:
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Nimrod Antal
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| Starring:
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Sándor Csányi, Zoltán Mucsi
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A handsome hero, a mysterious woman, and a nasty killer collide in the Budapest subway system.
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Little Otik
(2000)
Otesánek
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Director:
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Jan Svankmajer
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| Starring:
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Jan Hartl, Veronika Zilková
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A man gives his wife a carved tree stump that resembles a baby to console her after a miscarriage, and it becomes a real baby with a monstrous appetite.
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No man's land
(2001)
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Director:
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Danis Tanovic
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| Starring:
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Rene Bitorajac, Branko Djuric
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Two soldiers from opposite sides in the Bosnia and Herzegovina war become trapped in no man's land.
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The collected shorts of Jan Svankmajer
(2003)
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Director:
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Jan Svankmajer
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| Starring:
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Monika Belo-Cabanov, Jan Zacek
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Svankmajer uses a delirious combination of puppets, humans, stop-motion animation and live action to create a dreamlike universe.
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The firemen's ball
(1967)
Horí, má panenko
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Director:
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Milos Forman
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| Starring:
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Josef Sebanek, Jan Vostrcil
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Arrangements for a small town's annual fireman's ball go wrong at every turn.
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The loves of a blonde
(1965)
Lásky jedné plavovlásky
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Director:
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Milos Forman
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| Starring:
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Hana Brejchova, Vladimir Pucholt
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A teen who works in a shoe factory follows a crush to Prague and upends his family's life.
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The red and the white
(1967)
Csillagosok, katonák
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Director:
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Miklos Jancso
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| Starring:
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Andras Kozak, Tibor Molnar
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In 1918, Hungarian Communists aid the Russian Reds in an arbitrary and chaotic fight against the counter-revolutionary Whites.
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Time of the gypsies
(1988)
Dom za vesanje
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Director:
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Emir Kusturica
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| Starring:
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Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic
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A teen with telekinetic gifts leaves his grandmother and girlfriend to join a flamboyant criminal.
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Ulyssey's gaze
(1995)
To vlemma tou Odyssea
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Director:
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Theodoros Angelopoulos
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| Starring:
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Erland Josephson, Harvey Keitel
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A Greek-American film director travels the Balkans during the war in the 1990s.
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Underground
(1995)
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Director:
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Emir Kusturica
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| Starring:
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Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski
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A black marketer who smuggles arms to Yugoslav partisans in WW II neglects to tell the workers that the war is over, and 50 years later, they emerge to find that he is right: war still rages.
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When father was away on a business trip
(1985)
Otac na sluzbenom putu
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Director:
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Emir Kusturica
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| Starring:
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Moreno D'E Bartolli, Miki Manojlovic
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In 1950s Sarajevo, a family tries to get along after the father is sent to a labor camp for philandering with the girlfriend of a Communist party official.
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