- This movie is based on the life of Saint Edith Stein. She was a German nun of Jewish descent who had converted to Catholicism. Much of her early life was spent as an outspoken academic. There, according to the movie, she feuded with Joseph Heller, a fellow professor with right wing beliefs. In 1933, after Jews were no …
- An essay by Rafal Marszalek:Pills for Aurelia - Who needs a doctor?The average cinemagoer knows little about the filmmaker Stanislaw Lenartowicz. Born in 1921, he served in the Polish Home Army during World War II in the Vilnius District where he was arrested and sent to a Soviet forced-labour camp. After the war he st…
- Vertical - The Film The question posed is: Why do men risk their lives to climb a mountain they don't need to climb? To test oneself - as in war.To see what psychological strength one has. It is the very interesting question, what will happen to oneself when enough pressure is exerted. This pressure could be social, em…
- Stanislav Barabas is a Slovakian director, one of the first students of the Prague Film Academy (FAMU). He made many documentaries before he started directing feature films. His feature film debut was A Song about the Grey Pigeon (Piesen o sivom holubovi, 1961), followed by The Angelos Trio (Trio Angelos, 1963), The Be…