Berlin, kwiecień 1945 roku. Na ulicach panuje chaos nie do opisania. Naród niemiecki czeka na swą nieuchronną klęskę. Adolf Hitler wraz ze swoimi najbliższymi współpracownikami ukrywa się w bunkrze w podziemiach Kancelarii Rzeszy. Wśród "świty" wodza znajduje się Traudl Junge, ostatnia sekretarka Hitlera. To jej wspomnienia posłużyły do przedstawienia ostatnich, spędzonych w izolacji, dwunastu dni życia wodza upadającej III Rzeszy. Te dramatyczne dni wzbudzają tak wiele kontrowersji i domysłów jak żaden inny etap biografii Hitlera. Co naprawdę wydarzyło się 10 metrów pod ulicami Berlina?
Marisa, dwudziestoletnia niemiecka dziewczyna, nienawidzi obcokrajowców, Żydów, gliniarzy i każdego, kogo obarcza winą za pogorszenie sytuacji w jej kraju. Zachowuje się prowokująco, pije i wdaje się w bójki, a jej kolejny tatuaż będzie portretem Hitlera. Jedynym miejscem, gdzie czuje się jak u siebie jest gang neonazistów, gdzie nienawiść, przemoc i ostre imprezy są na porządku dziennym. Przekonania Marisy będą przechodzić ewolucję, kiedy przypadkowo spotka na swojej drodze młodego afgańskiego uchodźcę. Po konfrontacji z nim, dowie się, że czarno-białe zasady obowiązujące w jej gangu, to nie jedyny sposób interpretowania rzeczywistości.
Jest rok 1975. Göran i jego przyjaciele decydują się na eksperyment - postanawiają żyć razem pod jednym dachem. Dni upływają im na medytacji, rozmowach, piciu wina i uprawianiu wolnej miłości. Pewnego dnia do komuny przybywa siostra Görana. Zmęczona swoim małżeństwem, chce ułożyć sobie życie od nowa. Jednak życie w komunie, ze swobodnym stosunkiem do seksu, palenia trawki, jest bardzo różne od tego, do jakiego przywykła. Jej niespodziewane pojawienie się, powoduje zamęt wśród mieszkańców wspólnoty, odsłaniając ich skrywane dotąd fantazje i pragnienia. Bohaterowie Tylko razem, próbują pogodzić ze sobą życie rodzinne i pełną wolność, medytację i rewolucję, harmonię i bunt. Każdy z nich ma sto pomysłów na życie i wszystkie chciałby zrealizować, próbując jednocześnie odnaleźć swoje miejsce pośród przyjaciół i najbliższych.
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Podróż do labiryntowego serca ideologii, która kształtuje i uzasadnia zarówno zbiorowe, jak i osobiste przekonania i praktyki: z zaraźliwym zapałem i nienasyconym apetytem na kulturę popularną, słoweński filozof i psychoanalityk Slavoj Žižek analizuje kilka najważniejszych filmów w historii kina, aby wyjaśnić, w jaki sposób narracja filmowa pomaga wzmocnić dominującą etykę i idee polityczne.
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives.
When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an escape agency that promises him a leading position at a children's hospital in West Germany. But then the decision is reversed: the project is approved and his international colleagues want Dr. Schmith to head the GDR section. Moreover, he falls in love with his new colleague, Katharina. Schmith initially tries to ignore the arrangements he made with the escape agency, but they blackmail him. Things soon turn deadly...
A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before he is fascinated by her and agrees. She wishes to learn a particular thrust which he is famous for. When a local nobleman becomes involved with her the intrigue begins.
Angi Vera, as a promising young woman, gets invited to a Communist training center to undergo the next level of indoctrination into Party life. She begins to realize how people get ahead in the Party: by saying things they don't mean but think are politically correct; by becoming friends with Party dignitaries, even if you don't like them; by being seen as a dedicated worker (as opposed to actually being a dedicated worker).
"Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of nature and promises a life without any problems in a country where the difference between rich and poor could hardly be greater. Namibia does not give that impression of it. If you look at its surface it seems like Africa in its most innocent and civilized form. It is a country that is so inviting to dream by its spectacular landscape, stunning scenery and fascinating wildlife. It has a very strong tourism structure and the government gets a lot of money with its magical attraction. But despite its grandiose splendor it is an endless gray zone as well. It oscillates between tradition and modernity, between the cattle in the country and the slums in the city. It shuttles from colonial times, land property reform to minimum wage for everyone. It fluctuates between socialism and cold calculated market economy.
An unsettling mystery about desperation and class divisions in the age of digital capitalism.
The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy dependent to the access on technology, progression or any resources of information, as philosophers like Paul Virilio or Jean Baudrillard already claimed?
Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.
The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political currents of his day. Ferlinghetti's quiet, behind the scenes demeanor and disarming mien may have assuaged, or even fooled, certain opponents, while in reality he was a literary mercenary, a rebel at the forefront of our own cultural revolution.
The Masters of Terror details the execution of the September 11th attacks and the ensuing whitewash, the cashless society control-grid, implanted microchips, mind-control, militarization of police, concentration camps, foreign troops massing on US soil, the USA Patriot Act, and Homeland Security taking over the states.
Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia's popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally – embraced Vladimir Putin and his promise of a greater Russia, her dedication as an organizer is rewarded with a university scholarship, an apartment, and a job as a spokesperson. But her bright political future falters when she befriends a group of liberal journalists who are critical of the government, including blogger Oleg Kashin, who calls Nashi a "group of hooligans," and she's forced to confront the group's dirty – even violent – tactics.
In true 1950's educational film style we watch as high school boy Johnny wrestles with a terrible secret. Johnny is a closeted-heterosexual. What will his dads do when they discover he's only pretending to be like everyone else.
In the early 1970s, Otto Schily and Hans-Christian Ströbele were part of the group of attorneys of the left-wing extraparliamentary opposition in Germany. In this function, they, for instance, represented the militant Horst Mahler in court. One thing that united all three of them was their goal to create a new and different republic. They viewed Federal Germany as an oppressor of political freedom and as a vassal of the United States. Today, Schily is a former Federal Minister of the Interior with a firmly conservative stance and Ströbele is a well-respected member of the left wing of the Green Party in the German parliament while Mahler has again come into conflict with the law because of his extremist right-wing activities.
In 1987 GDR citizen Mario Röllig was arrested in Hungary for attempting to flee the GDR. Nowadays he gives talks about his experiences. This portrait shows just how subjective and riddled with taboos attempts to interpret GDR history can be.