Nel 2026 in una megalopoli a due livelli gli operai che lavorano come schiavi nei sotterranei sono incitati alla rivolta da un robot femmineo che riproduce le fattezze di una di loro, la mite e pia Maria. L'ha costruito uno scienziato al servizio dei padroni che vuole vendicarsi del potente John Fredersen, dominatore della città. La rivolta provoca un'inondazione che colpisce i quartieri operai finché, sollecitato da Maria, Freder, figlio di Fredersen, fa da mediatore tra padroni e operai. È nato un nuovo patto sociale. Realizzato nel 1926 a costi così alti che rischiarono di far fallire la UFA, fu proiettato a Berlino il 10-1-1927. Ne esistono varie copie, ciascuna diversa dall'altra per durata e montaggio.
A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm. The title character, a six-year-old child, is the carrier of their hopes for the future.
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
Economic collapse causes widespread rioting and social unrest, leaving a lovesick 19-year-old girl struggling to care for her siblings in a stretch of woods bordered by lawless anarchy, wondering why a good God would let this happen.
The visions experienced by a man in the midst of Chile’s social revolt lead him to revisit different moments of his life while his mind wanders through a limbo of images. The journey will help him to finally discover why he’s in that place.
Spain, 1968. An analysis of the political and social situation of the country, suffocated by the boot of General Franco's tyrannical regime. (Filmed clandestinely in Madrid and Barcelona during the spring of 1968.)
"CIVIL WAR SURVEILLANCE POEMS (Part 1)" is the first installment in a five-part project of experimental and hybrid-form short films contemplating a second American civil war via lyrical nonfiction, mixing call-in radio, twenty years of verité footage from the filmmaker's archive, and robots. Conceptually speculating from sixteen years in the future (and a protracted civil war), the project is partly nostalgic political travelogue, partly a quest to mine the archive for what went wrong, and part prewar surveillance records, the project deconstructs and builds to a clashing ideology, culminating in an installation of sound sculpture, four-walled video and artifacts.
Raja RamMohan Roy, a social reformer, stands against the evil customs of the society. Soon, he starts a battle to abolish 'sati pratha' in the Hindu communities.