films from oz
Overview of films
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Le Testament d’Orphée
Poet, epic, mythical invention – the land of the imagination in this case is the concrete world of the artist Cocteau.
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Les Glaces merveilleuses
Film is still young, but can already work magic. Another world comes through the mirror.
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Spiwachka Zhosefina i Mishachi narod
The mice people live in an enormous theatre, expectantly awaiting the ambiguous show by Josefina. Based on stories by Kafka.
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Maries Lied – Ich war, Ich weiss nicht wo
Fantastic version of the era of the French Revolution. Set in a castle in the German countryside where soldiers, a wise castle lady, children and f
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Fado majeur et mineur
Raúl Ruiz is a master in evoking surreal dream worlds and does so with verve in this film too.
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Sekret vinodeliya
Bizarre snow-covered world is home to wine-making family; the relationships between the members is fairly unclear.
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Faust
Virtuoso Czech animation master made a staggering and very personal version of the age-old Faust legend.
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Surat untuk Bidadari
Realistic fairy-tale about conflicts between the traditional society on an Indonesian island and the modern world.
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Case for a Rookie Hangman
An absurd feature based on Gulliver’s Travels, in which the hero gets lost in his car and ends up in a strange version of the village where h
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Okno v Pariz
Intelligent, crazy comedy in which contemporary Paris is a wonderland for a group of Russians. By chance a door is discovered leading straight from
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Funny Man
A far-from gentle, very original ‘horror comedy’ that gives the concept of black humour new meaning.
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Porco Rosso
Cartoon film by brilliant Japanese about European air wars. Lonesome masked pig takes up arms against his rapid American attacker. Romantic, bizarr