films from oz

Overview of films

• Maries Lied – Ich war, Ich weiss nicht wo

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  Niko Brücher | 90' | Germany | -

  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…

• Okno v Pariz

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  Yuri Mamin | 90' | France | -

  Intelligent, crazy comedy in which contemporary Paris is a wonderland for a group of Russians. By chance a door is discovered leading straight from St

• Porco Rosso

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  Miyazaki Hayao | 94' | France | -

  Cartoon film by brilliant Japanese about European air wars. Lonesome masked pig takes up arms against his rapid American attacker. Romantic, bizarre a

• Die Puppe

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  Ernst Lubitsch | 35' | Germany | -

  A funny and fairy-tale early film from the time when the great Ernst Lubitsch was still young and unknown.

• The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb

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  Dave Borthwick | 61' | United Kingdom | -

  Extremely scary, ugly and cruel world in animation-film version of Tom Thumb.

• Sekret vinodeliya

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  Andrei Chernikh | 60' | Russia | -

  Bizarre snow-covered world is home to wine-making family; the relationships between the members is fairly unclear.

• Sisi auf Schloß Gödölö

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  Christian Frosch | 40' | Germany | World premiere

  The mythical Empress Sissi loves bizarre spectacles. Shown as colourful surrealist drama by young film-maker.

• Spiwachka Zhosefina i Mishachi narod

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  Sergei Masloboischikov | 95' | Ukraine | International premiere

  The mice people live in an enormous theatre, expectantly awaiting the ambiguous show by Josefina. Based on stories by Kafka.

• Surat untuk Bidadari

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  Garin Nugroho | 118' | Indonesia | -

  Realistic fairy-tale about conflicts between the traditional society on an Indonesian island and the modern world.

• Le Testament d’Orphée

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  Jean Cocteau | 80' | France | -

  Poet, epic, mythical invention – the land of the imagination in this case is the concrete world of the artist Cocteau.

• The Wizard of Oz

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  Victor Fleming | 101' | USA | -

  Classical fantasy film for young and old. A sparkling technicolor print. Salman Rushdie’s interpretation of this film inspired the Films from Oz progr

• Zamok

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  Alexei Balabanov | 120' | Russia | -

  First comic film interpretation of Kafka’s ‘The Castle’ in which the makers reflect their own unreal world.