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Skeleton on Horseback aka The White Disease (Czech: Bílá nemoc) is a 1937 Czechoslovak drama film directed by and starring Hugo Haas. It revolves around an infectious disease which breaks out during a war. It is based on the play The White Disease by Karel Čapek. [1]
The White Plague (Czech: Bílá nemoc) is a play written by Czech writer Karel Čapek in 1937. [1] Written at a time of increasing threat from Nazi Germany to Czechoslovakia, it portrays a human response to a tense, prewar situation in an unnamed country that greatly resembles Germany with one extra addition: an uncurable white disease, a form of leprosy, is selectively killing off people ...
One Life is a 2023 biographical drama film directed by James Hawes. [3] Based on the true story of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton, the film alternates between following Anthony Hopkins as a 79-year old Winton reminiscing on his past, and Johnny Flynn as a 29-year old Winton who successfully helps 669 predominantly Jewish children in German-occupied Czechoslovakia to hide and flee in 1938 ...
Police in New Haven said a passerby spotted a baby seal in the middle of the city on Sunday -- and it's still a mystery how the cute critter got there.
Most (re-titled The Bridge in some countries) is a 2003 Czech live action short film directed by Bobby Garabedian, produced by Garabedian and American actor William Zabka and written by Garabedian and Zabka. The music score was created by John Debney (The Passion of the Christ).
The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award. [3] Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Belgium for review by the academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony.
Post-mortem photograph of a dead girl and her parents. In 1918, towards the end of First World War, on a battlefield, the German soldier Tomás is left for dead after an artillery explosion, being thrown into the mass grave; however, an older soldier sees him still breathing in the pile of corpses and pulls him out of the pile of bodies, where in a semi-conscious state due to the explosion, he ...
Too Old for Fairy Tales (Polish: Za duży na bajki) is a 2022 Polish coming of age comedy film directed by Kristoffer Rus, based on the novel Za duży na bajki by Agnieszka Dąbrowska. The film follows Waldek (Maciej Karaś) a young esports player who is forced to rethink his priorities when his mother's eccentric aunt arrives.