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  2. Category:Films based on the Iliad - Wikipedia

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  3. The Sun (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Sun (Russian: Сóлнце, Solntse) is a 2005 Russian biographical film directed by Alexander Sokurov, depicting Japanese Emperor Shōwa during the final days of World War II. It is the third film in a trilogy by the Russian director, that includes Taurus , about Vladimir Lenin , and Moloch , about Adolf Hitler . [ 1 ]

  4. List of Homeric characters - Wikipedia

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    Leads a charge against the Trojans in Book 13. Menelaus (Μενέλαος), King of Sparta and the abandoned husband of Helen. He is the younger brother of Agamemnon. Nestor (Νέστωρ), of Gerênia and the son of Neleus. He was said to be the only one of his brothers to survive an assault from Heracles. Oldest member of the entire Greek ...

  5. The Sun Also Shines at Night - Wikipedia

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    The Sun Also Shines at Night (Italian: Il sole anche di notte, and also known as Night Sun) is an Italian film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in 1990. It was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. [1] The plot is based on Leo Tolstoy's 1911 posthumously published short story "Father Sergius".

  6. Iliad - Wikipedia

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    In the Iliad, occasional syntactic inconsistency may be an oral tradition effect—for example, Aphrodite is "laughter-loving" despite being painfully wounded by Diomedes (Book V, 375); and the divine representations may mix Mycenaean and Greek Dark Age (c. 1150–800 BC) mythologies, parallelling the hereditary basileis nobles (lower social ...

  7. The Sun in a Net - Wikipedia

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    The Sun in a Net (Slnko v sieti, also translated as Sunshine in a net or Catching the sun in a net [1]) is a 1963 film that became a key film in the development of Slovak and Czechoslovak cinema from the mandated Socialist-Realist filmmaking of the repressive 1950s towards the Czechoslovak/Czech New Wave and socially critical or experimental films of the 1960s marked by a gradual relaxation of ...

  8. Empire of the Sun (film) - Wikipedia

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    Empire of the Sun was given a limited release on 11 December 1987 before being widely released on Christmas Day, 1987. The film earned $22.24 million in North America, [4] and $44.46 million in other countries, accumulating a worldwide total of $66.7 million, earning more than its budget but still considered a box office disappointment by ...

  9. Solomon Schechter - Wikipedia

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    Solomon Schechter (Hebrew: שניאור זלמן הכהן שכטר ‎; 7 December 1847 – 19 November 1915) was a Moldavian-born British-American rabbi, academic scholar and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of American Conservative Judaism.