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Best Of Bulgarian Animation
$19.69
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Fascinating, innovative animation from Eastern Europe. Like Zagreb, the Sofia Animation Studio carved its own unique niche with an original graphic style, quirky storytelling, and dark comedy. The studio's films have won many awards and prizes, and its biannual World Animation Film Festival in Varna solidified Bulgaria as an international animation center. Rembrandt Films is offering these films, all of which are appropriate for children, on video for the first time. A choice experience for the entire family. Included in this collection: The Intelligent Village, Baby Dreams at the Airport, Baby Dreams at the Automobile Factory, De Facto, Three Fools and the Automobile, Beach, Caw!, Left Right.
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Byzantium: The Lost Empire
$14.08
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For more than 1,000 years, the Byzantine Empire was the eye of the entire world – the origin of great literature, fine art and modern government. Heir to Greece and Rome, the Byzantine Empire was also the first Christian empire. Now, after a year of filming on three continents, TLC unlocks this ancient civilization, spanning 11 centuries and three continents. Pass through the gates of Constantinople, explore the magnificent mosque of Hagia Sophia and see the looted treasures of the empire now located in St. Marks, Venice.
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East-West
$29.98
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Like The Thief (1997), which was also nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Regis Wargnier's East-West is a turbulent romance set against the political backdrop of post-World War II Russia. But instead of a man, a woman, and a child, the story revolves around a man, a woman, a child--and another man. Shortly after the war, Alexei (Oleg Menshikov), his wife, Marie (Sandrine Bonnaire), and their son travel to Russia from France to make a new life for themselves. But they quickly find that the situation in Alexei's homeland isn't quite as advertised and that they can't leave. Sacha (Sergie Bodrov Jr.) is a young athlete who lives in the same overcrowded apartment complex. Like Marie, he wants to escape, while Alexei decides to make the best out of an awful situation. Inevitably, Marie and Alexei grow apart as Sacha and Marie grow close, but one of these characters is harboring a secret that won't be revealed until the end. The film does double time as a thriller in that, at any time, any of these characters could be imprisoned or killed--including French actress Gabrielle (Catherine Deneuve, star of Wargnier's Oscar winning Indochine). She befriends Marie during a tour of Russia and offers to help her and Sacha make their getaway. At its worst, East-West threatens to strain credibility, but Wargnier's assured direction and the sympathetic performances he elicits from his cast make for a believable and compelling drama. Although not an epic on the scale of Doctor Zhivago, Wargnier takes a more intimate approach to similar subject matter and, arguably, offers the superior bittersweet conclusion. --Kathy Fennessy
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Charlie Rose with William Bennett; Isabel Fonseca (December 6, 1995)
$24.95
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A conversation with William Bennett on his books The Moral Compass: Stories for a Life's Journey, The Children's Book of Virtues, and The Book of Virtues. Bennett also discusses the moral content of television programming, the welfare system in the United States, the need for civil rights consciousness and environmental consciousness, and the role of government. Then, Isabel Fonseca discusses her book, Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey. This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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God Is Love
$10.99
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"God is love" is one documentary cinema.
"God is love" introduces the Point of view of number of political, social and religious problems of one of the largest minority groups in Bulgaria - the Gipsys. The film is uncensored. It is pictured in the most-poverty Gipsy's Ghetto in the suburbs of Sofia. The product is in the style - short documentary cinema. It lasts 12 minutes and 41 seconds. In it nothing is changed about the ideology of the taking part people. The film is pictured for one day. My basic idea is to be represented part of the problematic Bulgarian reality, such as it is in fact! This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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Decade of Brazen Abbot
$15.95
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In mid-2003, nearly 6 years since the last Brazen Abbot release, Guilty as Sin was released. The 'Bad Religion' line-up was nearly confirmed, except for Thomas Vikstrom, who was replaced by singer Jorn Lande (ex-ARK, Masterplan). The very first Brazen Abbot concerts with a full band line-up were performed in Bulgaria the same year. This touring line-up consisted of Nikolo Kotzev - guitars, Joe Lynn Turner - vocals, Wayne Banks - bass, Lars Pollack - keyboards, Thomas Broman - drums. Such shows in Varna, Sofia and Plovdiv were both filmed and recorded by a professional crew to be included on the DVD which also features in-depth interviews with all the singers that were part of Brazen Abbot during the years (Jorn Lande, Glenn Hughes, Goran Edman, Thomas Vikstrom apart from Joe Lynn Turner), apparitions on the bulgarian TV and loads of cool behind the scenes footage from the studios and on the road. NTSC/Region 0. Frontiers. 2004.
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It's Raining on Santiago
$307.60
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Helvio Soto's dramatic re-creation of the military overthrow of Chile's freely elected leftist government in 1973 is a cousin to Alain Resnais's La Guerre Est Finie, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, and Costa-Gavras's Z and Missing; it's an unapologetically angry piece of political cinema decrying the brutal suppression of human freedom. Beginning with Allende's 1970 election, Soto painstakingly documents the conspiracy to end Chile's social reforms with a military coup headed by General Augusto Pinochet. It's hardly subtle: The pure-of-heart Marxist activists, idealistic students, and salt-of-earth working-class peasants heroically stand up to a conspiracy of corrupt businessmen, fascist military officers, and the American CIA in a fight that, we know from history, dooms them to martyrdom. Soto's tangled narrative timeline jumps back and forth without warning, a confusing design to say the least, and his portraits of the heroes and villains are little better than agitprop. Then again, this is less a history lesson than a political statement, and he pulls no punches in his damning accusations, from the greed of multinationals and American interests to the vicious executions of leftists, intellectuals, and artists in the wake of the coup. It's a gripping true story that will have most viewers just as angry by the final frames. As the ailing Pinochet tries to sidestep responsibility of human-rights violations under his rule, the film couldn't be more timely. The title, by the way, is a code used by the leftist defenders. --Sean Axmaker
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High Adventure [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Germany ]
$24.99
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Germany released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), German ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Archaeologists and adventurers strike out in search of hidden gold.
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The Summer Holiday ( Los Veraneantes ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Spain ]
$30.99
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Spain released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Hungarian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Documentary, Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Short Film, SYNOPSIS: When Mia was 4 years old, the Balcan War destroyed her life. Some gypsies rescued her and raised her in freedom. Many years later, the gypsy family camps at a village in Southern Spain. There, they go swimming to the common pool. Fear to the unknown and xenophobia arise among the villagers.
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