6.3

Total Eclipse

1995, UK, France, Belgium

• Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer, Dominique Blanc, Felicie Pasotti Cabarbaye, Nita Klein, James Thiérrée, Emmanuelle Oppo, Denise Chalem, Andrzej Seweryn, Christopher Thompson, Bruce Van Barthold, Christopher Chaplin, Christopher Hampton, Mathias Jung, Kettly Noel, Cheb Han, Aza Declercq, Irmelin DiCaprio
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Agnieszka Holland
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1871, Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), an established poet, invites boy genius Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) to live with Paul and his young pregnant wife, Mathiltde, in her father's home in Paris. Rimbaud's uncouth behavior disrupts the household as well as the insular society of French poets, but Verlaine finds the youth invigorating. Stewed in absinthe and resentment, Verlaine abuses Mathiltde; he and Rimbaud become lovers and abandon her. There are reconciliations and partings with Mathiltde and partings and reconciliations with Rimbaud, until an 1873 incident with a pistol sends one of them to prison. Codas dramatize the poets' final meeting and last illnesses.

  8.9

Schindler's List

1992, USA

• Actors: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz, Malgoscha Gebel, Shmuel Levy, Mark Ivanir, Béatrice Macola, Andrzej Seweryn, Friedrich von Thun, Krzysztof Luft, Harry Nehring, Norbert Weisser, Adi Nitzan, Michael Schneider, Miri Fabian, Anna Mucha, Albert Misak, Michael Gordon, Aldona Grochal, Jacek Wójcicki, Beata Paluch, Piotr Polk, Ezra Dagan, Beata Nowak, Rami Heuberger, Leopold Kozlowski, Jerzy Nowak
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Steven Spielberg
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Oskar Schindler is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman who becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. A testament for the good in all of us.

  7.8

Ziemia obiecana

1975, Poland

• Actors: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn, Anna Nehrebecka, Tadeusz Bialoszczynski, Bozena Dykiel, Franciszek Pieczka, Danuta Wodynska, Marian Glinka, Andrzej Szalawski, Jadwiga Andrzejewska, Kalina Jedrusik, Jerzy Nowak, Stanislaw Igar, Kazimierz Opalinski, Andrzej Lapicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Piotr Fronczewski, Wojciech Siemion, Jerzy Zelnik, Aleksander Dzwonkowski, Kazimierz Wichniarz, Zdzislaw Kuzniar, Grazyna Michalska, Maciej Góraj, Halina Gryglaszewska, Jerzy Oblamski, Marek Walczewski, Lidia Korsakówna, Emilia Krakowska
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Andrzej Wajda
• Available languages:
  • Polish Polish.

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew and a German, pool their money together to build a factory. The movie follows their ruthless pursuit of fortune.