San Sebastian Film Festival ::

Panos Papakyriakopoulos

Greece

94 min.

A fifty-year-old Greek teacher returns to his country after having taken refuge in France and having achieved good recognition for his pedagogical work. He returns excited like many leftist intellectuals to help rebuild the country after democracy was restored, after the coup of the colonels.The first signs after his return are hopeful. His ideas on renewal in teaching are favorably received. He participates in numerous televised colloquia whose objective is the search and definition of national identity.But these are only appearances. The conservatism of previous years is latent in society. The generalized crisis has even settled in private lives.Only with extreme lucidity will he understand that after all, this is the reality in which he must intervene and leave behind the speculations that formed in his head during the hard years in exile. The reasoned "wrong accounts" of him in the past will end with the present. But his starting point will not be an end but a new exit.

Cangrejo II

Román Chalbaud

Venezuela

111 min.

Insecurity in the country is reaching alarming levels. In a town near the capital, a woman is raped and murdered. The victim is the sister of a priest, so the moved clergy decides to take action on the matter. The bishop goes to the Minister of Justice, and he in turn addresses the Police Director, ordering him to have his best men available for solving the crime. The investigations begin and the police find several dark spots, the house shows no signs of violence and the murderer only went in to attack the victim, the robbery is ruled out and no neighbor heard any noise on the night of the crime. The commissioner considers that the victim and the murderer knew each other.He investigates among people based on a disease that the victim had and maybe also the murderer, he comes into contact with the victim's boyfriend and with a former lover doctor. Through the interrogations, interesting information is obtained about the dead woman's brother: Father Cuzati, a violent and aggressive man who had a strange relationship with his sister. Little by little the suspicions will cease to be so to become almost realities. The contradictions of the priest in the initial statements lead Commissioner León to consider that the culprit is Cuzati. This will lead to a confrontation between the judicial and the ecclesiastical powers.

Côté coeur, côté jardin

Bertrand van Effenterre

France

90 min.

There is a disappointed hope. An almost diluted enthusiasm. There are many words that do not change, and speeches that always say the same things. The tongues seem to be made of cork and wood. There is Anna, tired from years of fighting and militancy. Anna who doubts, Anna who searches.There is Claude, her half sister, from whom everything separates her. The one who doesn't understand her contradictions and her whims.Around them, lost in a village, there is winter, the ice covers the canal, the cold kills the leaves of the trees. Silence shuts down all movements.There is Françoise, the clown who walks the streets, with a book in her hand and the words in her mouth.Jean is sick. He has not forgotten the desert or the war. He lives every day the memory of a woman's gaze, which one day smiled at him. About the silence, about the cold, about the ice. Anna and Claude are going to discover violence and tenderness. It's gray today, but there is also life. There is and can be a movie.

Crónica dos bons malandros

Fernando Lopes

Portugal

90 min.

A small gang of hooligans from Lisbon, made up of characters such as Renato "El Pacífico"; Marlene, his friend; Silvino, a specialist in chase races with the police; Adelaide, a romantic girl who dreams of her prince charming; Arnaldo, also called "El figurante" because of his hopes of becoming a great actor; Flavio "The Doctor", named after his companions for being the brain of the gang; Pedro "El justiciero", who attacks his primary school teacher with a painting by Salazar, is going to deviate towards the dangerous paths of crime when he comes into contact with a mysterious Italian (supposedly a mafioso), and with whom they are going to attempting to steal part of the important Lalique Collection from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Museum in the Lisbon capital.The film tells the story of this assault based on words, action and music and shows us the portrait of each one of these characters, their destinations until the planned action takes place but it does not turn out the way they expected...

Cuarteles de invierno

Lautaro Murúa

Argentina

115 min.

Czas dojrzewania

Mieczyslaw Waskowski

Poland

92 min.

The film, a para-documentary film, shows the drug problem in Poland today. The action centers on three characters: Krzys, Gosia and Romek. Krzys's situation is common to that of a wide circle of drug addicts. He represents the protest against the lack of family affection and the need for a father, in this case, who simply limits himself to sending, from the United States, the money his son needs without accepting his presence with him. Gosia, the second central character, is a 17-year-old girl who meets Krzys, falls in love with him, and for his sake steals from her, starts taking drugs, and struggles to get him out of the world she finds herself in. She leaves him when she meets the third protagonist, Romek. Romek is in love with the girl, he works hard to get her, and once he has joined her problems arise. The two have different ways of seeing and accepting life. Gosia rejects Romek, finally, because she is still in love with Krzys and because of the way they both see each other, because of their different way of being, of feeling life and dreaming of the future.

Dicht hinter der Tür

Mansur Madavi

Austria

99 min.

There is a Spanish phrase that expresses the mental attitude of the protagonist. "He has retired to his winter quarters."He is young, he has a woman he loves, but his attitude resembles that of the old men in Samuel Becket's Endgame, who wait without hope for his disappearance.However, his mind betrays him, his fantasy that he imagines and dreams, which makes him leave the daily mausoleum of his house, to find himself in the dream with the same characters who try to give him, demand or ask him to account. Headphones that clog music, ears that want to become deaf to the word, are of no use to isolate themselves.His sick mind is revealed, in the drawings he creates, as an artist without a contract, and in which his humunculi are devoured by objects that turn into ferocious piranhas.That strange happiness that he seeks, because like Godard's character, between sorrow and nothingness, chooses nothingness, perhaps it culminates when constant wakefulness and unconscious sleep coincide in a scream in a desert that symbolizes the total stripping of the "I".

Eine Liebe von Swann

Volker Schlöndorff

Federal Republic of Germany

110 min.

Based on Marcel Proust's well-known work In Search of Lost Time, Eine liebe von Swann (Swann in Love) recounts the love affairs of the Jew Charles Swann, elegant, aristocratic, educated, refined who feels a great passion and desire for life. voluptuous worldly woman Odette Crécy. She is she cheats on him and loves him at the same time.The action takes place in twenty-four hours and has an epilogue in which Swann, already an old man, reflects on the lost years of his life loving a woman he didn't like and didn't even belong to his social class.A series of itineraries follow one another, a dinner at the Verdurin house, a reception at the house of the Dukes of Guermantes, and an evening in the baron de Charlus's salons, through which Swann stages moments of his life and of some Past memories that built without any future.Eine liebe von Swann (Swann in Love) is about the story of a disease called love. Swann's reflection emerges slowly, almost without force in a sad and disillusioned monologue. "When I think that I have wasted years of my life, that I wanted to die, that I have lived the greatest passion for a woman that I did not like in any way... that was not my gender."

Fandy, ó Fandy

Karel Kachyna

Czechoslovakia

87 min.

Pleasant story about a boy who, having finished his high school studies, gets his first job. The confrontation with what he expected and reality causes him to suffer a strong disappointment. At first, he subjects his older colleagues to harsh judgment, but later he adapts to work without enthusiasm and with the tranquility that he only waits for him to spend his working day. The superiors at first are tolerant of his breaches of discipline, later they offer him another more interesting position, but he will not show his abilities there either.The sentimental problem that he lives absorbs him too much to be able to put his head to work. He and a friend love the same woman who is pregnant by her friend. The girl is considering the possibility of an abortion, since the boy's mother does not accept her as a daughter-in-law. Fandy escapes from work to visit Jara and get her love. He does not get this and he will also lose his job. The end of the story remains open, Fandy will have to start over, but he will have to show that he has a true interest in what has to be his profession for the rest of his life.

Fanny pelopaja

Vicente Aranda

Spain

100 min.

A short time ago, Andrés was a secret policeman with professional prestige. Three years have passed and this prestige has been lost.His desire for efficiency and desire for promotions led him to subject Fanny to blackmail, but that woman, who at first was nothing more than a common criminal for him, ended up becoming an obsessive love object. To such an extent that Andrés found himself in need of committing a crime. He had to kill to keep Fanny, causing her to react with rejection.Andrés's emotional world crashed.Time has passed, but Fanny has not been able to forget the attack she was subjected to.Between Andrés and Fanny a challenge will take place and it will end up becoming a heroic culmination for their gray lives.When Fanny organizes an assault on the security van for which Salvador is responsible, and this is successful, but, contrary to expectations, Fanny does not carry out any revengeful personal aggression against Salvador. She just allows herself to be recognized and then waits.The event is a powerful catalyst for Salvador, which brings him back to his true life, to his most exasperated personality, to madness, to love, to hate, to tragedy and to the pleasure of feeling alive, even if it entails the tearing of his real world.

Frevel

Peter Fleischmann

Federal Republic of Germany

97 min.

The director of the judicial police Lohmann is a capable official. Shortly before leaving with his wife on vacation, he must clarify a case that is not particularly interesting for him. A young mother has killed her son. But when he goes to entrust his assistant to solve the case, his gaze falls on the young mother and her interest arouses. A woman with a calm, balanced face, without reflecting any feeling of guilt. Interrogations are difficult. The woman after her murder remains mute.The police reconstruct the facts. No social or psychological circumstance explains the act. Annette lived in favorable conditions, she loved her son to the point of idolizing him. Her husband adores her. her neighbors only have words of admiration for her.Lohmann is tired. When he is going to leave with her wife for Torremolinos, when she wakes up she realizes that her husband has disappeared. Walter Lohmann seeks to understand crime. He stays alone in the small town. He is a famous policeman and he is unable to understand and solve this case. But he finds a photo of Annette in the company of a stranger. Lohmann launches on this track.

Il futuro è donna

Marco Ferreri

Italy

103 min.

Anna and Gordon love each other. Frightened by the threat of nuclear apocalypse, they have decided not to have children. One afternoon when they are going to the dance, Anna comes to the aid of a young pregnant woman, Malvina. She has no doubt that this is the starting point of a magical adventure, which will mean a true metamorphosis for her, a change that she seeks and at the same time unites.The couple welcomes the future mother. A very strong union, made of the need for mutual protection, attention, anxiety, sensuality, will unite Malvina and Anna. Then Gordon. Malvina has decided to make Anna and Gordon the parents of the child she is going to have. But the love that unites them also divides them...

La noche más hermosa

Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón

Spain

90 min.

On television there is a big scandal. The recording has gone by for days, it is late. "Don Juan's night" is getting complicated. In addition, the technicians threaten to strike. The protagonist is the lover of the Director of the chain, and one afternoon, as if by chance, she asks Federico what would happen if his wife had a lover. He is sure of his wife. Bibi, the protagonist, has commented to Federico that when a woman is in love with her, she sighs without rhyme or reason and stays at times gazing at the stars.When he returns home, he finds Elena contemplating the firmament, so he draws up a plan to find out if his wife has "another" and orders the director of "La noche de don Juan" to woo his wife, and investigate for him.Federico, fascinated by his own game, attends the seduction attempt. Elena, who has been an actress, asks Óscar for a role to live her most beautiful night and Federico, taking the game to the limit, forces him to give it to her.A senior television executive thinks that Federico uses television as a private estate and asks for his resignation, but curiously this character is also looking for his "most beautiful night". Federico, immersed in an exaggerated jealousy and playing with masochism, asks his wife to also seduce Luis, his immediate superior. He watches with bitter pleasure as his wife obeys him, and tries to discover who the "other" is. The television strike breaks out, rehearsals are stopped, a comet passes through the Madrid sky, Elena will play the part she wants, Bibí sighs inwardly looking at the sky, Luis has a new secret love and Federico begins to feel jealous again. Floors within dreams. The recording of "The most beautiful night" begins.

Moscow on the Hudson

Paul Mazursky

USA

115 min.

Vladimir Ivanoff, a Russian circus musician, during a tour of the United States decides to defect and ask for asylum while visiting one of the most revered American institutions: the New York store "Bloomingdale's". A security guard from that famous store befriends the musician and takes him to live in his apartment in Harlem. Vladimir's Italian girlfriend dreams of becoming an intrepid TV reporter. Meanwhile, a Cuban immigration lawyer takes over representing Vladimir.Vladimir's story begins by showing part of his life in Moscow. This is not different from the vast majority of Soviet citizens. He lives in a one-room apartment with his entire family. Father, mother, sister, grandfather and mother. He queues up to buy shoes and medical supplies and is threatened by the KGB. But now the circus is going to New York... what a decadence!... and Vlad's life is about to change. And boy does it change!

Paris, Texas

Wim Wenders

Federal Republic of Germany

145 min.

A man, at the limit of his strength, walks in the middle of the Texas desert. A doctor helps him, but the man remains silent. Written on a ticket, the doctor found the address of a brother of this unfortunate man. Walter, the brother, will take Travis to Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Anne, and Travis's son, Hunter. Here he will have to regain the trust that his son has lost in him. Accompanied by Hunter, the two will leave Los Angeles in search of their wife and mother, Jane.

Rumble Fish

Francis Ford Coppola

USA

94 min.

The "rumble fish" is an exotic fish whose aggressiveness is so great that it attacks itself. If you place a mirror in front of a "rumble fish", it attacks its own image in a ceremony of confusion carried out by thoughtlessness.In a small village located anywhere, the film tells us about the complex relationships between criminal brothers. One, Rusty James, partially deaf and colorblind, is like Pinocchio, he is that bad boy in all of us, but in spite of him he is a warm and loving person. Mike, his other brother, is a very difficult character, because he represents what all of us unknown to us carry inside and that makes us be another person. Mike is a poet, dreamer and living myth, a kind of Adonis with a lazy smile. However he looks like he comes from the dead. He is something of an unexpected visitor. His contemporaries acclaim him as an idol from the Californian dream.

Tasio

Montxo Armendariz

Spain

95 min.

The film tells the story of Tasio, who was born in a town located at the foot of the Sierra de Urbasa.At the age of 8, and due to family needs, Tasio began working in the bush.At 14, following the old tradition of the place, he became a charcoal burner.At that same age, at the town dance, he met Paulina, who years later would become the woman of his life. The wedding was celebrated with some haste and great joy.Very soon Elisa is born.From that moment on, Tasio is forced not only to continue making charcoal, an activity in which he is already an expert, but also to work as a fisherman and poacher. Thanks to which, the guard of the area ends up becoming his cordial enemy.One day, when he had precisely achieved one of his great dreams, lassoing a huge wild boar, he receives the news that Paulina is seriously ill. Perhaps that is one of the most difficult moments for Tasio. They insist that he must change his life and settle into a steady job like other men.Tasio refuses. The rare and deep sense of his personal freedom prevails. Even years later, when her daughter announces that she must marry hastily and leave town to live with her husband in the capital, she will decide that he is not budging from the charcoal burner, nor from poaching, nor from his old cordial enmity with the area guard.

The Grey Fox

Phillip Borsos

Canada

92 min.

In the Pacific Northwest there is a legend: Bill Miner. He was a dignified and brave knight, and at the same time one of the greatest bandits of his time. After spending half his life in prison, at the age of sixty he was released. He tried to lead a normal life in Washington State. But an adventurer cannot handle such a great adventure of accepting the everyday. Catching oysters was too easy a job for Bill.When he entered jail he was holding up stagecoaches. When leaving these no longer exist. Train robberies posed new problems, his first robbery was a failure. But in 1904 Bill Miner together with his accomplice Shorty Dunn committed the first robbery on a train in Canadian history. Persecuted by the law, they escape to Columbia. Their sympathy and people skills lead them to win the affection of their neighbors, the respect of the police sergeant and the love of the fiery Kate. The authority that walks after their steps corners them. But his friend the sergeant is there to help. Miner and Kate made plans to meet in Chicago...

Vozvrashchenie s orbity / Return from Orbit

Alexandr Surin

USSR

89 min.

Two friends - the marine aviation pilot Pavel Kuznetsov and the aviation engineer Viacheslav Mujin - are admitted as cosmonauts. But the years go by and the opportunity for their space flight does not come, they always remain as reserve pilots. It is his companions who are sent on cosmic flights to cross the celestial spaces.But everything comes, and his dream also comes true. They are chosen for the next flight.The Cosmos, however inaccessible to your dreams so far, expects to subject them to a tough test. The space station in which they travel is a real problem; the capsule is unsealed, the spaceship becomes unmanageable. Now the time has come to long for the return of orbit.

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