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Two Prosecutors
(Zwei Staatsanwälte)

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Post date March 26 2026
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(Zwei Staatsanwälte)
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Director – Sergei Loznitsa – 2025 – France, Germany, Romania, Latvia, Netherlands, Lithuania – Cert. 12A – 118m ****1/2 Stalinist Russia, 1937. A young, idealistic prosecutor takes up the case of an unjustly imprisoned, political prisoner – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 27th A prison yard. Impassive guards. Inmates on scaffolding work at plastering the […]

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The Seed
of the Sacred Fig
(Dane-ye
Anjir-e Ma’abed,
دانه‌ی انجیر معابد)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 7 2025
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of the Sacred Fig
(Dane-ye
Anjir-e Ma’abed,
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Director – Mohammad Rasoulof – 2024 – Iran, Germany, France – Cert. 15 – 167m ***** An Iranian state functionary, married with two teenage daughters, is promoted to the position of judge at the same time as the Women, Life, Freedom protests erupt… And then, his gun goes missing at home… – out on Blu-ray […]

Tags 2022, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2024-25, Academy Awards 2025, Amineh Arani, authorities, beaten, behave, best behaviour, bestie, career and promotion, case files, cat and mouse, cells, college, corridor, death sentence, drawer, family night out, family row, France, Germany, germination, home, hometown, husbands and wives, imprisonment, incarceration, interrogator city and country, Iran, Islam, Islamist, judge, keep women down, labyrinth, life cycle, Mahsa Rostami, Missagh Zareh, missing gun, Mohammad Rasoulof, mother, Niousha Akhshi, non-conformism, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2024-25, Oscars 2025, overwork, parents and children, parents and daughters, parents and teenagers, patriarchy, pistol, promotion, protests, radical and conservative, regime, repression, rooftop, roots, rubber stamp, scrupulous, Setareh Maleki, sisters, social climber, social divide, Soheila Golestani, state functionary, status quo, strangulation, strict Islamic dress codes, teenage angst, Tehran, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, totalitarian, tower, tree, Women Life Freedom, workload, wound

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Pharaoh
(Faraon)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 15 2024
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Director – Jerzy Kawalerowicz – 1966 – Poland – Cert. 12 – 152m ***** The reformist zeal of a youthful heir to the Ancient Egyptian throne confronts the immovable conservative tradition of the priesthood of the god Osiris – on Blu-ray from Monday, September 16th There is nothing else in cinema quite like Pharaoh. That […]

Tags 1960s, affairs of state, Ancient Egypt, Andrzej Gertier, army, ball of dung, banker, beetles, Biblical epics, Boleslaw Prus, burning torch, camp, campy, Chang’e, class system, commoners, conservative tradition, corridor, crook, deity, desert, double, eclipse, Edward Raczkowski, Egypt, epic, financial exploitation, flail, freedom, God, hanging, head priest, heart of darkness, heat, heir, irrigation, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Jerzy Zeinik, Jew, Jewish, Krastyna Mickolajewska, labyrinth, Leszek Herdegen, love interest, male-dominated society, manipulation, manual labourers, Michal Oleszczyk, Monarch, monarch’s double, mourner, oppressive, orgy, Osiris, Osiris-Ramses XII, pecking order, personality cult, personification of a god, pharaoh, Phoenician, Piotr Pawlowski, poison, Poland, political agenda, political wrangling, politics, power, priest, priesthood, Ramses, Ramses XIII, reform, regime, religion, ritual, rogue priest, sacking, sacred animals, sacred beetles, sacred objects, Scarab Beetles, seductress, slave, slavery, social manipulation, social system, socio-political-religious system, soldiers, Stanislaw Milski, status quo, stratification, sword and sandal, temple, the state, throne, treasure, tunnel, Uzbekistan, watercourse, wealth, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, zeal

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How To
Blow Up
A Pipeline

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 18 2023
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Blow Up
A Pipeline
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Combatting spiritual wickedness How to Blow Up a PipelineFilm byDaniel Goldhaber, Ariela Barer, Jordan Sjol, Daniel GarberCertificate 15, 103 minutesReleased 21 April A radical film whose four makers eschew the widespread film industry notion of the film director as sole author, film production being a collaborative process. It follows a group of young eco-terrorists pursuing […]