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...film centers on the experience of young East Berliner Alex Kerner, played by wide-eyed 24-year-old Daniel Br??¼hl. After fainting during the Berlin riots, Alex’s mother (Katrin Sass) enters a deep coma for several months. As she recovers slowly, Alex enters into a relationship with her nurse Lara (Chulpan Khamatova), a humbly beautiful and patient woman. Upon his mother’s release, the doctor cautions Alex that he must insulate her from any shocks, because a stressful event could kill her. Since his mother was fiercely loyal to the idealism...
...Amélie has a firm grasp of the absurd. We meet Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) through a voiced-over recap of her likes and dislikes; the former category includes dipping her hand in barrels of grain and cracking the fine crust of a crème br??»lée with a teaspoon. Home-schooled by neurotic, hugging-averse parents, she grows up painfully shy and enclosed in her own fantasy world. Unfortunately, her adult life doesn’t seem much better. She works as a waitress in a quintessentially Parisian café, where...
Beverly does not have the powerful top notes for roles like Tosca or Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, and particularly not for Wagnerian roles like Br??nnhilde in Götterdämmerung. But she is ideally suited to bel canto, and to the French lyric romanticism of Gounod and Massenet. In these areas she is unbeatable, and even among the diverse other sopranos in this age of great sopranos?Birgit Nilsson, Sutherland, Price, Marilyn Horne, Monserrat Caballé?she more than holds...
...arrival, he was dismayed to learn that something had gone wrong; the box containing the missile had been off-loaded in Copenhagen by mistake and sent back to Düsseldorf. When the box finally arrived in Moscow after a ten-day delay, the Soviets could hardly believe their eyes. "Br??derchen [Little Brother]," roared Ramminger's contact in the KGB, shaking with laughter, "You're a superman...
Some of the warriors who in grudging admiration drank Father Br??beuf's blood and ate his heart lived to enter the Jesuit mission at Caughnawaga as Christian converts. But four more Jesuits and two lay companions died martyrs' deaths before the Iroquois began to relent. And never until scholarly, unassuming Michael Jacobs, born Wishe Karhaienton, was ordained, had a full-blooded Mohawk Iroquois donned the black robe which made him a spiritual brother of Isaac Jogues and Jean de Breb?...