Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World War II Germany, a Jewish adolescent survives by becoming a member of the Hitler Youth. Writer-director Agnieszka Holland based her miraculously jaunty, profoundly moving portrayal of the will to live on the true story of one Solomon Perel. And Marco Hofschneider plays him with a stunned guile that goes beyond acting...
...World War II Germany, a Jewish adolescent survives by becoming a member of the Hitler Youth. Writer-director Agnieszka Holland based her miraculously jaunty, profoundly moving portrayal of the will to live on the true story of one Solomon Perel. And Marco Hofschneider plays him with a stunned guile that goes beyond acting...
From prostitute to professor and playwright, from country child to civil rights marcher to feminist, Endesha Ida Mae Holland has lived a life remarkable in itself and symbolic of half a century of astonishing U.S. social change. Her bluesy memoir has been toured by a trio of women, equally deft at folksy caricature and tragedy, who sing like the Liberty Bell...
Backed halfheartedly by Belgium and Denmark, Germany argued for recognition of the two republics as quickly as possible, suggesting that international acceptance of Croatia's frontiers would deflect the Serbian drive to annex more Croatian territory on the pretext of protecting Serb minorities. But opponents in Britain, France, Holland and, from the sidelines, the U.S. and the United Nations countered that recognition might only provoke the Serbs into expanding the civil war by deploying the national army into Bosnia- Herzegovina to "protect" the Serb minority there. That in turn could cause the conflict to spread to Macedonia, possibly involving Greece...
...school, where every shower is a threat: circumcision was a death warrant in Hitler's Germany. There is comedy and suspense in his story, shrewdness and innocence in his well-played character, irony and sadness in his situation, which keeps him always isolated in a crowd. Writer-director Agnieszka Holland's energetic film neither sentimentalizes nor solemnizes Solly. It is finally a celebration of individual wit triumphing over mass viciousness and stupidity...