Introduction Hacksaw Ridge is a 2016 American-Australian biographical war film directed by Mel Gibson and written by Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan, based on the 2004 documentary The Conscientious Objector. The film focuses on the World War II experiences of Desmond Doss, an American pacifist combat medic who, as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, refused to… Read More
Introduction Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (Czech: Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem) is a 1977 Czechoslovak comical science fiction film directed by Jindřich Polák. It is a screen adaptation of Josef Nesvadba’s short story with the same title. Outline In the near future, a technology enabling time travel has been… Read More
Introduction Toxic Skies is a 2008 film by director Andrew C. Erin. Outline Anne Heche stars as a World Health Organisation Doctor who uncovers the real cause of an epidemic is the government’s secret chem-trail programme. Cast Anne Heche … Dr. Tess Martin. James Tupper … Jack Bowen. Tobias Slezak … Major Stein. Daniel Bacon… Read More
Introduction Topaz is a 1969 American espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Based on the 1967 Cold War novel Topaz by Leon Uris, the film is about a French intelligence agent who becomes entangled in the Cold War politics of before the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and then the breakup of an international Soviet… Read More
Introduction Top Gun: Maverick is an upcoming American action drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie and a story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks. It is the sequel to the 1986 film Top Gun. The film stars Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly,… Read More
Introduction The Heroes of Telemark is a 1965 British war film directed by Anthony Mann based on the true story of the Norwegian heavy water sabotage during the Second World War from Skis Against the Atom, the memoirs of Norwegian resistance soldier Knut Haukelid. The film stars Kirk Douglas as Dr. Rolf Pedersen and Richard… Read More
Introduction Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water (original title: Kampen om tungtvannet, French title: La Bataille de l’eau lourde) is a Norwegian-French film from 1948. Outline The history is based on the best known commando raid in Norway during World War II, where the resistance group Norwegian Independent Company 1 destroyed the heavy water… Read More
Introduction Red Dog (Russian: Pyos Ryzhiy) is a 2017 action drama film by directors Aleksandr Basaev and William De Vital. Also known as Dog Brown (Worldwide English title) and The War Dog – Ihre letzte Hoffnung) (German DVD box title). Outline An action packed and heartwarming story of the friendship formed between a tank-destroyer dog… Read More
Introduction Five Minutes of Friendship is a short comedy film by director Dino Weisz. Outline As former National People’s Army border guard the Berlin Schaller returns once a year to his old operation site. Wild nature overgrows the once clear-felled area of the border region. The landscape is changing rapidly. Schaller remembers how he was… Read More
Introduction Persian Lessons (German: Persischstunden) is a 2020 Russian-Belarusian drama film directed by Vadim Perelman. The film was partially inspired by the short story Erfindung einer Sprache by German writer Wolfgang Kohlhaase. Outline A Jewish man in a German concentration camp pretends he is from Iran and is then forced to teach Persian, a language… Read More
