All Pre-Production articles – Page 13

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    The Barcelona Connection

    2009-11-19T16:38:00Z

    A hapless US art expert arrives in Barcelona to examine newly discovered Dali paintings, but falls in love and gets caught up in a kidnapping while the US president is in town for a world peace conference.

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    Das System

    2009-11-19T11:18:00Z

    A young dropout becomes involved in a parallel world of international lobbyists and former GDR secret service agents and soon realises that his own life is more closely connected with this than he had previously believed.

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    The Girl From Slaveikov Square

    2009-11-19T11:06:00Z

    Great pop singer Lea Ivanova became popular in the 1960s as the “Star from the East”, but failed to gain recognition in her home country.

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    Comedown

    2009-11-19T10:54:00Z

    Urban horror about six teenagers who become the target of a local psychopath after setting up a pirate radio station aerial in the condemned tower block where he lives.

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    Attack The Block

    2009-11-13T14:53:00Z

    A gang of South London teenagers defend their tower block against an alien attack. 

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    Midday Sun

    2009-11-11T11:50:00Z

    Midday Sun is a thriller about an English couple, Dan and Sarah, who move to Spain, but their son is murdered soon after they arrive and a local boy is charged and released, but then dies suspiciously in a hit and run for which Dan is wrongly blamed.

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    Animals

    2009-11-11T11:48:00Z

    A coming of age fantasy tale in the vein of Donnie Darko.

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    Betsy And The Emperor

    2009-11-11T11:39:00Z

    Tells the story of the last few years in Napoleon’s life on the island of Saint Helena where he had a relationship with a 14 year old British girl.

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    Dakota

    2009-11-11T11:30:00Z

    Spaniard Joan Fuster lives in New York and has an accident, after which he can then suddenly foresee events, including a mass murder and his wife having an affair. This surreal comedy mixes dream sequences and reality.

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    Blackthorn

    2009-11-11T11:24:00Z

    James Blackthorn (alias Butch Cassidy) raises horses in Bolivia, but is dying and wants to return to the US. Along the way he crosses paths with a young Spanish mining engineer accused of robbing a mine, and the two slowly strike up a friendship. 

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    The Perfect Assassin

    2009-11-11T11:17:00Z

    This drama, set during Spain’s 1936-39 Civil War, focuses on Republican and Nationalist hit squads banding together to kill politician Don Rojo.

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    Red Dog

    2009-11-02T14:33:00Z

     A stray dog changes the lives of a disparate group of locals living in a rough-and-tumble outback Australian mining town, and helps them create a community.

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    We Are So Young

    2009-09-29T11:48:00Z

    The real life of Renato Russo, the leader of one of the most important Brazilian rock bands, Legiao Urbana, who died in 1996.

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    Roque Santeiro

    2009-09-29T11:44:00Z

    Adaptation of a successful Brazilian soap opera that was aired in 1985 by TV Globo.

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    Lady of the Images - Nise da Silveira

    2009-09-29T11:35:00Z

     The story of a psychiatrist who develops an unprecedented work, showing that schizophrenic people can express their “countless states of being” through art.

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    The Friends

    2009-09-29T11:34:00Z

    An architect who lives in the city of São Paulo starts his day going to the funeral of a childhood friend, when things begin to change in his life.

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    Dirty Hearts

    2009-09-29T11:31:00Z

    When Japan lost World War II, a new war started in Brazil. A war between the Japanese immigrants who accepted and those who did not accept the defeat.

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    Zanshin

    2009-09-23T14:07:00Z

    Set in the 16th Century, Zanshin sees two young Spaniards flee to Japan to escape inquisition. Billed as a swashbuckling action adventure film.

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    La Muerte Lenta De Luciana B

    2009-09-23T14:05:00Z

    The film tells the story of an assassin who methodically kills off everyone close to a young woman, Luciana. She suspects a famous writer, Kloster to be behind the deaths, but the police don’t believe her, so she turns to the help of a rival writer

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    Jennifer Can

    2009-09-23T14:02:00Z

    A hospital caretaker develops a relationship with a young patient confined to a water tank due to a rare skin disease