8.5

The Pianist

2001, France, Poland, Germany, UK

• Actors: Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox, Michal Zebrowski, Ed Stoppard, Maureen Lipman, Frank Finlay, Jessica Kate Meyer, Julia Rayner, Wanja Mues, Richard Ridings, Nomi Sharron, Anthony Milner, Lucy Skeaping, Roddy Skeaping, Ben Harlan, Thomas Lawincky, Joachim Paul Assböck, Roy Smiles, Paul Bradley, Daniel Caltagirone, Andrzej Blumenfeld, Darian Wawer, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Lejb Fogelman, Detlev von Wangenheim, Popeck, Zofia Czerwinska, Emilio Fernandez, Udo Kroschwald, Uwe Rathsam
• Genre: Biography, Drama, War
• Director(s): Roman Polanski
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.

  6.2

Proof of Life

1999, USA

• Actors: Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse, Pamela Reed, David Caruso, Anthony Heald, Stanley Anderson, Gottfried John, Alun Armstrong, Michael Kitchen, Margo Martindale, Mario Ernesto Sánchez, Pietro Sibille, Vicky Hernández, Norma Martínez, Diego Trujillo, Aristóteles Picho, Sarahi Echeverría, Carlos Blanchard, Raúl Rodríguez, Mauro Cueva, Alejandro Cordova, Sandro Bellido, Miguel Iza, Roberto Frisone, Tony Vazquez, Claudia Dammert, Rowena King, Michael Byrne, Jaime Zevallos
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Taylor Hackford
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman's wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter's sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne's strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them?

  8.1

Trois couleurs: Rouge

1994, France, Switzerland, Poland

• Actors: Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Feder, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Samuel Le Bihan, Marion Stalens, Teco Celio, Bernard Escalon, Jean Schlegel, Elzbieta Jasinska, Paul Vermeulen, Jean-Marie Daunas, Roland Carey, Brigitte Raul, Leo Ramseyer, Nader Farman, Cécile Tanner, Anne Theurillat, Neige Dolsky, Jessica Korinek, Marc Autheman, Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy, Benoît Régent, Zbigniew Zamachowski
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
• Director(s): Krzysztof Kieslowski
• Available languages:
  • French French.

Valentine is a young model living in Geneva. Because of a dog she ran over, she meets a retired judge who spies his neighbours' phone calls, not for money but to feed his cynicism. The film is the story of relationships between some human beings, Valentine and the judge, but also other people who may not be aware of the relationship they have with Valentine or/and the old judge. Redemption, forgiveness and compassion...