The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the infamous concentration camp during World War II.
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EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life's path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turning his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.
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Mythologizing two real-life freedom fighters who helped lead India’s fight for independence from the British Raj: Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitarama Raju, RRR imagines a fictional meeting in he 1920s between the two, set into motion when a young Gond girl is stolen from her village by British soldiers.
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French import Eiffel places the story of Gustave Eiffel’s claims of building the Eiffel Tower into a love story which is loosely based on real events.
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Malta’s official 2021 Oscar selection, Luzzu, is a gritty, hard-scrabble look at a man desperate to find success in the fishing trade, with the temptation to enter the black market a temptation hard to resist.
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Those who know Roy Andersson’s work will eagerly embrace About Endlessness and it’s vignette-style, largely plotless look at how people matter and where we belong in the world.
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Zhang Yimou’s new film Cliff Walkers, a Chinese spy film set in the 1930s, is a beautifully crafted but narratively dense story that requires a viewer’s utmost attention.
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