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The Wannsee Conference

screenplay by Paul Mommertz; directed by Heinz Schirk; a co-production of Infafilm GMBH Munich, Manfred Korytowski, and Austrian Television O.R.F., and Bavarian Broadcasting Corp
1987
The horror of the Holocaust began on January 20, 1942, when key representatives of the SS, the Nazi Party, and the government bureaucracy met secretly at a house in Wannsee, a quiet Berlin suburb, to discuss "The Final Solution.".

Brother sun, Sister moon

1973
Focuses on the early years of Francis of Assisi, who sought communion with the natural world by renouncing his family's riches to seek his own destiny unencumbered by material possessions.

LeChambon

la colline aux mille enfants = the hill of the thousand children
1994
The French village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon was inhabited by rough farmers of Huguenot descent. They knew a lot about religious persecution from their history. So during World War II when Hitler imposed his heinous laws and set out to arrest all Jews, this village would not stand for it.

Four plays

scenes from American life: Children; The Middle Ages; The Dining room
1985
Gurney's wickedly witty plays of upper-class foibles.

On golden pond

a play
1981
Norman and Ethel Thayer have been married for forty-eight years that have gone by too fast. This summer, when it comes to love, the whole family is playing it by ear.

Long day's journey into night

1962
Peformances by Katharine Hepburn as the mother ravaged by drug addiction, Sir Ralph Richardson as the embittered alcoholic father and Jason Robards, Jr. and Dean Stockwell as the maladjusted brothers, transform Eugene O'Neill's Pulitizer Prize-winning masterpiece into one of American's most stunning film achievements. 2 videos.

The stonemason

a play in five acts
1995
Ben Telfair gives up his education to apprentice in stonemasonry with his grandfather, Pawpaw, in Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s, and as the two bond, the distance between them and the rest of their family grows.

Peer Gynt

a dramatic poem
1989

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