• Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who travel through the American Southwest and South with the aim of achieving freedom. The success of Easy Rider helped spark the New Hollywood phase of filmmaking during the late sixties. The film was added to the Library of Congress National Registry in 1998. A landmark counterculture film,  and a “touchstone for a generation” that “captured the national imagination,” Easy Rider explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions in the United States during the 1960s, such as the rise and fall of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle.

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Country: USA
Director: Dennis Hopper
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• The Concert Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. As a solo violin player to accompany his old Jewish or Gypsy musicians he wants Anne-Marie Jacquet, a young virtuoso. If they all overcome the hardships ahead this very special concert will be a triumph.

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Country: France | Italy | Romania | Belgium | Russia
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
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• Chameleon centres on Gábor, a dangerous young man who uses his numerous talents to seduce disillusioned women and systematically strip them of their money. Working as an office cleaner by night and carefully choosing his targets, this master of manipulation – capable of adopting multiple personalities – finds a job in a psychologists’ practice. Here he meets Hanna, a 30-year-old dancer who dreams of returning to the stage after a serious injury and is also the daughter of a millionaire. Passing himself off as a doctor, Gabor offers his services to this lonely, desperate and vulnerable woman, winning her trust. She would be the ideal victim if love didn’t get in the way, as Gabor is confronted with an existential choice between love and money.

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Country: Hungary
Director: Krisztina Goda
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• Želary: The strong dramatic story unwinding amidst magnificent landscapes tells us about a fatal love that had grown from negative emotions and the feeling of fear, anxiety and mistrust in the beginning it was actually repulsion. A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife. Under the name Hana, Eliska travels with Joza to the tiny Moravian village of  Želary. They live in a modest cabin for two years. Želary was the Czech submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2003

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Country: Czech Republic | Slovakia | Austria
Director: Ondrej Trojan
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