Les Lascars

Country: France, Germany.  Year: 2009.  Duration: 95 min.  Format: 35 mm. Colour.  V.O: French.

Director:  Albert Pereira Lazaro, Emmanuel Klotz
Script:  Alexis Doliver, Eldiablo, IZM
Production:  Millimages France, Studio 37, France 2 Cinéma, Too
Productor:  Roch Lenner, Philippe Gompel
Editor:  Thibaud Caquot
Cinematographer:  Thomas Digard
Music:  Lucien 'Papalu', Nicholas Varley
Cast:  (in their original voices): Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Gilles Lellouche, Omar Sy, Vincent Desagnat

Synopsis:

It’s summer in the hood. As every year, there are those who stay, those who leave, and… those who should have left. Some, like Joe Piswater, work “under the table” in the rich neighborhoods and fall head over heels for a pretty girl. Some, like Tony Pepperoni, play businessman and spend the summer fleeing a local gang leader and a psychopathic girlfriend. Some, like Sammy and Harvey, pretend to have left. Tropics are far for the homies… and summer promises to be very hot!

Vincere

Country: Italia.  Year: 2009.  Duration: 128 min.  Format: 35 mm. Colour.  V.O: Italian.

Director:  Marco Bellocchio
Script:  Marco Bellocchio
Production:  Offside, Rai Cinema, Celluloid Dreams
Productor:  Mario Gianani
Montaje:  Francesca Calvelli
Cinematographer:  Marco Bellocchio
Music:  Carlo Crivelli
Cast:  Giovanna Mezzogiorno , Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Corrado Invernizzi, Paolo Pierobon

Synopsis:

There is a secret in the life of Mussolini: a wife and a son, Benito Albino, who was born, acknowledged and then denied. The secret bears a name: Ida Dalser. It is a dark page in history, one ignored in the official biography of the Duce. When Ida meets Mussolini in Milan, he is the editor of Avanti! and an ardent Socialist who intends to guide the masses towards an anti-clerical, anti-monarchical, socially emancipated future. Ida already had a fleeting encounter with him in Trento and remained thunderstruck.
When the First World War erupts, Benito Mussolini enrolls in the Army and disappears. When Ida finds him again in a military hospital, he is tended to by Rachele whom he has just married. Ida lashes out at her rival furiously, demanding her rights as Mussolini’s true wife and the mother of his first-born son.

BuddenBrooks. The Decline of a Family

Country: Garmany.  Year: 2008.  Duration: 152 min.  Format: 35 mm. Colour.  V.O: German.

Director:  Heinrich Breloer
Script:  Heinrich Breloer, Horst Königstein, basado en la novella de Thomas Mann
Production:  Bavaria Film GmbH
Productor:  Matthias Esche, Michael Hild, Jan S. Kaiser, Uschi Reich, Winka Wulff
Montaje:  Barbara von Weitershausen
Cinematographer:  Gernot Roll
Music:  Hans Peter Ströer
Cast:  Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jessica Schwarz, August Diehl, Mark Waschke, Iris Berben, Léa Bosco, Justus von Dohnányi, Fedja van Huet

Synopsis:

Touching upon the fate of three generations, we witness the rise and fall of a merchant family in Northern Germany. In a society that is poised to change, family values seem doomed to change with it. Personal longings that were supposed to be sacrificed for the greater good of the family business now threaten to break apart a dynasty that was characterized by diligence and hard work and by faith and respect.

While Thomas is willing to fill the void of their father, Consul Jean, and to steer the firm through the times of modernization and rising competition, his brother Christian is trying to break away from any responsibility. We find him in dubious company, marrying a woman from a vaudeville show, rebelling against everything their father stood up for. It is left to their sister, Tony, who sacrifices her true love for the sake of the family’s fortune, to hold the family ties together. But when their competitor Hagenström proves to have the better instinct for the changing needs of the market, even her influence seems to vanish ...