Fire Line (1961)

1961

Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one of them becomes himself romantically entangled with the boss’s girlfriend. An ambitious underboss of the gang offers them a way out if they mu..er the previous boss but things […]

Save and Protect (1989)

1989
November 13, 2021

Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband’s botching of the operation on the stable boy’s clubfoot. The universality of the theme of eternal struggle between the soul and the flesh is conveyed through the absence of specific reference to time or place: although the film seems to begin […]

Love Knot (1995) aka Eleftheri katadysi

1995
November 13, 2021

Olga is a young pharmacist whο lives in the country in Chania, Crete in a confined and claustrophobic environment. Married and the mother of a offspring she will one day find herself face to face with her childhood sweetheart, Lefteris who has returned to his place of birth after a long absence, full of ambitions… They both share a tragic secret without, however, confessing, it to each other: they are brother and sister from a […]