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Corinth Films was founded in 1977 as a key them to their most valuable patrons – you, the source of theatrical and non-theatrical film audience. Cinema is alive. programming. Over the years, the company has undergone numerous changes as industry Our Vision mediums shifted, but the one constant has been What we envision at Corinth Films, quite simply, our passion for film. Having recently returned is to increase the flow of quality films to theaters to our roots of acquiring and releasing new art and home video, and everything in between. We house films, we endeavor to address the needs believe movies are a staple of both leisure time and desires of movie-goers who love a good and intellectual development, so we aim to keep story. Cinema has always been and always our standards high in visual and audio quality will be an effervescent form of art that has which goes hand-in-hand with the powerful transcended through the ages – from the great content of our pictures. As our business grows, Russian masters who steered the development we seek to add talented and hardworking people of cinematic expression through the revolution to our staff who help to ensure that Corinth and oppression of the Slavic states, to the latest delivers the very best. To us, the most rewarding Gala screening at Sundance. There are great thing is a successful film engagement and an films to be found in every corner of the world, excited audience. and it is the distributor’s duty to find and deliver

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OPEN UP TO ME FINLAND, 2013, 95min...... 4

BEAUTIFUL DARLING ...... 5

LGBT DOCUMENTARY, USA, 2010, 86min.

REMEMBRANCE GERMANY, 2010, 105min...... 6

BERLIN ‘36 GERMANY, 2009, 100min...... 7

MY GERMAN FRIEND ...... 8 JEWISH GERMANY & ARGENTINA, 2012, 100min.

LILA LILA GERMANY, 2009, 107min...... 9

VINCENT WANTS TO SEA ...... 10 GERMANY & ITALY, 2010, 96min.

TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DIRTY ...... 11 USA, 2012, 89min. COMEDY

ROAD NORTH FINLAND, 2012, 110min...... 12

POLICEMAN ISRAEL, 2011, 105min...... 13

DAYS TO COME GERMANY, 2010, 128min...... 14

JAIL CAESAR ...... 15 UK, SOUTH AFRICA, CANADA, 2012, 90min.

A LONG WAY FROM HOME ...... 16 UK & FRANCE, 2013, 80min.

DRAMA THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE IS NOT BEING DEAD SPAIN, 2011, 80min...... 17

SEAMONSTERS UK, 2011, 97min...... 18

WITHIN THE WHIRLWIND ...... 19 GERMANY & POLAND, 2009, 100min.

HABERMANN GERMANY, 2010, 104min...... 20

CALM AT SEA FRANCE, 2011, 96min...... 21

AS IF I AM NOT THERE ...... 22 IRELAND, MACEDONIA, SWEDEN, 2010, 109min.

WHERE I BELONG ...... 23 UK & AUSTRIA, 2014, 90min. HISTORICAL DRAMA HISTORICAL

KLITSCHKO...... 24 GERMANY, UKRAINE, USA, CANADA, 2011, 100min. 3117 Bursonville Rd, THE REAL AMERICAN: JOE McCARTHY...... 25 Riegelsville, PA 18077 GERMANY & USA, 2011, 100min. (610) 509-8350 [email protected] HOLLYWOOD ON TRIAL ...... 26 USA, 1976, 100min. www.corinthfilms.com EINSTEIN’S UNIVERSE ...... 27 DOCUMENTARY USA, 1979, 118min. OPEN UP TO ME Directed by Simo Halinen

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Maarit (Leea Klamola) has successfully managed but finding only Maarit, whose compassionate nature to live what she considers a double life – a male compels her to try to help the man. The two quickly body transformed into an attractive and intelligent find that they share some common interests, especially woman. Maarit’s new life and body have come with a soccer, a sport which was a significant part of Maarit’s considerable price, as many transgendered individuals past life. have discovered. An estranged Maarit’s natural sense of sexual wife and daughter, the feeling curiosity leads her into a new of being a stranger in a familiar realm of temptation and quickly but cold world, and a nagging Most people view themselves learns that all is not what it conscience to confess her as being tolerant. It is only in seems with this man, who turns sexual identity to would-be close encounters with people out to have deep inhibitions employers and those who try different from us that our true of his own and contends with to get too close are but a few colors shine through. elements of his professional of the burdens Maarit must The Nordic Film Festival and personal life in which bear. Most of all she longs to Maarit becomes dangerously revive the relationship with her entwined. Past events clash daughter Pinja (Emmi Nivala), with the present, and Maarit’s life becomes a turbulent but Pinja’s mother wants nothing to do with Maarit. whirlwind. Not one to live an existence of servitude to Her life takes an unexpected turn the day her employer, the expectations of a regimented society, she makes a therapist, leaves town on an emergency and entrusts the bold decision to come to complete terms with the Maarit to secure the office after she is done cleaning world around her and reconcile with those for whom she it. Maarit can’t help but to slightly overstep her bounds truly cares, and in doing so proves that true character once the therapist leaves and explore for a few is measured from the inside out. A gritty and emotional minutes a taste of this intriguing profession. A man film, Open Up to Me is an exceptionally well-written and (Peter Franzén) in the midst of a marital crisis enters directed film that has made its North American premiere unexpectedly seeking solace from the absent therapist at the Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival.

FILMOGRAPHY 1993 The Ballad of a Thin Man 1997 Minerva 2001 Cyclomania 2013 Open Up To Me

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2010 | USA | COLOR | 86 min | ENGLISH | NR PRODUCER Jeremiah Newton, Elisabeth Bentley, Gill Holland SCREENWRITER James Rasin

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Recapturing the excitement of a long lost New York and contemporary interviews (Tennessee Williams, City, Beautiful Darling tells the story of transgender director Paul Morrissey, writer Fran Lebowitz, Warhol pioneer Candy Darling, a star in the constellation that Superstar Holly Woodlawn among many others) with was Andy Warhol’s Factory. By the mid-sixties Jimmy excerpts from Candy’s own diaries and letters, which Slattery, born in a Long Island suburb of Massapequa in are voiced, to devastating effect, by Academy Award 1944, had become Candy, a gorgeous blond actress and nominee and Golden Globe Award winning actress Chloë throwback to Hollywood’s golden Sevigny. age. This persona won her starring The film’s counterpoint roles in two Warhol movies, parts to Candy’s burning — and in mainstream films, and a lead A haunting documentary reveals ultimately falling — star role in a Tennessee Williams’ play. the most beautiful, and tragic, of is the story of Jeremiah Her ethereal beauty attracted Andy Warhol’s superstars. Newton, one of her closest such taste-making photographers Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly friends and admirers and as Robert Mapplethorpe, Cecil the executor of her estate. Beaton, Richard Avedon and Peter Rasin follows the aging Beard. She was the inspiration Jeremiah as he journeys behind two of Lou Reed’s best through a past that has never entirely subsided into mere known songs, Candy Says and Walk on the Wild Side, memory: reminiscing over his friendship with Candy; and was one of the most unusual and charismatic poring over the memorabilia he saved from destruction fixtures in the explosive downtown, underground scene at the hands of Candy’s homophobic mother; and finally of late 1960s/early ‘70s New York. burying Candy’s ashes -- thirty five years after her death Candy’s journey of self-discovery and transformation -- in a simple ceremony that brings the story full circle. becomes, for director James Rasin, a tragic allegory The film is part-70’s celebrity gazing, part cinéma vérité for our fame and media obsessed times. But it is also road trip, and partly a moving indictment of intolerance a gripping story with a simple, universal theme: One for differences of all kinds, but mostly it’s an inspirational person’s pursuit of their own American Dream. The film tribute to an unforgettable human being who refused to interweaves rare archival footage and both historical let others define her or her dreams.

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FACEBOOK.COM/CORINTHFILMS1977 5 REMEMBRANCE Directed by Anna Justice

2010 | GERMANY & POLAND | COLOR | 105 min. | GERMAN, POLISH & ENGLISH w/ENGLISH SUBTITLES | NR PRODUCER Sven Woldt SCREENWRITER Pamela Katz STARRING Alice Dwyer, Mateusz Damięcki, Dagmar Manzel, Shantel Vansanten, David Rasche, Lech Mackiewicz, Susanne Lothar, Joanna Kulig

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Inspired by actual events, Remembrance depicts a Uncovering years of tormenting memories, Hannah remarkable love story that blossomed amidst the terror stumbles upon a revelation that will set her soul free. of a German concentration camp in Poland 1944. In a It is this revelation that leads the audience to develop daring escape Tomasz, a young Polish political prisoner, a keen feeling of compassion for Hannah, and where rescues his Jewish fiancée the emotional power of the Hannah, whom he meets while past and present collide. One imprisoned. With the Nazis part of Hannah wishes for the in pursuit and determined to past to be finished and over, deter future escapees, Hannah ...one of the best Holocaust- while the other part yearns for and Tomasz survive the initial closure and remembrance, and chase and overcome all odds themed features in recent years... a chance to revisit the man she to make their way into hiding. highly recommended... owes her life to. Chaos ensues after Tomasz Joe Bendel, Libertas Film Magazine In her notes, script writer decides to rejoin the Polish Pamela Katz refers to Israeli resistance and find his brother. author David Grossman’s His role in the Resistance offer haunting question “What right clues as to why Tomasz was do I have to touch the sore?” In a deep effort to avoid imprisoned. He had promised to return for his fiancée, sentimentality and offensive clichés, Remembrance is but Hannah is forced to flee once again before Tomasz a story constructed to not only accomplish this, but to is able to come back for her. They are torn apart and deliver a stunning narrative that sensitively illuminates each becomes convinced that the other is lost. heroic events in such a dark time and place. More than thirty years later in New York City, the happily Remembrance also features an excellent performance married Hannah believes to have seen her Tomasz by the late Susanne Lothar, as Tomasz’s heartbroken in an interview on TV and begins to search for him. mother.

FILMOGRAPHY 2006 Noch Einmal Lieben 2007 Max Minsky and Me 2010 Remembrance

ORDER ONLINE @ WWW.CORINTHHOMEVIDEO.COM 6 BERLIN ‘36 Directed by Kaspar Heidelbach

2009 | GERMANY | COLOR | 100 min. | GERMAN w/ENGLISH SUBTITLES NR PRODUCER Gerhard Schmidt SCREENWRITER Lothar Kurzawa JEWISH STARRING Karoline Herfurth, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Axel Prahl, Robert Gallinowski, Thomas Thieme, Johann Von Bülow, August Zirner

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Based on the true story of Gretel Bergmann, who after the Nazis stoop to threatening her family if she unwittingly became the biggest threat to the Nazi continues to persist for a spot on the German Olympic Party during the 1936 Olympic Games, this film team. Gretel ultimately escapes to America where she is about one of the most bizarre Nazi schemes to can begin a new life and put the Nazis behind her. keep a Jewish athlete from succeeding in sport. Hitler’s National Socialist Party This film features an finds itself at odds with the interview with Gretel international sports community Bergmann, now Margaret after they attempt to ban Jews Berlin ‘36 takes us back Lambert, the name she had from the German Olympic to Hitler’s Germany...about taken after her arrival in the teams. [an] admirable, young, United States and marriage determined woman. to her husband, Bruno Gretel Bergmann is the best Stony Brook Film Festival Lambert. We had the female high jumper in the world, distinct pleasure of getting but is relentlessly sabotaged to meet Mrs. Lambert and by the Nazis as they stop at sharing more of her story nothing to keep her from a gold medal because she of arriving in the United States and beginning a new is Jewish. Her skill and ethnicity undermined the life, as well as of her consulting role in the production Nazi belief that Aryans were the superior race, so of Berlin ‘36. Mrs. Lambert has long since reconciled the German authorities schemed to replace Gretel with her native country of Germany, and cast away the with another woman — but “she” had a secret that, if bitterness of the past. A stadium in her hometown of uncovered, could be even more embarrassing to the Laupheim is named after Mrs. Lambert in her honor. Nazis. Gretel valiantly defies them as long as she can and excels in training, only to be forced off the team

FILMOGRAPHY 1970 Tatort 2003 A Light in Dark Places 2009 Berlin ‘36

FACEBOOK.COM/CORINTHFILMS1977 7 MY GERMAN FRIEND Directed by Jeanine Meerapfel

2012 | GERMANY & ARGENTINA | COLOR | 100 min. | SPANISH & GERMAN w/ENGLISH SUBTITLES | NR

PRODUCER Jeanine Meerapfel EXEC. PRODUCER Paul MÜller CO- PRODUCERS Hans W. GeiβendÖrfer, Ricardo Freixá STARRING Max Riemelt, Celeste Cid, Benjamin Sadler, NoemÍ Frenkel, Jean-Pierre Noher, Katja Alemann JEWISH

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After the war, Nazis and Jews alike fled to Argentina However, Friedrich makes a startling discovery of his to escape war crime tribunals and the horrendous dark family past that makes him restless, and channels persecution of the past, respectively. Each brings with his anger and energy into revolutionary political activities them an intense dislike of the other, trying their best to after arriving in Germany to study. Sulamit joins him begin new lives, but the ghosts of the past sometimes in Germany after receiving an award to study there at never let go. Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, and hopes to finally Two families, one Jewish, The love between Sulamit and have a future with Friedrich, and one German, live side by Friedrich could equally be the who becomes consumed with side. Sulamit, the pretty and love between a Palestinian and an political revolutionary ferver as energetic young daughter of time goes on. He decides to a wealthy Jewish Marzipan Israeli...a love which is fortunately return to Argentina to partake factory owner, meets the stronger than the differences of our in the Argentinean Revolution, young son, Friedrich, of the origins and heritage. leaving a devastated Sulamit in German family next door and Jeanine Meerapfel, Director Germany. She soon finds a new takes a liking to him. The two love and work, but cannot so become close friends, and Friedrich demonstrates his easily forget about her German friend. Sulamit travels to loyalty to Sulamit early on. As time goes by, Sulamit’s Argentina to search for Friedrich, who is now imprisoned. family is struck by tragedy at the same time Argentina She finally is able to make her way into the harsh prison, is engulfed in a coup d’état as Juan Perón is sent into where she is allowed to spend a few precious moments exile. Sulamit, stricken by grief and confusion, finds with a Friedrich that she no longer recognizes. solace in the arms of Friedrich, and Friedrich’s family Friedrich, a transformed man, is eventually released and accepts her as one of their own. is able to find a noble profession in which to channel his As time goes by, Friedrich and Sulamit maintain energy, and resides himself to winning back Sulamit’s their friendship, which is constantly on the verge of heart. becoming something more than neither of them expect.

FILMOGRAPHY 1995 Amigomío 2001 Anna’s Summer 2003 Fictional Lies on Right Occasions 2007 Mosconi - Or to Whom the World Belongs

ORDER ONLINE @ WWW.CORINTHHOMEVIDEO.COM 8 LILA LILA Directed by Alain Gsponer

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Popular German actor Daniel Brühl plays David Kern, onto David for dear life and soon proves to be as much of a socially awkward waiter who works a dead end job a weasel as David proves to be auspicious. in a chic cafe. One day he stumbles upon the biggest break of his life, an unpublished manuscript which he Based on the novel Lila Lila by Martin Suter, the film is finds in a jammed nightstand drawer. He reads the a story with a refreshing ending in which forgiveness manuscript, and thinking there and reconciliation overcome might be something to it, claims misguided intentions. It it as his own in order to impress is in the end in which the Marie, a pretty literature student perpetrator realizes the error who frequents the cafe. The A romantic comedy that of his ways, and is afforded manuscript turns out to be a lost has equal appeal to a chance to remain atop his masterpiece. Marie is quite taken both sexes. perch while mending the with this stunning new writer, The Hollywood Reporter most precious thing to him and is not content to let the hefty that had appeared to be document go unpublished, much broken forever. to David’s dismay. Daniel Brühl is among the With David’s guilty conscience nibbling away, a stranger more well-known foreign actors, particularly for his appears - the real author of the story, Jackie Stocker. performance in Rush, The Fifth Estate and Inglorious Jackie wastes no time prying into David’s life and Basterds, and also for other films such as The Bourne turning his newfound fame into a living nightmare. Ultimatum, Goodbye Lenin!, and Salvador. Now most David, unable to comprehend what is unfolding before recently, Brühl has starred in mainstream Hollywood him, must come to grips with what his deception has pictures Rush and The 5th Estate. Watch for this talented caused, and figure out what exactly are Jackie’s plans. young multi-cultural actor to appear in more mainstream Will Jackie expose David as a fraud, or will he just films, and don’t miss the chance to show your audiences “settle” for blackmailing him? Jackie, a shrewd con-man a young Daniel Brühl before he was discovered by big who recognizes opportunity when he sees it, latches name studios.

FILMOGRAPHY 2003 Kiki and Tiger 2005 Rose 2006 Life Actually 2009 Lila Lila

FACEBOOK.COM/CORINTHFILMS1977 9 VINCENT WANTS TO SEA Directed by Ralf Huettner

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Embattled with the symptoms of Tourette’s Syndrome, comes in the form of expensive cars, dapper dress, and Vincent Gellner (Florian David Fitz) has just endured Johann Sebastian Bach. the loss his mother. His father (Heino Ferch), an ambitious politician running for office who cannot be What follows is a hilarious road movie with the trio burdened with the task of caring for Vincent, sends him cruising down the autobahn without the slightest concern off to a rehabilitation clinic for the inconveniences they where he will learn how to cause the people around them manage his twitches, tics, and Predictability gives way to a along the way. While Vincent’s ill-timed but unpremeditated touching drama...What makes a father and the clinic’s lead verbal outbursts. deeper and more lasting impression physician, Dr. Rose (Katharina is how badly they want to save one Müller-Elmau) bumble along An unenthusiastic Vincent another, and that it’s the wanting that in pursuit of the escaped is given an election ballot to matters more than the saving. patients, Vincent, Marie and sign and mail, thus securing Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post Alexander enjoy a reprieve his father another vote, a and experience a surrealistic departing gift as he is taken to journey that liberates them the clinic. Once indoctrinated into the program, Vincent from their afflictions. The film ends in a manner that is finds solace in Marie (Karoline Herfurth), a feisty neither predictable nor trivial, and the newfound friends anorexic whose partiality for spontaneous adventure discover that life is too precious to let their afflictions happens to coincide with Vincent’s objective of getting interfere with their true individuality. to the Mediterranean Sea in Northern Italy to spread his mother’s ashes and fulfill her last wish: to see the water The script for Vincent Wants to Sea was written by one last time. Also coerced along for the ride happens lead actor Florian David Fitz, and in 2011 the film won Vincent’s roommate, Alexander (Johannes Allmayer), Germany’s top prize for motion picture – the Golden Lola an obsessive-compulsive whose only contentment Award.

FILMOGRAPHY 2001 Moonlight Tariff 2006 Formsache 2006 Dr. Psycho series 2010 Vincent Wants to Sea

ORDER ONLINE @ WWW.CORINTHHOMEVIDEO.COM 10 TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DIRTY Directed by Timothy L. Anderson

2012 | USA | COLOR | 89 min. | ENGLISH | NR

PRODUCER/SCREENWRITER Timothy L. Anderson CO-EXEC PRODUCER R. James Whede COMEDY STARRING Mark Greenfield, Coolio, RocÍo Verdejo, C. Clayton Blackwell, Kenneth McGregor, Spencer Rowe, Kittson O’Neill, Alejandro Lozano

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Few things in life are more depressing than being sell mattresses and attract new customers. Isabelle stuck in a hopeless, dead-end job at a mattress store turns out to be just what the enterprise needs to stay in a decaying urban strip mall and having to moonlight afloat, and quickly makes friends with Manny, Rob and at birthday parties dressed in a bunny suit to make Martin (C. Clayton Blackwell), the dim-witted gift shop ends meet. Native to this environment and products attendant who works next door. The seemingly charming of outdated pop culture are Rob Isabelle, however, sells not (Mark Greenfield) and Manny only mattresses but also a (Coolio), the unsuccessful, scheme to her three new unrefined and uncouth sales friends that offers them the force behind Affordable Mattress. ...one of the choicest dark hope of an exit from the The pair spend their days shifting comedies of recent times. monotonous life they have around unsold inventory, taking Erik Martiny, Aesthetica Short Film Festival known for so long – murder smoke breaks, washing windows, her ex-husband (Spencer and middling with employees Rowe) and make it look from other stores in the strip mall. like an accident so that she The story resembles a Bartleby can collect a $200,000 life of sorts, but absent Paul Scofield is the store’s irritable insurance payout, which she will split with them. manager Preston (Kenneth McGregor), who relieves his endless frustration with verbal abuse bluntly aimed at Together, the team comes up with a plan that, when set his miserable employees. How they remain employed is in motion, would make even Harry and Lloyd from Dumb anyone’s guess, which forms the parallel to the Herman and Dumber proud, and go about accomplishing the task Melville story. at hand with not an ounce more competence than what goes into their daily routine at Affordable Mattress. Two Desperate to improve sales, Preston hires a pretty Hundred Thousand Dirty is sympathetic and sincere dark woman named Isabelle (Rocío Verdejo) to help comedy about the unforgiving realities of life.

AWARDS | FESTIVALS Rome Ind. FF :: RIFF AWARDS FINALIST Boston International FF :: NOMINATION Independent Days FF :: OPENING NIGHT FILM Festival Cine/B :: CLOSING NIGHT FILM

FACEBOOK.COM/CORINTHFILMS1977 11 ROAD NORTH Directed by Mika Kaurismäki

2012 | FINLAND | COLOR | 110 min. | FINNISH w/ENGLISH SUBTITLES | NR

PRODUCER Mika Kaurismäki SCREENWRITER Sami Keski-Vähälä, Mika Kaurismäki STARRING Vesa-Matti Loiri, Samuli Edelmann, Mari Perankoski, Irina Björklund, Peter Franzén, Elina Knihtilä, Eila Roine, Ada Kukkonen COMEDY Coming Soon:

Timo, an esteemed concert pianist, gets the surprise which endeavors to teach its viewers a simple but of his life one day after arriving home after a important lesson: sometimes you have to travel a performance only to find a homeless drunkard asleep long way to see what is right in front of you. The film outside his front door. The man, Leo (played by Finnish is directed by Mika Kaurismaki and co-stars popular musician, actor and artist Vesa-Matti Loiri), makes the Finnish actors Samuli Edelmann and Peter Franzén outrageous claim to be Timo’s alongside Loiri, who brings the long-lost father who left the charismatic and eccentric Leo country when Timo was three to life, and in real life is a multi- and hadn‘t been in touch talented actor and musician since. Leo, as mysterious and The overall tone is sweeter than who during the course of a manipulative as he is slovenly, usual for the helmer/co-writer, career spanning 50 years has has returned to bestow his without being overly sentimental. appeared in more than 70 films legacy upon his only son, Alyssa Simon, Variety and has recorded 32 top-selling and to re-unite him with his music albums. Starring in the estranged family — Timo’s role of Timo, Samuli Edelmann sister, ex-wife and daughter. is one of Finland’s most popular Creating more questions than actors and singers, best known answers, Leo proves to be his son’s alter-ego of sorts, to North American audiences for his role as henchman eventually prying him from his comfort zone and forcing Wistrom in Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011). him to reluctantly reconcile with shadows of the past. Director Mika Kaurismäki, born in Helsinki, was the Timo is skeptical of his father from the very beginning subject of a spotlight program at TIFF in 1988 alongside and is never actually able to feel comfortable around his brother Aki, who is also a prolific film maker whose him for very long, until he learns the truth of why Leo filmography includesLe Havre (2011). Mika’s filmography has come back to learn about the man his son has includes The Liar (1980), Amazon (1990), Zombie and the become. Full of surprises, Road North is a hearty father- Ghost Train (1991), The Last Border (1993), L.A. Without a son dark comedy and official TIFF 2012 Selection Map (1998), and Three Wise Men (2008).

FILMOGRAPHY 1991 Zombie and the Ghost Train 2008 Three Wise Men 2009 The House of Branching Love 2011 Mama Africa

ORDER ONLINE @ WWW.CORINTHHOMEVIDEO.COM 12 POLICEMAN Directed by Nadav Lapid

2011 | ISRAEL | COLOR | 105 min. | HEBREW w/ENGLISH SUBTITLES | NR

PRODUCER Itai Tamir SCREENWRITER Nadav Lapid

STARRING Yiftach Klein, Michael Mushonov, Michael Aloni, Meital Berdah, DRAMA Rona-Lee Shimon, Yaara Pelzig, Menashe Noi, Gal Hoyberger

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Yaron, an elite special operations squad leader, is vision a reality. Circumstances swell, and Yaron faces the spiritual leader and alpha male among his peers, something he never imagined; the prospect of the very a small, highly trained team that is part of the Israeli sort of evil he works to eliminate taking on the form of Defense Ministry’s Anti-Terrorism unit. Like a band of his beloved Israeli countrymen. For the sake of his team, brothers, these men work, play, laugh, and cry together. his expectant wife, and himself, he must hold himself They are true patriots; they love together and perform his their country, their families, and duties. each other. Yaron is ambitious and energetic, but a cyclone ...an electrifying feature directing Director Nadav Lapid made of emotions consumes him. debut, traces the line between the several short films during his His wife is expecting their first group and the individual in a story that studies in the Sam Spiegel child, and the failing health of can be read as a commentary on the Film School, which were a team member weighs on his world as much as on Israel. screened in Cannes, Berlin soul as the men contend with an Manohla Dargis, The New York Times and Locarno. His graduate unforgivable accident resulting film, Emile’s Girlfriend from a miscalculation during a (50 min) was distributed recent rescue mission, and the price that must be paid in France. He participated in the Festival de Cannes as a result of this. Residence, where he wrote the script for Policeman. The project won the pitching price of the Jerusalem Film As the story shifts, the antagonists are introduced: Festival and of the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 2008. a small group of young, passionate, idealist, and Keep On Dancing, a collection of novels he wrote, was politically extreme individuals with their own vision of published in Israel and France. Lapid studied philosophy how Israeli society should be. They see themselves as a and history and worked as a sports and culture journalist, Robin Hood of sorts, and although their means involve a television critic and documentary cinematographer. methods of terrorism, set forth to make their misguided

FILMOGRAPHY 2006 Emile's Girlfriend 2011 Policeman 2013 Footsteps in Jerusalem 2014 The Kindergarten Teacher

FACEBOOK.COM/CORINTHFILMS1977 13 DAYS TO COME Directed by Lars Kraume

2010 | GERMANY | COLOR | 128 min. | GERMAN w/ENGLISH SUBTITLES | NR

PRODUCER Jürgen Vogel, Matthias Glasner, Katrin Schlösser Frank Döhmann SCREENWRITER Lars Kraume STARRING Bernadette Heerwagen, Daniel Brühl, Johanna Wokalek, August Diehl, Susanne Lothar, Ernst Stötzner, Vincent Redetzki, Mehdi Nebbou DRAMA

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Europe, 2020 – The European Union has collapsed offer Laura the promise of a family or the lasting joy after the onset of the 4th Gulf War. The fight for the which she desperately seeks. As the world she knows last remaining oil reserves has unveiled a poisonous rapidly starts to deteriorate, she search es for a sliver of sentiment that engulfs the citizenry, cutting into the hope to help keep her optimistic spirit alive, and finds it deepest parts of the fabric of civilization. As the old again only briefly before the men she had known most Europe is flooded by refugees intimately cross paths in a from adjacent continents, bloody confrontation, and all economic conditions worsen is lost. and worsen, and chaos ensues. Certainly not a typical Families and relationships are A destabalized family tackles a doomsday film, Days to torn apart, and violence seems destabilized world, entering their future Come offers a very realistic the only promise of survival in with all their hopes and fears. glimpse into a future shaped this dark new world. by powerful, resource-hungry Laura Kuper (Bernadette nations determined to seize Heerwagen), a student in her control of the last remaining early 20’s, bears witness to oil-rich areas at any cost. Is this the societal unfolding from the beginning. Appalled what we as a whole could face one day? The filmmaker by the influence of her sister’s boyfriend, Konstantin paints a sombering picture that reflects his views on a (August Diehl) on her family, Laura tries to steer clear modern and transforming society. Days to Come is one of the malicious revolutionary as he begins to gradually of Hollywood star Daniel Brühl’s earlier films, and also succeed in pulling Cecelia (Johanna Wokalek) into a features a performance by the late Susanne Lothar. cell of aspiring terrorists, of which he is a significant Born in Italy in 1973 and raised in Frankfurt, Lars part. Laura is able to briefly experience love and Kraume is a talented filmmaker that had emerged from happiness with a young lawyer named Hans (Daniel the German Film and Television Academy with Dunkel in Brühl), who, until recently, was part of her father’s law 1998, which earned him the Adolf Grimm Award. firm. However, Hans has demons of his own and cannot

FILMOGRAPHY 2001 Viktor Vogel - Commercial Man 2010 Days to Come

ORDER ONLINE @ WWW.CORINTHHOMEVIDEO.COM 14 JAIL CAESAR Directed by Paul Schoolman

2012 | UK, SOUTH AFRICA, CANADA | COLOR | 90 min. | ENGLISH | NR

PRODUCER Alice Krige, Paul Schoolman CO-PRODUCER Warren Adler,

Sahil Gill, Eda Lishman SCREENWRITER Paul Schoolman DRAMA STARRING Derek Jacobi, John Kani, Alice Krige, Warren Adler, Richard Clifford, Grant Swanby, Gunter Singer, Peter John Christians

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Jail Caesar (aka String Caesar) is a feature film that fear, anger and fleeting happiness are normal, everyday tells the timeless story of an adolescence shaped by cyclical elements. social and political events. It charts a young man’s impassioned quest for power, for the meaning of Set in Pollsmoor Prison (Cape Town, South Africa), freedom and to know himself, to live his dreams, and Cardiff Prison (Wales, United Kingdom) and “The achieve his ambitions. The film Brotherhood Lodge” - explores his struggle to survive Drumheller Penitentiary by becoming a power broker, a (Alberta, Canada), this manipulator and then a dictator A phenominal work...unique. remarkable historical event -- the genesis of a powerful man, ...told by a cast predominantly unfolds in a modern reality with roots in politics, violence, drawn from three prisons from with relentless energy. It and gang warfare. across the world...the prisons are combines a remarkable ever present...in the constant hum cast that includes Sir Derek The story, shot in three of the of voices and human noise. Jacobi, John Kani, Alice most notorious prisons in the Krige, Warren Adler, Grant Revelation Perth Int'l Film Festival world, uses both acclaimed Swanby, Gunter Singer, actors and actual inmates Richard Clifford, prison incarcerated in these prisons to reenact the tale of a officers and 300 prisoners. The inmate actors offer solid young Julius Caesar. As the film’s producer explains the performances and add a significant degree of realism script to one of the inmates upon discussing the idea that is absent in many pictures. As the head of security to use an actual prison as the setting to cast the film - of one of the prisons explains “These inmates have “Not Shakespeare….not Shakespeare’s older Caesar, but gotten so caught up in the filming that they have no idea the young one full of piss and vinegar.” Many inmates what they have done until they see the film. This place are serving life without parole, imprisoned for drugs, is ruled by gangs. There are invisible lines across the violence, and murder, so getting them to cooperate is floor, and if somebody crosses one of these lines, they’re one of the many challenges the producer and director dead. During the filming, inmates of opposing gangs are face. The prisons are a microcosm of the real world constantly crossing these lines as the scenes are being where drugs, sexual liaisons, gangs, deals, allegiances, shot.” This is the essence of true acting.

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FACEBOOK.COM/CORINTHFILMS1977 15 A LONG WAY FROM HOME Directed by Virginia Gilbert

2013 | UK, FRANCE | COLOR | 80 min. | ENGLISH | NR

PRODUCER Junyoung Jang, Guillaume Benski EXEC PRODUCERS James Jirayuth Sangtaweep, J.B. Virawat Dangsubutrau, Mauro Gabrielle, Luc Giraud, François Robey Corrado, Jay Boccia, Virginia Gilbert, Abner Pastoll SCREENWRITER Virginia Gilbert

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Poor Joseph (James Fox)....after achieving a the attractive Suzanne, and is entranced by her smile. comfortable retirement with his wife of 50 years, The two couples become friendly, and Joseph finds Brenda (Brenda Fricker), to a condo in the South of himself feeling slightly more lively after the encounter France, a destination that most would die for, he finds with Suzanne, who is vacationing in the area with her himself utterly miserable. Bored, lonely, and tired of his boyfriend for a few days. Shortly thereafter, Mark and wife’s incessant nagging and Suzanne bump into Joseph slow onset of Alzheimer’s, on a sightseeing trip to one he finds himself gazing of the local sites of ancient hopelessly at the younger A sedate, slightly stilted study architecture. women that pass by. Brenda of long-dormant passions in eventually begins to sense her sun-baked southern France is Joseph’s fascination with the husband’s loss of enthusiasm enlivened by its classy cast. young woman grows, and upon for life is something beyond learning of Mark’s interest in Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter the simple prescription of anti- fine wine, he invites them to depressants given by their visit his friend who owns a doctor, but absorbs in daily vineyard. There, Mark is able to routine and trifling tasks to keep herself occupied. They indulge in his favorite hobby and Joseph and Suzanne continue in their retirement almost living separate lives, are able to spend time alone, strolling through the rows with Joseph pining for his younger years and utilizing of grape trees. Suzanne enjoys Joseph’s company any possible reason to escape the household to go on as much he enjoys hers, despite the tremendous age long walks and car rides by his self. difference, and looks to him as a fatherly figure while he looks upon her as something much unlike a daughter. One day, they find a young couple, Suzanne (Natalie Joseph, a moral man and a gentleman, is able to keep Dormer) and Mark (Paul Nicholls), from London sitting his emotions well-contained, however, the encounter at a table next to them as they dine at their favorite with Suzanne has stirred something inside of him that restaurant. Joseph strikes up a conversation with will change his stale life forever.

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ORDER ONLINE @ WWW.CORINTHHOMEVIDEO.COM 16 THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE IS NOT BEING DEAD (Lo Más Importante de La Vida Es No Haber Muerto) Directed by Olivier Pictet, Pablo Martín Torrado, Marc Refuenco

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A Franconian era comedic drama, this cerebral and Jacobo is a well-known and reputable piano repairman tantalizing film by the Olpama Film team (consisting who lives a comfortable life, able to tune and repair the of Olivier Pictet, Pablo Martin Torrado, and Marc great instruments which he is called upon to fix. One Recuenco Bigorda) explores a man‘s identity crisis as day, Jacobo‘s ability to tune and repair the pianos simply he awakens one day to realize that life is not at all what disappears. His skill was a miracle to begin with, as it seemed to be for many years. Jacobo himself admits, “the This is a familiar notion that each pianos fix themselves as I of us has explored at one time Mythology, film noir and Buñuel- sleep...“ Panicked, Jacobo or another, however for the main like social satire blend with is unable to sleep at night character, Jacobo, his situation invigorating style in this and summons his doctor is elaborately complicated by the intelligent, imaginative and to try to cure him of the appearance of a phantom. humorous portrait of the sudden onset of insomnia. Franco era (and beyond)... The doctor, however, cannot Although not menacing or violent, offer a helpful solution and The Mill Valley Film Festival the phantom makes himself a even Jacobo‘s wife sees little too comfortable in Jacobo’s no other explanation in her house, threatening to disturb the order and tranquility husband‘s behavior than a cognitive breakdown, and fails of his once peaceful existence. Like a cockroach not to recognize his distress. wishing to be seen by light, the phantom is a product of post-civil war Catalonia, desperately evading authorities Becoming increasingly paranoid, Jacobo is able to at at all costs to avoid reprimand for subversive political least find solace in the lamentations of a longtime friend activities for which he had engaged, and is also whose existence, like Jacobo’s, is based on a foundation- indirectly responsible for the means by which Jacobo less premise. As both men’s crisis reach epic proportions, and his wife ended up together. But who is this phantom a near encounter with death re-invigorates their and what is his connection to Jacobo‘s wife? perspectives, and Jacobo realizes the phantom is the only source of answers for the past, present and future.

FILMOGRAPHY 2006 Thermos 2010 The Most Important Thing in Life is Not Being Dead

FACEBOOK.COM/CORINTHFILMS1977 17 SEAMONSTERS Directed by Julian Kerridge

2011 | UK | COLOR | 97 min. | ENGLISH | NR

PRODUCER Angela Gordon SCREENWRITER Martin Sadofski, Julian Kerridge STARRING Reece Noi, Jack McMullen, Georgia Henshaw, Leila Mimmack, Rita Tushingham, Maggie O’Neill, Andrew Knott, Jack Guttman, Orrin Davis DRAMA

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Set in the seaside town of Worthing, England, the title cruel prank. Sam manages to undo the harm caused of this film suggests something other than a cute, by Kieran’s mischief and earns the affection of the girl, charming picture. Although Seamonsters would most and learns how tormented she is. Kieran and Mooney strongly appeal to a younger audience, almost any continue their complicated relationship, with Kieran person could identify with the thematic elements of becoming more abusive and controlling. The story takes this film: the testing of one’s a dark twist while Sam is out breaking point, the pain of of town one day attending his being deceived by a close Uncle’s funeral, with Kieran and friend, and the agony of a dark ...a masterful achievement... Lori left together without him. secret being revealed. The two playful, melancholy, and captivating... main characters, Sam and ...the film pulls the audience in Suddenly Lori’s behavior Kieran, are polar opposites. and instantly makes it feel as though it becomes erratic and cold, and Sam is peaceful and has known this place and these people after a terrible event takes compassionate, and seeks a for many years. place, Sam is left to question young woman with whom he everything he knows about can build a happy life. Kieran, Stephanie Huettner, Widescreen Warrior everyone around him, and even manipulative and violent, himself. Trying to break away lives day by day, satisfying his from the poverty and despair instant gratification mindset and amuses himself at the he has known his whole life and move in a constructive expense of others. Both teenagers are unpredictable. direction, Sam is constantly hindered by Kieran, who becomes desperate to drag Sam down with him as he The pair waste away their days, fishing and, to the becomes more violent and toxic, especially to Mooney, dismay of Kieran’s girlfriend Mooney, pursuing local whom he has convinced to abandon a promising career girls. Drugs are also part of the boys’ daily lives. One as a chef at a local restaurant. At this point in the film, day Sam and Kieran wander upon a local shantytown the viewer is ready to jump out of their seat and yell “How and find a lonely young girl, Lori, living in one ofthe much more can you take, Sam?” Finally, he is pushed to shacks with her mother. Sam immediately takes a liking his limit the day he witnesses Kieran commit an offense to her, while Kieran takes the opportunity to display his that even the most devout pacifist could not allow to go malevolence to this forgotten part of the world with a unpunished.

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ORDER ONLINE @ WWW.CORINTHHOMEVIDEO.COM 18 WITHIN THE WHIRLWIND Directed by Marleen Gorris

PRODUCER Christine Ruppert SCREENWRITER Nancy Larson STARRING Emily Watson, Ulrich Tukur, Ian Hart, Benjamin Sadler, Agata Buzek, Ben Miller, Monica Dolan, Jimmy Yuill, Pam Ferris

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Ten years of imprisonment in a Soviet Gulag – this was 1937. Both Communist Party officials, Eugenia was endured by Eugenia Ginzburg, a teacher and writer, as suddenly arrested on charges of participating in a she was swept up in one of Joseph Stalin’s brutal purges Trotskyist Counter Revolutionary group and hauled away in the 1930’s as the dictator tightened his grip on the to a notorious prison camp. Ginzburg endured years of Soviet Union. Ginzburg survived and lived to tell about imprisonment, hard labor, and brutal cold. She wrote it. Though most Americans are two memoirs, Journey Into familiar with the Nazi Holocaust, the Whirlwind and Within few are aware of similar purges the Whirlwind, on which our that took place in other countries, Emily Watson’s stunning, all film is based. Starring Emily such as the mass annihilation of consuming performance sweeps all Watson, Ian Hart and Ulrich millions of Soviet citizens as a before it in a virtuoso interpretation Tukur, this film is shot in the result of Joseph Stalin’s intense of courage under fire. English language. desire to eliminate would-be Ronnie Scheib, Variety political enemies. Thanks to From Christine Ruppert, the survivors, such as Ginzburg, producer of The Last King there is a wealth of information Of Scotland, Marleen Gorris, and first-hand accounts of what entailed life in the Academy Award winning director of Antonia’s Line, and Soviet Union’s version of a concentration camp, and international star Emily Watson (Breaking The Waves, what it took to survive. Within the Whirlwind is Eugenia Hilary And Jackie, Angela’s Ashes,The Proposition, and Ginzburg’s story. Red Dragon), Within The Whirlwind bears witness to one woman’s tenacious will to survive even in the most Born to a Jewish pharmacist in 1905, Eugenia and desperate of circumstances. her husband lived in Kazan with their two children in

FILMOGRAPHY 1995 Antonia's Line 1997 Mrs. Dalloway 2000 The Luzhin Defence 2009 Within the Whirlwind

FACEBOOK.COM/CORINTHFILMS1977 19 HABERMANN Directed by Juraj Herz

2010 | GERMANY, CZECH REPULIC | COLOR | 104 min. | GERMAN w/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES | NR PRODUCER Karel Dirka SCREENWRITER Wolfgang Limmer STARRING Mark Waschke, Hannah Herzsprung, Karel Roden, Ben Becker, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht, Franziska Weisz, Radek Holub DVD $24.99

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Based on true events, Habermann is the first major motion in 1938. For Habermann, in particular, it is the first of many picture to dramatize the brutal and horrific expulsion encounters with the ruthless SS officer Major Koslowski. of 3 million ethnic Germans from the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia following the end of World War 2 after it was When two German soldiers are mysteriously found murdered, annexed by Nazi Germany. It was an action that also resulted and Koslowski discovers Jana was actually born half-Jewish, he in the deaths of tens of thousands of German civilians, and is seizes the opportunity to extort the kind-hearted Habermann. still a controversial subject today. He informs Habermann that he The true events that inspired the intends to execute 20 Czechs director, a holocaust survivor, to to avenge the deaths of his two make this film are seldom visited ...poignant performances, soldiers. He also instructs him to by Americans. However, this piece select which ones should die. If he of history is just as likely as any confident direction and an impressively doesn’t, Koslowski will deport Jana other to repeat itself if the lessons sober sense of how the era’s tragedy to a concentration camp. on human nature it offers are not kept expanding exponentially. understood. Nick Schager, Time Out New York As the Soviets advance into the region, Koslowski arranges his A result of the resentment against escape via the Ratlines and his Germans as Nazi sympathizers troops retreat -- but the German that are responsible for the war, millions of Germans that had population remains unprotected from the wrath of the Czechs. been peacefully co-existing alongside Czechs were stripped of This has been their home for generations. But after years of their land and possessions and forced in mass exodus back to Nazi occupation, the Czech population yearns for vengeance. German soil. Most of them were tortured, many were murdered; They blame all Germans for the wartime terror of the last 7 whether they had anything to do with the Nazis or not. years and set out to expel them all from the region. Those who chose to remain could face deadly consequences. The story begins in 1937 and follows the life of August Habermann, a German sawmill owner who lives in a small Habermann’s life is especially in danger since many think village near the northern border of Czechoslovakia. Well he is responsible for the 10 Czechs executed by Koslowski. respected and rich, he marries Jana, a young and beautiful Despondent after having lost Jana, his daughter and many Czech woman. Their once comfortable lives undergo increased others he cared about, Habermann resigns himself to the tension, however, when the region is annexed by Nazi Germany inevitable fate that awaits him.

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ORDER ONLINE @ WWW.CORINTHHOMEVIDEO.COM 20 CALM AT SEA Directed by Volker Schlöndorff

2011 | FRANCE | COLOR | 96 min. | FRENCH & GERMAN w/ENGLISH HISTORICAL DRAMA SUBTITLES | NR PRODUCER Bruno Petit & Oliver Poubelle SCREENWRITER Volker Schlöndorff STARRING Léo Paul Salmain, Marc Barbé, Ulrich Matthes, Jean-Marc Roulot, Sébastien Accart, Martin Loizillon, Jacob Matschenz, Philippe Rèsimont

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Few outside Europe are familiar with Guy Môquet, the symbol to grapple with their consciences and reflect on the impact of the French Resistance against the Nazi occupation during they have had on the resistance against the Nazis and their the second World War, but to the country of France, he is a other fellow comrades. Môquet’s last letter, written before his brave soul that lives forever in their hearts and minds. Calm execution, has become one of France’s proud relics, and since at Sea, a narrative based on Môquet’s final days, is one of the 2007 has become required reading of French school children. outstanding historical dramas that Corinth is especially proud to distribute. Volker Schlöndorff, the writer and director of this film, reflects: In October of 1941, two German “In his memorandum, ‘On the officers are gunned down in broad Hostage Question’, Ernst Jünger daylight in Nantes by French reports about the shootings Resistance members, the first ...[a] solid piece of historical of French citizens during the instance of German blood to be shed reconstruction...its story Occupation. This long lost text in this region. In retaliation, Hitler compels and moves. is one of the sources for my orders 100 Frenchmen to be shot. Jessica Kiang, Indiewire screenplay which is also based Instead of innocent Frenchmen, it on letters from the hostages, was later arranged that 100 political police records, and a novella by prisoners would die, selected by the Heinrich Böll.” district administrator from a camp in Brittany where Môquet and others like him are incarcerated Schlöndorff reflects on his days in Vannes, France more than for various offenses. Môquet himself was guilty of distributing fifty years ago, in which he remembers the sentiments the anti-Nazi pamphlets. French had towards their German occupiers. It was at that time when he learned of the events that unfolded after the German The harshness of Hitler’s order leaves the inhabitants of the officers were gunned down in Nantes that ultimately led to the camp in disbelief. Môquet, at age 17, is the youngest of all creation of the French Resistance. The prestigious German the prisoners to be executed. This event quickly becomes director has carefully and brilliantly re-created a narrative of the known as one of France’s many World War 2 atrocities, and events that unfolded after that event, and in doing so has helped in the years following his death, Môquet was mourned and to preserve the memory of the young man who bravely defied remembered by his countrymen. The prisoners are forced the Nazi occupation of France.

FILMOGRAPHY 1991 Voyager 2000 The Legend of Rita 2004 The Ninth Day 2011 Calm at Sea

FACEBOOK.COM/CORINTHFILMS1977 21 AS IF I AM NOT THERE Directed by Juanita Wilson

2010 | IRELAND, MACEDONIA, SWEDEN | COLOR | 109 min. | BOSNIAN, SERBIAN & CROATIAN w/ENGLISH SUBTITLES | NR PRODUCER James Flynn, Nathalie Lichtenthaeler, Karen Richards STARRING Natasha Petrovic, Fedja Stukan, Jelena Jovanova, Sanja Buric, Irina Apelgren, Zvezda Angelovska, Nikolina Kujaca, Stellan Skarsgård

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As If I Am Not There is a story of a young school teacher of courage, she decides to make one last stand: to defy from Sarajevo, Samira, whose life is shattered the day her captors by putting on makeup and letting her beauty a Serbian soldier walks into her apartment and orders shine, “not for them” she explains, “but for me.” This her to pack her things. Shortly after the onset of the simple act saves her life when a kind-hearted Serbian Bosnian War, her village is invaded by the Serbian army officer takes an interest in her, and her situation army: the men are executed, gradually starts to improve. and the women are rounded The Captain, as he comes to be up and cast into servitude. known, shields Samira from his Imprisoned in a warehouse in A film about the appalling soldiers and serves as a symbol a remote region of Bosnia with experiences of a woman subjected of refuge; a ray of light in a dark the other women from the to ethnic cleansing during the world. village, Samira quickly learns Bosnian War in the 1990s, that is the rules of camp life: do not grim but rewarding. She soon realizes that surviving think of life on the outside... Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian means more than staying do not think about the past alive, and finds the strength to or the future...do not worry endure violent displacement, about other people...do not stand out...keep your mind sexual assault, and the hatred around her. Although occupied... and above all...do not believe the rumors you difficult to watch,As If I Am Not There is a harrowing war hear. story in which new director Juanita Wilson ensures that the film speaks intelligently and powerfully about war- The day she is picked out to “entertain” the soldiers, time behavior and the plight of women in a manner that the real nightmare begins. In a cruel and barbaric encompasses much more than any single individual. environment run by an army without a moral compass, This film is especially impressive given the fact that the Samira’s beauty is her curse. With nothing left and role of director and lead actress are filled by individuals facing the constant threat of death, she struggles to whose feature film debuts are this picture. against the hatred she sees all around her. In a final act

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ORDER ONLINE @ WWW.CORINTHHOMEVIDEO.COM 22 WHERE I BELONG Directed by Fritz Urschitz

2014 | UK, AUSTRIA | COLOR | 90 min. | ENGLISH & GERMAN w/ENGLISH HISTORICAL DRAMA SUBTITLES | NR PRODUCER Heinrich Ambrosch, Fritz Urschitz SCREENWRITER Fritz Urschitz STARRING Natalie Press, Johannes Krisch, Matthias Habich, Katy Bartrop, Charis-Elisabeth Deighton, Karl Fischer, Priscilla Gray, Gerald Home

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The politics of the Third Reich drove thousands into which grows over their next few encounters. Anton exile. For many, England was the first safe haven. When invites Rosemarie out for dinner one evening which the war came to an end the world as they knew it had turns into a romantic escapade. When she returns changed forever. Many of them would not return to their home, though, Rosemarie is thrown out of her home homeland. by her father, and out of her job by her Boss, and ends up renting the cheapest Rosemarie Kohschitz is a young lodgings she can find in an woman like many others of her insalubrious part of town. In age in late 1950s England: she the meantime Friedrich tries likes to spend her evenings in The search for identity and one’s to find his daughter without the dance hall with her friends. place in the world – the core of our success as his health When she gets home though, the story – is a never ending and quite begins to fail. Rosemarie's young English lady becomes her universal human tale... struggle to find her place father’s little Austrian daughter. Fritz Urschitz, Director in her new environment is Rosemarie is all émigré Friedrich further complicated by her Kohschitz has in life, since his relationship with Anton, who wife died and their home was still has secrets to confess. seized during the war. Friedrich spends his time in legal wranglings, trying to reclaim his However, Rosemarie is a strong woman whose virtues family home, and drinking away his sorrows when his and strength allow her to endure when all hope seems attempts fail – leaving Rosemarie to work her finger to lost. Her Austrian background, fluency in German, the bone in a local shop to pay the rent on their shabby and honesty help her to win the confidence of a fellow house. Austrian who offers her an opportunity to work at his One evening, they receive a visit from Anton Mautner, company, and she is able to survive. Where I Belong is a a fellow émigré and friend of Friedrich's. There is an riveting historical drama that portrays the power of love immediate attraction between him and Rosemarie, and forgiveness during even the darkest times.

FACEBOOK.COM/CORINTHFILMS1977 23 KLITSCHKO Directed by Sebastian Dehnhardt

2011 | GERMANY, USA, SWITZERLAND, CANADA, KAZAKHSTAN, AUSTRIA, UKRAINE | COLOR | 110 min. | GERMAN, UKRAINIAN, & ENGLISH w/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES PRODUCER Leopold Hoesch | FEATURING Wladimir & Vitali Klitschko and interviews with Larry Merchant, Emmanuel Steward, Lennox Lewis, Chris Byrd and Lamon Brewster DVD $9.99

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Klitschko tells the captivating story of the boxing article highlighting Ukrainian athletes growing up in world’s most famous brothers: Vitali and Wladimir the shadow of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which is Klitschko. From the socialist drill of their childhood encompassed in the film). in the Ukraine, and their first successes as amateurs, to their move to Germany and subsequent rise as Klitschko transcends much more than boxing; these international stars and holders are two very unique individuals of the championship titles with an incredible story of of all five boxing federations, triumph from a bleak and their matches draw audiences surreal beginning in life. The in more than 100 countries ...the fascinating documentary Klitschkos have not only risen around the globe. Along the feature Klitschko is anything but to the top in boxing, but have way they experience defeats the typical boxing story... risen to great accomplishments and setbacks, low points and Zorianna Kit, The Huffington Post outside of the ring as well, such triumphant comebacks as well as Vitali’s election to the mayor as conflicts with each other. of Kiev.

Exciting conversations with companions and Featured in this film is the late Emmanuel Steward, an opponents, including the very first interview with the icon of the boxing world, trainer, and father figure to Klitschkos’ parents, give insight into their personal many champions. Says the younger Klitschko, whom lives, plus never-before-seen footage of the draining Steward trained until his death: “I will miss our time preparations for a fight, and the spectacular boxing together. The long talks about boxing, the world, and life matches. Director Sebastian Dehnhardt compose s an itself. Most of all I will miss our friendship. Rest in peace intimate and fascinating portrait of two exceptional Emanuel. You will be greatly missed.” athletes who are, before all else, brothers. (The Klitschkos have since been featured in a NY Times

FILMOGRAPHY 2007 Legends: Heinz RÜhmann 2009 The Krupp Family 2009 The Miracle of Leipzip 2010 The Chancellor Who Fell to His Knees

ORDER ONLINE @ WWW.CORINTHHOMEVIDEO.COM 24 THE REAL AMERICAN: JOE McCARTHY Directed by Lutz Hachmeister

2011 | GERMANY & USA | COLOR & B&W | 100 min. | ENGLISH | NR DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER Lutz Hachmeister, Frank Dohmann CO-PRODUCER Gunther Van Endert, Donald Jenichen, Anne Even STARRING John Sessions, Justine Waddell, Trystan Gravelle, James Garnon, Philip Bulcock, Al Gregg, Robert Lyons, Tim Ahern

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The Real American separates the man from the myth of Senator McCarthy, new material, interviews, archival and presents a balanced and comprehensive portrait of footage and perceptions have been uncovered. one of the early “bad guys” of televised politics. The film depicts the farmer’s son‘s meteoric rise from freshman The Real American switches skillfully between dramatic senator to televised “commie” hunting demagogue, original script and authentic footage, as well as interviews who literally drank himself to that Hachmeister conducted death two years prior to his 50th with McCarthy’s only birthday. Blinded by his desire remaining family members, to be “the number one guy in Senator Jospeh R. McCarthy is a wide range of top-class Washington”, McCarthy took up typically depicted as a corpulent eyewitnesses and media misguided battles with the Army, older man interrogating Hollywood historians. Also interviewed the State Department, the CIA actors and directors...this caricature are the likes of Former and even the President himself – couldn't be further from the truth. Secretary of State Henry until these forces, most notably Lutz Hachmeister, Director Kissinger, Pulitzer Prize the CIA, took active measures winner Haynes Johnson, against him. Love him or hate Conservative Best Seller Ann him, Joeseph McCarthy had a heavy hand in US politics Coulter, Watergate Legends Carl Bernstein & Ben Bradlee, and there is more to the often demonized US senator and Ex-KGB general Oleg Kalugin, who lend their voices than is conveyed in public schools, institutions of higher and unique insights to McCarthy’s rise and fall. learning, and the mainstream media. For five years, award-winning filmmaker Lutz This film is a must see for anyone interested in political Hachmeister and his team have conducted extensive history, as it presents a unique insight on a time in research in international archives to complete their film. America that has long since passed and contrasts In combing the past to present a more complete picture sharply to today’s present political climate.

FILMOGRAPHY 2005 The Goebbels Experiment 2010 Three Stars 2011 The Real American: Joe McCarthy

FACEBOOK.COM/CORINTHFILMS1977 25 HOLLYWOOD ON TRIAL Directed by David Helpern Jr.

1976 | USA | B&W | 100 min. | ENGLISH | NR | TWO-DISC SET

PRODUCER James C. Gutman SCREENWRITER Arnie Reisman Narrated by John Huston; with appearances by Zero Mostel, Otto Preminger and Ronald Reagan as President of the Screen Actors Guild; the "Hollywood Ten": Ring Lardner, Jr., Edward Dmytryk, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo

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A detailed look at the events leading up to the American Activities Committee conducted lopsided blacklisting of Hollywood writers and artists. In October "investigations" of the Hollywood Left, and caused the 1947 nineteen Hollywood personalities were blacklisting of many actors, writers and directors. Most subpoenaed by the House Committee on Un-American of this film meditates on the plight of the Hollywood Ten. Activities to testify about their knowledge or possible Even the narrator of the film himself, John Huston, had involvement in the American found himself briefly under the Communist Party. The first microscope of the HUAC for ten to be called refused to being classified as “unfriendly”. cooperate, claiming their first In 1976, Hollywood on Trial was amendment rights, were cited nominated for an Oscar for Best for contempt of Congress and Documentary Feature. sent to prison. They became known as the “Hollywood Ten” Narrated by John Huston, and this is their story. with appearances by Zero Mostel, Otto Preminger, and Combining familiar newsreel Ronald Reagan as President footage with new material, of the Screen Actors Guild; the Helperin’s documentary shines a bright light on the “Hollywood Ten”: Ring Lardner, Jr., Edward Dmytryk, United State’s "communist witch-hunt" era. In the Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Herbert post war years, several overly ambitious Washington Biberman, John Lawson, Alva Bessie, Samuel Ornitz, politicians anxious to usher in the post-New Deal era Albert Maltz. Their accusers, from the right wing were labeled virtually everything hinting of liberalism as Robert Stripling, Richard Nixon, J. Parnell Thomas, Lela communistic. Targeting motion picture producers Rogers, mother of Ginger Rogers, Robert Taylor, Adolphe and directors to gain media attention, the House Un- Menjou, and Gary Cooper.

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1979 | COLOR & B&W | 118 min. | ENGLISH | TWO-DISC SET DOCUMENTARY

PRODUCER Martin Freeth WRITTEN BY Nigel Calder Narrated by Peter Ustinov with explanations of relativity from Professors Kenneth Brechher, Sidney Drell, Roger Penrose, Wallace Sargent, Dennis Sciama, Irwin Shapiro and John Archibald.

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This highly informative and educational two hour BBC Although known as the “Father of the Atomic Bomb”, his program was written and conceived by Nigel Calder, author of greatest concern was for the potentially devastating effects several books on science, including Einstein’s Universe, upon splitting the atom could have on the future of mankind. His which this program is based. It is hosted by Peter Ustinov, famous letter to President Franklin Roosevelt warned that who serves both as our guide to understanding Einstein’s although the splitting of the atom to detonate an atomic bomb theories and speaks Einstein’s words could be used to end World War to make his presence felt throughout II, it could also potentially be the program. Ustinov becomes used for far more deadly ends. educated in Einstein’s theories by This last thought is the subject many of the best minds in science, of another Nigel Calder book, who provide demonstrations to Nuclear Nightmares, and a illustrate his teachings. These second BBC program to explore include experiments to help this subject in more depth. understand gravity, warped space, how light responds to gravity, the Narrated by Peter Ustinov with “Doppler Effect” and how radio explanations of relativity from waves, as used in police radar, are an Professors: Kenneth Brechher, unbeatable way of measuring speed. Sidney Drell, Roger Penrose, Wallace Sargent, Dennis Sciama, Irwin Shapiro, and John From these simpler experiments much larger concepts are Archibald Wheeler; Featured Observatories and Scientific drawn, such as the discovery of a Binary Pulsar, the nature of Facilities: The McDonald Observatory of the University of Texas; black holes and how they are created, and the ultimate theory Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico; Educational Development of how the universe was formed. Other demonstrations Center; Hale Observatories; Haystack Observatory; Lawrence measure the speed of light, how time passes more slowly for Livermore Laboratory; Lick Observatory; National Aeronautics people traveling in an airplane, the incredible accuracy of the and Space Admininstration. Atomic Clock in Washington, DC and how time itself would appear to stop at the surface of a black hole. The conclusion of the program portrays Einstein as a great humanitarian.

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