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Provides access to the printed True Book series in the form of eBooks. There are also accompanying videos and other activities to supplement the books. This is a great resource for elementary students, in grades 3 to 6, doing research on science or social studies topics.
Publisher
Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Rare color footage shot by one of the Soviet Union’s greatest filmmakers, Mikheil Chiaureli, who was responsible for the film “The Fall of Berlin” has been restored and edited into what can best be described as a sixty minute ‘you are there’ documentary covering the funeral of Stalin.
142) Beauty & Decay
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The story of three artists with a shared history in the rebellious and creative East German youth scene of the 1980s. Their careers have been marked by their radicalism and openness, as well as their unorthodox and multifaceted view of the world. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, photographer Sven Marquardt made black-and-white portraits of people in East Berlin’s arts subculture, of which he was also part. He has now returned to photography and...
143) Vicenta
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Vicenta is in her early fifties and lives in a tin and wood house in the deep suburbs of Buenos Aires. She is poor, illiterate and although it seems she has everything to lose, Vicenta starts a fight against the Argentine State in pursuit of what she believes is fair: the legal interruption of her daughter’s pregnancy.
Publisher
Dekanalog
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A heartrending visual metaphor executed in brilliant black-and-white photography. This confrontational and soul-bearing cinematic essay examines the impact of colonialism, exploring themes of religion and longing. As we float through the streets of Lesotho, following a cross-bearing woman and an omnipresent figure wearing wings, a tumultuous history of sorrow and suffering between the motherland and its people unravels. The through line of symbolism...
145) Tango
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies, art works, dance performances, historical footage, photographs of Buenos Aires at the turn of the 20th century and texts by Celedonio Flores and Enrique Santos Discépolo.
146) TangoDream
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A melancholic dream about dance and music, as well as unfulfilled desires and wanderlust behind the Berlin Wall. Sitting at her typewriter in her Prenzlauer Berg apartment, listening to tango music, a woman (played by Helke Misselwitz) writes the script for a film about tango and dreams about Buenos Aires and Montevideo. These places are far away—a different world, where, long ago, tango was born. The film explores the tense relationship between...
147) The Marx Family
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Filmed using an old hand-cranked Parvo L camera and radical montage strategies, this short is an experimental and alternative portrait of Karl Marx’s family and their poor living conditions during their long years in London. Original personal texts by the philosopher and his wife combine with historical photographs overlaying images of an abandoned East Berlin building. This short was produced to celebrate Marx’s 100th birthday in 1983, but officials...
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland. As long as we are watching, history is not over yet. The three minutes of footage, mostly in color, are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. The existing three minutes are examined to unravel the human stories hidden in the celluloid.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Russian
Description
Que viva Mexico: A film document of the history of Mexico, presented in four novellas: Sandunga, an exposition of Tehuantepec jungles and the peaceful lifestyles of their inhabitants; Manguei, a love story about a poor peon and his bride; Fiesta, devoted to bullfighting and romantic love; and Soldadera, a portrayal of the 1910 revolution in Mexico as depicted in the frescoes of Siqueiros, Rivera, and Orosco.
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