A young archaeologist arrives in a seaside town in order to find the famous statue of Aphrodite with an apple. Failure follows one another, and Levashov is ready to admit defeat. But suddenly love and new hope come.
Category: Movies
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The Peacock
Hamdy lives with his wife Nadia and her young sister Samiha. He loves his wife’s sister and decide to get rid of his wife by killing her.
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Felix
A tragicomic story about a widow seeking contact who attracts media attention by offering a reward to anyone who finds her cat, which in reality does not exist. In this way, she meets a pensioner who plays private detective, and this marks the beginning of a deeper friendship.
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Hungermarschen
The film oscillates between depicting the everyday life of workers in 1917 and 1982, where the common denominator is that they in both families have difficulty making ends meet financially.
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The Child of the Tube
Two mad doctors buy Tamtakos’ sperm to conduct various experiments. They create an infant who, within minutes, becomes a normal man. He is the spitting image of Tamtakos, but he also has the madness of the two doctors. He manages to escape from the hospital and goes on various adventures, making countless blunders and causing turmoil to a host of people. In the end, they find him and bring him back to the hospital, where he meets his biological father.
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Woman Temptation
The erotic mishaps of a family: the voyeur pervert father spies and harasses all the maids in the mansion and watch them have sex. The wife is a sex starved woman, who has sex with a young boy working in the house, then steals her daughter’s boyfriend and the daughter finds a new one in the park immediately. And father watches all three group have sex in different rooms in the mansion.
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The Magic Mountain
Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for …seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 – along with all the other patients – it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.
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Breach of Contract
A husband and wife, both of whom are career-oriented, agree never to step on the other’s ambitions. Unfortunately, both become too ambitious for their own good, and, true to the film’s title, their verbal “contract” is shattered.
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Idomeneo
Opera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982 production. During a squall at sea, Idomeneo — the king of Crete — swears to Neptune that if the monarch survives, he’ll sacrifice the first person he encounters onshore. Tragically, that person ends up being his son, Idamante (Frederica Von Stade). Maestro James Levine masterfully conducts the orchestra and chorus of the Metropolitan Opera. A musical production that was designed for the “Live From the Met” series, this program was produced by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.