Ján Kadár
Series
Criterion collection volume 130
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Czech
Description
In 1942 a Czech peasant befriends the old Jewish women whose button shop he takes over and faces a dilemma when the authorities decree all Jews must leave the city.
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Nebraska in the 1880's is bleak, lonely, and far from what the Wild West is purported to be. But for a naive Swedish immigrant, the frontier parlor of the blue hotel represent the quintessential western fantasy. No one can convince the Swede that his dime-store notions about the West are foolish. He sees murderous intentions all around him and in his terror he turns everybody against him; the story inevitably ends in tragedy. However, who is responsible?...
3) Freedom road
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Muhammad Ali makes his TV-movie dramatic debut in this adaptation of a Howard Fast novel. This is the true-life story of Gideon Jackson (Ali), a former slave and Union soldier who returns home to South Carolina following the American Civil War, during the Reconstruction Era in the South. With the help of a sharecropper (Kristofferson), Jackson unites former slaves and white tenant farmers, under a common cause. Jackson is elected to the state legislature...