- The film is set in 1943 in a mental asylum in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and a drug addict. Then the German Gestapo arrives. The commandant asks for…
- A Polish father and his seven sons fight the Germans when their region in Upper Silenia becomes part of Germany after the Treaty of Versailles. Heroic Poles engage in guerilla warfare against the Germans, who are demoralized since their defeat in World War I. The working class rise up against the political change, and …
- In making WHOEVER MAY KNOW, Kutz demonstrated a true passion for documentary filmmaking, something that would come through again in SKOK / THE LEAP (1967), in which Kutz depicted the community of a PGR (collective farm) without a shade of sentimentality, indulgence or condescension. based on a short story by writer and…
- This movie is based on the life of Saint Edith Stein. She was a German nun of Jewish descent who had converted to Catholicism. Much of her early life was spent as an outspoken academic. There, according to the movie, she feuded with Joseph Heller, a fellow professor with right wing beliefs. In 1933, after Jews were no …
