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Welcome to Sarajevo Directed by Micheal Winterbottom (1997)

Category: Misc
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Welcome to Sarajevo Directed by Micheal Winterbottom (1997) Nothing that British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom made before Welcome to Sarajevo (including Butterfly Kiss and Jude) suggested the clarifying rage of this 1997 film, which is based on the experiences of British journalist Michael Nicholson while on assignment in Bosnia. Made emotionally numb by the savagery and insanity of Serbian aggression on Sarajevo and surrounding towns and countryside, reporter Michael Henderson (Stephen Dillane in a remarkable performance) awakens to the plight of one orphanage and particularly to that of a girl whom he promises to rescue. Henderson's efforts lead to a harrowing bus journey to (temporary) protection for some of the kids (others, quite shockingly, are carried off en route by Serb marauders), and then a second, even more dangerous good deed to finish what he started. The film's dimensions go well beyond that story line, however, as Winterbottom re-creates the gallows-humor culture of international correspondents in a blighted region, as well as the nightmare of the Sarajevo siege. Most savage of all, however, is the director's use of news clips in a pointed attack on the West's refusal to deal with the slaughter and outrages in Bosnia at their peak. The supporting cast might look like a bunch of famous names (Kerry Fox, Marisa Tomei) used decorously to attract attention to the film, but in fact everyone is very good, especially Woody Harrelson as an American journalist whose entrance in the story is one of the most memorable in recent history.
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Der ewige Jude - The Eternal Jew (with english subs)(1940)

Category: Documentary
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This is the controversial and highly antisemitic nazi propaganda film Der ewige Jude - The Eternal Jew (1940) which assumes the central thesis of being the immutable racial personality traits that, according to Nazi doctrine, characterize the Jew as a wandering cultural parasite. Done in the style of a documentary it consists of feature and documentary footage combined with materials filmed shortly after the Nazi occupation of Poland. At this time Poland's Jewish population was about three million, roughly ten percent of the total population. Its title in german is Der ewige Jude, the german term for the character of the "Wandering Jew" in medieval folklore. A British film of the same name had been produced in 1934 but unlike the later Nazi film, it portrayed the Jews in a favorable light as the victims of unjustified persecution throughout history, by the likes of the Inquisition. The later Goebbels film appears to be have been intended as a violently anti-Semitic version of this previous British film. Throughout the movie Aryan men are shown to find satisfaction in physical labor and the creation of value and Jews are depicted as finding pleasure in money and a hedonist lifestyle. While members of the Aryan race live healthily, rich Jews are shown as living in bug-infested and dirty homes, even though they could afford better. The footage to convey this was actually captured in ghettos, where living conditions were very poor and unsanitary surroundings were virtually inevitable. While Germanic/Nordic man has an appreciation for Northern culture and imagery, Jews are alleged only to find satisfaction in the grotesque and decadent. Many things that run contrary to Nazi doctrine are associated with Jewish influence, such as modern art, cultural relativism, anarchic and socialist movements, as well as sexual liberation. The film criticizes Jewish religious practices and criticises kosher slaughtering (shechita) in which animals bleed to death, as inhumane, contrasting it with Nazi laws requiring that animals be anaesthetized prior to slaughter. One of the shots early in the film shows a pack of rats emerging from a sewer, juxtaposed with a crowd of Jews in a bustling Polish street. Close-ups of individuals show sickly, malformed facial features. The narration explains how as rats are the vermin of the animal kingdom, Jews are the vermin of the human race and similarly spread disease and corruption. Unlike rats, however, the narrator continues, Jews have the uncanny ability to change their appearance and blend into their "human hosts." A scene depicts four bearded men in traditional Jewish costume, then shows them shaved and in modern business suits, while the narrator explains that only a "trained eye" can distinguish their Jewish features. Jews were filmed as they actually lived and worked in Poland in 1940. Jewish history, religion, society, cultural tendencies and business practices are explored. Their ritual-slaughter section has some of the most horrifying scenes ever filmed. 65 min. Note: English subtitles are hardcoded into the movie. Video specs: Video codec: divx, 736x560, 1501 kbps Audio codec: mp3, 48kHz, Stereo
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Outsiders-Sopfolket

Category: Documentary
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A swedish documentary about brittish, swedish and norweigan dumpster divers. Outsiders is a swedish TV-program that meets people who are - outsiders and follows them in their every day life. In swedish: I Sopfolket möter vi människor som i protest mot vårt överkonsumerande samhälle lever på sådant som andra slängt.De har bestämt sig för att ta tillvara andras skräp och gjort sökandet efter mat och saker till en livsstil. Trots att det är förbjudet att samla saker från containrar, återvinningscentraler och soprum är de ständigt på jakt efter saker de kan äta, återanvända eller renovera och ge bort.My, 22, letar efter prylar och mat som andra har slängt för att kunna leva enligt sin ideologi - att jobba så lite som möjligt för att få mer tid och kraft till sådant hon hellre vill göra. Hon vill inte leva enligt normen att ha heltidsjobb och köpa saker för att bli lycklig utan mår bra av att återanvända och inte ytterligare tära på naturens resurser.Emil, 22, är student i Köpenhamn och lever på sopor först och främst av politiska skäl. Han vill markera för omvärlden att han tycker det är fel att slänga brukbara varor. Han ger sig ofta ut om nätterna för att leta mat till sig själv och sin flickvän och han planerar även att börja leta mat till hemlösa.Alf och Martin har tagit avstånd från all onödig konsumtion och lever i en bil i Storbrittanien. Maten dom äter kommer nästan uteslutande från soppåsar och trots det har de ofta mat i överflöd som de kan bjuda sina vänner på. Och Keller, 35, har letat skräp sedan han var barn i Chile. När han kom till Sverige och såg vad folk slängde här bestämde han sig för att använda sopor för att skapa konst.
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