Posts Tagged ‘revolutionary’

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Topol | Crane, Norma | Frey, Leonard | Picon, Molly | Mann, Paul | Harris, Rosalind | Marsh, Michele | Small, Neva | Glaser, Paul Michael | Lovelock, Ray | Edwards, Elaine | Bonstein, Candy | Ruskin, Shimen | Scooler, Zvee | Zorich, Louis
Directors: Jewison, Norman
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Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of ’shtetl’ life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.

Life of Brian (1979)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Chapman, Graham | Cleese, John | Gilliam, Terry | Idle, Eric | Palin, Michael | Bayler, Terence | Cleveland, Carol | Colley, Kenneth | Innes, Neil | McKeown, Charles | Young, John | Taylor, Gwen | Jones-Davies, Sue | Brett, Peter
Directors: Jones, Terry
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The Monty Pyton team tells the life, death and resurrection (?) of Brian from Nazareth, an unwilling prophet who wants to free his land from the oppression of Rome. When Brian covers a huge wall with the writing “ROMANI ITE DOMUM” (Romans go home), a local revolutionary group begins to take him seriously…

Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | War | Western
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: MacLaine, Shirley | Eastwood, Clint | Fábregas, Manuel | Morin, Alberto | Silvestre, Armando | Kelly, John | Lucero, Enrique | Estuardo, David | Carrasco, Ada | Córdova, Pancho | Chávez, José
Directors: Siegel, Don
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Set in Mexico, a nun called Sara is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan, who is on his way to do some reconnaissance, for a future mission to capture a French fort. The French are chasing Sara, but not for the reasons she tells Hogan, so he decides to help her in return for information about the fort defences. Inevitably the two become good friends but Sara has a secret..