Tusen år till julafton var Sveriges Televisions julkalender 2015.
2015 års julkalender i SVT leddes av Erik Haag och Lotta Lundgren från SVT-serien Historieätarna, som reste tusen år genom historien, från år 1015 till julafton 2015, för att berätta barnens svenska historia. TV-serien utspelade sig under ett helt år, från vår, sommar, höst till vinter, och olika barn agerar sidekickar i varje avsnitt. Tusen år till julafton tog sig an historien ur barnens perspektiv, med ämnen som kläder, boende, försörjning, matbrist och rädslan för svält och krig.
När uppfanns pruttkudden? Hur var det att äta sig mätt på inälvor? Och hur var det som barn att arbeta i gruva på 1500-talet eller att bo i kollektiv på 1970-talet? I julkalendern ”Tusen år till julafton” tar Erik Haag och Lotta Lundgren oss med på en resa i historien från vikingatiden fram till idag.
Episode List:
1. 1015: För tusen år sedan.
A lone viking mother prepares Christmas celebrations when the children's father comes home after having been away on a journey of trade and raiding for three and a half years.
2. 1015: Livet som träl.
The family takes on life as thralls. The thrall family wakes up to another day of the master and is told that they will be sold, one by one, before the day is over.
3. 1300-talet: En dag på riddarskola.
The 14th century: A day at the knights school. Two prospective children arrive at the knight's castle to be trained to knighthood by an old squire and a lovesick lady in waiting.
4. 1300-talet: Digerdöden.
The 14th century: The Black Death. A cat-loving peasant family has fled their village, hoping to escape the plague, find a new house and try to make God happy.
5. 1500-talet: Barnarbetare i gruvan.
The 16th century: Child labor in the mine. Welcome home to the toddlers family where everyone is working in the mine. For what else could they do?
6. 1500-talet: Pappa heter Gustav Vasa.
7. 1600-talet: En tid med häxor.
8. 1600-talet: De fyra stånden.
9. 1700-talet: Gustav den tredje som barn.
...
22. 1980-talet: Skidtur och räkfrossa.
23. 1990-talet: Internet kommer.
24. 2015: Julafton i vår egen tid.
Director: Karin af Klintberg.
Cast: Erik Haag, Lotta Lundgren, Stina Ekblad, Tareq Taylor, Cleo Ryberg, Elma Thomhave, Sabina Walldin, Morris Berglund-Andreassen, Olof Wretling, Hjalmar af Klintberg.
Sweden, 2015.
Language: Swedish.
1280x720 HD
Download Tusen år till julafton. 2015. 24 episodes:

 Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns them: they have one week to succeed; if they resign now, then, tomorrow, facing life difficulties, they will always run away and become bums. Furthermore, all five must succeed, if one of them cannot do it, then all of them fail. Takashi is really worried and wonders if he won't be always the looser who couldn't succeed in the back pullover bar exercise.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima.
Cast: Hidaka Yoshitomo, Nagi Noriko, Maki Ishikawa, Hiroko Taguchi, Rina Komuro, Fumiya Ôgane, Hironobu Mori, Airin Aoki, Toshikazu Suzuki, Masayuki Itô, Ayumi Itô.
Japan, 1997.
Download Natsu jikan no otonatachi / Happy-Go-Lucky.

 

A rare New Zealand film about the Maori family: when a mysterious stranger arrives in their isolated coastal town, 10-year-old twins, Kimi and Melody are forced apart. Kimi must find the strength to let go of what he loves the most.

Cast: Isaac Barber, Hato Paparoa, Melanie Mayall-Nahi, McCarthy Pearse, Jim Moriarty, Richmond Patua, Nancy Brunning, Shayne Biddle, Trearjn Prangley, Matthew Sunderland.

Language: English.

 Film, ktorý vznikol podľa literárnej predlohy Milana Ferka rozpráva o vojnových časoch z pohľadu detských hrdinov a patrí v tomto smere spolu s filmom Stanislava Barabáša Pieseň o sivom holubovi medzi najlepšie filmy slovenskej kinematografie. Na pozadí udalostí na Slovensku medzi vypuknutím Slovenského národného povstania a oslobodením sledujeme osudy malých hrdinov s ich detskými starosťami i radosťami. Stávame sa svedkami ich objavovania okolitého sveta, sexuality, komentovania ľudí a udalostí a v neposlednom rade i túžby po dospelosti, ktorú v tomto prípade paradoxne predstavuje puška. Mozaikovité rozprávanie však okrem dychtivého poznávania mladých hrdinov sprevádzajú nestále stretnutia so smrťou alebo aspoň hrozba jej zjavenia. Film Keby som mal pušku patrí do Zlatého fondu Slovenskej kinematografie a zaslúžili sa o to okrem režiséra Štefana Uhra aj kameraman Stanislav Szomolányi, hudobný skladateľ Iľja Zeljenka, strihač Max Remeň a v neposlednom rade herecké obsadenie.
Director: Štefan Uher.
Cast: Marián Bernát, Jozef Gráf, Daniel Lapúnik, Brigita Hausnerová, Emília Došeková, Hana Grissová, Ľudovít Reiter, Tomáš Žilinčík, Michal Monček, Igor Hrabinský, Anton Šulík, Ľudovít Króner, Katarína Marečková, Mária Hojerová, Xénia Gracová, Milka Furinová, Ján Kroner st., Karol Kuniak, Vilma Jamnická, Brigita Máčajová-Bobulová, Jozef Belan, Imrich Fazekas.
Czechoslovakia, 1971.
Language: Czech, Russian.
Subtitles: English.
Download Keby som mal pušku / If I Had a Gun.

 

La guerra di Mario / Mario's War. 2005.

The eight kids Maren, Martin, Marte, Mads, Mona, Milly, Mina and Morten has moved with their parents and grandmother from the tiny apartment in the city to a cozy, red house in the forest. Here there is plenty of room for everyone to play, and having grandmother around proves to be useful. She watches the kids, sells waffles to passing ski-goers, and mediates between her own local knights and the attacking Indians from Tiriltoppen.
Director: Espen Thorstenson.
Cast: Anne-Cath Vestly, Jon Eikemo, Eli Skolmen Ryg, Inger Johanne Byhring, Svend Skjønsberg, Siri Stonex, Peter Jackson, Charlotte Borgersen, Inger Lise Nilsen, Karen Olsen, Grim Snorre Langen, Espen Blakstad, Jan-Erik Kristiansen.
Norway, 1979.
Language: Norwegian.
Download Mormor og de åtte ungene i skogen. 1979.

NO. Filmen handler om de åtte ungene som bor i en leilighet i byen sammen med mor og far. De bor på et lite kjøkken og bare ett soverom. Så en dag blir den grønne lastebilen til far stjålet og alle ungene begynner å lete etter den. Til slutt finner de lastebilen, men nå er den blitt rød. Det er Henrik som har tatt lastebilen og han blir en god venn av familien. Mormor som bor i sin lille stue ute i skogen reiser til byen og hun synes det er vanskelig å tilpasse seg livet i byen. Men hun får god hjelp av alle de åtte ungene.
EN. The eight children Maren, Martin, Marte, Mads, Mona, Milly, Mina and Morten Minstemann, live with their parents in a tiny apartment in the city. Grandmother lives in the country side, but one day she comes to town for a visit. Everything is new and unusual for her, and she doesn't act like other people in the city. However, the children helps her out and they go for a trolley ride. When it's time for Grandmother to go back home she has no money for the train ticket. She spent her money on kitchen supplies, and now the children tries to come up with a plan to get her home. Easier said than done.
Director: Espen Thorstenson.
Writers: Espen Thorstenson, Anne-Cath Vestly.
Cast: Inger Johanne Byhring, Svend Skjønsberg, Siri Stonex, Peter Jackson, Charlotte Borgersen, Inger Lise Nilsen, Karen Olsen, Grim Snorre Langen, Anne-Cath Vestly, Jon Eikemo, Eli Skolmen Ryg, Jorunn Kjellsby.
Norway, 1977.
Language: Norwegian.
Download Mormor og de åtte ungene i byen / Grandma and the Eight Children. 1977.

 

 Schlunz is a boy who lost his memory. The day when the family Schmidtsteiner finds the neglected, completely intimidated guy in the wood, that's the beginning of a new turbulent time for Dad, Mom, the nine-year-old Nele and and especially for Lukas, who becomes Schlunz' best friend. The only thing, on what the boy with the tousled hair remembers, is, that he was called "der Schlunz"...

While the first three series, to be continued...

Director: Rainer Hackstock.

Cast: Finn Lucas Mayer, Luca Claar, Lea Sophie Schmidt, Hanna Steidle, Gabi Koch, Klaus Beyer, Yvonne Gallo, Timo Ehrmann, Laura Petri, Dorothea Luise Kläs, Sinnikka Auner, Lena Krauthäuser, Finni-Marie Eigenbrodt, Nick Wenserit, Samuel Schneider, Lukas Siering.

Language: German.

1024x576 HD.

 

 NO. Det kan være lurt å forberede seg på puberteten når den kan komme hver dag som helst. Det mener ihertfall de to guttene i denne filmen. Å melde seg på kurs i synkronsvømming skulle vel gi en rimelig god sjanse for å treffe damer. Men vet gutta hva et slik møte kan utsette dem for-sånn rent følelsesmessig? Det blir litt sterkt for dem i denne sorgmuntre historien.
EN. You may want to prepare for puberty when it may come any day, any time. At least that's what the two boys in this film believe. To enroll in courses in synchronized swimming would give a reasonably good chance of hitting ladies.
Director: Torun Lian.
Writer: Per Schreiner.
Cast: Teodor Gautier Teigen, Øyvind Kensland, Celine Engebrigtsen,
Norway, 1997.
Language: Norwegian.
Download Damer. 1997.

 Sweet Movie is a 1974 avant-garde art house comedy-drama film written and directed by Yugoslavian director Dušan Makavejev.

An international co-production of companies from France, Canada, and West Germany, the film follows two women: a Canadian beauty queen, who represents a modern commodity culture, and a captain aboard a ship laden with candy and sugar, who is a failed communist revolutionary.
One narrative follows Miss Monde 1984/Miss Canada, who wins a contest of the "most virgin"; her prize is the marriage to a milk industry tycoon. However, following his degrading puritanical introduction to intercourse, she vents her intention to leave to her mother-in-law who, at that point, nearly has her killed. The family bodyguard takes her away, further humiliates her, and finally packs her in a trunk bound for Paris. She finds herself on the Eiffel Tower, where she absently meets and has intercourse with a Latin singer, El Macho. The sexual act is interrupted by touring nuns who frighten the lovers into penis captivus. In her post-coital shocked state, she is adopted into an artist community led by Otto Muehl, where she finds affectionate care. The commune practices some liberating sessions, where a member, with the assistance of the others, goes through a (re)birth experience, cries, urinates and defecates like a baby, while the others are cleaning and pampering him. Later she is seen acting for an obscene advertisement, in which she is naked, covered in liquid chocolate.
The second narrative involves a woman, Anna Planeta piloting a candy-filled boat in the canals of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with a large papier-mache head of Karl Marx on the prow. She picks up the hitchhiking sailor Potemkin, though she warns him that if he falls in love, she will kill him. He ignores her many suggestions for him to leave and their relationship evolves. Eventually, in the state of love making, she stabs him to death in their nidus of sugar. She also seduces children into her world of sweets and revolution. She is eventually apprehended and arrested by the police who lay down plastic sacks containing the children's bodies on the side of the canal, implying they too have been killed by Planeta. The film ends with the children, unseen by the others, being reborn from their plastic cocoons.

Writers: France Gallagher (collaboration), Dušan Makavejev.
Cast: Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, Anna Prucnal, Sami Frey, Jane Mallett, Roy Callender, John Vernon, Hansi Roll, Therese Schulmeister, Renata Steiger, Berndt Stein, Herbert Stumpfl, Otto Muehl, Catherine Sola, Louis Bessières.

Language: English, French, Polish, Spanish, Italian.
Subtitles: English, Russian.

 The summer of '58, the year Sweden almost won the world championship in soccer over Brazil, Yngve Johansson accepts two children to live with him during the summer, as told through the eyes of a young boy. His name is Mårten, and the other child's name is Annika. She is a rough girl, with many problems. The three of them do not get along, and Yngve is a true dictator to the children's eyes. However, when the children discover that their new guardian has a crush on their teacher (Cecilia Nilsson), they do what they can to bring the two together. Soon enough, the three will discover that they have a lot more in common than they previously imagined, and together they can make their lives worth living again. This is a sweet story about life in Sweden in the mid 1900's. It is about family, love, hate, innocent friendship that we all can relate to, and much, much more. The movie invites laughter as well as tears, and the actors, both the young and the old, are very talented...

Director: Ulf Malmros.

Cast: Kjell Bergqvist, Anastasios Soulis, Rebecca Scheja, Cecilia Nilsson, Brasse Brännström, Marcus Hasselborg, Gachugo Makini, Göran Thorell, Ann Petrén, Pale Olofsson, Anna Kristina Kallin, Ralph Carlsson, Jerker Fahlström.

Language: Swedish, Russian.

DE. Bambule ist ein deutsches Fernsehspiel des Südwestfunks aus dem Jahr 1970; Regie führte Eberhard Itzenplitz, das Drehbuch stammt von Ulrike Meinhof.
Der Film kritisiert die autoritären Methoden der Heimerziehung (Fürsorgeerziehung) in einem Mädchenheim. Im Verlauf der Handlung kommt es zu einer Revolte der Heiminsassinnen gegen die unterdrückenden Strukturen. Die Handlung des Films wird oft auch als Parabel auf die gesellschaftlichen Zustände der Zeit verstanden, denen eine neue, verschärfte Form des Klassenkampfes entgegengesetzt werden müsse.
Die vielschichtige Handlung spielt über 24 Stunden in einem West-Berliner Mädchenheim für adoleszente Mädchen. Gleich zu Anfang flüchten zwei von ihnen. Monika wird wegen einer Fußverletzung sofort wieder eingefangen, Irene gelingt die Flucht im zweiten Anlauf. Während Monika zur Strafe im „Bunker“ (der Arrestzelle des Heims) sitzt, erzählt sie einer verständnisvollen und liberal eingestellten Erzieherin, Frau Lack, wie sie schon als kleines Kind von ihrer Stiefmutter ins Heim gesteckt und dort von Nonnen schikaniert wurde; besonders, nachdem diese ihre lesbischen Neigungen entdeckten. Die ebenfalls lesbische Irene wird zunächst von ihrer Mutter abgewiesen und kommt schließlich bei zwei ehemaligen Heiminsassinnen unter, die sich mittlerweile mit Prostitution über Wasser halten. Ein Treffen mit ihrer Freundin, einer Heiminsassin, die mittlerweile als „Freigängerin“ außerhalb des Heimes als Verkäuferin arbeitet, scheitert an einem Missverständnis. Ebenso scheitert der Versuch mit einer ehemaligen Heiminsassin. Deswegen kehrt auch Irene in das Heim zurück. Monika wurde unterdessen, gegen ihren Willen, zu den Klosterschwestern abgeschoben, schafft es aber durch Provokation, dass diese sie postwendend an das Heim zurückschicken. Die dritte Hauptfigur, Evelyn, zettelt in der folgenden Nacht einen Zellenaufstand („Bambule“) an, der zu einem Polizeieinsatz führt. Am Morgen sitzen Evelyn und Irene gemeinsam im Bunker und denken über weitere Möglichkeiten des Widerstandes gegen die Verhältnisse nach.
EN. The film criticizes the authoritarian methods of home education in a girls' home. In the course of the action, there is a revolt against the oppressive structures. The plot of the film is often understood as a parable to the social conditions of the time, to which a new, more acute form of class struggle must be opposed. The multi-layered plot plays for 24 hours in a West Berlin girls' home for adolescent girls.
Director: Eberhard Itzenplitz.
Writer: Ulrike Meinhof.
Cast: Petra Redinger, Christine Diersch, Dagmar Biener, Helge Hennig, Barbara Schöne, Antje Hagen, Marlene Riphahn, Dagmar Tass, Christiane Lemm, Petra Schröder, Hansi Jochmann, Ute Gerhard, Hilde Hessmann, Sabine Körner, Monika Häckermann.
West Germany, 1970.
Language: German.
Subtitles: Russian.
Download Bambule.

 

It is summertime, 1951, in an Israeli town where European immigrants continue to settle after World War II. Still scarred and raw from the Holocaust, they are often misunderstood and ridiculed by native Israelis.
Aviya is a bright ten-year-old girl whose fiercely independent mother, Henya is traumatized by her own experiences as a Partisan during the war. Their affectionate, fragile and deeply poignant relationship is told through Aviya, who hopes for stability with her mother while still having fantasies of a father she refuses to believe is dead.
An exquisite and courageous memoir providing profound insights into Israeli society. Based on the autobiographical book THE SUMMER OF AVIYA by Gila Almagor..
Director: Eli Cohen.
Cast: Gila Almagor, Kaipu Cohen, Eli Cohen, Marina Rossetti, Avital Dicker, Dina Avrech, Ya'ackov Ayali, Rami Baruch, Yossi Kantz, Ariella Rabinovich, Ruthy Wysenbeek, Sandra Sade, Yitzhak Goren.
Israel, 1988.
Language: Hebrew, Russian.
Subtitles: Russian.
Download Ha-Kayitz shel Aviya / The Summer of Aviya.

 

EN. A thief awakens Valerie, just 13, taking earrings left to her by her mother. By morning, the earrings have been returned, Valerie's first period has begun, and a troupe and a missionary have arrived in her Medieval town. The thief is Orick; he reports to a cloaked constable who may also be the missionary. Attention to sexuality is everywhere: Valerie's grandmother's puritanical nature, the missionary's sermon to the town's virgins, the parish priest's attempt to seduce Valerie, and lusty adults at play. Valerie's nascent sexuality puts her in great danger. Can she navigate the passage from innocence to experience, a route teaming with vampires, a murderer, and an obscure family tree?
CZ. Po adaptaci Kunderova románu "Žert" se Jaromil Jireš uchýlil ke zcela odlišné látce i k rozdílnému způsobu vyjadřování. Ve snivém výtvarně dekorativním vyprávění vylíčil osudy a pocity dospívající dívky, jež žije se svou přísnou babičkou ve starém domě a ocitá se v samém středu bizarních událostí, ohrožována tajemným "tchořím upírem"... Na vizuální podobě surreálné fantazie Vítězslava Nezvala se podílela Ester Krumbachová. Autoři hojně využívali hororových prvků i lyrické básnivosti.
Director: Jaromil Jireš.
Cast: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýžová, Petr Kopřiva, Jiří Prýmek, Martin Wielgus, Jan Klusák, Alena Stojáková, Karel Engel, Libuše Komancová, Eva Olmerová, Jana Andresíková, Jiřina Machalická, Alice Auspergerová, Bedřiška Chalupská, Michaela Klocová, Zdenka Kovářová, Otto Hradecký, Eva Hnátková, Kristina Maarová, Jarmila Langášková, Karel Bělohradský, Antonín Cmíral, Karel Medek, Jan Berka, Robert Nezval, Jan Žižka, Viola Zinková, Nina Divíšková, Josef Abrhám .
Czechoslovakia, 1970.

Language: Czech, Russian.
Download Valerie a týden divu / Valerie and Her Week of Wonders.

 

 

Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old transvesite hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape where they make their living by the life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
Director: Hector Babenco.
Cast: Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura, Edilson Lino, Zenildo Oliveira Santos, Claudio Bernardo, Israel Feres David, Jose Nilson Martin Dos Santos, Marília Pêra, Jardel Filho, João José Pompeo.
Brazil, 1981.
Language: Portuguese, Russian.
Download Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco.

 A relaxing vacation becomes an impromptu family reunion when a family of three takes a sun soaked trip to their summer cottage, only to find the entire extended family unexpectedly showing up on their doorstep. Anna, Robert, and their adolescent son Max were looking forward to a quiet retreat to the Uckermark region of Germany, but their peace is soon shattered by the arrival of children, parents, siblings, and grandchildren. At first everyone does their best just to get along, though it doesn't take long for old wounds to fester and buried secrets to surface.
Director: Thomas Arslan.

Cast: Angela Winkler, Karoline Eichhorn, Uwe Bohm, Gudrun Ritter, Anja Schneider, Wigand Witting, Amir Hadzic, Babette Semmer, Leyla Bobaj, Aaron Raabe, Maria Hengge, Helge Niesytka.
Germany, 2007.
Language: German.
Subtitles: Russian. 
Download Ferien / Vacation.

 

 

 The eleven year old cycling talent Freddy is the son of a butcher in an idyllic village in no man's land. His isolated life is turned upside down completely in 1975 when the first supermarket in the village opens its doors. To mark the opening the supermarket organizes a cycling race and the winner of that match will meet Eddy Merckx. Freddy's father is a fervent opponent of the supermarket and the competition, but Freddy subscribes behind his back. By participating in the race a new world opens, not only for Freddy, but also for all those around him.
Director: Gert Embrechts.
Cast: Jelte Blommaert, Peter Van den Begin, Barbara Sarafian, Mathias Vergels, Lotte Bode, Silke Cnockaert, Stefaan Degand, Bruno Georis, Coline Leempoel, Frieda Pittoors, Bruno Vereeck, Ben Van den Heuvel.
Belgium, 2012.
Language: Dutch, Russian.
Download Allez, Eddy!

FR. Jérôme, trente-cinq ans, attaché d'ambassade, se rend près d'Annecy pour vendre la propriété familiale. Il y retrouve une ancienne amie, Aurora, romancière qui lui présente son hôtesse, Mme Walter, dont la fille Laura est une jeune lycéenne de seize ans. Après son départ Laura clame qu'elle est amoureuse de Jérôme, mais ce dernier va se laisser séduire par son amie Claire, dont il admire les genoux. Avant-dernière partie des "Six Contes Moraux".
EN. Claire's Knee is a 1970 French drama film directed by Éric Rohmer. It is the fifth movie in the series of the Six Moral Tales.
The story happens between 29 June and 29 July, presumably in 1970. (Inter-title cards of the dates are displayed before the daily events are shown.)
While holidaying at Lake Annecy on the eve of his wedding, career diplomat Jérôme accidentally meets up with Aurora, an old personal friend. Through Aurora, he meets Aurora's landlady, Madame Walter, and Laura, Madame Walter's youngest teenage daughter. Observant Aurora detects Laura's crush on Jérôme, and advises Jérôme of such. After Jérôme and Laura take a hike in the mountains together, she confesses that she is "a little in love with" Jérôme.
Days later (on 8 July), Laura's attractive older half-sister Claire arrives. Upon seeing Claire's knee on a ladder, he finds himself longing to touch her knee. However, Jérôme controls his temptation. Eventually an opportunity presents itself during a boat trip on the lake when Jérôme and Claire have to seek shelter in a hut from an approaching storm. Jérôme tells Claire that he saw her boyfriend, Gilles, together with another girl. When Claire starts to cry Jérôme consoles her by placing his hand upon Claire's knee.
 Director: Éric Rohmer.
Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, Michèle Montel, Gérard Falconetti, Fabrice Luchini, Sandra Franchina.
France, 1970.
Language: French, Russian.
Subtitles: English, Russian.
984x720 HD
Download Le genou de Claire / Claire's Knee.

Malmö, Sweden during the Second World War. Stig is a 15 year old pupil on the verge of adulthood. Viola is 37 years old and his teacher. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity. She is drawn to him by his youth and innocence, a god-sent relief from her drunk and miserable husband. They start a passionate and forbidden relationship - but it has consequences they never could have expected. 

Cast: Johan Widerberg, Marika Lagercrantz, Tomas von Brömssen, Karin Huldt, Nina Gunke, Björn Kjellman, Kenneth Milldoff, Frida Lindholm, Sigge Cederlund, George Bisset, Per Olov Börjeson.

Language: Swedish, Russian.
Subtitles: Russian.

In a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet, the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malu is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist that is proud of her family's social standing. She places similar restriction on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malu and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malu's mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to travel to the other side of the island to find Malu's father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it.

Cast: Malú Tarrau Broche, Jorge Milo, Luisa María Jiménez Rodríquez, Larisa Vega Alamar, Lieter Ledesma Alberto, Sara Cabrera, Pavel García Valdés, Albertico Pujols Acosta, Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti.

Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who's married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her.
Director: Robert Mulligan.
Cast: Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, Katherine Allentuck, Christopher Norris, Lou Frizzell.
USA, 1971.
Language: English.
Subtitles: English, Russian.
Download Summer of '42.