1560, Peru. In a beautiful poetic opening scene the conquistadors cross an Andes pass, situated between the peaks and the valleys, between conquered land and unexplored forests, between 'heaven' and 'earth', shrouded in mists, they make their way down a narrow path. Aguirre's meglomania grows as around him his comrades mutiny and die in his search for the lost city of El Dorado. Herzog's best film, an unforgetable tour de force. Made before the director himself gave in to meglomania on a later t
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OBERST REDL (1985)
Certification15 Our Rating
In the dying days of the Austro-Hapsburg Empire, Ukranian Jew Alfred Redl ruthlessly rises from a poverty stricken background to become a high-ranking member of the Imperial Austrian Military. But when Redl is sent to spy on the Russian Empire, he is compromised by his secret double life as a homosexual. As the world perches on the brink of war, Redl finds himself trapped in a web of deception and the mask he has worn all these years is finally peeled off. Adapted from John Osborne's play 'A Pa
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THE BARBER OF SIBERIA (1998)
Certification12 Our Rating
In 1885 a foreign entrepreneur ventures to Russia with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber-harvester, named 'The Barber', in the wilds of Siberia. An American falls in love a young Russian officer she has met in Moscow, and spends the next 10 years pursuing her love, who has been exiled there. Lots of drunken Generals, dancing bears, cadets fighting Pushkin-like duels, postcard imagery of the grandest Moscow buildings, and shots of the untamed Siberian landscape - this is M
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