Eastern European films

A young female student arrives in a new city, and finds herself in a confusing situation: there is no place for her for sleeping. An incredible odyssey through the endless maze of night streets is ahead.

Surreal dream-like tale that combines several themes into one fantastical world.

The wife of the recently deceased lawyer tries to cope with grief after his loss and to keep his last case going in court.

Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, from risking his life for a few potatoes, he tells him what he heard and announces that he is in possession of a radio - in the ghetto a crime punishable by death. It doesn't take long for word of Jakob's secret to spread - suddenly, there is new hope and something to live for - and so Jakob finds himself in the uncomforting position of having to come up with more and more stories.

This is a true story of the famous Variola epidemic outbreak in Belgrade.

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. They meet and discover a strong passion for each other. Life seems like a dream when they're together - but their short flights from the burdens of reality are once and again interrupted by Paul's ties to family and career.

Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero whose name is As.

A couple finds out their son urgently needs an expensive heart surgery. While struggling to find the money, the father is approached by a mysterious man proposing a sinister deal.

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student, kills a pawnbroker and her sister. Police suspect him after his outbursts. His family arrives, followed by suitors. He befriends a clerk's daughter, Sonia, a prostitute who urges him to confess.

Sympathetic portrayal of a soldier who inadvertently commits sabotage through his ineptitude on the battlefield.

In a train where social classes are strictly separated (wealthy in the front, poor in the back), a revolt erupts.

Life changes dramatically for a Czech housemaid when the family coachman gives her three magical hazelnuts.

The unusual practice of photographing dead relatives during mid-1800s rural Russia will link a Philology student with her husband's abysmal family history.

A Czar who attempts to trick a creature that demands tribute from him into taking a fisherman's baby instead of his newborn heir. Complications arise when the daughter of the creature, Barbara, requests a human suitor to find true love.

A week after a fight with her husband of 20 years, a woman's naked body is found in a lake. Was it an accident, suicide or - murder?

A film about living and working conditions in the GDR of the 1960s, including a little love story, of course.

Gregor Hecker, who fled Germany with his parents, returns to Germany as a lieutenant in the Red Army.

An aquatic nymph falls obsessively in love with a man and wants to have him with her forever in her underwater kingdom, where she is doomed to spend eternity.

In 1961, Rita returns to her childhood village after a breakdown. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for chemist Manfred, 10 years her senior; his enthusiasm about his new chemical process, which turned to bitter disappointment in the face of rejection; his escape to West Berlin a few weeks before the Wall was built; and his hope that she would follow him. This East German classic, praised by critics as one of Germany's 100 Most Important Films, is based on Christa Wolf's internationally-known novel, criticized in the GDR for questioning the construction of the Wall. Produced during a brief cultural thaw in the early 1960s, this film was strongly influenced by French Nouvelle Vague cinema.