12th Göteborg Film Festival (1990)
Göteborg Film Festival 26 Jan - 4 Feb 1990, a few films missing
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- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsHenryk BaranowskiWojciech KlataMaja KomorowskaA woman worries about her nephew's spiritual education, whose life and his father's are run on their home computer.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsKrystyna JandaAleksander BardiniOlgierd LukaszewiczA woman with a gravely ill husband and pregnant of her lover faces a dilemma: if her husband dies, she'll keep the baby; if not, she'll abort.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsDaniel OlbrychskiMaria PakulnisJoanna SzczepkowskaOn Christmas Eve, a taxi driver's ex-lover asks him for help to look for her missing husband.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsAdrianna BiedrzynskaJanusz GajosArtur BarcisWhen her father is away on business, a young woman discovers a letter from her dead mother reading, 'Open after my death'.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsMiroslaw BakaKrzysztof GlobiszJan TesarzA soon-to-be lawyer crosses his path with a taxi driver and a young sinister man.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsOlaf LubaszenkoGrazyna SzapolowskaPiotr MachalicaA teenager spies on his older neighbour through binoculars.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsAnna PolonyMaja BarelkowskaWladyslaw KowalskiRaised as sisters, one is in fact the other's mother. Unwilling to continue living a lie, the mother tries to get her daughter back from her parents.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsMaria KoscialkowskaTeresa MarczewskaArtur BarcisA researcher meets a professor and reveals herself as the child to whom she refused to shelter during World War II.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsEwa BlaszczykPiotr MachalicaArtur BarcisFollowing the discovery of his sexual impotence a man urges his wife to take a lover.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsJerzy StuhrZbigniew ZamachowskiHenryk BistaAfter their father's death, two brothers inherit a valuable stamp collection.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsRichard BohringerMichael GambonHelen MirrenAt Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.
- DirectorMichael SchottenbergStarsRegula BillGerhard ZemannHerta BöhmHopfner runs a gas station together with his wife Helga. They both prepare for a dance competition. A prostitute from a nearby brothel bears a striking resemblance to his wife, leading him to hatch a plan to get rid of Helga.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsBirgit DollDieter BernerLeni TanzerA European family who plan on escaping to Australia seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.
- DirectorMichael SynekStarsJoe BergerErwin LederLisa Luginbuhl
- DirectorBernhard Frankfurter
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiShu-Fen HsinSung-Young ChenThe story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
- DirectorClifton KoStarsMichael HuiRicky HuiSylvia ChangOld Hui, the stingy owner of a traditional BBQ duck restaurant, has to fight to retain customers defecting to a new fast-food fried chicken joint just across the street.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeDhritiman ChatterjeeDipankar DeyIn this adaption of the Ibsen stage play, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's temple waters are dangerously contaminated. But with the community relying on the holy attraction for tourist dollars, his warnings go unheeded.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsShabana AzmiShreeram LagooAparna SenA retired professor suddenly goes missing. Time passes by, life goes on, but his children and wife keep on looking back, trying to find their way through emotional torrents of the past and the present.
- DirectorAleksandr FedulovStarsAleksandr Pozharov
- DirectorSudhir MishraStarsSuresh BhagwatRajendra GuptaAli HaiderA middle class housewife becomes the sole breadwinner of her married household, when her husband deserts them. Things change when she finds love outside marriage and her husband returnss.
- DirectorJan KounenStarsAbel AboualitenPascal BanosBob FletchardAcross a futuristic city's narrow streets, a coven of modern witches chases a thief on motorized flying brooms.
- DirectorObie BenzJoshua WaletzkyStarsDavid ByrneSandra BernhardFrances FisherCelebrity confessions about their first sexual experiences.
- DirectorRobert M. YoungStarsWillem DafoeEdward James OlmosRobert LoggiaIn Greece during World War II, a young Jewish boxer, his girlfriend, and their families are sent to Auschwitz. When the camp guards learn of his boxing abilities, they force him to participate in weekly boxing matches.
- DirectorLes BlankChris StrachwitzStarsBarry Jean AnceletAlphonse ArdoinDewey BalfaFilm on the history of the toe-tapping, foot-stomping music of French Southwest Louisiana.
- DirectorCharlotte ZwerinStarsThelonious MonkJohn ColtraneJimmy ClevelandA documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Sphere Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat genius.
- DirectorHenry JaglomStarsMaggie WheelerGwen WellesMelanie WinterA man returns to his sublet apartment to find the previous tenants, three offbeat young women, still in residence, under the mistaken belief that they have the apartment until the end of New Year's Day.
- DirectorBob BalabanStarsRandy QuaidMary Beth HurtSandy DennisA young boy living in 1950s suburbia suspects that his parents are cannibalistic murderers.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsRobert VaapCécile ZervudackiAleksandr AbdulovInspired by Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Sokurov's Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma's decline and fall, including affairs with an aristocratic and a student. Focusing on passion from a woman's perspective and downplaying plot, Sokurov explores his subject in exquisite detail, capturing not only the heat of passion but also the quiet moments before and after and the innocent sensuousness of the body. ( Original Title - Spasi i sokhrani)
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsAndrei TarkovskyTonino GuerraAleksandr SokurovA film in homage to Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. It concentrates on his absence from the Soviet Union and what he left behind. There are episodes of his funeral and places he lived in Moscow.
- DirectorOlga NarutskayaStarsValentina MalyavinaAleksandr GalibinAnna BazhenovaThe complex relationship, against a darkly depicted Moscow landscape, of a father and daughter after he has divorced his wife.The story culminates in a disturbing act of street violence.
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsLeonid FilatovOleg BasilashviliVladimir MenshovGoing on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.
- DirectorSerik AprimovStarsSabit KurmanbekovMurad AkhmetovBakhitzhan AlpeisovDark, naturalistic depiction of life in a godforsaken Kazakh village plagued by poverty, deterioration and violence.
- DirectorJytte RexStarsCarsten BangPeter BoesenKirsten BrøndumIsolde decides to leave her husband, who is a politician. At the library where she works, she meets a naive student and falls in love.
- DirectorMaria Mac Dalland
- DirectorÞráinn BertelssonStarsEgill ÓlafssonÞórhallur SigurðssonGuðrún GísladóttirA comedy with a serious undertone about a 45-year-old lawyer, whose routine is upset by the personal news that he is suffering from cancer.
- DirectorSigve EndresenA warm story about the fight for a decent life. Deals with teenagers having problems with alcohol and drugs.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsSøren RasmussenKnud Randa Frank NielsenLars Randrup MikkelsenIt's nice to be a kid with school, play and friends. But just below the surface is astonishing cruelty, craftiness and seriousness that can make the life hell for a 12-year-old boy in the 5th grade.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsLars JunggrenInez ThomsenIlse RandeThree episodes that illustrate three steps in a boy's relationship with the sexual. First as five-years old meeting with the more experienced cousin, then the first serious crush as seventeen and finally the student's carefree girl hunt.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsEva Gram SchjoldagerJan JohansenLine Arlien-SøborgWe follow the Danish students in a class at Århus Katedralskole late 1950s, from age 13 till 16.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsLine Arlien-SøborgJesper KleinCarsten JørgensenIn Århus, Denmark, mom's in hospital, pregnant, while dad and 16 y.o.daughter are spending time together painting the baby room. Dad can't accept that his daughter has grown up with interest in guys etc. Instead, he turns to spying on her.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsThomas SchindelTom McEwanMichael CarøeA director recounts his experiences on his first film and memories from his childhood.
- DirectorMaria SødahlStarsFrode RasmussenA pitch black comedy about how blue a Monday morning can be.
- DirectorPatrice LeconteStarsMichel BlancSandrine BonnaireLuc ThuillierA recluse is accused of murdering a young woman simply because his neighbors think he is strange.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsLaura BensonAdolph GreenLinda LavinA grumpy American is suffering during his visit to Europe.
- DirectorEric RochantStarsHippolyte GirardotMireille PerrierYvan Attal25 years old Hippo doesn't have a job, doesn't study either but lives from the money his younger brother earns with dealing and from occasional Poker winnings -- he's a representative of a disillusioned generation, doesn't care what other people think of him. But of all people he falls in love with the ambitioned student Nathalie and soon finds himself forced to think about taking a job.
- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsQuang AnLâm LêDuy Mai Lan NguyenObservation of the relationship between husband and wife.
- DirectorMary JimenezStarsCarole CourtoyGabriel ArcandJosse De PauwAbout a woman who is convinced that she has only a few months to live. In the time left, she wanders through various European communities, seeking out new experiences.
- DirectorKresimir Zimonic
- DirectorJohn LvoffStarsTom NovembreGunilla KarlzenManfred AndraeThe story takes place in Paris with the main character who decides to settle in his bathroom to read quietly and never leave again. Outside characters come to disturb him.
- DirectorRalf KarlssonStarsCarl-Gustaf LindstedtSif RuudSusanna BjörklundSam and Amanda are friends. One day, they accidentally throw Sam's sister's diaries in the garbage can and have to trace them to the city dump. While looking for the diaries, they discover a secret passage leading from the city dump to a big, old, abandoned mansion nearby. There, they meet Valdemar, an old man who's been living there for sometime. At first, he's a little suspicious of them, but after a while, the three become friends and experience many fine adventures. However, they must keep it a secret, which is difficult, when their class mates start wondering what Sam and Amanda do after school. They also get to know Valdemar's sister Greta and hear about her dream; to see their childhood home once more before she dies. They decide to help her with that, which is easier said than done.
- DirectorHåkan AlexanderssonStarsGert FylkingUlrika HanssonPeter KneipThe neurotic director Max Karlsson tries to do a film of Goethe's "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers". He finds all actors for his melodrama - except Lotte, the wonderful girl who is an object of two mens love. He auditions a number of girls. But when he finds the right one nothing goes the way he had figured.
- DirectorMats Olof OlssonStarsAnders Åberg
- DirectorMats Olof OlssonStarsSusanne LejeborgMax WinerdahlOn a Sunday of summer 1963, Conny starts a timid conversation with a romantic pretty young girl on the other side of the fence of the local asylum.
- DirectorMats Olof OlssonStarsGösta BredefeldtMalena HallerdtNiclas LjungquistA young messenger comes to a second-hand bookseller to fetch a number of books. While his packet is made ready he goes around among the bookshelves. Suddenly a book drops to the floor. He picks it up, opens it at random and reads a brief erotic excerpt. An 18-year-old girl circles around him in an unrealistic way. She asks, "Did you like it?" He does not know. She says, "Do not follow me" and leaves the shop. He disregards his errand, puts the book under his jacket and follows the girl on his moped. He finds her sitting on a bench in a part of a church where numerous urns are placed in the walls. She does not answer anything he says. Then he once more opens the book at random and reads another erotic excerpt. Then she goes around a corner, but when he immediately follows, she has disappeared. Somehow his attention is drawn to one of the name plates on the wall: "Anna Stavgård b. 1910 d. 1928". He opens the book and sees the ex libris with the name "Anna Stavgård".
- DirectorMats Olof OlssonStarsGösta BredefeldtErnst BrunnerBörje CarlssonTumba-Tarzan, born Rolf Eskil Johansson (1925-1978) was a Swedish burglar who became nationally known in 1954 when he was on the run from the police for more than half a year. During the first half of the 1950s, a wave of burglary rinsed over Södertörn, Stockholm. The guilty were the Johansson brothers in the so-called Tumbaligan. After escaping prison, Tumba-Tarzan and his wife Alice lived in the forests on Södertörn and Roslagen for a few months. They were chased by police, military, dogs and helicopters. Yet they managed to get away.
- DirectorKarsten WedelStarsLars BrandebyEivin DahlgrenUrban EldhA factory worker get a sharp bump on his head after having collided with a lamppost. This incident causes him to leave his square daily life for spontaneous escapades and whims.
- DirectorTorgny AnderbergStarsBoris ArizagaEddy CastroJames CoburnAbout Niño, an orphanage boy in the port city of Guayaquil in Ecuador.
- DirectorYngve BaumStarsKjell JönssonCarina FredrikssonBerit White
- DirectorCharlotte BrändströmStarsJudith GodrècheStanislas Carré de MalbergMurray HeadEvery year, the whole gather in the French region of Auvergne's home. During this 1944 summer, Louis falls in love with his cousin Laurence. The arrival of a British skydiver, Jack, will completely upset Laurence. Louis, jealous like crazy, will betray the skydiver who will die in front of his eyes. But his cousin François-Xavier has also seen what happened.
- DirectorUlf RybergStarsMichael ManssonHelena NorénMikael SöderstenAbout an old woman who is found dead in her apartment, with pieces of memory from the life she once lived.
- DirectorBjörn RungeStarsAnna BjelkerudGöran EngmanViktor Friberg
- DirectorChristoffer von PlatenAbout the port of Gothenburg, in a strong transformation process. The old port disappears, office complexes take over the quays. Fewer and fewer ships call at, in addition to the constantly expansive ferry traffic.
- DirectorGunnar OlssonStarsDagmar EbbesenRut HolmNils LundellThe politicians wants to build a factory on the allotment garden Solgläntan, but they encounter resistance.
- DirectorAlf SjöbergStarsSture LagerwallGerd HagmanArnold SjöstrandDuring the Finnish-Russian war in the winter of 1940. On Måsön in the Swedish archipelago lives the romantic and idealist ringer Albin Olsson and the young beautiful and passionate teacher Eva Andersson.
- DirectorGustaf MolanderStarsOscar LjungGerd HagmanEva DahlbeckIn the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.
- DirectorAnders HenriksonStarsAino TaubeElof AhrleAnders HenriksonKurre, a simple man of the people, is called for military service and turned into 1740 Karlsson.
- DirectorIvar JohanssonStarsMarianne AminoffBengt LogardtClaes Thelander1930 and times are bad. When Ulla and Gunnar also get notice the future doesn't look bright. Besides that Ulla discover that she's pregnant. Gunnar gets a job thought so now they can get married. But the outbreak of the war 1939 puts both of their patience severely to the test. Gunnar gets called up for military service and the future is uncertain.
- DirectorÅke OhbergStarsEdvard PerssonTekla SjöblomGeorge FantIt is 1676 and Denmark declares war on Sweden. The intention is to recapture the region Skåne. The Danes have on their side a number of sympathizers, called Snapphanar.
- DirectorAlf SjöbergStarsRune LindströmEivor LandströmAnders HenriksonMats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to paradise and ask God himself. It becomes a journey where he meets the prophets, king Solomon and finally God himself.
- DirectorAnders HenriksonStarsKarin EkelundAnders HenriksonGeorg RydebergA stateless lawyer comes with his son Karel and his two daughters Vanja and Sonja as refugees to Stockholm. No one gets work permits in Sweden and the family's problems grow, and not all of them involve money. The idleness and hopelessness towards the future is almost worse and that can lead to dangerous paths.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsEdvin AdolphsonElsie AlbiinHasse EkmanAn army officer kills his wife's lover, then escapes to Finland to fight in the Winter War.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsLars HansonGunnar SjöbergElsie AlbiinCelebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
- DirectorNick BroomfieldStarsGabriel ByrneAmanda DonohoeStruan RodgerA group of young British guardsmen have to cover up a hit and run incident that occurred at the end of a night of drunken revelry.
- DirectorNick BroomfieldStarsAndré HellerGraciela DanieleMercedes EllingtonNick Broomfield's rarely seen 1988 doc goes behind-the-scenes of a famous theater director's unusual musical, with hilarious and chaotic results.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsDavor DujmovicBora TodorovicLjubica AdzovicIn this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.
- DirectorBill FishmanStarsJohn CusackTim RobbinsMary CrosbyA couple of creative losers accidently become big shots in the video music industry.
- DirectorPauli PenttiStarsPeer Günt
- DirectorDavid RathodStarsAshutosh GowarikerHeidi CarpenterPearl PadamseeHandsome and broke, Vikram arrives from Bombay to the US to find his college plans have fallen through. Exploring exotic San Francisco, he discovers and falls for Sue, a feisty bohemian artist.
- DirectorMargret RunStarsAndreas JungAndrea RosenbergEckhard PreußThe film shows the self release of a young man, who has a low-sitting, instilled fear of women and God.
- DirectorPhilip GröningStarsPeter CieslinskiTesie Tellmann
- DirectorMonika TreutStarsIna BlumMarcelo UrionaGad KleinA reporter who goes to San Francisco to write about romance has an affair with a stripper from an all-women's club.
- DirectorMatthias DraweStarsSilvia CastilloMatthias DraweThornton Jacobs(spoilers!) Vanity, polygamy, Weltschmerz! - The young Turk R. and his German buddy, M., both proud denizens of Berlin-Kreuzberg, try their hands at the Art of Being a Man. They love their women in a Ferris wheel, can recite 100 classic cocktail recipes by heart and reveal why their private parts need to be able to swing as they please. Both have two girlfriends at a time, believing that their body simply needs the change. They are sure that the male is polygamous by nature, and can prove it with quotes form world-renowned philosophers. They also know that it is advisable to not to share this knowledge with modern women. Eventually the two cheating scoundrels are caught and all hell breaks loose. Caused by the ensuing depression they ask themselves the big questions of life: Where from, where to, and why? Not finding an immediate answer they decide to travel to Warsaw instead, only to get entangled in a new web of love interests, which leads to a severe fight among themselves, making them vow never to speak to each other again. But theirs wouldn't be a true friendship if they would not reconcile in the end.
- DirectorHerbert AchternbuschStarsHerbert AchternbuschJudit AchternbuschAlfred EdelMix Wix is a successful entrepreneur. He did good business with socks and underpants and made a lot of money. Hispanties department is the largest of its kind. But now he's reaching his limits.
- DirectorEuzhan PalcyStarsDonald SutherlandJanet SuzmanZakes MokaeA white middle class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a target.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsSammi DavisAmanda DonohoePaul McGannA young woman deals in her own personal way with the trials of adolescence and young adulthood in early 1900s England.
- DirectorMurray MartinStarsJoe CaffreyMaureen HaroldDave HillA feature drama set in the declining fishing industry in North Shields, the actors auditioned and trained by local fishermen and filmed on the 63 foot seine netter bought by Amber.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsWim WendersYohji YamamotoWim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age.
- DirectorGyula GazdagStarsAri BeryGábor SvidronyZbigniew ZapasiewiczIn 1970's Hungary, two teen brothers take hostage 20 girls in their dorm to secure safe passage to the West. Based on the true incident of the first modern hostage situation in Hungary.
- DirectorDusan HanákPictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema, with existential radicalism that offers a contrast to the shallowness of hundreds of other documentary films showing images from the outskirts of civilization. The outskirts here are a Slovakian town in the Tatra Mountains. Though censored for 17 years, Dusan Hanáks poetic visual essay is not a political or even social film. It goes to far deeper and more fundamental levels of human experience. Inspired by the photographs of Martin Martinek, the films power lies in its unusual portraits of people whose raw visual beauty radiates from their very souls. Some, like the village cosmos aficionado or the disabled old man who climbs stairs on his knees, are hard to forget.
- DirectorKenneth BranaghStarsKenneth BranaghDerek JacobiSimon ShepherdIn the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
- DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierRobert NewtonLeslie BanksIn the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
- DirectorTimothy NeatStarsJohn BergerHamish HendersonLucia LanzariniAs a group of individuals waits for a plane on a remote Scottish island, an enigmatic stranger tells them a story about an Italian countryman who visits Venice.