Fluch des Mittelmeers - Piraterie, Menschenraub und Sklaverei

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast

Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate br...

Runtime

2h 18m

Director

Mel Gibson

Cast

Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Max Trujillo, Gerardo Taracena

Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter', before it's even written. When lovely noblewoman Viola de Lesseps auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love — and Shakespeare's play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship intensifies, the comedy soon transfo...

Runtime

2h 4m

Director

John Madden

Cast

Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush

Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs Rochefort for Senegal in 1816. After striking a sandbar off the African coast, 150...

Runtime

2h 10m

Director

Iradj Azimi

Cast

Jean Yanne, Daniel Mesguich, Claude Jade

An idyllic voyage to Tahiti in 1789 turns a crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty against its captain when they find a tropical paradise.

Runtime

2h 12m

Director

Roger Donaldson

Cast

Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Daniel Day-Lewis