The Mother Who Became a Kite

On Saturday, 5 April 1941, one day before the Invasion of Yugoslavia of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colourful group of random passengers on a country road deep in the heart of Serbia board a dilapidated bus, headed for the capital Belgrade. The group includes two gypsy musicians, a World War I veteran, a Germanophile, a budding singer...

Runtime

1h 24m

Director

Slobodan Šijan

Cast

Pavle Vuisić, Aleksandar Berček, Dragoslav 'Dragan' Nikolić

Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, enduring illness, injury, and personal hardship to “serve the country.” Led by Tsuru Watanabe, they fight fatigue and setbacks to keep their line moving—even when duty collides with grief.

Runtime

1h 25m

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Takashi Shimura, Shōji Kiyokawa, Ichirō Sugai

Using never-before-seen footage, Japan's War In Colour tells a previously untold story. It recounts the history of the Second World War from a Japanese perspective, combining original colour film with letters and diaries written by Japanese people. It tells the story of a nation at war from the diverse perspectives of those who lived t...

Runtime

2h 31m

Cast

Brian Cox

The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict – but also very fair. His weakness though, is his interest in young women.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Jan Svěrák

Cast

Václav Jakoubek, Zdeněk Svěrák, Radoslav Budáč

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.

Runtime

1h 52m

Director

Gordon Douglas

Cast

James Garner, Edmond O'Brien, Andra Martin