Different Drummers is based on a true story about two unusual boys in Spokane, Washington in the mid 1960s. In this more innocent time, when body builder Jack Lalanne ruled the airwaves, the two heroes, a couple of elementary school students, make a bold attempt to triumph over mortality through friendship. Eleven year old David is slowing down and is now wheelchair-bound by muscular dystrophy, while Lyle can't stop speeding up. Back then, he was referred to as having a condition called MDB (Minimal Brain Dysfunction) but today he would be diagnosed with "Attention Deficit Disorder." Lyle wants more than anything to get David out of his wheelchair and running again, and he concocts a wild scheme involving a science project, some firemen, drummers, the school principal, a cop and a hand-walk across the school gymnasium, among other things. It works like this: Inspired by his TV idol, Lalanne, and his message of "intestinal fortitude and willpower," Lyle manages to convince David that ...
当一位苦苦挣扎的音乐家搬回她儿时的家时,她发现了一段已故父亲的录音,他承认自己犯下了一桩可怕的谋杀案,声称是为了保护自己免受未知邪恶势力的侵害。起初音乐家对这段录音并不大在意,但随着她年幼的儿子表现出令人不安的行为后,这名音乐家也开始试图阻止这场邪恶势力的到来。
1940年,波兰冠军拳王泰迪参与华沙围城保卫战的武装部队,华沙被破,他在逃亡法国途中被捕,成为第一批被送往奥斯威辛集中营的战囚。集中营里朝不保夕,纳粹士兵视为游戏的地下拳击赛,成为泰迪为生存而拼搏的重要战争。然而,一次次激励人心的胜利,却让纳粹长官警觉到囚犯的反抗意识,转而强化管制,眼见冲突逐渐升温,获胜已然成为集中营里残酷的生存之路。 波兰新锐导演马西耶·巴尔切夫斯基首部剧情长片,将战后被忽视的华沙拳王故事搬上大银幕,背号“77”的囚犯在三年内赢了40战,他的奋斗故事成为奥斯威辛囚犯幸存者的集体记忆。波兰金奖演员彼得.葛洛瓦兹基透过长时间密集的身体训练,精采演绎波兰影史最“痛”的角色。 “我的爷爷是集中营幸存者,这个故事一直存在我的血脉之中。”――马西耶·巴尔切夫斯基
一名徒步旅行者脱离团队去寻找好友,结果陷入求生之战,必须独自走出危险重重的山区。
修伯特是個十幾歲的男孩,他的父親因為滯留在西方不肯回國而被視為叛國賊,母親為了他著想,忍痛將他送到華沙跟姑姑同住。在波蘭共黨高壓統治的時代,這個高貴、難解卻又叛逆的姑姑經營了一家馬術俱樂部,她不但不准男孩叫他姑姑,還為他編造了一段符合政治正確的身世,讓他順利插班就讀。過去在母親嚴格要求正直誠實的教養下成長的修伯特,從姑姑身上發現了不一樣的世界。男孩從疑惑到逐步發現姑姑的秘密,而終於瞭解到一些他原本難以想像的事實,也改變了他對真理的認知。 《狂奔岁月》(Cwal/ At Full Gallop,1996)是赞努西另一部可圈可点的作品。也许是政治情势的转变,也许是创作者自身年岁的增长所致,这部回顾一九五○年代波兰共党高压统治时代的作品,非但没有想象中的正经八百,反而流露了温馨、童稚的情感,赞努西甚至在电影最后现身说法,除了自承某些情节来自个人亲身经历外,甚至带着演员一块谢幕,幽默得紧。