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Plot Summary:
The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front, during World War II (in 1943), has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of funny events, Giuseppe falls in love, and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Danny La Rue stars in this 1970s drag comedy as Fred Wimbush, a Shakespearean actor who is drafted into WWII and is appearing in a camp show in France when the Nazis advance. Unless he continues in his female costume, Fred is certain to be shot as a spy. The risque gags and double entendres fly as he attempts to make his escape in the company of a gaggle of randy English schoolgirls.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 934
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Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 32
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During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and there she has a chance meeting with her ex-fiancé. He offers to put her up--that is, hide her--for a few days. He's now married, a professional who lives in an idyllic suburb reached by a trolley that runs through the woods. His wife seems more committed to putting up the fugitive than he is. The story involves the neighbors, the building owner who avoids involvement and seeks solace in classic poetry, and the super and his suspicious wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 222
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Duration: 97 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 17
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 543
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 646
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 190
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
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IMDB Votes: 137
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 843
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IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 109
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 110
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 101
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IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Votes: 464
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 445
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IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Votes: 5000
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Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their extraordinary relationship is thrillingly revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
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