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You will be given a list of documents. You need to read carefully and understand all of them. Then you will be given a query, and your goal is to answer the query based on the documents you have read.
Your final answer should be in a list, in the following format:
Final Answer: ['answer1', 'answer2', ...]
If there is only one answer, it should be in the format:
Final Answer: ['answer']
ID: 0 | TITLE: The Village of No Return | CONTENT: '''''The Village of No Return''''' () is a 2017 Taiwanese-Chinese action-comedy film directed by Chen Yu-hsun, starring Shu Qi, Wang Qianyuan, Joseph Chang, Eric Tsang and Tony Yang. It was released on January 26, 2017 in Taiwan and on January 28, 2017 in China.
It is an unusual day for the remote and isolated Desire Village. A mysterious Taoist priest brings a magical equipment that can erase one's memory. Since then, all the villagers have forgotten their past, living "happily ever after", while the dangerous plot behind their back is just about to be.
*Shu Qi as Autumn
*Wang Qianyuan as Fortune Tien
*Joseph Chang as Master Wan
*Lin Mei-hsiu as Dark Cloud
*Eric Tsang as Rock Peeler
*Tony Yang as Dean Wang
*Ku Pao-ming as Chief
*Cheng Yu-chieh as Autumn's father
*Ying Wei-min as Villain
*Hsu Chieh-hui as Golden Lin
*Lawrence Ko as Purple Cloud
*Bamboo Chen as Red Cloud
*Chang Shao-huai as Dr. Liu
*Jag Huang as Blue Cloud
Award ceremony
Category
Recipients
Result
Ref.
21st Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
NETPAC Award
''The Village of No Return''
54th Golden Horse Awards
Best Leading Actress
Shu Qi
Best Art Direction
Huang Mei-ching
Best Makeup & Costume Design
Dora Ng | END ID: 0
ID: 1 | TITLE: The Invincible Constable | CONTENT: '''''The Invincible Constable''''' is a 1993 Chinese-Taiwanese martial arts comedy film directed by Hong Kong director Chan Muk-chuen, based on the 19th-century novel ''The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants''. The film was shot in Dajinhu National Geopark () in Taining County, Fujian, a protected area of China.
The film is set in 11th-century Song dynasty. Bai Yutang, a young hero nicknamed "Sleek Rat", arrives at the national capital Kaifeng Prefecture to challenge Zhan Zhao (nicknamed "Southern Hero" and "Imperial Cat"), a young constable who works for the incorruptible prefect and judge Bao Zheng. A master of intrusion, Bai Yutang sneaks into the imperial palace at night with ease, but when he tries to leave he only narrowly escapes Zhan Zhao's capture. He returns to his base in Hollow Island and is ambushed and pranked by his sworn brothers Han Zhang ("Earth Rat"), Xu Qing ("Mountain Rat"), and Lu Fang ("Sky Rat"), who throw him into the river to be rescued by the fourth brother Jiang Ping ("River Rat"). After the wacky reunion, the five sworn brothers are visited by Ding Yuehua, a bubbly young swordswoman whose sharp tongue annoys Bai Yutang no end. By continuously praising Zhan Zhao and joking about Bai Yutang's abilities, she successfully provokes Bai into leaving for Kaifeng again.
Meanwhile, Zhan Zhao who is on Bai Yutang's trail has arrived in the mountains surrounding Hollow Island. He meets Ding Yuehua, who immediately takes a liking to him. Ding Yuehua foolishly tries to challenge Zhan Zhao in swordsmanship, and is only rescued by her older | END ID: 1
ID: 2 | TITLE: The Adventures of Jinbao | CONTENT: '''''The Adventures of Jinbao''''' ( (Released as '''''The Adventures of Panda Warrior''''' in the US) is a 2012 Chinese-Hong Kong computer-animated action comedy martial arts film directed by Kwok-Shing Lo and written by Andy Ng Yiu-Kuen and Lam Fung. The film's English cast features Rob Schneider (in a dual role), Haylie Duff, Norm Macdonald, Lauren Elizabeth, and Tom Kenny (in a triple role). Many of the film's fight scenes were animated using motion capture.
In Imperial China, a peace-loving soldier named Jinbao has heard about Merryland from his grandfather who gave him a necklace he got. His Captain states that the world won't be at peace. During an attack on their camp, Jinbao runs off the cliff and finds himself in Merryland in the form of the giant panda. When falling out the sky, he is saved by Flying Pig. Jinbao learns about Merryland and how it is ruled by an evil master and his Phantom Army as well as the prophecy of the Panda Warrior.
While traveling through the forest, they are attacked by a giant spider. Then they spar with Mantis who becomes their ally. Arriving at a village of onion creatures, they find it attacked by the Phantom Army which is led by a pyrokinetic tree spirit named Charcoal. With help from Flying Pig claiming that Charcoal insulted his grandfather, Jinbao subdues Charcoal in the nearby water. A Ginseng Spirit arrives and plays the Song of Peace to purify it. Jinbao learns from the Ginseng Spirit that he must rest in order to have | END ID: 2
ID: 3 | TITLE: Une vieille maîtresse | CONTENT: '''''Une vieille maîtresse''''' (''An old mistress'') is an 1851 novel by the French writer Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. It tells the story of a wayward dandy who falls in love with a young woman but is unable to fully leave his former mistress behind. The book was published by Alexandre Cadot in three volumes, with 327, 316 and 341 pages respectively. It was the basis for the 2007 film ''The Last Mistress'' directed by Catherine Breillat. | END ID: 3
ID: 4 | TITLE: The Bewitched | CONTENT: '''''The Bewitched''''' () is an 1852 novel by the French writer Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. It is set in Normandy in the early 19th century. In the story, a young married woman falls in love with a priest and commits suicide when the infatuation comes to nothing. Her widowed husband, who had been ruined by the French Revolution, then sets out to kill the priest out of jealousy.
The novel was the first in a suite of three novels which were set in Normandy and rooted in local folklore and legend. It was serialised in ''Journal l'Assemblée nationale'' in 1852 and published as a book in 1854. An English translation by Louise Collier Willcox was published in 1928.
Brian G. Rogers wrote in his 1967 book on Barbey d'Aurevilly: "''L'Ensorcelée'', with its real and symbolic landscapes, its well-organised plot and its regionalistic flavour, is one of Barbey d'Aurevilly's most successful novels. Largely free from the repetitions and stylistic errors of the earlier works, it inaugurates the Normandy cycle with a flourish, and, with its parallel themes of passionate and 'satanic' possession, provides a further commentary on its author's evolving attitude to his continuing preoccupations."
The novel was the basis for a 1981 television film titled ''L'Ensorcelée''. The film was directed by Jean Prat and starred Julie Philippe and Jean-Luc Boutté. It was produced for Antenne 2. | END ID: 4
ID: 5 | TITLE: The Story Without a Name (novel) | CONTENT: '''''The Story Without a Name''''' () is an 1882 novel by the French writer Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. It tells the story of an inexplicable pregnancy and the destructive consequences it has for its surroundings.
An English translation by Edgar Saltus was published in 1891. Saltus, a writer associated with the decadent movement, took some liberties in his translation, and upon the original publication, several American critics thought the novel was his own work and that Barbey d'Aurevilly was his literary invention. | END ID: 5
ID: 6 | TITLE: The Lives of Animals | CONTENT: '''''The Lives of Animals''''' (1999) is a metafictional novella about animal rights by the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. The work is introduced by Amy Gutmann and followed by a collection of responses by Marjorie Garber, Peter Singer, Wendy Doniger and Barbara Smuts. It was published by Princeton University Press as part of its Human Values series.
''The Lives of Animals'' consists of two chapters, "The Philosophers and the Animals" and "The Poets and the Animals," first delivered by Coetzee as guest lectures at Princeton on 15 and 16 October 1997, part of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values. The Princeton lectures consisted of two short stories (the chapters of the book) featuring a recurring character, the Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, Coetzee's alter ego. Costello is invited to give a guest lecture to the fictional Appleton College in Massachusetts, just as Coetzee is invited to Princeton, and chooses to discuss not literature, but animal rights, just as Coetzee does.
In having Costello deliver the arguments within his lectures, Coetzee plays with form and content, and leaves ambiguous to what extent the views are his own. ''The Lives of Animals'' appears again in Coetzee's novel ''Elizabeth Costello'' (2003).
Coetzee's novella discusses the foundations of morality, the need of human beings to imitate one another, to want what others want, leading to violence and a parallel need to scapegoat non-humans. He appeals to an ethic of sympathy, not rationality, in our treatment of animals, to literature and the poets, not philosophy. Costello | END ID: 6
ID: 7 | TITLE: Tot Watchers | CONTENT: '''''Tot Watchers''''' is a 1958 American one-reel animated ''Tom and Jerry'' short produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. The short was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on August 1, 1958. It is the 114th and last ''Tom and Jerry'' theatrical cartoon produced or directed by both Hanna and Barbera, and the last cartoon short of the series until Gene Deitch's ''Switchin' Kitten'' in 1961. Barbera would return to direct one final ''Tom and Jerry'' theatrical short, ''The Karate Guard'', in 2005.
This is confirmed as the last appearance of Joan. This is also the final appearance of Jeannie and the baby, as Jeannie would not be replicated in the newer entrees due to modern sensibilities regarding child neglect as a very serious matter.
Babysitter Jeannie (voiced by Julie Bennett) is instructed to look after the baby while his mother (also voiced by Julie Bennett) goes out. However, Jeannie begins talking on the telephone with someone, ignoring the baby and its carriage. In the midst of Tom and Jerry's usual fighting, they see the baby crawling out of its pram. Any attempt to return the baby to where it came from simply results in the baby escaping from the pram again. During one escape, the baby crawls into Spike's dog house. Tom accidentally grabs Spike instead of the baby, and is promptly pummelled. This time, Tom angrily brings the baby back to Jeannie herself, who hits Tom over the head with a broom, thinking that Tom has taken the baby away from her.
Realizing | END ID: 7
ID: 8 | TITLE: Now Hare This | CONTENT: '''''Now Hare This''''' is a 1958 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon directed by Robert McKimson and written by Tedd Pierce. The short was released on May 31, 1958, and stars Bugs Bunny.
The story involves Bugs Bunny eluding the Big Bad Wolf and his nephew. After the elder wolf is unable to catch Bugs through traditional means, he gets inspiration from his nephew, who gives him ideas for catching Bugs based on nursery rhymes.
First, the wolves lure Bugs into playing Little Red Riding Hood so the Big Bad Wolf, who is playing Grandma, can trap Bugs. But Bugs escapes by putting hot coals from a fireplace into the bed that Big Bad is in.
Next, Bugs plays Goldilocks in ''The Story of the Three Bears''. Big Bad thinks that he has Bugs trapped again, and tries to get revenge by using hot coals on the bed that Bugs is supposed to be in. But instead Big Bad lights a dynamite stick attached to fake rabbit ears and the dynamite explodes in his face.
Bugs then proceeds to explain to the exasperated Big Bad how he can have a rabbit for dinner, and the cartoon concludes with Big Bad and his nephew sharing dinner with Bugs, who says, "If you can't eat 'em, join 'em", as the cartoon fades out.
Both the Big Bad Wolf and Bugs say "hoo, hoo, hooo!", a catch phrase which had been made popular by the character Mr. Kitzel as played by Artie Auerbach on ''The Jack Benny Show''. | END ID: 8
ID: 9 | TITLE: The Midnight Zoo | CONTENT: '''''The Midnight Zoo''''' is a 2010 novel by Sonya Hartnett. It was first published on 1 November 2010 in Australia and was then released in the United States a year later. It follows the story of two gypsy boys that find an abandoned zoo after fleeing a traditional celebration. The novella has gained critical praise for its "lyrical" prose and for the illustrations in the United States version, done by artist Andrea Offermann.
It is midnight in a destroyed village somewhere in Europe. Through the moonlight, two boys, one with a baby in his backpack, come walking. The realism of the opening paragraphs is disrupted by the personification of Night. Clearly we are in for a fabulist story.
The two boys have been on the road for weeks, scrounging an existence in a landscape often devoid of humanity and sustenance. The back-story to the boys’ current situation reveals itself slowly: their family has been slaughtered by soldiers two months previously. They find a pitiful zoo which miraculously has survived the war that has ravaged its village. Also miraculous is that each of the animals in the zoo speaks to the boys.
Over the course of one night, we are given the stories of the animals, the zoo, and its most recent zookeepers. This is not a chronological telling but the narrative events come to us almost like a play, with limited settings, such as glimpses of the boys’ travels, the zoo, and the Rom camp. The structure of the novel is instrumental in our interpretation of events.
While the | END ID: 9
ID: 10 | TITLE: This Census-Taker | CONTENT: '''''This Census-Taker''''' is a 2016 novella by British author China Miéville. It tells the story of a boy who witnesses a violent event, possibly his mother killing his father, or his father killing his mother. It follows the mysterious events surrounding the alleged murder, and is told alternately in the first and third-person by an unreliable narrator. The writing style is sparse and Kafkaesque, a change from the detailed world-building of Miéville's prior work.
The book explores the uncertainty and trauma experienced by the boy and features secret messages and keys as motifs. Reviewers found the story creative and praised its eerie atmosphere, but were divided about the plot due to its open-endedness. NPR described the novella as "a beautiful chocolate that you bite into and find filled with blood", and ''The Scotsman'' found the ending tantalising, but ''The New York Times'' termed it "an exercise in haunting, lovely frustration".
A boy witnesses a violent confrontation in his house. He flees downhill to a town and initially reports that his mother has killed his father, before amending his story and stating that his father killed his mother. Two volunteer law officials go up the hill to investigate, leaving the boy in the care of street urchins with whom he is friends. The volunteers return after seeing no evidence of violence, and report a letter purportedly from the mother saying that she was leaving. They return the boy to his father's care.
The narrative shifts to the past. The relationship between the boy's parents was tense, and he occasionally | END ID: 10
ID: 11 | TITLE: Black Sheep (Hill novel) | CONTENT: '''''Black Sheep''''', is a novella by English author Susan Hill, published in 2013 by Chatto & Windus.
The story is set in a bleak coal-mining village and centres around brother and sister Ted and Rose Howker. It follows their growth from childhood into adulthood and their attempts to break free from the drudgery of their existence. Ted through heading out of the valley to work on a sheep-farm, and Rose through marriage to the pit-manager's son. But neither is able to truly escape and their choices lead to tragedy...
In an interview with ''The Guardian'' Hill reveals the book was inspired by "a black and white photograph of a 19th-century engraving she found online". The village was, she says, "exactly as I describe. It was essentially an amphitheatre with all the mine workings in the bottom with the great gantry thing, and terraces of houses going up, and a little path with a gate through which people went down to work, and you could just see at the top where the houses petered out, farmland, country. You couldn't think of a more closed community than this bowl."
MJ Hyland writing in ''The Guardian'' comments on Hill's reserved style, "Every scene turns on the stories of the stricken lives of the Howker family, their neighbours and friends, all of whom endure unending 'punishments': cancer, domestic abuse, a missing child, an explosion in the coalmine and murder. In spite of the darkness of the subject matter, the storytelling voice is coy and restrained, and the language is simple, almost childlike, as | END ID: 11
ID: 12 | TITLE: One Way Trip 3D | CONTENT: '''''One Way Trip 3D''''' is a 2011 Austrian-Swiss 3D horror film directed by Markus Welter.
* Sabrina Reiter as Valerie
* Melanie Winiger as Marlene
* Herbert Leiser as Pius
* Martin Loos as Robert
* Aaron Hitz as Mike
* Matthias Britschgi as Lars
* Simon Kaeser as Thomas
* Isabelle Barth as Sarah
* Harry Lampl as Timo
* Tanja Raunig as Lilli | END ID: 12
ID: 13 | TITLE: The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel | CONTENT: '''''The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel''''', by Baroness Orczy, is another sequel book to the adventure tale, ''The Scarlet Pimpernel.'' First published in 1933, it is 6th in the series and one of the shorter Scarlet Pimpernel books. A French-language version, translated and adapted by Charlotte and Marie-Louise Desroyses, was also produced under the title ''Les Métamorphoses du Mouron Rouge.''
The story features the Pimpernel's arch enemy Chauvelin as well as introducing the Austrian Baron de Batz, a real historical figure who also appears in ''Eldorado'' and ''Sir Percy Leads the Band.'' | END ID: 13
ID: 14 | TITLE: Undercover with the KKK | CONTENT: '''''Undercover with the KKK''''' is a 1979 NBC TV movie based on the autobiography ''My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan'' by Gary Thomas Rowe Jr. and starring Don Meredith as Rowe.
The film tells the true story of Gary Thomas Rowe Jr., who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan as an undercover agent and then testified as a key witness for the prosecution during the trial of several other Klansmen.
*Don Meredith as Gary Thomas Rowe Jr.
*Ed Lauter as Raleigh Porter
*Clifton James as Jimmy Eakin
*Albert Salmi as Lester Mitchell
*Michele Carey as Mary Beth Barker
*Lance LeGault as Weasel
*Margaret Blye as Billie Ruth Rowe
*Edward Andrews as Pat Murray
*Slim Pickens as Yancey Hicks
*James Wainwright as T.J. Barker
*Don "Red" Barry as Ben Wright
*Ron Trice as Roscoe Cobb
*Carl Lumbly as Reverend Lowell | END ID: 14
ID: 15 | TITLE: Time and the Wind | CONTENT: '''''Time and the Wind''''' () is a 2013 Brazilian epic drama film based on a series of novels written by the Brazilian author Erico Verissimo. The film was directed by Jayme Monjardim and starring Thiago Lacerda, Marjorie Estiano, Fernanda Montenegro, and Cléo Pires.
Based on the novel trilogy of the same name, by Erico Verissimo, ''Time and the Wind'' follows 150 years of family Terra Cambará and their opponent Amaral family. The history of struggles between the two families begins by the time of the Jesuit Missions and runs until the end of the 19th century. The film also features the period of formation of the State of Rio Grande do Sul and the dispute of territory between the Portuguese and Spanish crowns.
*Thiago Lacerda as Capitão Rodrigo Cambará
*Cléo Pires as Ana Terra
*Suzana Pires as Ana Terra
*Fernanda Montenegro as Bibiana Terra Cambará
*Marjorie Estiano as Bibiana Terra Cambará
*Janaína Kremer as Bibiana Terra Cambará
*Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos as Maneco
*César Troncoso as Father Alonzo
*Leonardo Machado as Marciano Bezerra
*José de Abreu as Ricardo Amaral
*Paulo Goulart as Ricardo Amaral Neto
*Leonardo Medeiros as Bento Amaral
*Cris Pereira as Juvenal Terra
*Marat Descartes as Licurgo
*Vanessa Lóes as Maria Valéria
*Mayana Moura as Luzia
*Igor Rickli as Bolívar
*Rafael Cardoso as Florêncio
*Matheus Costa as Pedro Missioneiro
*Martin Rodriguez as Pedro Missioneiro
*Áurea Baptista as Arminda
* Best Film, Trophy ''Lente de Cristal'' - ''V Cinefest Brasil/Montevideo''. | END ID: 15
ID: 16 | TITLE: A.P.E.X. | CONTENT: '''A.P.E.X''' is a 1994 science fiction action film directed by Phillip J. Roth and starring Richard Keats, Mitchell Cox, Lisa Ann Russell, and Marcus Aurelius. The plot concerns a group of scientists who explore the past using robotic probes known as the A.P.E.X or "Advanced Prototype Exploration units".
In 2073, Nicholas Sinclair is a scientist on a time travel project. An accident introduces in 1973 a deadly virus that activates the project's automatic countermeasures. Attack robots are sent to the past in an effort to eliminate the virus carriers. They fail. Sinclair returns to 2073 to find the Earth in ruins, ravaged by both the virus and the robots still in countermeasure action. Sinclair returns to the project lab that is now in ruins in order to prevent the original cause of the accident.
* Richard Keats as Nicholas Sinclair
* Mitchell Cox as Shepherd
* Lisa Ann Russell as Natasha Sinclair
* Marcus Aurelius as Taylor
* Adam Lawson as Rasheed
* David Jean Thomas as Dr. Elgin
* Brian Richard Peck as Desert Rat
* Anna B. Choi as Mishima
* Kristin Norton as Johnson
* Jay Irwin as Gunney
* Robert Tossberg as 1973 Father
* Kathleen Randazzo as 1973 Mother (as Kathy Lambert)
* Kareem H. Captan as Joey
* Merle Nicks as Old Man
* Natasha Roth as Desert Child
'''''A.P.E.X''''' was nominated for Best Film in the International Fantasy Film Award, at the 1994 Fantasporto international film festival in Porto, Portugal.
* Landmaster | END ID: 16
ID: 17 | TITLE: Ryan (film) | CONTENT: '''''Ryan''''' is a 2004 short animated documentary film created and directed by Chris Landreth about Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who had lived on skid row in Montreal as a result of drug and alcohol abuse. Landreth's chance meeting with Larkin in 2000 inspired him to develop the film, which took 18 months to complete. It was co-produced by Copper Heart Entertainment and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and its creation and development is the subject of the NFB documentary ''Alter Egos''. The film incorporated material from archive sources, particularly Larkin's works at the NFB.
The film is an animated interpretation of an interview of Larkin by Landreth, and includes interviews with Larkin's previous partner and coworkers, as well as Landreth. Development of the characters was partially inspired by the plastinated human bodies of the Body Worlds exhibition. The distorted and disembodied appearance of the film's characters is based on Landreth's use of psychological realism to portray emotion visually, and expression is modelled by use of straight ahead animation. The animation was created at the Animation Arts Centre of Seneca College in Toronto. Some of the animation was based on ''cords'', mathematical equations modelling the physical properties of curves and used to animate filamentous objects in the film. The visual effects of the film has been described by reviewers and film critics as difficult to describe and having a distinctive visceral style.
''Ryan'' won over 60 awards, including the 2004 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film and the 25th Genie Award for Best Animated Short. It was | END ID: 17
ID: 18 | TITLE: Victory at Entebbe | CONTENT: '''''Victory at Entebbe''''' is a 1976 American made-for-television action-drama film for broadcast on ABC, directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. The film starred Helmut Berger, Linda Blair, Anthony Hopkins, Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Dreyfuss, and Kirk Douglas. Julius Harris portrayed Idi Amin, following the fatal heart attack suffered by the actor originally cast in the role, Godfrey Cambridge. The film was theatrically released in Europe.
''Victory at Entebbe'' is based on the actual event Operation Entebbe, the raid on Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda and the freeing of Israeli hostages on July 4, 1976. It was the first of three films made in the 1970s based on the Entebbe Raid. The other two, ''Raid on Entebbe'' (1977) and ''Operation Thunderbolt'' (1977) soon followed. A fourth film, ''Entebbe'' (titled ''7 Days in Entebbe'' in the U.S.) was released over four decades later in 2018.
On June 27, 1976, four terrorists belonging to a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine under the orders of Wadie Haddad boarded and hijacked an Air France Airbus A300 in Athens, Greece.
With the permission of President Idi Amin (Julius Harris), the terrorists divert the airliner and its hostages to Entebbe Airport in Uganda. After identifying Israeli passengers, the non-Jewish passengers are freed while a series of demands are made, including the release of 40 Palestinian militants held in Israel, in exchange for the hostages.
The Cabinet of Israel, led by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Anthony Hopkins), unwilling to give in to terrorist demands, plans a | END ID: 18
ID: 19 | TITLE: Jongens | CONTENT: '''''Jongens''''' (English title: ''Boys'') is a 2014 Dutch made-for-television coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Mischa Kamp and featuring Gijs Blom, Ko Zandvliet and Stijn Taverne. The film was released on 9 February 2014.
Sieger is a fifteen-year-old boy, living with his widowed father, Theo, and his brother, Eddy, who, burdened with his mother's death, clashes with and acts out against his father. Along with his best friend (Stef), Sieger is a member of the local athletics team. They—and two other boys, Tom and Marc—are chosen to represent the team at the national championship relay race. In order to win, they must train intensively.
One day, they decide to go swimming in a nearby river. After Stef and Tom leave, Sieger and Marc share two kisses. Confused, Sieger insists that he isn't gay, to which Marc responds, "Of course you're not," before Sieger heads home. Despite the incident, the boys remain close friends. When Stef meets and begins dating a local girl named Kim, Sieger feels pressured to romance her best friend, Jessica, and suppress his feelings for Marc.
One weekend, the athletics team goes on a training trip. On the first night, Sieger sneaks out, and Marc follows him to the beach, where they spend the rest of the night kissing and resting in each other's arms. When they return home, Sieger, Jessica, Stef, and Kim attend a fair. Also at the fair, Marc sees them and wants to join up. However, afraid that the truth will come out, Sieger tries to ignore Marc. He manages to distract | END ID: 19
ID: 20 | TITLE: Crisis of Conscience | CONTENT: '''''Crisis of Conscience''''' is a biographical book by Raymond Franz, a former member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, written in 1983, three years after his expulsion from the Jehovah's Witnesses denomination. The book is a major study and exposé of the internal workings of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society during the 1960s and 1970s. The book was updated and revised four times, with the final revisions made in 2004. It was translated into Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
Franz spent 43 years as a Jehovah's Witness, serving as a full-time preacher in the United States and a missionary in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. In 1965 he became a member of the religion's headquarters staff in Brooklyn, New York, where he was assigned to help research and write the Bible encyclopedia ''Aid to Bible Understanding'' and in 1971 appointed as a member of the religion's Governing Body. He left the Governing Body in 1980 after a high-level inquiry was launched into allegations that several headquarters staff including Franz were spreading "wrong teachings". He moved to Alabama where he took up farm laboring work and was expelled from the religion in November 1981 for breaching an edict that Witnesses shun individuals who have formally resigned from the religion.
His expulsion was reported by ''Time'' magazine in February 1982. Franz claimed he declined repeated requests over the next two years for further media interviews about the workings of the Watch Tower Society, but | END ID: 20
ID: 21 | TITLE: Seveneves | CONTENT: '''''Seveneves''''' is a hard science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson published in 2015. The story tells of the desperate efforts to preserve ''Homo sapiens'' in the wake of apocalyptic events on Earth after the unexplained disintegration of the Moon and the remaking of human society as a space-based civilization after a severe genetic bottleneck.
===Part One===
In the near future, an unknown agent causes the Moon to shatter. As the pieces begin to collide with one another, astronomer and science popularizer "Doc" Dubois Harris calculates that Moon fragments will begin entering Earth's atmosphere, forming a white sky and blanketing the Earth within two years with what he calls a "Hard Rain" of bolides, causing the atmosphere to heat to incandescence and the oceans to boil away, rendering Earth uninhabitable for thousands of years.
The world's leaders evacuate as many people and resources as possible to a swarm of "arklet" habitats called a "Cloud Ark" in orbit with the International Space Station (ISS), bolted onto an iron Arjuna asteroid called Amalthea, which provides some protection against Moon debris.
By the time the Hard Rain begins 701 days after the destruction of the Moon, approximately 1,500 people have been launched into orbit.
===Part Two===
Human civilization, as well as nearly all life on Earth, is obliterated. US President Julia Bliss Flaherty manages to get herself up to the Cloud Ark despite provisions that members of government would not be launched into space. Flaherty persuades the majority of the Arklets to abandon the ISS and to move to higher orbit in a decentralized | END ID: 21
ID: 22 | TITLE: Elizabeth (film) | CONTENT: '''''Elizabeth''''' is a 1998 British biographical period drama film directed by Shekhar Kapur and written by Michael Hirst. It stars Cate Blanchett in the title role of Elizabeth I of England, with Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, John Gielgud, and Richard Attenborough in supporting roles. The film is based on the early years of Elizabeth's reign, where she is elevated to the throne after the death of her half-sister Mary I, who had imprisoned her. As she establishes herself on the throne, she faces plots and threats to take her down.
''Elizabeth'' premiered at the 55th Venice International Film Festival on 8 September 1998 and was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 23 October. The film became a critical and commercial success. Reviewers praised Kapur's direction, costume design, production values and most notably Blanchett's titular performance, bringing her to international recognition, while the film grossed $82 million against its $30 million budget.
The film received three nominations at the 56th Golden Globe Awards, including for the Best Motion Picture – Drama, with Blanchett winning Best Actress. It received twelve nominations at the 52nd British Academy Film Awards, winning five awards, including Outstanding British Film, and Best Actress (for Blanchett). At the 71st Academy Awards, it received seven nominations, including for Best Picture and Best Actress (for Blanchett), winning Best Makeup. In 2007, Blanchett and Rush reprised their roles in Kapur's follow-up film ''Elizabeth: The Golden Age'', which covers the later part of Elizabeth's reign.
In 1558, Catholic Queen Mary (Kathy Burke) dies from a cancerous tumour in | END ID: 22
ID: 23 | TITLE: Laughing Gas (novel) | CONTENT: '''''Laughing Gas''''' is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 25 September 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 19 November 1936 by Doubleday, Doran, New York. Written in first person narrative, the story is set in Hollywood in the early 1930s (the Depression is mentioned twice) and is, compared to, say, Budd Schulberg's ''What Makes Sammy Run?'' (1941), a light-hearted and exclusively humorous look at the film industry and in particular at child stars. Both Schulberg and Wodehouse describe the methods of all those would-be screenwriters and actors hunting for jobs, but Wodehouse's depiction is not at all serious or critical.
Drone Reginald ("Reggie") Swithin, narrator of the story, is the third Earl of Havershot. He is 28, unmarried, and has a face like a gorilla. As the new head of his family, he is assigned a delicate task by his Aunt Clara and by Plimsoll, the family lawyer: He is to go to Hollywood and look for Aunt Clara's son, his cousin Eggy, who seems to have gotten himself into trouble, and bring him back home. In particular, Reggie is to prevent Eggy from getting engaged, let alone married, to some American gold-digger who would undoubtedly be far beneath the titled family.
On the train from Chicago to Los Angeles, Reggie meets the famous film actress April June, and immediately falls head over heels in love with her. Once in Hollywood, he completely forgets to look for Eggy until, one night, he bumps into him | END ID: 23
ID: 24 | TITLE: Doctor Zhivago (film) | CONTENT: '''''Doctor Zhivago''''' () is a 1965 epic historical romance film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt, based on the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak. The story is set in Russia during World War I and the Russian Civil War. The film stars Omar Sharif in the title role as Yuri Zhivago, a married physician and poet whose life is altered by the Russian Revolution and subsequent civil War, and Julie Christie as his love interest Lara Antipova. Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Courtenay, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson, Siobhán McKenna, and Rita Tushingham play supporting roles.
While immensely popular in the West, Pasternak's book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades. For this reason, the film could not be made in the Soviet Union and was instead filmed mostly in Spain. It was an international co-production between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Italian producer Carlo Ponti.
Contemporary critics were generally disappointed, complaining of its length at over three hours and claiming that it trivialized history, but acknowledging the intensity of the love story and the film's treatment of human themes. Over time, however, the film's reputation has improved greatly. At the 38th Academy Awards, ''Doctor Zhivago'' won five Oscars: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Costume Design. It was nominated for five others (including Best Picture and Best Director), but lost four of these five to ''The Sound of Music''. It also won five awards at the 23rd Golden Globe Awards including Best Motion Picture - Drama and Best Actor | END ID: 24
ID: 25 | TITLE: We the Living | CONTENT: '''''We the Living''''' is the debut novel of the Russian American novelist Ayn Rand. It is a story of life in post-revolutionary Russia and was Rand's first statement against communism. Rand observes in the foreword that ''We the Living'' was the closest she would ever come to writing an autobiography. Rand finished writing the novel in 1934, but it was rejected by several publishers before being released by Macmillan Publishing in 1936. It has since sold more than three million copies.
The story takes place from 1922 to 1925, in post-revolutionary Russia. Kira Argounova, the protagonist of the story, is the younger daughter of a bourgeois family. An independent spirit with a will to match, she rejects any attempt by her family or the nascent Soviet state to cast her into a mold. At the beginning of the story, Kira returns to Petrograd with her family, after a prolonged exile due to the assault of the Bolshevik revolutionaries. Kira's father had been the owner of a textile factory, which was seized and nationalized. Having given up all hopes of regaining their past possessions after the victories of the Red Army, the family returns to the city in search of livelihood. They find that their home has also been seized and converted to living quarters for several families.
Kira's family eventually manages to find living quarters, and Kira's father gets a license to open a textile shop, an establishment that is but a shadow of his old firm. Life is excruciatingly difficult in these times; living standards are poor, | END ID: 25
ID: 26 | TITLE: Hild (novel) | CONTENT: '''''Hild''''' is a 2013 historical novel and the sixth novel by British author Nicola Griffith. ''Hild'' is a fictionalized telling of the life of Hilda of Whitby, also known as Hild of Streoneshalh, a significant figure in Anglo-Saxon Britain. The book includes a map, a glossary of terms, and a pronunciation guide.
The novel was first published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on November 12, 2013 and in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2014 through Blackfriars Books. Griffith has stated that the book will be the first in a trilogy and that the second book will be titled ''Menewood''.
In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become the king of all the Angles through force, bribery, and religious coercion. The king's niece Hild grows up bright, curious, and willful in this world of violence and mysticism. She learns to fight with staff and sword and to speak several languages. Although her father has been assassinated, Hild survives to become an advisor to the king and ultimately to other major figures determining England's course in the early medieval age.
Prior to writing ''Hild'', Griffith began researching Hild and seventh-century Britain, upon which she realized that not much was known about Hild as a historical person. Griffith documented her research on her blog ''Gemæcce'' and during this process she began wondering about aspects of Hild's life not recorded historically, such as her likes, dislikes, and reasons for choosing specific actions. While writing the character Griffith posited that she had two types | END ID: 26
ID: 27 | TITLE: Taking Sides (film) | CONTENT: '''''Taking Sides''''' (German title ''Taking Sides - Der Fall Furtwängler'') is a 2001 German-French-Austrian-British biographical drama film directed by István Szabó and starring Harvey Keitel and Stellan Skarsgård. The story is set during the period of denazification investigations conducted in post-war Germany after the Second World War, and it is based on the real interrogations that took place between a U.S. Army investigator and the musical conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had been charged with serving the Nazi regime. It is based on the 1995 play of the same title by Ronald Harwood.
The film was shot on location in Germany with the dialogue in German and English, although in the version released in the US and the UK the dialogue is only in English.
In Berlin at the end of World War II, Wilhelm Furtwängler (Stellan Skarsgård) is conducting Beethoven's 5th Symphony when yet another Allied air raid stops the performance. A minister in the Nazi government comes to Furtwängler's dressing room to advise him that he should go abroad, and escape the war. The film then jumps to some time after the Allied victory. U.S. Army General Wallace (R. Lee Ermey) tasks Major Steve Arnold (Harvey Keitel) with "getting" Furtwängler at his denazification hearing: "Find Wilhelm Furtwängler guilty. He represents everything that was rotten in Germany".
Arnold gets an office with Lt. David Wills (Moritz Bleibtreu), a German-American Jew, and Emmaline Straube (Birgit Minichmayr), daughter of an executed member of the German resistance. Arnold questions several musicians, many of whom know Emmaline's father and say that Furtwängler refused | END ID: 27
ID: 28 | TITLE: Hotel Transylvania (film) | CONTENT: '''''Hotel Transylvania''''' is a 2012 American computer-animated monster comedy film produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation. The first installment in the ''Hotel Transylvania'' franchise, it was directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (in his directorial debut) from a screenplay by Peter Baynham and Robert Smigel and a story by Todd Durham, Dan Hageman, and Kevin Hageman. The film stars the voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade and CeeLo Green.
The film tells the story of Count Dracula, the owner of the titular Hotel Transylvania where the world's monsters can take a rest from human civilization. Dracula invites some of the most famous monsters to celebrate the 118th birthday of his beloved daughter Mavis. When the "human-free hotel" is unexpectedly visited by an ordinary 21-year-old traveler named Jonathan, Drac must do everything in his power to prevent Mavis from falling in love with him before the hotel's guests learn a human is in the castle, which may jeopardize the hotel's future and his career.
''Hotel Transylvania'' was released on September 28, 2012 by Sony Pictures Releasing. It earned a total of $358 million worldwide at the box office against a budget of $85 million and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. The success of ''Hotel Transylvania'' launched a multimedia franchise and a series of three sequels, starting with ''Hotel Transylvania 2'' (2015).
In 1895, after his wife Martha was killed by an angry human mob, Count Dracula commissions and builds a massive | END ID: 28
ID: 29 | TITLE: A Case of Need | CONTENT: '''''A Case of Need''''' is a medical thriller/mystery novel written by Michael Crichton, his fourth novel and the only under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson. It was first published in 1968 by The World Publishing Company (New York) and won an Edgar Award in 1969.
The novel was adapted into the 1972 film ''The Carey Treatment'', and the book was re-released in 1993 under Crichton's own name. The novel tackles the issues of abortion and racism as they were in late 1960s America.
Dr. John Berry, the protagonist, is a pathologist working in Boston during the 1960s, a time when abortion was illegal in the United States. The story opens with an introduction of the various requirements and challenges of the medical profession during the era. Subsequently, Dr. Berry is notified that his friend, an obstetrician named Arthur Lee, has been arrested and accused of performing an illegal abortion that led to the death of Karen Randall, a member of a prominent Boston medical dynasty. Berry does not believe the allegations, but the situation is further complicated by the fact that Lee is already well-known within the medical community as an abortion provider and that Berry has in the past helped Lee disguise medical samples to hide the fact that Lee's dilation and curettage patients were pregnant.
After visiting his friend in jail, Berry sets out to prove Lee's innocence. He investigates the personal life of the dead woman, creating an accurate portrait of her past, psychology, and character. During his search, which lasts several days, vandals attack Lee's home. | END ID: 29
ID: 30 | TITLE: The Drowning Girl | CONTENT: __NOTOC__
'''''The Drowning Girl: A Memoir''''' is a 2012 novel by American writer Caitlín R. Kiernan, set in Providence, Rhode Island. The story's protagonist and unreliable narrator, India Morgan Phelps (also known as Imp), has schizophrenia.
It has been described as an "eerie masterpiece of literary horror and dark fantasy" containing elements of magical realism. It has also been described as semi-autobiographical. The novel has been translated into a number of languages, including French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, and Turkish.
''The Drowning Girl'' follows the story of India Morgan Phelps, an unreliable narrator struggling with hereditary mental illness.
India states that she has decided to write down the bizarre events that occurred two years ago (the entirety of the novel is written as a fictionalized memoir). Early in the novel, she befriends her eventual roommate and lover, a transgender woman named Abalyn Armitage. India works at an art supply store, but she is also a painter and a writer.
One night, India picks up a hitchhiker named Eva Canning, whom she finds stranded and naked on the side of the road, although India is unable to pinpoint whether she met Eva in July or November. Eva stays with India only for a short while (much to Abalyn's chagrin) before the mysterious woman takes off on her own, but apparently continues to stalk India. This sparks India's obsession with Canning and her past. India's obsession eventually causes Abalyn to leave her.
India often deals with traumatic events by writing short stories. Some of them relate to Eva Canning, while others | END ID: 30
ID: 31 | TITLE: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc | CONTENT: '''''Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte''''' is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain which recounts the life of Joan of Arc.
The novel is presented as a translation by "Jean Francois Alden" of memoirs by Louis de Conte, a fictionalized version of Joan of Arc's page Louis de Contes. The novel is divided into three sections according to Joan of Arc's development: a youth in Domrémy, a commander of the army of Charles VII of France, and a defendant at trial in Rouen.
The novel was first published as a serialization in ''Harper's Magazine'' beginning in April 1895. Twain was aware of his reputation as a comic writer and he asked that each installment appear anonymously so that readers would treat it seriously. Regardless, his authorship soon became known, and Harper and Brothers published the book edition with his name in May 1896.
''Harper's Magazine'' poster by Edward Penfield for the debut of ''Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc '' (April 1895)
===Introduction===
The novel begins with a "Translator's Preface," a translator note on the "Peculiarity of Joan of Arc's History," and a foreword by Sieur Louis de Conte. The "Translator's Preface" offers a condensed overview of Joan of Arc's life, with heavy praise ("the character of Joan of Arc ... occupies the loftiest possible to human attainment"). The "Peculiarity" note explains that Joan of Arc's life is preserved in court documents and that the particulars are provided by Louis de Conte, who, the translator assures us, is reliable. The foreword is Sieur de Conte's | END ID: 31
ID: 32 | TITLE: The Lighthouse at the End of the World | CONTENT: '''''The Lighthouse at the End of the World''''' () is an adventure novel by French author Jules Verne. Verne wrote the first draft in 1901. It was first published posthumously in 1905. The plot of the novel involves piracy in the South Atlantic during the mid-19th century, with a theme of survival in extreme circumstances, and events centering on an isolated lighthouse. Verne was inspired by the real lighthouse at the Isla de los Estados, Argentina, near Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn.
The novel was adapted into the 1971 movie, ''The Light at the Edge of the World''.
1898 photo of the actual Lighthouse San Juan del Salvamento
Verne sets the plot by stating, "The Argentine Republic had displayed a happy initiative in constructing this lighthouse at the end of the world," within Elgor Bay and the harbor of Saint-Jean "forms a kind of pendant to Elgor Bay." The despatch boat ''Santa-Fé'' arrived on Oct. 1858 to construct the lighthouse, which was inaugurated on 9 Dec. 1859, standing 103 feet in height on top of a mound 120 feet high, and illuminated by oil. The lighthouse guided ships into the Le Maire Strait or south of the island, and was to be staffed by 3 keepers over the next 3 months, until the return of the ''Santa-Fé''.
Unbeknownst to Vasquez, Moriz, and Felipe, the chief lighthouse keeper and his helpers, the island was the domain of a dozen marooned pirates, who bide their time in wrecking.
Two of them are murdered by a band of newly arrived pirates | END ID: 32
ID: 33 | TITLE: To the Finland Station | CONTENT: First edition (publ. Harcourt, Brace)
'''''To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History''''' (1940) is a book by American critic and historian Edmund Wilson. The work presents the history of revolutionary thought and the birth of socialism, from the French Revolution through the collaboration of Marx and Engels to the arrival of Lenin at the Finlyandsky Rail Terminal in St. Petersburg in 1917.
Wilson "had the present book in mind for six years".
The book is divided into three sections.
The first spends five of eight chapters on Michelet and then discusses the "Decline of Revolutionary Tradition," referencing Ernest Renan, Hippolyte Taine, and Anatole France.
The second deals with Socialism and Communism in sixteen chapters. The first four chapters discuss the "Origins of Socialism" vis-à-vis Babeuf, Saint-Simon, Fourier and Robert Owen, and Enfantin as well as the "American Socialists" Margaret Sanger and Horace Greeley. The second group of twelve chapters deal mostly with the development of thought in Karl Marx in light of his influences, partnership with Friedrich Engels and opposition from Lassalle and Bakunin.
The third spends six chapters, dealing two each on Lenin, Trotsky, and Lenin again. Important writings addressed include Lenin's "What Is to Be Done?" and Trotsky's ''Literature and Revolution'', ''My Life'', biography of Lenin, and ''The History of the Russian Revolution''.
The book also mentions Eleanor Marx, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Annie Besant, Charles Bradlaugh and Georgy Gapon.
Harcourt, Brace & Co. first published this book in September 1940. Doubleday's Anchor Books imprint published a paperback edition in 1953. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published a paperback | END ID: 33
ID: 34 | TITLE: It Happened in Boston? | CONTENT: '''''It Happened in Boston?''''' (1968) is a novel by Russell H. Greenan. It tells the story of an unreliable narrator, who is a disillusioned, paranoid painter, whose goal in life is to someday meet God and destroy him. He decided he wanted to hold God accountable for the evils in the world. The book follows a bizarre series of events in the lives of him and his painter friends and effectively documents his descent into paranoid delusions as he becomes more and more unreliable as a narrator leaving the reader to become more and more unsure about what exactly is happening in Boston.
The narrator goes on "reveries" in a public garden in which he transports himself to historical places and events. Although he has no name, he tells a young boy named Randolph several different names over the course of the book. The book is a web of his relationships and delusions and has a lot to say about the nature of art and madness. The storyline is interspersed with reveries, accounts of paranoia, and past memories of his art education and friends. | END ID: 34
ID: 35 | TITLE: The Public Image | CONTENT: '''''The Public Image''''' is a novel published in 1968 by Scottish author Muriel Spark and shortlisted for the Booker Prize the following year.
It is set in Rome and concerns Annabel Christopher, an up-and-coming film actress. Annabel carefully cultivates her image to keep her career on course, managing to mask her lack of talent. But she reckons without her husband Frederick's loathing of his wife's manipulations and inexplicable success for which he plans his final revenge. | END ID: 35
ID: 36 | TITLE: A Queen's Ransom | CONTENT: '''''A Queen's Ransom''''', (Chinese: 鱷潭群英會) also known as '''''International Assassin''''', is a 1976 Hong Kong action film about a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. The film was written and directed by Ting Shan-hsi and starred Jimmy Wang Yu, Angela Mao, George Lazenby, Ko Chun-hsiung, Charles Heung and Dean Shek, whom also serves as the film's assistant director.
During Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Hong Kong in 1975, a group of criminals plan her assassination.
* Jimmy Wang Yu as Jimmy Viet Cong Guerilla
* Angela Mao as Maria Cambodian Martial Artist & A Commy
* George Lazenby as Morgan
* Ko Chun-hsiung as Police chief Gao The Detective
* Charles Heung as Police detective Karate Master
* Dean Shek as Ducky
* as Jenny
* Chan Pei-shan as Miyamoto Japanese Red Army Triggerman
* Judith Brown as Black Rose
* Bolo Yeung as Ram Thai Bodybuilder.
* Hao Li-jen as Ducky's uncle
* Hon Yee-sang as Cambodian
* Cheung King-po as Bandit
* Wong Sam as Police department
* Peter Chan as Chen Lung
* Chu Tit-wo as Police detective
* Helen Poon as Gao's wife
* Wu Jiaxiang
* Luk Chuen as Princess' guard who fights with shark
* Ling Hon as Policeman
* Wan Leng-kwong as Policeman
* Dabid Chung as Noda
* Han Ying-chieh as Princess' guard with sword
* Yue Man-wa as Police detective
* Cheung Siu-lun
* Sze-ma Wah-lung
* Kong Chuen
Taiwanese director Ting Shan-hsi was hired by Golden Harvest off the back of his successful film, ''Everlasting Glory'' (1974).
It was the last of three films George Lazenby made for Golden Harvest, the others being ''Stoner'' and ''The Man from Hong Kong''. | END ID: 36
ID: 37 | TITLE: Lament for Leto | CONTENT: '''''Lament for Leto''''' is a 1971 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell. It is the forty fourth in the long-running series of books featuring Mitchell's best known character, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It is a loose sequel to the 1937 novel ''Come Away, Death'' with several of the characters reappearing.
While sheltering from the rain at the British Museum Dame Beatrice Bradley runs into an old archaeologist acquaintance. He invites her to accompany his new expedition to uncover the glories of Ancient Greece. However when they embark on the journey to the Mediterranean she notices the tensions among the other members of the expedition, particularly driven by the demanding, self-involved novelist Chloe Cowie.
* Parker, Peter & Kermode, Frank. ''The Reader's Companion to the Twentieth-century Novel''. Fourth Estate, 1994
* Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. | END ID: 37
ID: 38 | TITLE: Firecrest (novel) | CONTENT: '''''Firecrest''''' is a 1971 spy thriller novel by the British writer Victor Canning. A stand-alone novel, it introduced a more modern, darker and naturalistic style compared to Canning's previous novels. It marked the first appearance of "The Department", a shadowy dirty tricks agency working for the British government which featured in subsequent novels.
The scientist Henry Dilling dies shortly after agreeing to sell some vital research to the British government. The papers are now missing and The Department assigns one of his agents John Grimster to track them down. Grimster was once a promising star of British intelligence but is now disgruntled as he believes that his superiors may have arranged the traffic accident that killed the Swedish woman he planned to marry, but who they regarded as a security risk.
* Burton, Alan. ''Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
* Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. | END ID: 38
ID: 39 | TITLE: The Waxworks Murder | CONTENT: '''''The Waxworks Murder''''', first published in 1932, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Henri Bencolin of the Parisian police. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit.
The body of a young woman, who has been stabbed in the back, is found floating in the Seine River. The body of another young woman, with a knife in her back, is found in the arms of a wax figure, the "Satyr of the Seine", in a local wax museum. All available clues lead directly to the infamous "Club of the Silver Key", where aristocratic masked club members mix and mingle in the darkened rooms in search of adulterous entertainment. Henri Bencolin and his friend Jeff Marle must penetrate the club and make sense of the few clues before Bencolin arrives at the solution and makes a very surprising wager with the murderer. | END ID: 39
ID: 40 | TITLE: Poison in Jest | CONTENT: '''''Poison In Jest''''', first published in 1932, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr which does not feature any of Carr's series detectives. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit.
Jeff Marle, who plays a sidekick role in other Carr novels, is visiting a friend at the Quayle mansion in western Pennsylvania. Although various members of the Quayle household hate each other, all are united in hatred of the paterfamilias, Judge Quayle. A few moments after being introduced to Marle, Judge Quayle collapses after having been poisoned. More than one poison is used in murder attempts in the household; strange shadowy figures are seen prowling the halls at night, and there is a creepy story about a marble hand that was broken from a statue of Caligula which apparently creeps around the house on its own. After the first two deaths, a young friend of the family, Rossiter, takes a hand in detecting, with the aid of Jeff Marle; Rossiter identifies the murderer. | END ID: 40
ID: 41 | TITLE: The Violent Bear It Away | CONTENT: '''''The Violent Bear It Away''''' is a 1960 novel by American author Flannery O'Connor. It is the second and final novel that she published. The first chapter was originally published as the story "You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead" in the journal ''New World Writing''. The novel tells the story of Francis Marion Tarwater, a fourteen-year-old boy who is trying to escape the destiny his uncle has prescribed for him: the life of a prophet. Like most of O'Connor's stories, the novel is filled with Catholic themes and dark images, making it a classic example of Southern Gothic literature.
Mason Tarwater, an outspoken evangelist and self-ordained prophet, dies many years after kidnapping his great-nephew Francis, raising him in a backwoods cabin and preparing him to someday take his place as a prophet. Prior to his death, Mason asked the now-teenaged Francis to give him a proper Christian burial with a cross marking the grave so that his body would be resurrected on Judgment Day. Francis starts to dig the grave but suddenly hears a "Voice" in his head telling him to forget about the old man. Francis obeys and gets drunk instead. When Francis wakes from his drunken sleep, he sets the cabin on fire, believing that his great-uncle's body is still inside. He leaves for the city and gets a ride from a salesman, who drops him off at his Uncle Rayber's house.
Rayber, a well-educated schoolteacher, is amazed to see young Francis, whom he had long ago given up on after his kidnapping by Mason. | END ID: 41
ID: 42 | TITLE: The Picturegoers | CONTENT: '''''The Picturegoers''''' (1960) is the first novel by British writer David Lodge.
The novel interweaves scenes at and near a neighborhood movie theatre, using movies as a touchstone for exploring Catholic values in a changing world, where the cinema introduces values and behaviors from the greater society that differ from those of the traditional community. Various characters are portrayed, representing, to a certain extent, common types of people in a small earlyish twentieth-century British London neighborhood, though the focus is on one lower-middle-class family.
* « Conservative Radicalism » : Le roman catholique britannique contemporain, by Jean-Michel Ganteau, ''Voices from British Literature'', http://ebc.chez-alice.fr/ebc157.html, pp. 152~154. | END ID: 42
ID: 43 | TITLE: Waseskun | CONTENT: '''''Waseskun''''' is a 2016 documentary film written and directed by Steve Patry about the Waseskun Healing Centre, a Correctional Service of Canada healing lodge run by Canadian Indigenous people for Indigenous inmates, situated in Quebec's Lanaudière region.
The title of the film and the facility, ''waseskun'', is a Cree word describing the moment when clouds part after a storm and sunshine breaks through. The director lived with inmates three to four days a week over the course of an entire year, to record their experiences as well as build trust. The film shows how the facility combines traditional healing practices with crafts, sport as well as personal confessions. Inmates are shown recounting experiences of , and working to break the cycle of abuse and addiction.
The film was produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It received two Canadian Screen Award nominations, for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Editing in a Documentary, at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards. | END ID: 43
ID: 44 | TITLE: P4W: Prison for Women | CONTENT: '''''P4W: Prison for Women''''' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Janis Cole and Holly Dale and released in 1981. The film profiles several female inmates at the Prison for Women of Kingston Penitentiary.
The film premiered at the 1981 Festival of Festivals, and was broadcast by CBC Television in 1982. The film won the Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982.
When the Prison for Women closed in 2000, Cole wrote a piece for the Toronto newspaper ''Now'' about her experiences making the film and her hopes for prison reform. | END ID: 44
ID: 45 | TITLE: The Phantom (2021 film) | CONTENT: '''''The Phantom''''' is a 2021 American documentary written and directed by Patrick Forbes. It follows Carlos DeLuna, who was arrested in 1983 for the murder of a woman, and protested his innocence until he was executed, stating another Carlos had committed the crime. Doug Liman serves as an executive producer.
It follows Carlos DeLuna, who was arrested in 1983 for the murder of a woman, and protested his innocence he was executed, stating another had committed the crime.
The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 14, 2021. Prior to, Greenwich Entertainment acquired distribution rights to the film, and set it for a July 2, 2021, release. | END ID: 45
ID: 46 | TITLE: Rupert of Hentzau | CONTENT: '''''Rupert of Hentzau''''' is a sequel by Anthony Hope to ''The Prisoner of Zenda'', written in 1895 but not published in book form until 1898.
The novel was serialized in ''The Pall Mall Magazine'' and ''McClure's Magazine'' from December 1897 through June 1898.
The story is set within a framing narrative told by a supporting character from ''The Prisoner of Zenda''. The frame implies that the events related in both books took place in the late 1870s and early 1880s. This story commences three years after the conclusion of ''Zenda'', and deals with the same fictional country somewhere in Germanic Middle Europe, the kingdom of Ruritania. Most of the same characters recur: Rudolf Elphberg, the dissolute absolute monarch of Ruritania; Rudolf Rassendyll, the English gentleman who had acted as his political decoy, being his distant cousin and lookalike; Flavia, the princess, now queen; Rupert of Hentzau, the dashing well-born villain; Fritz von Tarlenheim, the loyal courtier; Colonel Sapt, the King's bodyguard; Lieutenant von Bernenstein, a loyal soldier.
Queen Flavia, dutifully but unhappily married to her cousin Rudolf V, writes to her true love Rudolf Rassendyll. The letter is to be delivered by hand by von Tarlenheim, but von Tarlenheim is betrayed by Bauer, his servant, and it is stolen by the exiled Rupert of Hentzau and his loyal cousin the Count of Luzau-Rischenheim. Hentzau sees in it a chance to return to favour by informing the pathologically jealous and paranoid King.
Rassendyll returns to Ruritania to aid the Queen, but is once more forced to impersonate the King | END ID: 46
ID: 47 | TITLE: In the Sargasso Sea | CONTENT: '''''In the Sargasso Sea''''' is a novel written in 1898 by Thomas Allibone Janvier. Recently, Kessinger Publishing's rare reprints has re-issued the book.
The protagonist, Roger Stetworth, unwillingly joins a slave ship called the ''Golden Hind'' captained by Luke Chilton. (When Chilton demanded that Roger "sign aboard" he refused and was clubbed on the head and thrown overboard.) He is rescued by the ''Hurst Castle'' and doctored by a painfully stereotyped Irishman. The ''Hurst Castle'' is abandoned but does not founder in a gale and the crew, unable to get to him, are forced to leave Stetworth marooned aboard. The ship drifts into the center of the Sargasso Sea where Stetworth finds himself in a ships' graveyard in which survivors of previous shipwrecks still inhabit the forgotten ships. Stetworth must rely on his own ingenuity to get free from the choking sargasso weeds. | END ID: 47
ID: 48 | TITLE: The Peacekeepers | CONTENT: '''''The Peacekeepers''''' is a 1988 ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' novel by Gene DeWeese. It is set at an undetermined point during the series' first season.
The novel takes place in the 24th century of the Star Trek science fiction universe, based on the then new television's shows' characters.
While investigating an alien derelict, Geordi La Forge and Data are sent to a solar system several light-years away by a transporter with interstellar range, to a similar derelict orbiting an Earth-like planet. Once there, they are mistaken for "the Builders", those who the planet's native populace, a culture similar to late-20th-century Earth, believe are the creators of the derelict, which they call the "Repository of the Gifts". One of the natives, Shar-Lon, discovered the Repository some years before and used its "Gifts" (advanced technology) to end planetary wars that were leading to a possible nuclear holocaust. However, Shar-Lon's use of the Gifts since that time has led to a worldwide perception of himself and his supporters, the Peacekeepers, as a suppressive force that has limited the social and technological advancement of their people. Assuming the role of "Builders" in order to assess their situation, La Forge and Data are drawn into the social politics of the Peacekeepers and their world, and must extract themselves from the situation and find a way back to the ''Enterprise'' without further harming the natives' culture and violating the Prime Directive.
''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' was a television show inspired by science fiction show ''Star Trek'' that aired | END ID: 48
ID: 49 | TITLE: Chain of Attack | CONTENT: '''''Chain of Attack''''' is a 1987 ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' novel written by Gene DeWeese.
While mapping gravitational anomalies, the USS ''Enterprise'' is hurled millions of light-years off course. They find themselves in a galaxy devastated by war and soon they are under attack by both warring fleets. Captain Kirk risks his ship and crew in order to stop the war and get home.
''Chain of Attack'' reached 12 on the New York Times bestseller list on February 22, 1987.
The novel has been adapted into a fan-made film, Star Trek: Infinite Chain, which can be viewed on YouTube. | END ID: 49
ID: 50 | TITLE: The Final Nexus | CONTENT: '''''The Final Nexus''''' is a 1988 ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' novel written by Gene DeWeese.
In this sequel to ''Chain of Attack'', the ''Enterprise'' must deal with an ancient series of warp-gates, now malfunctioning, that threatens to tear apart the galaxy.
''The Final Nexus'' reached 12 on the New York Times bestseller list on December 11, 1988. | END ID: 50
ID: 51 | TITLE: Tamburlaine Must Die | CONTENT: '''''Tamburlaine Must Die''''' is a novella written by Louise Welsh, which imagines the last days of Christopher Marlowe's life in 1593. The novella was published in 2004 by Canongate Books.
This novella is set in a plague-ridden London in 1593. Someone calling himself "Tamburlaine", the name of the hero in one of Marlowe's most famous plays, has written a libelous and heretical pamphlet in a style of writing similar to Marlowe's. Marlowe is called before the Privy Council which accuses him of writing the pamphlet; however, he protests his innocence. Marlowe is sentenced to death for this blasphemous writing and only has three days to figure out who really wrote the pamphlet and track that individual down. Marlowe becomes entangled in a web of intrigue, plots and counterplots before his eventual murder.
The novella is based on the last days of Marlowe's life. An individual writing under the name Tamburlaine published a bill about London threatening Protestant refugees who had settled in the city. The author wrote in the same style and alluded to Marlowe several times. A few short days later, Marlowe was murdered by an acquaintance after arguing over a bill. To this day, there is still controversy regarding the reasons for and circumstances of Marlowe's death.
The title of the novella was taken from the last words spoken by Tamburlaine in Marlowe's play ''Tamburlaine the Great'': "Tamburlaine, the scourge of God, must die."
The novella has received both praise and criticism, called a "gothic thriller" and "existential puzzle piece". On the negative side, one reviewer felt | END ID: 51
ID: 52 | TITLE: The Girl on the Stairs | CONTENT: '''''The Girl on the Stairs''''' is the 5th psychological crime thriller by Scottish author Louise Welsh. The book was first published in 2012 by publisher John Murray. Welsh's first novel, ''The Cutting Room'', won several literary prizes.
This psychological thriller is set in Berlin. It revolves around the central character, Jane, who has recently moved from Glasgow to the city with her lover Petra. As Jane adjusts to her new life and pregnancy she becomes curious about the neighbour’s daughter Anna, the arguments she hears through the wall and Anna’s strange appearance on the stairs.
As the plot unravels, this latest psychological thriller from Louise Welsh leaves the reader constantly guessing between what is real and what could be Jane’s imagination. According to one reviewer, Welsh skilfully moulded the plot into some fresh and horrible terrain."
The Guardian and Observer reviewer described this novel as a "psychologically potent cross between The Yellow Wallpaper and Rear Window.".
*''The Cutting Room'' (2002)
*''Tamburlaine Must Die'' (2004)
*''The Bullet Trick'' (2006)
*''Naming The Bones'' (2010) | END ID: 52
ID: 53 | TITLE: Nails (2003 film) | CONTENT: '''''Nails''''' (also known as '''Gvozdi''') is a 2003 Russian psychological horror film directed and produced by Andrey Iskanov. The film stars Andrey Iskanov, Svyatoslav Iliyasov, Chisato Morishita, Irina Nikitina and Alexander Shevchenko in the lead roles.
* Andrey Iskanov
* Svyatoslav Iliyasov
* Irina Nikitina
* Alexander Shevchenko
* Victor Silkin | END ID: 53
ID: 54 | TITLE: Little Otik | CONTENT: '''''Little Otik''''' (), also known as '''''Greedy Guts''''', is a 2000 Czech surreal dark comedy horror film by Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová. Based on the folktale Otesánek by Karel Jaromír Erben, the film is a comedic live action, stop motion-animated feature film set mainly in an apartment building in the Czech Republic.
The film uses the Overture to ''Der Freischütz'' (1821) by Carl Maria von Weber as the score.
Karel Horák (Jan Hartl) and Božena Horáková (Veronika Žilková) are a childless couple and for medical reasons are doomed to remain so. While on vacation with their neighbors at a house in the country, Karel decides to buy the house at the suggestion of his neighbor. When he is fixing up the house, he digs up a tree stump that looks vaguely like a baby. He spends the rest of the evening cleaning it up and then presents it to his wife. She names the stump Otík and starts to treat it like a real baby. She then works out a plan to fake her pregnancy and becoming more and more impatient she speeds up the process and 'gives birth' one month early.
Otík comes alive and has an insatiable appetite. Alžbětka (Kristina Adamcová), the neighbor's daughter, has been suspicious all along, and when she reads the fairy tale about Otesánek, the truth becomes clear to her. Meanwhile, little Otík has been just eating and growing. At one point he eats some of Božena's hair, and another day she returns home to find that Otík has eaten their cat. | END ID: 54
ID: 55 | TITLE: Princess Goldilocks | CONTENT: '''''Princess Goldilocks''''' () is a 1973 Czechoslovak television musical fairytale film directed by Vlasta Janečková. It is based on a story by Karel Jaromír Erben. The film was shot at Červená Lhota Castle, Sychrov Castle and Slapy Dam.
An old King buys a snake that can enable communication with animals if eaten. His servant Jiřík has to prepare the meal for the king. The king bans Jiřík from tasting the meal, but Jiřík disobeys, and king punishes him. Jiřík has to leave his home and find a bride for his king - the beautiful Princess Goldilocks.
*Petr Štěpánek as Jiřík
*Jorga Kotrbová as Goldilocks
*Ladislav Pešek as King
*Jiří Holý as Old King
*Marie Rosůlková as Babka
*Josef Bek as General | END ID: 55
ID: 56 | TITLE: Julian (novel) | CONTENT: '''''Julian''''' is a 1964 novel by Gore Vidal, a work of historical fiction written primarily in the first person dealing with the life of the Roman emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus (known to Christians as Julian the Apostate), who reigned from 360 to 363 A.D.
The story of the novel begins in March of CE 380, nearly 20 years after the death of Julian. It starts as the text of a series of letters between Libanius and Priscus of Epirus, two confidants of Julian. In their various letters they discuss their lives and in particular the recent events involving an imperial edict of Theodosius involving the Nicene Creed of Christianity. In his first letter to Priscus, Libanius proposes to write a biography of Julian. Eventually Priscus agrees to send a manuscript written by Julian himself to Libanius along with his own comments written in the margins.
The rest of the novel is then presented as the manuscript of Julian in its original form including instructions to the eventual editor and publisher. The marginal notes of Priscus are incorporated into Julian's narrative where he feels fit to comment on or expand certain parts of the narrative. These comments are then often followed by the comments of Libanius on both the narrative and the comments of Priscus. Frequently they offer a different and sometimes contradictory hindsight interpretation of events and people than Julian expresses in his manuscript.
The narrative of Julian presents his life story but is very self-reflective in parts. He attempts to be critical of his own shortcomings | END ID: 56
ID: 57 | TITLE: Circe (novel) | CONTENT: '''''Circe''''' is a 2018 novel by American writer Madeline Miller. Set during the Greek Heroic Age, it is an adaptation of various Greek myths, most notably the ''Odyssey'', as told from the perspective of the witch Circe. The novel explores Circe's origin story and narrates Circe's encounters with mythological figures such as Hermes, the Minotaur, Jason, and Medea, and ultimately her romance with Odysseus and his son, Telemachus.
Circe is the divine daughter of the titan Helios and naiad Perse. Deemed unattractive and powerless from birth, Circe's early life is lonely until she falls in love with the mortal fisherman Glaucos. Devastated by his mortality, Circe discovers a way to make him a god: she transforms him into his 'true form' using the sap of magical flowers, grown in soil that was once soaked with the blood of the titan Kronos. Arrogant in his divinity, however, Glaucos rejects Circe in favor of the nymph Scylla. Circe's jealousy causes her to use the flowers' magic again, accidentally transforming Scylla into a bloodthirsty six-headed monster. Remorseful, Circe confesses her deeds to Helios, who realizes all of his children with Perse are witches capable of extracting power from herbs and draughts. As punishment for admitting her witchcraft, Circe is banished by Zeus to eternal exile on the island of Aiaia. She uses the beginning of her exile to study and hone her witchcraft, tending gardens and experimenting with draughts.
Over the centuries she spends on Aiaia, Circe interacts with many mythic figures. She receives visits from the Olympian god Hermes, whom | END ID: 57
ID: 58 | TITLE: Zodiac (novel) | CONTENT: '''''Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller''''' (1988) is a novel by American writer Neal Stephenson. His second novel, it tells the story of an environmentalist, Sangamon Taylor, uncovering a conspiracy involving industrialist polluters in Boston Harbor. The "Zodiac" of the title refers to the brand of inflatable motor boats the hero uses to get around the city efficiently. His opponents attempt to frame him as an ecoterrorist.
The protagonist is inspired by environmental chemist Marco Kaltofen. Taylor is a recreational user of nitrous oxide, justifying his choice of drug by the eponymous Sangamon's principle: "the simpler the molecule, the better the drug".
In the novel, Taylor is a chemist working for GEE, a fictional environmental activism group which stages both protests and direct actions plugging toxic waste pipes. Taylor becomes involved with Basco Industries, a fictional corporation which produced Agent Orange and is a major supplier of organic chlorine compounds. Basco experiments with genetic engineering to develop chemical producing microbes, driving Taylor's efforts to expose their crimes and preserve Boston Harbor.
A number of the later events of the novel take place on Boston Harbor's Spectacle Island which at the time of publication was almost entirely composed of garbage. In the story it is frequented by drugged-out and reputedly Satanic groupies of the "two-umlaut" heavy metal music band, Pöyzen Böyzen, who are too intoxicated with angel dust to realize they are poisoning themselves with the toxic waste that was dumped there.
Taylor's projects involve sampling the concentration of polychlorinated biphenyls in Boston Harbor with the help of the Gallaghers, a fishing | END ID: 58
ID: 59 | TITLE: The Gate to Women's Country | CONTENT: '''''The Gate to Women's Country''''' is a post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Sheri S. Tepper, published in 1988. It describes a world set three hundred years into the future after a catastrophic war which has fractured the United States into several nations.
The story is set in "Women's Country", apparently in the former Pacific Northwest. They have evolved in the direction of Ecotopia, reverting to a sustainable economy based on small cities and low-tech local agriculture. They have also developed a matriarchy where the women and children live within town walls with a small number of male servitors, and most of the men live outside the town in warrior camps.
''The Gate to Women's Country'' is set in the future, 300 years after a nuclear war destroyed most of human civilization. The book focuses on a matriarchal nation known as ''Women's Country'', and particularly the city of Marthatown.
Stavia, the novel's hero, is the younger daughter of Morgot, an important member of the Marthatown Council. The book opens with Stavia as an adult, heading to meet her fifteen-year-old son, Dawid. He has spent the last ten years living outside the city walls with the warriors, as is customary for Women's Country boys, and is now old enough to decide whether he wishes to remain a warrior or accept a life of study and service among the women as a servitor. At the meeting Dawid formally renounces his mother and chooses to become a full-fledged warrior. Stavia also renounces Dawid.
Afterwards, Stavia remembers when her younger | END ID: 59
ID: 60 | TITLE: Nights at the Circus | CONTENT: '''''Nights at the Circus''''' is a novel by British writer Angela Carter, first published in 1984 and the winner of the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. The novel focuses on the life and exploits of Sophie Fevvers, a woman who is – or so she would have people believe – a Cockney virgin, hatched from an egg laid by unknown parents and ready to develop fully fledged wings. At the time of the story, she has become a celebrated aerialiste, and she captivates the young journalist Jack Walser, who runs away with the circus and falls into a world that his journalistic exploits had not prepared him to encounter.
''Nights at the Circus'' incorporates multiple categories of fiction, including postmodernism, magical realism, and postfeminism. As in her previous works, Carter plays with many literary aspects and dissects the traditional fairy tale structure.
In 2006, the novel was adapted for the stage by Tom Morris and Emma Rice for Kneehigh Theatre Company. It was performed at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, Bristol Old Vic, Bristol and then toured.
In 1994 the novel was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 as a series of readings, read by Lesley Manville, abridged by Neville Teller and directed by Neil Cargill.
===London===
''Nights at the Circus'' begins with American journalist Jack Walser interviewing Sophie Fevvers in her London dressing room, following her performance in the circus which employs her. Fevvers claims to have been left as a baby in a basket on the doorstep of a brothel. Until she reached puberty she appeared to | END ID: 60
ID: 61 | TITLE: Mythago Wood | CONTENT: '''''Mythago Wood''''' is a fantasy novel by British writer Robert Holdstock, published in the United Kingdom in 1984. It won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1985. It served as the first in a series of novels known as the Mythago Wood or Ryhope Wood cycle. It belongs to a type of fantasy literature known as mythic fiction. It has received critical acclaim for the quality of its prose, its forest setting, and its exploration of philosophical, spiritual and psychological themes.
''Mythago Wood'' is set in Herefordshire, England, in and around a stand of ancient woodland, known as Ryhope Wood. The story involves the internally estranged members of the Huxley family, particularly Stephen Huxley, and his experiences with the enigmatic forest and its magical inhabitants.
The conception began as a short story written for the 1979 Milford Writer's Workshop; a novella of the same name appeared in the September 1981 edition of ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''.
The novels and novellas in the cycle all take place around and within Ryhope Wood, with the exception of ''Merlin's Wood'', which takes place in the similarly magical "sister wood" of Brocéliande in Brittany.
Ryhope Wood is an ancient woodland that has been undisturbed since the last ice age and appears no more than three square miles in area from the outside. Ryhope Wood is an example of a parallel universe that overlaps a section of the real world. The wood is much, much bigger on the inside than on the outside. Once penetrated, | END ID: 61
ID: 62 | TITLE: Ace Attorney (film) | CONTENT: is a 2012 Japanese legal comedy-drama film, directed by Takashi Miike and based on the Capcom video game ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney''. The film stars Hiroki Narimiya, Mirei Kiritani, and Takumi Saitoh. In the film, rookie defense attorney Phoenix Wright takes on a series of court cases, culminating in one that pits him against Manfred von Karma, a prosecutor who has remained undefeated throughout his forty-year career.
It made its premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam on 1 February 2012 and was released in Japanese cinemas on 11 February 2012. The US premiere was made at the Hawaii International Film Festival in April 2012. Miike has stated there are plans for an international release with both dubbing and subtitles available for each specific region.
The court system, overburdened by the massive number of crimes being committed, introduces a radical new method for settling cases more quickly: the bench trial system. Both prosecution and defense face each other in open court and have three days to make their case before the judge renders a verdict.
Phoenix Wright is a rookie defense attorney who has just won his first case: defending his friend Larry Butz from a false charge of murder with assistance from his mentor, veteran attorney Mia Fey. Butz gives Mia a statue of The Thinker as thanks. Wright is then thrust into another major case when Mia is bludgeoned to death in her office with the statue, and her younger sister Maya, a spirit medium, is accused of it based on a dying note from | END ID: 62
ID: 63 | TITLE: True Story (film) | CONTENT: from the ''Times''.
In 2003, Finkel is contacted by a reporter for ''The Oregonian'', seeking his opinion on Longo's assumption of his identity. Finkel, who was unaware of Longo's case, is intrigued, and arranges to meet Longo in prison. During their first conversation, Longo claims he has followed Finkel's career and admired his writing. Longo agrees to tell Finkel his side of the crimes he is accused of, in exchange for writing lessons and Finkel's promise not to share their conversations until after the conclusion of the murder trial.
Finkel becomes increasingly absorbed with Longo, who is likeable but evasive about his guilt. Convinced the story will be redemptive, Finkel visits Longo in prison and corresponds with him for several months. Longo sends Finkel numerous letters and an 80-page notebook entitled "Wrong Turns" which contains what Longo describes as a list of every mistake he has made in his life. Finkel begins to recognize similarities between Longo and himself, their handwriting and drawing, and Longo's letters and Finkel's personal journals. As the trial approaches, Finkel grows increasingly doubtful Longo is guilty of the murders, and Longo informs Finkel he intends changing his plea to not guilty.
In court, Longo pleads not guilty to two of the murders, but pleads guilty to the murder of his wife and one of his daughters. Finkel confronts Longo, who claims he cannot share everything he knows because he has to protect certain people, whom he refuses to name. Greg Ganley (Robert John Burke), the detective who tracked Longo down and arrested him, approaches | END ID: 63
ID: 64 | TITLE: Going Vertical | CONTENT: '''''Going Vertical''''' (), also known as '''''Three Seconds''''', is a 2017 Russian sports drama film directed by Anton Megerdichev about the controversial victory of the Soviet national basketball team over the 1972 U.S. Olympic team, ending their 63-game winning streak, at the Munich Summer Olympic's men's basketball tournament.
Upon its release on December 28, 2017, ''Going Vertical'' achieved critical and commercial success. With a worldwide gross of , ''Going Vertical''was the highest-grossing modern Russian film of all time at the time of release.
The year was 1970. The senior men's Soviet Union national basketball team had changed its head coach. The team's new head coach, Vladimir Garanzhin (Vladimir Kondrashin), who was also the head coach of the Leningrad based BC Spartak basketball club, of the USSR Premier League; said at a press conference that at the Munich Summer Olympic Games, the Soviet Union was going to beat the U.S. men's national basketball team. The statements of the coach frightened Soviet sports officials, for whom their main goal was to perform strongly at the world's biggest sporting stage, in the year of the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union, and keep their posts.
Vladimir Garanzhin completely changed the composition of the Soviet team, and it was no longer dominated by CSKA Moscow players, but instead the players from several different clubs of the country. Garanzhin also began training the team with new coaching techniques; he needed to inspire the team, and convince the players that they could beat the American team.
It was the night of 9 to 10 September 1972. | END ID: 64
ID: 65 | TITLE: Prefontaine (film) | CONTENT: '''''Prefontaine''''' is a 1997 American biographical film chronicling the life of the American long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine and his death at age 24. Jared Leto plays the title character and R. Lee Ermey plays Bill Bowerman. The film was written by Steve James and Eugene Corr, and directed by James. ''Prefontaine'' tells the story from the point of view of Bill Dellinger, played by Ed O'Neill, the assistant coach who was with him day-to-day, and Nancy Alleman, the runner's girlfriend at the time of his death.
Steve Prefontaine, a Coos Bay, Oregon student, is too small to play most sports but becomes a talented distance runner. He enrolls at the University of Oregon in 1969, and meets fellow Oregon Ducks track and field athletes Pat Tyson and Mac Wilkins. With coaches Bill Bowerman and Bill Dellinger, "Pre" wins three national cross-country championships and four consecutive 5,000-meter runs, breaking the U.S. record in the latter. Prefontaine gains fame as an aggressive runner who likes to be out front from the start, rather than biding his time until a strong finish.
Prefontaine accompanies other top American runners including Frank Shorter and Jeff Galloway to the 1972 Munich Olympics, where they witness the terrorist attacks of the Munich Massacre which interrupt and almost cancel the games. In the 5,000-meter, Prefontaine leads with 150 meters to go, but three different runners pass him and he does not medal. The gold goes to Finland's Lasse Viren.
After his college career ends, Prefontaine prepares for a rematch with Viren at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. The | END ID: 65
ID: 66 | TITLE: The Two Captains | CONTENT: '''''The Two Captains''''' () is a novel written by Soviet author Veniamin Kaverin between 1938 and 1944. It is Kaverin's best known work and is considered one of the most popular works of Soviet literature, winning the USSR State Prize in 1946 being reissued 42 times in 25 years. The novel tells the story of a Russian youth, Alexander Grigoryev, as he grows up through Czarist Russia to the October Revolution to World War II. At the center of the story is Grigoriev's search for the lost Arctic expedition of Captain Ivan Tatarinov and the discovery of Severnaya Zemlya.
After a postman drowns, Sanya, 8, finds a bag full of letters. As the envelopes are all wet, there is no way to read the addresses and send the letters. A neighbour, Aunt Dasha, reads the letters to anyone willing to listen during the cold winter evenings. Thus Sanya first hears of the lost Arctic expedition that will become the meaning of his life. For now on he is only fascinated by the brave people and their adventures, though he already can understand that the expedition is probably lost and all its participants are dead. Meanwhile, tragedy comes into his own life. One night he goes fishing in the river and witnesses a murder. Next morning his own father is accused of it, the accusation based on the knife with the name of "Grigoryev" beside the victim. Sanya knows that it is he who has lost the knife, but he cannot tell anything because he is mute. Sanya's | END ID: 66
ID: 67 | TITLE: The Samovar Girl | CONTENT: '''''The Samovar Girl''''' in a 1921 romance/adventure novel based in Chita in eastern Siberia during the Russian Civil War. The novel was written by Frederick Ferdinand Moore who drew on his experience in Siberia as an intelligence officer with the US Army during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.
The protagonist of the novel is the Russian son of a bootmaker, Peter, who witnesses his father's unjustified killing at the behest of the Czar's governor. The boy is imprisoned and rescued by an American who brings him to the United States. Twenty years later, the boy, now Lieutenant Peter Gordon of the US Army, returns to his hometown and seeks to avenge the killing of his father. Meanwhile, the former governor and his daughter, the Korsakoffs, are in hiding but their location is discovered by the soldiers of the local leader, the Ataman Zorogoff. The Korsakoffs believe friends sent the visiting American to rescue them and lead them to safety. The novel continues down a twisting path of intrigue where the ruling Cossacks, Korsakoffs and Gordon scheme to each seek their objectives while never knowing who to trust.
Moore dedicated the book to Robert H. Davis, a journalist and photographer who was editor of ''Munsey's Magazine'' at the time of printing the book.
Illustration from the 1921 edition of ''The Samovar Girl'' in ''Munsey's Magazine''.
''The New York Times Book Review and Magazine'': "…a tale that does not slacken in interest from beginning to end."
''The Argonaut:'' "Frederick Moore has a keen insight into the Slavic mind … he | END ID: 67
ID: 68 | TITLE: The Sun (film) | CONTENT: '''''The Sun''''' (, ''Solntse'') is a 2005 Russian biographical film directed by Alexander Sokurov, depicting Japanese Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) during the final days of World War II. It is the third film in a trilogy by director Aleksandr Sokurov that includes ''Taurus'' about the Soviet Union's Vladimir Lenin and ''Moloch'' about Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler. It received generally positive reviews from critics.
Towards the conclusion of the Second World War, Japan nears defeat as Emperor Hirohito (Issey Ogata) reminisces about the final war years. He is depicted as still surrounded by his attentive staff who look after his every bodily need. When Hirohito receives a report from his collected military and civilian staff of imminent defeat, he appears detached and starts reciting oddly disconnected verse about Japan's geography written by his historical predecessors. He has an interest in marine biology, and his staff keep him entertained with new specimens being delivered to his library even in the last days and hours prior to American troops arriving on his doorstep. Finally, with the Americans imminently approaching, he is then set up in a bunker underneath his Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Hirohito reflects on the foundation of the conflict while attempting to dictate peace terms.
Later, U.S. military commander General Douglas MacArthur (Robert Dawson) is sent to bring him through the ruins of Tokyo for a meeting regarding the occupation of the victorious Allied leaders. The two very different men strangely bond after sharing dinner and cigars, after which Hirohito retreats to his personal quarters. Following his admission of personal | END ID: 68
ID: 69 | TITLE: The Last Chance (1945 film) | CONTENT: '''''The Last Chance''''' () is a 1945 Swiss war film directed by Leopold Lindtberg. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prize of the Festival (the Golden Palm). The film was selected for screening as part of the Cannes Classics section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1943, the Allies have landed in southern Italy, so Allied prisoners of war are transported north by train. When the train is bombed from the air at night, some of the prisoners escape. Englishman Lieutenant Halliday and American Sergeant Braddock stumble across each other in the dark and team up.
The next day, they are given a ride in a cart carrying sacks of wheat. The driver manages to talk Italian soldiers out of inspecting his cargo, before letting his passengers off in the countryside. When they reach a river, they split up to search for a boat. The Englishman encounters a pretty young woman washing clothes. The two men get a boat and start rowing, but then the woman runs up and tells them that an armistice has been signed, so they turn around. They head to town, but it is strangely quiet, and nobody is in the streets celebrating. Then the Germans arrive and take over. The woman's uncle gives the two men civilian clothes and recommends they try to sneak aboard a freight train, which they do. At one stop, they watch helplessly as a woman is separated from her husband, who is taken away with others by train by the | END ID: 69
ID: 70 | TITLE: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | CONTENT: '''''Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy''''' is a 2004 American satirical comedy film directed by Adam McKay in his directorial debut, produced by Judd Apatow, starring Will Ferrell and Christina Applegate and written by McKay and Ferrell. The first installment in the ''Anchorman'' series, the film is a tongue-in-cheek take on the culture of the 1970s, particularly the new ''Action News'' format. It portrays a San Diego television station where Ferrell's title character clashes with his new female counterpart.
The film made $28.4 million in its opening weekend, and $90.6 million worldwide in its total theatrical run. It was met with generally positive reviews from critics upon release and is now widely regarded as one of the best comedy films of the 2000s. It was ranked at number 100 on Bravo's 100 funniest movies, number 6 on ''Time Out'''s top 100 comedy films of all time and 113 on ''Empire'''s 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. A companion film assembled from outtakes and abandoned subplots, titled ''Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie'', was released straight-to-DVD in late 2004. A sequel, ''Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues'', was released on December 18, 2013, with Paramount Pictures replacing DreamWorks Pictures as the distributor.
Ron Burgundy is the famous anchorman for a local San Diego television station, fictional KVWN channel 4. He works alongside his friends, whom he had known since childhood, on the news team: lead field reporter Brian Fantana, sportscaster Champ Kind, and meteorologist Brick Tamland. Station director Ed Harken informs the team that they have retained their long-held | END ID: 70
ID: 71 | TITLE: The Assassination of Richard Nixon | CONTENT: '''''The Assassination of Richard Nixon''''' is a 2004 American drama film directed by Niels Mueller and starring Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson and Naomi Watts. It is based on the story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Richard Nixon in 1974. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The last name of the main character was changed to Bicke.
In 1973, 43-year-old Philadelphia resident Sam Bicke (Sean Penn) is a down on his luck salesman who desperately wishes to reconcile with his estranged wife Marie (Naomi Watts). A constant moralizer, he states that he stopped working at the tire shop owned by his brother Julius (Michael Wincott) because he would lie to his customers. Believing that society's discrimination affects poor white people just as much as it does blacks, he attempts to join the Black Panthers. His dream is to own his own mobile tire sales business in partnership with his best friend, African-American mechanic Bonny (Don Cheadle).
He finds employment at an office furniture retail business, where his new boss Jack (Jack Thompson) gives him patronizing advice, while his awkwardness makes him a poor salesman. Jack describes US president Richard Nixon as the greatest salesman in history, because his election promise in 1968 was to exit the Vietnam War, and four years later he again coasted to win an easy re-election in 1972 on the promise of ending the same war.
Bicke becomes increasingly disillusioned with his status in society. He applies for a government loan | END ID: 71
ID: 72 | TITLE: The Boys from Brazil (novel) | CONTENT: '''''The Boys from Brazil''''' is a 1976 thriller novel by American writer Ira Levin. It was made into a film of the same title that was released in 1978.
Yakov Liebermann is a Nazi hunter (loosely based on Simon Wiesenthal) who runs a center in Vienna that documents crimes against humanity, perpetrated during the Holocaust. The waning interest of the Western nations in tracking down Nazi criminals, and the failure of the bank where he kept his center's funds, has forced him to move the center to his own lodgings.
Then, in September 1974, Liebermann receives a phone call from a young man in Brazil who claims he has just finished tape recording a meeting held by the so-called "Angel of Death", Dr. Josef Mengele (who was still alive at the time), a concentration camp medical doctor who performed horrific experiments on camp victims during World War II. According to the young man, Mengele is activating the ODESSA for a strange assignment: sending out six Nazis (former ''SS'' officers) to kill 94 men living in Western Europe and North America, who share a few common traits. All men are civil servants, and all of them have to be killed on or about particular dates, spread over several years. All will be 65 years old at the time of their killing. Before the young man can finish the conversation, he is killed.
Liebermann is hesitant and wonders if the call was a prank. But he investigates and discovers that the killings the young man spoke of are taking place. As | END ID: 72
ID: 73 | TITLE: The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. | CONTENT: '''''The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.''''' is a 1981 literary and philosophical novella by George Steiner. The story is about Jewish Nazi hunters who find a fictional Adolf Hitler (A.H.) alive in the Amazon jungle thirty years after the end of World War II. The book was controversial, particularly among reviewers and Jewish scholars, because the author allows Hitler to defend himself when he is put on trial in the jungle by his captors. There Hitler maintains that Israel owes its existence to the Holocaust and that he is the "benefactor of the Jews".
The novella was first published in a literary magazine, ''The Kenyon Review'' in 1979. After some minor revisions by Steiner, it was published in the United Kingdom in May 1981 as a paperback original by Faber and Faber, and in the United States in hardcover in April 1982 by Simon & Schuster. Adapted for the theatre by British playwright Christopher Hampton, it was staged in London in 1982 and in Hartford, Connecticut a year later. The productions generated further controversy, resulting in public pickets and condemnation being levelled against Steiner.
A central theme of ''The Portage'' is the nature of language, and revolves around Steiner's lifelong work on the subject and his fascination in the power and terror of human speech. Other themes include the philosophical and moral analysis of history, justice, guilt and revenge. Steiner makes no attempt to explain Hitler, but rather enters into a dialogue with him.
Reaction to the book was mixed: in a review in ''Time'' magazine, Otto Friedrich described | END ID: 73
ID: 74 | TITLE: Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles | CONTENT: First edition (publ. Grafton Books)
'''''Korea, A Walk Through the Land of Miracles''''' () is a book by Simon Winchester. He recounts his experience walking across South Korea, from Jeju in the south to the DMZ in the north, roughly following a route originally taken by a group of Dutch sailors, reportedly the first Europeans to visit Korea. The book makes general observations about Korean society and culture along with recounting the most memorable encounters on the trip. He originally wrote the book in the mid-late 1980s, publishing it in 1988, during the final years of the military dictatorship that ruled the South Korea during the Fifth Republic. Winchester visited Gwangju only a few years after the Gwangju massacre, an event which marked dissatisfaction with the government.
*Contemporary culture of South Korea
*History of Korea
*Korean studies | END ID: 74
ID: 75 | TITLE: Treason by the Book | CONTENT: '''''Treason by the Book''''', by Jonathan Spence, is a historical account of the Zeng Jing (曾靜) case which took place during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor of Qing China around 1730. Zeng Jing, a failed degree candidate heavily influenced by the seventeenth-century scholar Lü Liuliang, in October 1728 attempted to incite the descendant of Yue Fei, Yue Zhongqi (岳仲琪), Governor-general of Shaanxi-Sichuan, to rebellion. He gave a long list of accusations against Yongzheng, including the murder of the Kangxi Emperor and the killing of his brothers. This triggered a series of investigations which captured the attention of Yongzheng, who was eager to make his ascent to the throne seem legitimate. Highly concerned with the implications of the case, Yongzheng had Zeng Jing brought to Beijing for trial. But instead of imposing an immediate death sentence, the emperor began an intensive, written conversation with Zeng Jing. Zeng Jing eventually wrote a confession of error and received pardon for his crimes. The emperor then decided to circulate the relevant documents, including the original note, nationwide as a civics lesson for his subjects.
However, Yongzheng's sudden death in 1735 caused a turn of events as the Qianlong Emperor, Yongzheng's successor, sensitive to the potentially defamatory material that was making its rounds across the country, went against his father's wishes in recalling and destroying his father's response, the ''Dayi Juemi Lu'' (大義覺迷錄; literally: "Records of great righteousness resolving confusion"), as well as executing Zeng. Lü Liuliang's coffin was ordered to be opened, and his corpse was mutilated in public. | END ID: 75
ID: 76 | TITLE: Chronicle of Malaysia | CONTENT: The '''''Chronicle of Malaysia''''' gives an account of Malaysia from January 1957 to 31 August 2007. Published in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Malaysian Independence, this book provides an account of major news events that occurred during this 50-year period. It covers the events as they unfolded in an eye-witness manner as if they were newspaper stories written at that time. These key events include the raising of the Malayan flag, the Emergency, the formation of Malaysia, the 1969 riots, political upheavals, the financial crisis, judicial cases of note, sport events, cultural developments, and miscellaneous aspects of daily life.
The Chronicle was launched on 5 November 2007 by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. | END ID: 76
ID: 77 | TITLE: All Quiet on the Western Front | CONTENT: '''''All Quiet on the Western Front''''' () is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.
The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper ''Vossische Zeitung'' and in book form in late January 1929. The book and its sequel, ''The Road Back'' (1930), were among the books banned and burned in Nazi Germany. ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' sold 2.5 million copies in 22 languages in its first 18 months in print.
In 1930, the book was adapted as an Academy Award-winning film of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone. It was adapted again in 1979 by Delbert Mann, this time as a television film starring Richard Thomas and Ernest Borgnine.
The English translation by Arthur Wesley Wheen gives the title as '' All Quiet on the Western Front''. The literal translation of "Im Westen nichts Neues" is "Nothing New in the West," with "West" being the Western Front; the phrase refers to the content of an official communiqué at the end of the novel.
Brian Murdoch's 1993 translation rendered the phrase as "there was nothing new to report on the Western Front" within the narrative. However, in the foreword, he explains his retention of the original book title:
Although it does not match the German exactly, Wheen's title has justly become part of the English | END ID: 77
ID: 78 | TITLE: All Quiet on the Western Front | CONTENT: two further nominations: Best Cinematography, for Arthur Edeson, and Best Writing Achievement for Abbott, Anderson, and Andrews.
In 2016, it was mentioned that Roger Donaldson would direct a remake starring Travis Fimmel as Katczinsky. On February 14, 2020, Edward Berger replaced Donaldson as director and Daniel Brühl is starring without Fimmel Unlike the previous film adaptations, the remake will be in German.
===Television film===
In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of ''The Waltons'' as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat. The movie was filmed in Czechoslovakia.
===Music===
Elton John's album ''Jump Up!'' (1982) features the song "All Quiet on the Western Front" (written by Elton and Bernie Taupin). The song is a rendition of the novel's story ("It's gone all quiet on the Western Front / Male Angels sigh / ghosts in a flooded trench / As Germany dies").
Bob Dylan, during his Nobel Laureate lecture, cited this book as one that had a profound effect on his songwriting.
===Radio===
On November 9, 2008, a radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, starring Robert Lonsdale as Paul Bäumer and Shannon Graney as Katczinsky. Its screenplay was written by Dave Sheasby, and the show was directed by David Hunter.
=== Audiobooks ===
In 2000, Recorded Books released an audiobook of the text, read by Frank Muller.
In 2010, Hachette Audio UK published an audiobook adaptation of the novel, narrated by Tom Lawrence. It was well received by critics and listeners.
===Comics===
In 1952, the novel was adapted into comic book form as part of the ''Classics | END ID: 78
ID: 79 | TITLE: Lost City Radio | CONTENT: '''''Lost City Radio''''' is a 2007 novel written by Daniel Alarcón.
After a ten-year insurrection set in a nameless South American country in which the totalitarian government defeated a rebel group, the government has eliminated all indigenous languages and renamed all places as numbers; radio is the only remaining convenience. The protagonist, Norma, is the voice of a popular radio show that attempts to reconnect war refugees with their families. Yet Norma too has lost during the war: her husband disappeared on a trip to a jungle village called ''1797''. One day a boy arrives from ''1797'' along with a list of missing for Norma to read over the radio, jarring Norma to recall the details of her life with her husband and his possible fate.
Though the novel is set in Latin America it does not contain a single word of Spanish. It has been remarked for the ability to describe the people's sense of displacement
* "Blurring the moral lines: Fictional Latin American country is torn apart by violence" by John Freeman, ''Houston Chronicle'', April 13, 2007. | END ID: 79
ID: 80 | TITLE: At Night We Walk in Circles | CONTENT: '''''At Night We Walk in Circles''''' is a 2013 novel written by Daniel Alarcón.
A young actor-Nelson, living in a nameless Latin American country joins Diciembre, a guerrilla theatre troupe. They plan to perform in a politically controversial play titled ''The Idiot President''. The play's author, Henry Nuñez, was previously jailed for the original production. Nelson immerses himself in the world of the play, performing in taverns and city squares, until the tour brings the trio to the hometown of Rogelio, Henry’s former cellmate and confidant. Henry’s past and Nelson’s future converge, setting the stage for a fast-unraveling mystery of role-playing and retribution. | END ID: 80
ID: 81 | TITLE: La reina de América | CONTENT: ''La reina de América'' (The Queen of America) is a novel by Uruguayan author Jorge Majfud. It was published by Baile del Sol in 2002.
This novel is about a family of Spanish immigrants in the nineteen-sixties and the adventures of Consuelo, the daughter of a prostitute to whom the title refers. It is set mainly in Montevideo and Buenos Aires in the midst of the repressive Southern Cone dictatorships.
Mabel and her father run away from their financial bankruptcy in Spain to Argentina in pursuit of the American dream in the first wave of immigration of the century. On their trip, Mabel meets a Danish anarchist named Jacobsen and falls in love with him. Mabel's father dies in Montevideo and this “queen of America” stays in the port's lower-class neighborhood. Several problems hinder Jacobsen's ability to return to Buenos Aires to find Mabel. Her daughter, Consuelo, is raped by one her clients but she manages to enact her vengeance in a striking and cruel way.
Set from approximately 1960 to 1990, the novel ultimately explores the themes of power, politics, sociality, gender, domesticity and culture.
'''Mabel Moreno''': an immigrant belonging to the ruined Spanish aristocracy. After her father's death in the port of Montevideo, she turns to prostitution to get by. Mabel dies in an asylum.
'''Consuelo Moreno''': the daughter of Mabel, her father is probably Jacobsen. Consuelo is one of the main narrators. Her story begins when she finds Jacobsen in Buenos Aires after her mother's death, but he is immobilized in a wheelchair and cannot speak. Like | END ID: 81
ID: 82 | TITLE: The Poot | CONTENT: '''''The Poot''''' is a 40-min. documentary film by Elham Asadi about Persian carpets. It was selected and screened at Amsterdam International Documentary Films Festival in November 2009. ''The Poot'' won the Jury Award for Best Short at the 2010 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, NC, USA. | END ID: 82
ID: 83 | TITLE: Game Over (2013 film) | CONTENT: '''''Game Over''''' (Persian: بازی تمام شد) is 2013 Iranian animated short film directed by Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni Shakib. It is the director's second short animation. Game Over currently has distribution with IndieFlix online video streaming service.
In a war videogame, where even the sun is evil, four missiles fired from a military airplane decide to destroy the world. But fortunately the children who live inside that game find a way to stop them.
Festivals
2013
* National Student Film Festival - Iran
* Watersprite: Cambridge International Student Film Festival - UK / Nominated For " Soundtrack Award "
* International Motion Festival - Cyprus
* Chilemonos International Animation Festival - Chile
* International Student Film Festival - Mexico
* Diversity In Animation Festival - Brasil
* Open International Festival of Multimedia Art «Multimatograf» - Russia
* Digital Graffiti Festival - USA
* Vagrant Film Festival - Belarus
* Seoul International Youth Film Festival - South Korea
* Film Festival della Lessinia - Italy
* Electric Lantern Festival - UK
* Ecologico International Film Festival - Italy
* No Gloss Film Festival - UK
* 48,40 Frames - Kurzfilmfestival - Austria
* South Texas Underground Film Festival - USA
* Tehran International Short Film Festival - Iran
* Festival Internacional de Cine, Arte y Cultura - Paraguay
* Isfahan International Festival of Films for Children & Young Adults - Iran
* Northern Wave International Film Festival - Iceland
* Simultan Festival - Romania
* FreeNetWorld International Film Fest - Serbia
2014
* Montréal International Children's Film Festival - Canada
* Basij Honarmandan | END ID: 83
ID: 84 | TITLE: Two & Two (2011 film) | CONTENT: '''''Two & Two''''' is a 2011 political themed short film directed by Babak Anvari, co-produced by Babak Anvari and Kit Fraser and written by Babak Anvari and Gavin Cullen. The short film, which runs for 8 minutes, stars a male teacher, played by Bijan Daneshmand, and twelve students in a grey wall classroom, showing the first lesson, which is an expression of 2 + 2 = 5. It is notably similar to the novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' by George Orwell.
The film begins with a suited, male teacher entering a decaying, dirty classroom with twelve schoolboys. Through an intercom on the wall, the headmaster announces that there will be ongoing changes in the school and that the students are to listen to all instructions from their teacher. The teacher then begins the lesson by writing "2 + 2 = 5" on the chalkboard. When the children protest, he immediately silences them, calling for order in the classroom. He then continuously commands the students to repeat the equation after him. One timid student raises his hand and carefully suggests that two plus two is four, not five. The teacher calmly commands him, "Don't think, you don't have to think," and again reassures the students that the answer is indeed five. The teacher then demands the class to copy the incorrect equation into their notebooks, which depicts how power is circulated in the society. Another student stands up in protest and adamantly shouts that the answer is four instead. The teacher angrily asks him, "Who gave you permission to speak?" | END ID: 84
ID: 85 | TITLE: Demoni (2012 film) | CONTENT: '''''Demoni''''' is a Canadian-Bulgarian animated short film, directed by Theodore Ushev and released in 2012. A music video for the song of the same name by Bulgarian musician Kottarashky, the film depicts scenes of Eastern European folk art on a spinning vinyl record.
The film was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards. | END ID: 85
ID: 86 | TITLE: Dragon Rider (film) | CONTENT: '''''Dragon Rider''''' (), also known as '''''Firedrake the Silver Dragon''''' by Netflix, is a 2020 Belgian-German 3D computer-animated fantasy film; while officially based on the novel of the same name by Cornelia Funke, the film takes influence from the ''How to Train Your Dragon'' series by Cressida Cowell, with its visuals and marketing based on that of the DreamWorks franchise. The film was due to be released in theatres on 6 August 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film release was postponed until 1 October 2020.
Netflix acquired global distribution rights to the film and is scheduled for a 10 September 2021 release on the streaming platform.
Firedrake is a young silver dragon, who has had enough of constantly having to hide in a wooded valley. He wants to show the older generations of dragons that he is a real dragon. When humans are about to destroy his family's very last refuge, Firedrake secretly sets off on an adventurous journey with forest brownie, Sorrel. He wants to find the "Rim of Heaven", the dragons' mysterious haven. On their quest Firedrake and Sorrel encounter Ben, an orphan and stray, who claims to be a dragon rider. While Ben and Firedrake make friends quickly, Sorrel becomes increasingly distrustful and tries her best to get rid of the orphan at every opportunity. But the unlikely trio have to learn to pull together, because they are being hunted by Nettlebrand, an evil, dragon-eating monster which was created by an alchemist with the aim of tracking down and destroying every dragon | END ID: 86
ID: 87 | TITLE: Felix the Cat: The Movie | CONTENT: '''''Felix the Cat: The Movie''''' is a 1989 animated fantasy film directed by Tibor Hernádi and based on the cartoon and comic strip character of the same name.
The film began development in 1985 and was made in Europe between 1986 and 1987. It was not officially released in the United States until 1991 on VHS.
In the Kingdom of Oriana, Princess Oriana, ruler of the kingdom, has been informed by a local fortune teller Pearl that her evil uncle, the Duke of Zill, is invading the kingdom. To counter the threat of the Duke, Oriana and Pearl descend into the cavern underneath the castle and attempt to use an ancient device called the "Dimensporter" in order to escape to another dimension and find a hero to save the kingdom. However, they are caught by the Duke's robotic army and imprisoned, while the Duke himself seizes control of the kingdom. As the princess is taken away by the Duke's "Cylinder" robots, she sheds a magical tear, which flies into the Dimensporter in her place and is transported to Felix's dimension, where the eponymous feline is taking a nap underneath a palm tree when the tear finds him. The tear wakes and guides him to an abandoned gold mine, where the Dimensporter is located. Felix the Cat, with his magical bag of tricks, is soon transported to the Kingdom of Oriana.
Meanwhile, Felix's nemesis, The Professor, and his nephew Poindexter, who had been spying on him, follow Felix to Oriana in the hopes of catching Felix and stealing his magic | END ID: 87
ID: 88 | TITLE: The Young Magician (film) | CONTENT: '''''The Young Magician''''' (; ) is a Canadian-Polish children's drama film, directed by Waldemar Dziki and released in 1987. The fourth film in the Tales for All series of children's films, the film centres on Peter Meller (Rusty Jedwab), a young boy who is initially treated as an outcast when he discovers that he possesses the ability to telekinetically move objects with his mind, but becomes a hero when his power is the only thing that can save his city from a military attack.
Although the film was shot in Poland with a Polish cast of actors, and then dubbed into English and French for Canadian distribution, its setting was portrayed as Canada. Nicholas Read of the ''Vancouver Sun'' criticized this as a narrative contrivance, noting that the dialogue and costume design did not feel natural to a contemporary Canadian setting.
The film received three Genie Award nominations at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988, for Best Overall Sound (Michel Charron, Jo Caron, André Gagnon, Michel Descombes), Best Sound Editing (Viateur Paiement, Serge Viau, Alain Clavier, Claude Langlois, Louise Coté) and Best Original Song (Howard Forman and Krzesimir Dębski for "When We're Together").
* Rusty Jedwab as Piotr Meller
* Eduard Garson as Aleksander
* Daria Trafankowska
* Mariusz Benoit
* Władysław Kowalski
* Natasza Maraszek as Małgosia
* Tomasz Klimasiewicz as Michał
* Jan Machulski
* Maria Robaszkiewicz
* Maciej Szary
* Danuta Kowalska
* Grażyna Szapołowska
* Andrzej Szczepkowski
* Andrzej Blumenfeld
* Wojciech Asiński
* Ewa Biała
* Zbigniew Bielski
* Jan Hencz
* Piotr Krukowski
* Wojciech Mann | END ID: 88
ID: 89 | TITLE: The Two Who Stole the Moon | CONTENT: '''''The Two Who Stole the Moon''''' () is a 1962 Polish children's film based on Kornel Makuszyński's 1928 story of the same name. The film stars the Kaczyński twins, two of the country's future political leaders.
Despite having been known to Polish children for many generations, the film gained renewed fame in the 2000s for starring two of the country's future leaders: Lech Kaczyński, who served as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in a 2010 plane crash, and his identical twin brother Jarosław Kaczyński, the Prime Minister of Poland from 2006 to 2007, Chief of Office of the President of Poland from 1990 to 1991, and current chairman of the Law and Justice party. The twins were thirteen at the time.
The two twins, Jacek and Placek, start out as cruel and lazy boys whose main interest is eating, eating anything, including chalk and a sponge in school. One day they have the idea of stealing the Moon; after all, it is made of gold.
: "If we steal the moon, we would not have to work"
: "But we do not work now, either..."
: "But then we would not have to work ''at all''".
After a few small adventures, they manage to steal the Moon. Immediately a gang of robbers notices the little thieves and captures them. The two regain their freedom, and one of the twins devises a plan to enter the "City of Gold". The plan works, but when the robbers try to collect the gold, they turn into gold themselves. | END ID: 89
ID: 90 | TITLE: The Final Reflection | CONTENT: '''''The Final Reflection''''' is a 1984 ''Star Trek'' tie-in novel by John M. Ford which emphasizes developments of Klingon language and culture. The novel provided the foundation for the FASA ''Star Trek'' role-playing game sourcebooks dealing with the Klingon elements of the game. Although not considered canon because of later developments in the ''Star Trek'' movies and TV series, the presentation of Klingon culture in this novel and Ford's 1987 follow-on, ''How Much for Just the Planet?'' is highly popular in fanon alternate depictions of Klingon society and culture. In particular, the fictional Klingon language ''klingonaase'' is introduced here, in advance of the creation of the canon version of the Klingon language, ''''.
Particular aspects of Klingon society depicted include:
* A strong Klingon emphasis on battle-related games. The title refers to a move in ''klin zha'', a Klingon game with similarities to chess; in this particular variation, the "reflective" game, both players take turns playing one set of pieces.
* Games played with living players.
* Military strategy is the particular province of a military class known as "thought admirals," who hone their skills in "the game with living pieces." They also seek to learn how other societies think militarily by studying the games of those people.
* The distinction between empire-building races—such as the Klingons, the Humans and Vulcans with their Federation, and the Romulans—and less driven races, whom the Klingons use as servants (''kuve'').
The novel concerns an intergenerational conflict within the Klingon government, between a faction wanting war with the Federation and a faction desiring | END ID: 90
ID: 91 | TITLE: The Trellisane Confrontation | CONTENT: '''''The Trellisane Confrontation''''' is a ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' novel written by David Dvorkin.
The planet Trellisane is the breeding ground for a three-way war. Captain Kirk ends up as a passenger on a Klingon warship. Dr. McCoy is stuck with cannibals. The USS ''Enterprise'' is surrounded by Romulans and the Neutral Zone is filled with more danger than ever. | END ID: 91
ID: 92 | TITLE: The Vulcan Academy Murders | CONTENT: '''''The Vulcan Academy Murders''''' is a ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' novel written by Jean Lorrah.
Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy travel to a hospital facility on Vulcan to acquire treatment for a badly wounded ''Enterprise'' crew member. Kirk encounters Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, and Spock's father, Sarek, and soon becomes heavily involved in Spock's personal life.
Then people begin to die. Kirk, trying to solve the case, is hampered by some Vulcans' belief that it would be illogical for murder to be happening on their home world, and that the deaths are therefore accidents. But he knows criminal behavior when he sees it, and presses on.
Lorrah decided to write a script for ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' after seeing the first episode, but found that she couldn't due to issues with Hollywood agents. She decided afterwards to write a ''Star Trek'' novel, but shelved the idea at first as Pocket Books were only accepting submissions from published authors at the time. After she published ''First Channel'' and ''Savage Empire'', she decided to give a ''Star Trek'' novel, describing the story as one that "grew out of my fannish stories in the ''Night of the Twin Moons'' universe." She wrote a sequel which was published in February 1988. Entitled ''The IDIC Epidemic'', she described it as another story taken from the universe of her other novels.
''The Vulcan Academy Murders'' reached 12th place in the New York Times Bestsellers list in November 1984. Jordan Hoffman read the book as a test case as to see whether or not he | END ID: 92
ID: 93 | TITLE: Visit to Minotaur (film) | CONTENT: '''''Visit to Minotaur''''' or () is a Soviet TV serial detective film, based on the eponymous novel by the Vayner Brothers, shot by the director Eldor Urazbayev in 1987.
USSR, Moscow in the 1980s. A unique violin made by Antonio Stradivari is stolen from the apartment of the famous violinist Lev Osipovich Polyakov. Attorney Stanislav Tikhonov and police lieutenant Elena Nechayeva proceed to investigate the case.
First, suspicions fall on Obolnikov, neighbor of the Polyakov family. But it turns out that although Obolnikov did secretly enter the apartment of the violinist he was not involved in the theft. Then Pavel Ikonnikov becomes the suspect – a former violinist who was once well acquainted with Polyakov. A motive is evident: envy of the more fortunate and successful colleague could push Ikonnikov toward crime. Some information which includes an anonymous letter indicates that Ikonnikov could be involved in the theft. But also in this case Tikhonov and Nechayeva are wrong. Moreover, Ikonnikov, deeply offended with the unfounded suspicions in his address, commits suicide. As farewell, Ikonnikov wrote a letter to Tikhonov, in which he states that the person who slandered him is apparently a person who is very close to Ikonnikov.
An unexpected breakthrough in this complicated case is the appearance of the stolen cassette player belonging to Polyakov. Clinging to this evidence, the investigation manages to come upon the "master thief" Melnik, who helped criminals open the door to the violinists apartment. There were two criminals - "Cross" and "Boss" but they can not be found.
A random occurrence helps Tikhonov. | END ID: 93
ID: 94 | TITLE: Look for a Woman | CONTENT: '''''Look for a Woman''''' () is a 1983 Soviet crime comedy television film adaptation of the play "La Perruche et le Poulet" by French writer Robert Thomas, directed by Alla Surikova.
An ordinary day at a Parisian notary office comes to a tragic end. Telephonist of notary Rocher, Mademoiselle Alice Postic, stays late at the office to chat with her friend on the phone and ends up finding her boss in death's throes, with a dagger in his back. After calling the police, Alice faints, but when the policeman arrives, it turns out that the corpse has disappeared! Arriving on call, the police inspector Grandin turns out to be Alice's long-time acquaintance, but now he in every possible way disavows their love, which was once between him and Mademoiselle Postic. In connection with the murder an investigation begins and the notary together with his wife are the main suspects. But everything ends in the most ridiculous way: in the midst of interrogations, the "late" Rocher arrives in the office, who spent an evening at the opera!
... Alice Postic becomes a subject of ridicule from colleagues and acquaintances. But suddenly she finds some foreign objects in the office, and later the police find the corpse of an unknown young man in a park near the notary's bureau. Linking the found objects with the death of the stranger, Alice begins her own investigation, in which she then helps, then interferes with her friend, Inspector Grandin. It turns out that the murdered young man is Jullien Nalestro, lover of notary | END ID: 94
ID: 95 | TITLE: The Master of Taiga | CONTENT: '''''The Master of Taiga''''' () is a 1968 Soviet crime film directed by Vladimir Nazarov.
The film takes place in one village in which the store is robbed. A forest rafter admits a crime, but the young detective doubts it.
* Valeriy Zolotukhin as Detective Vasili Snezhkin
* Vladimir Vysotskiy
* Lionella Pyryeva
* Mikhail Kokshenov
* Dmitry Masanov
* Leonid Kmit
* Eduard Bredun
* Ivan Kosykh
* Pavel Shpringfeld
* Vladimir Lippart | END ID: 95
ID: 96 | TITLE: Tunis Top Secret | CONTENT: '''''Tunis Top Secret''''' (, ) is a 1959 Italian-German adventure-spy film written and directed by Bruno Paolinelli and starring Elsa Martinelli and Giorgia Moll.
* Elsa Martinelli as Kathy Sands
* Giorgia Moll as Simone Fredrick
* Raf Mattioli as Dr. Fuat / Seymour
* Claus Biederstaedt as Mr. George
* Gina Albert as Countess Barbara
* Willy Fritsch as Major Knickerbocker
* Chelo Alonso as Sherazad / Soraya
* Juan Santacreu as Fidia
* Giuseppe Porelli as Baron Philippe
* Massimo Serato as Nikos
* Luigi Bonos as Pedro
* Ignazio Dolce | END ID: 96
ID: 97 | TITLE: Hotel Clausewitz | CONTENT: '''''Hotel Clausewitz''''' (German: '''''Pension Clausewitz''''') is a 1967 West German comedy film directed by Ralph Habib and starring Wolfgang Kieling, Maria Brockerhoff and Friedrich Schoenfelder.
The main character of the story, Stemmka, through an inheritance, becomes the owner of a Berlin brothel, called "Pension Schölermann". In order to refresh the "establishment", Stemmka immediately hires two attractive young ladies. One of these, Marlies, whose fiancé Werner is stuck in East Berlin and was prevented from escaping to the West. Not only is the brothel used for erotic encounters, it becomes the meeting place of the intelligence services. Among the clients are a West-German nuclear scientist, a Stasi officer, a representative of the CIA and his communist opponent from beyond the Iron Curtain.
Marlies wants to rescue Werner from the power of the Stasi and therefore agrees to cooperate with the GDR. For this reason, she passes on the secrets she learns from pillow talk to the communist enemy. Her spying ends when her fiancé escapes from the east to the city's western sector. Now they can turn the tide and help the Western Allies smash the East German ring of agents.
Pension Clausewitz, also known as Hotel Clausewitz, was filmed in February and March 1967 in Berlin and premiered on April 28, 1967. The story was inspired by the events surrounding the real Pension Clausewitz, which caused a veritable scandal at the end of 1964. In order not to give the impression of a faithful retelling of the actual events, the Pension Clausewitz was called Schölermann in the film.
The | END ID: 97
ID: 98 | TITLE: Scorpions and Miniskirts | CONTENT: '''''Scorpions and Miniskirts''''' or '''''Chinos y minifaldas''''' or '''''Death on a Rainy Day''''' is a 1967 Italian/Spanish/West German international co-production Eurospy comedy action martial arts film shot in New York, Hong Kong, Paris and in studios in Rome and Madrid. Directed by Ramón Comas, the film stars Adrian Hoven who co-produced the film with his partner Pier Andrea Caminneci in the second film of their Aquila Film Enterprises. The film also stars Barth Warren in his film debut and George Wang; a Chinese actor playing an Oriental mastermind. The film was written by Keith Luger, the nom de plume of prolific Spanish pulp fiction Michael Oliveros Tovar (1924-1985); the film being his first screenplay.
A Kommissar X type pair of French secret agents from the Strategic Investigation Bureau investigate the death of an agent in Hong Kong who sent a bottle of perfume to Paris. The pair uncover a plot by Dr. Kung, a Fu Manchu type Chinese mastermind and his secret society of the Red Scorpion. Dr Kung seeks to start a third world war by injecting the brain of the United States Secretary of Defense with RNA that will cause him to do Dr. Kung's bidding.
*Adrian Hoven ... Paul Riviere
*Barth Warren ... Bruno Nussak
*Gérard Landry ... Commander Fernion
*Teresa del Río ... Sonia Bellford
*Claudia Gravy ... Shantung
*Lilia Neyung ... Leila Wong
*Karin Feddersen ... Françoise Moreau
* George Wang ... Dr. Kung
*Josyane Gibert ... Pamela
*Wolfgang Preiss ... Dr. Angus Cromwell | END ID: 98
ID: 99 | TITLE: Last of the Buccaneers | CONTENT: '''''Last of the Buccaneers''''' is a 1950 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Lew Landers and starring Paul Henreid as Jean Lafitte.
Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a British invasion during the War of 1812.* Paul Henreid as Jean Lafitte
* Jack Oakie as Sergeant Dominick
* Karin Booth as Belle Summers
* Mary Anderson as Swallow
* Edgar Barrier as George Mareval
* John Dehner as Sergeant Beluche
* Harry Cording as Cragg Brown
* Eugene Borden as Captain Perez
Henreid's career had suffered since the Red Scare of the late 1940s, which saw him unofficially blacklisted from the major Hollywood studios. He had been making films in New York and France when offered the lead role in ''Last of the Buccaneers'' by producer Sam Katzman. It was Henreid's first swashbuckler since the highly successful ''The Spanish Main'' (1945). Henreid appeared in the film for a relatively low salary plus a percentage of the profits. Henreid says that because of his blacklisting Columbia Pictures would not hire him but the film was made through an independent company, SK Pictures, he could play the role.
Filming started 14 March 1950. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul Palmentola.
Hedda Hopper reported that Errol Flynn had written a script called ''The Last of the Buccaneers'' in the late 1940s for Flynn to star in but it appears to have no other connection to this film.
According to Henreid, the film was "a huge success and my percentage brought in an | END ID: 99
ID: 100 | TITLE: Mohawk (2017 film) | CONTENT: '''''Mohawk''''' is a 2017 American political action-horror film directed by Ted Geoghegan, co-written by Geoghegan and novelist Grady Hendrix, and starring Kaniehtiio Horn, Ezra Buzzington, Noah Segan, and professional wrestler Jonathan "Brodie Lee" Huber in the only feature film appearance he made before his death.
Late one night in 1814, a young Mohawk woman named Okwaho or "Oak" (Kaniehtiio Horn) gets into an argument with her mother Wentahawi (Sheri Foster) over whether her neutral tribe, who are being violently slaughtered by new Americans, should get involved in the War of 1812. Her two lovers — a Mohawk warrior named Calvin (Justin Rain) and a British soldier named Joshua (Eamon Farren), one of whom is the father of her unborn child — push for retaliation, which ultimately leads to Calvin sneaking off later that same night to light a nearby American encampment on fire, killing 22 sleeping American soldiers.
Six soldiers and their civilian translator Yancy (Noah Segan) escape from the fire and, seeking their own revenge, track down the trio the next morning. A skirmish occurs, which results in the death of Wentahawi and the American Commander, Colonel Charles Hawkes (Jack Gwaltney). A power-hungry and brutal subordinate, Captain Hezekiah Holt (Ezra Buzzington), takes control of the Americans and demands violent retribution. Chasing Oak and the two men, the Americans capture, torture, and kill Calvin at the cost of more Americans being killed, including Holt's son Myles (Ian Colletti). When Oak and Joshua are finally captured at a desolate French-Canadian mission
(where Holt and his men have already murdered Oak's uncle and | END ID: 100
ID: 101 | TITLE: First Invasion: The War of 1812 | CONTENT: '''''First Invasion: The War of 1812''''' is a documentary produced by the History Channel which aired on September 11, 2004. The film was about the American War of 1812, when the Americans fought the British for the first time since the American Revolutionary War.
The film was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety, Music Program or Special in 2005.
* The History Channel website www.historychannel.com
* 1812 link
* War of 1812 | END ID: 101
ID: 102 | TITLE: Anandamath | CONTENT: '''''Anandamath''''' ( ''Anondomôţh'') ( The Abbey of Bliss) is a Bengali fiction, written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and published in 1882. It is inspired by and set in the background of the Sannyasi Rebellion in the late 18th century, it is considered one of the most important novels in the history of Bengali and Indian literature. Its first English publication was titled ''The Abbey of Bliss'' (literally Ananda=Bliss and Math=Abbey).
''Vande Mataram'', "Hail to the Mother Bengal ", first song to represent Bengal - as the Motherland was published in this novel.
The book is set in the years during the famine in Bengal in 1770 CE. It starts with introduction to a couple, Mahendra and Kalyani, who are stuck at their village ''Padachinha'' without food and water in the times of famine. They decide to leave their village and move to the next closest city where there is a better chance of survival. During the course of events, the couple gets separated and Kalyani has to run through the forest with her infant to avoid getting caught by robbers. After a long chase, she loses consciousness at the bank of a river. A Hindu “Santana”( who were not true sanyasis but common people who took the symbol of sanyasis and left their household so as to rebel against the British East India Company), Jiban took the daughter to his home handing her to his sister while he shifted Kalyani to his ashram.
The husband, Mahendra, at this point is more inclined towards joining the brotherhood of the | END ID: 102
ID: 103 | TITLE: Durgeshnandini | CONTENT: '''''Durgeshnandini''''' (, ''Doorgeshnondini'', ''Daughter of the Feudal Lord'') is a Bengali historical romance novel written by Indian writer Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1865. ''Durgeshnandini'' is a story of the love triangle between Jagat Singh, a Mughal General, Tilottama, the daughter of a Bengali feudal lord and Ayesha, the daughter of a rebel Pathan leader against whom Jagat Singh was fighting. The story is set in the backdrop of Pathan-Mughal conflicts that took place in south-western region of modern-day Indian state of Paschimbanga (West Bengal) during the reign of Akbar.
''Durgeshnandini'' is the first Bengali novel written by Bankim Chandra as well as the first major Bengali novel in the history of Bengali literature. The story of the novel was borrowed from some local legends of Arambag region, Hooghly district, Paschimbanga, collected by Bankim Chandra’s great-uncle. Although the conservative critics mocked the lucidity of Bankim Chandra’s language, ''Durgeshnandini'' was highly praised by most of the contemporary scholars and newspapers.
The story is set in the backdrop of Pathan-Mughal conflicts that took place in south-western region of modern-day Indian state of Paschimbanga (West Bengal) during the reign of Akbar. Jagat Singh, a General of Mughal army and son of Raja Man Singh meets Tilottama, daughter of Birendra Singha, a feudal lord of south-western Bengal in Mandaran (in modern-day Hooghly district, West Bengal) and they fall in love with each other. While they are preparing for a marriage ceremony, Katlu Khan, a rebel Pathan leader attacks Mandaran. Birendra Singha dies in the battle and Jagat Singh is imprisoned along with Birendra’s | END ID: 103
ID: 104 | TITLE: Those Days (novel) | CONTENT: '''''Those Days''''' () is a historical novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay. It was first published as a serialized novel in the Bengali literary magazine ''Desh''. Gangopadhyay won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel in 1985.
The story centers around the life of Kaliprasanna Singha, along with legendary historical figures including Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the reformer; Michael Madhusudan Dutt, the poet; the father and son duo of Dwarkanath Tagore and Debendranath Tagore; Harish Mukherjee, the journalist; Keshab Chandra Sen, the Brahmo Samaj radical; David Hare and John Bethune, the English educationists; and others.
''Yugantar'', an Indian television series that aired on DD National in the 1980s, was based on ''Sei Somoy''. The novel was translated into Gujarati by Uma Randeria as ''Nava Yugnu Parodh'' (2002). | END ID: 104
ID: 105 | TITLE: Scepter of Judah | CONTENT: The '''''Scepter of Judah''''' ( ) was a text produced by the Sephardi historian Solomon Ibn Verga. It first appeared in Turkey in 1553.
The work was essentially a comprehensive analysis of sixty-four different persecutions that the Jewish people had suffered since antiquity. Hardly an insular text, it made use of Latin sources as well. It also had a certain anthropological value, as Ibn Verga discussed the customs and practices of Jews in various lands. Ibn Verga also sought to highlight what he felt were the faults of his people, and as such, much of his criticisms of the Jews are exaggerated for effect.
In many ways the ''Scepter of Judah'' was the first and most significant work of Jewish historiography; it was essentially the first time that such a comprehensive interest had been expressed by the Jews in their past. Ibn Verga sought to clarify the problem of anti-Jewish sentiment, which had manifested itself in the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. According to the author, the expulsion from Spain and Jewish exile in general were natural phenomena that were subject to historical forces of causation and explanation. They were not simply "punishment" for the sins of the Jewish people, as had been the time-honored way of explaining such misfortunes.
The text posited the view that the hatred of the Jews is a popular inheritance which is passed from generation to generation. It is occasioned by religious fanaticism (as had been the case in Spain) and is compounded by envy and jealousy; it also stems from | END ID: 105
ID: 106 | TITLE: Ferrara Bible | CONTENT: The '''Ferrara Bible''' was a 1553 publication of the Ladino version of the Tanakh used by Sephardi Jews. It was paid for and made by Yom-Tob ben Levi Athias (the Portuguese Marrano known before his return to Judaism as ''Alvaro de Vargas'', as typographer) and Abraham ben Salomon Usque (the Portuguese Marrano ''Duarte Pinhel'', as translator), and was dedicated to Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Ercole's wife Renée of France was a Protestant, daughter of Louis XII of France.
This version is a revision of a translation which had long circulated among Spanish Jews. It is more formally entitled ''Biblia en Lengua Española Traducida Palabra por Palabra de la Verdad Hebrayca por Muy Excelentes Letrados, Vista y Examinada por el Oficio de la Inquisicion. Con Privilegio del Ylustrissimo Señor Duque de Ferrara.'' ("The Bible in the Spanish Language, Translated word for word from the true Hebrew by very excellent Literati, Viewed and Examined by the Office of the Inquisition though the Inquisition would not have passed such a work. With the Privilege of the most Illustrious Lord Duke of Ferrara.)
Two editions were printed, one dedicated to the duke, and one for the Jewish public dedicated to Doña Gracia Nasi.
Its language follows closely the Hebrew syntax rather than that of everyday Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino), as per the norm for "vulgar" translations of the Scriptures. It is written entirely in the Latin alphabet, albeit with various diacritics suitable for expressing Ladino phonetics. This distinguishes this translation from others from the same century, printed in Constantinople entirely in Hebrew script. | END ID: 106
ID: 107 | TITLE: Observations (Belon book) | CONTENT: Cedars of God in Belon's Observations
'''''Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables trouvées en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays estranges''''' is a work of ethnographical, botanical and zoological exploration by '''Pierre Belon''' (1517–1564), a French naturalist from Le Mans. Starting in 1546, Belon travelled through Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia and Palestine, returning to France in 1549.
His ''Observations'', with illustrations, were first published in 1553. A second edition appeared in 1555. The work was translated into Latin by Charles de l'Écluse (Carolus Clusius) and published in 1589 under the title ''Petri Bellonii Cenomani plurimorum singularium et memorabilium rerum ... observationes''. The Latin text was reprinted as an appendix to Clusius's ''Exoticorum libri decem'' (1605). | END ID: 107
ID: 108 | TITLE: An Obvious Situation | CONTENT: '''''An Obvious Situation''''' is a 1930 British crime film directed by Giuseppe Guarino and starring Sunday Wilshin, Walter Sondes and Carl Harbord. It was made as a quota quickie at Teddington Studios for release by Warner Brothers.
* Sunday Wilshin as Cella Stuart
* Walter Sondes as John Stuart
* Carl Harbord as Michael Turner
* Marjorie Jennings as Betty Chase
* Michael Hogan as Trimmett
* Iris Ashley as Babe Carson
* Mina Burnett as Manette
* Harold Huth as Gustave
* Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film''. British Film Institute, 2007.
* Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
* Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986. | END ID: 108
ID: 109 | TITLE: The Copper (1930 film) | CONTENT: '''''The Copper''''', or '''''The Grasper''''' (), is a 1930 British-German crime film directed by Richard Eichberg and starring Hans Albers, Charlotte Susa, and Margot Landa. It is the German-language version of the British film ''Night Birds'', which was also directed by Eichberg but with an English-speaking cast. Both films were made by British International Pictures at their Elstree Studios at a time when such multiple-language versions were common.
It was a success in Germany, launching Albers as a major star. In 1958, the film was remade with Albers reprising his role.
Scotland Yard's Sergeant Harry Cross investigates a brazen robbery at a London mansion in which a large dinner party was robbed of all their jewelry and valuables. A servant was stabbed with a throwing knife. Sergeant Cross and Chief Inspector Warrington immediately suspect Messer-Jack and his gang to be behind the robbery-murder. For some time now, they have been terrifying the residents of London with their brutal acts.
A five-pound gaming chip found at the scene leads Cross to the Palermo nightclub. He suspects that the gaming chip came from a backroom gaming club. He asks around there and makes unwelcome acquaintances with Toothpick Jeff and Whiskey Dick, who feel disturbed by him playing. As Cross turns his back on the end of the round, a throwing knife flies just past him into the door frame. The knife is similar to the throwing knives used by Knife Jack. The knife thrower escapes undetected via a balcony. Cross then threatens nightclub owner Snorry to "blow up his shop" if | END ID: 109
ID: 110 | TITLE: That Night's Wife | CONTENT: is a 1930 Japanese crime and drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. The film stars Tokihiko Okada, Tatsuo Saitō, Chishū Ryū, Emiko Yagumo and Tōgō Yamamoto in the lead roles.
A man, Shuji Hashizume, robs a bank at gunpoint, leaving a bloody handprint behind as he flees from the police. Elsewhere, a doctor tends to a young girl named Michiko. The doctor tells the girl's mother, Mayumi, that Michiko might not make it through the night; if she does, however, she will be past the worst of her illness. The child awakens and asks for her father, but Mayumi tells her that he has gone out to find money for medicine.
Shuji narrowly escapes capture from the police and calls a doctor from a phone booth. It emerges that Shuji is Michiko's father, with the doctor informing him that Michiko is in critical condition and he should return home immediately. Shuji takes a taxi home and reunites with his wife and daughter, handing over the money he stole. When Mayumi deduces that he stole it, Shuji states that given how poor the family is, he had no choice, and tells her that when Michiko has recovered he will turn himself into the police.
A detective, Kagawa, arrives and forcibly enters the apartment as Shuji hides. Despite Mayumi's protests that he is scaring her daughter, Kagawa reveals that he was driving the taxi that Shuji took home in order to track him down. As Kagawa is about to find Shuji, Mayumi takes Shuji's gun and disarms Kagawa. Shuji refuses | END ID: 110
ID: 111 | TITLE: The Deadly Game (1982 film) | CONTENT: '''''The Deadly Game''''' is a 1982 American-British made-for-television thriller film that premiered on HBO. The intellectual thriller was directed by George Schaefer and adapted from a 1960 play by James Yaffe that was in turn based on the novel ''A Dangerous Game'' by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt. It stars George Segal as an American tourist traveling in the Swiss Alps who is lured into a dangerous mock trial by retired Swiss lawyers played by Trevor Howard, Robert Morley, and Emlyn Williams.
The film, which was made in London, received critical acclaim. It received the CableACE Award for best single program, along five additional nominations, including ones for the performances of Segal and Howard. The film also served as actor Alan Webb's final screen performance.
*George Segal - Howard Trapp
*Trevor Howard - Gustave Kummer
*Robert Morley - Emile Carpeau
*Emlyn Williams - Bernard Laroque
*Alan Webb - Joseph Pillet
*Lesley Dunlop - Nicole
*Brian Croucher - Pierre
*Connie Booth - Helen Trapp
*''The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life'' (1972) | END ID: 111
ID: 112 | TITLE: Cavalleria rusticana (1982 film) | CONTENT: '''''''''' is a 1982 Italian film directed by Franco Zeffirelli based on Pietro Mascagni's 1890 opera of the same name. It stars tenor Plácido Domingo, mezzo-soprano Elena Obraztsova, and baritone Renato Bruson, all singing their own roles. Georges Prêtre conducted the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra for the movie's soundtrack. The film was made for broadcast on television. In 2003, it was released on DVD by Deutsche Grammophon, paired with ''Pagliacci'' (having earlier been released by Philips/Decca on DVD), also starring Plácido Domingo and directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
Initially, the Italian television network RAI expressed interest in recording the live opening night double-bill of Franco Zeffirelli's stage productions of ''Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' at the Teatro alla Scala. However, the director wanted to film the operas like movies instead of live stage productions. Over the course of two days, he filmed both operas on the stage of La Scala without an audience and in segments of ten minutes or less. He later added pick-up shots at a film studio in Milan. He also filmed some on location in Vizzini, Sicily for greater authenticity.
Originally shown on Italian television, it was later replayed on U.S. television to enthusiastic reactions. | END ID: 112
ID: 113 | TITLE: The Life of Verdi (miniseries) | CONTENT: '''''The Life of Verdi''''' is a 1982 Italian-language biographical television miniseries directed by Renato Castellani dramatizing the life of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. Castellani also co-wrote the original script with Leonardo Benvenuti and Piero De Bernardi. The English version was written by Gene Luotto and narrated by Burt Lancaster. The miniseries first aired in 1982, and was made available on DVD in 2003.
The production stars British actor Ronald Pickup as Giuseppe Verdi, Italian ballet dancer and actress Carla Fracci as Giuseppina Verdi, and Giampiero Albertini as Antonio Barezzi. Funded by a number of European national broadcasting companies, the series is an accurate portrayal of Verdi's life.
According to promotional material for the production, it was "filmed on location in Italy, Leningrad, London, and Paris...(T)his epic mini-series took several years to create, requiring more than 100 actors, 1800 extras, and 4000 costumes."
The English version has seven 90-minute episodes totaling 630 minutes; the original Italian version, nine 70-minute episodes.
# "Childhood, Barezzi & Milan"
# "Margherita, Tragedy & Nabucco"
# "Patriotism, I Lombardi & Ernani"
# "Giuseppina, Revolution & Rigoletto"
# "Independent Italy, La Traviata & Un Ballo"
# "Wagner, Teresa & Aida"
# "Crisis, Otello & Falstaff"
* Ronald Pickup as Giuseppe Verdi
* Omero Antonutti as Carlo Verdi
* Agla Marsili as Luisa Uttini
* Giampiero Albertini as Antonio Barezzi
* Adriana Innocenti as Maria Barezzi
* Daria Nicolodi as Margherita Barezzi
* Carla Fracci as Giuseppina Strepponi
* Lino Capolicchio as Arrigo Boito
* Enzo Cerusico as Emanuele Muzio
* Eva Christian as Teresa Stolz
* Nino Dal Fabbro as Giulio Ricordi
* Jan Niklas as Angelo Mariani
* Renzo Palmer as Camillo Benso, Count | END ID: 113
ID: 114 | TITLE: The Firebird Rocket | CONTENT: '''''The Firebird Rocket''''' is Volume 57 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.
The book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Vincent Buranelli in 1978.
The Hardy Boys help their detective father, Fenton Hardy, search for a famous rocket scientist whose disappearance endangers the launching of the ''Firebird'' rocket from the Woomera Test Range. They are threatened multiple times, but still do not give up with their lives at risk. Frank and Joe Hardy aid their father and others. However, they soon learn that they are working for a criminal. While they are captured, the police arrive and rescue them, arresting the criminals except for the true mastermind who tries to flee. However, Frank and Joe stop the truck he uses and he is captured. | END ID: 114
ID: 115 | TITLE: Boy at War | CONTENT: The '''''Boy at War''''' trilogy is a series of young adult historical novels by Harry Mazer. The first book, ''A Boy at War'' was released on April 3, 2001 and is based on the events of the attack on Pearl Harbor that initiated the United States' involvement in World War II. The books follow Adam Pelko, the son of a navy commander stationed at Pearl Harbor, during the Japanese attack of December 7, 1941.
Adam Pelko, son of a naval commander Lieutenant Pelko is forced to move to Honolulu because his father is reassigned to Pearl Harbor. Adam is enrolled at Honolulu High School which frustrates Adam as people at Honolulu High School have a dislike of military kids. However, Adam does manage to make two friends, Davi Mori and Martin Kahahawai. Davi is a Japanese-American, while Martin is a Native Hawaiian. One day the boys decide to go fishing early in the morning at Pearl Harbor. As they are fishing on the land, they find a rowboat and decide to take it out into the water. They hear airplanes flying overhead and Davi cheers because he believes these are American planes, but Adam soon their rowboat explodes, and a piece of wood penetrates Martin’s chest. He is wounded, but doesn’t die. Adam watches as his father's ship, the Arizona, goes down and sinks. Once the Japanese attackers leave the harbor in the morning, Adam runs home with a rifle and makes sure his mother and sister, Bea, are okay. They let Adam in the house, and | END ID: 115
ID: 116 | TITLE: The Changeover | CONTENT: '''''The Changeover: a Supernatural Romance''''' is a low fantasy novel for young adults by Margaret Mahy, published in 1984 by J. M. Dent in the U.K. It is set in Christchurch in the author's native New Zealand.
Mahy and ''The Changeover'' won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. Thus she became the fourth writer with two such honours (of seven through 2012), having won the 1982 Medal for ''The Haunting''.
Atheneum Books published a U.S. edition within the year.
WorldCat reports that ''The Changeover'' is Mahy's novel most widely held in participating libraries, second among all her works behind a picture book collaboration, ''The Seven Chinese Brothers'' (1989).
''The Changeover'' is set in a fairly new suburb of Christchurch called Gardendale; Mahy had renamed the suburb of Bishopdale for her book. It has a fairy-tale plot, with a devoted sister risking her life to save her bewitched brother. In some respects a coming-of-age story, it is also an unconventional romance between an aloof and difficult boy who happens to be a male witch and a strong-willed, psychically sensitive schoolgirl.
Laura Chant has one of her "warnings", a premonition that something is about to happen, but is forced to ignore it and go to school as usual. On the way home, she and her younger brother Jacko encounter the sinister Carmody Braque, who 'playfully' stamps Jacko's hand, the stamp appearing as an image of his face.
As Jacko becomes increasingly ill, Laura believes he has been possessed. She seeks the help of | END ID: 116
ID: 117 | TITLE: The Blind Owl | CONTENT: '''''The Blind Owl''''' (1936; , ''Boof-e koor'', ) is Sadegh Hedayat's magnum opus and a major literary work of 20th century Iran. Written in Persian, it tells the story of an unnamed pen case painter, the narrator, who sees in his macabre, feverish nightmares that "the presence of death annihilates all that is imaginary. We are the offspring of death and death delivers us from the tantalizing, fraudulent attractions of life; it is death that beckons us from the depths of life. If at times we come to a halt, we do so to hear the call of death... Throughout our lives, the finger of death points at us." The narrator addresses his murderous confessions to the shadow on his wall resembling an owl. His confessions do not follow a linear progression of events and often repeat and layer themselves thematically, thus lending to the open-ended nature of interpretation of the story.
''The Blind Owl'' was written during the oppressive latter years of Reza Shah's rule (1925–1941). It was originally published in a limited edition in Bombay, during Hedayat's two-year-long stay there in 1937, stamped with "Not for sale or publication in Iran." It first appeared in Tehran in 1941 (as a serial in the daily ''Iran''), after Reza Shah's abdication, and had an immediate and forceful effect. It was later banned, reportedly because it led readers towards suicide. The novel was not tolerated during Reza Shah, probably due to its "pessimism which went counter to the Shah’s grandiloquent rhetoric of progress." It is believed that much | END ID: 117
ID: 118 | TITLE: My Uncle Napoleon | CONTENT: '''''My Uncle Napoleon''''' (, ''Dâ'i jân Nâpel'on'', literal translation: ''Dear Uncle Napoleon'') is a coming of age novel by Iranian author Iraj Pezeshkzad published in Tehran in Persian in 1973. The novel was adapted to a highly successful TV series in 1976 directed by Nasser Taghvai. Though the book and the TV series were briefly banned following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran, it remained popular. and is often regarded as "the most important and well-loved work of Iranian fiction since World War II". It is noted for its lampooning of the common social attitudes and beliefs in Iran during the period of Allied occupation of Iran. The novel has been translated by Dick Davis into English.
The story takes place at the time of Iran's occupation by the Allied forces during the Second World War. Most of the plot occurs in the narrator's home, a huge early 20th-century-style Iranian mansion in which three wealthy families live under the tyranny of a paranoid patriarch, Uncle. The Uncle—who in reality is a retired low-level officer from the Persian Cossack Brigade under Colonel Vladimir Liakhov's command—claims, and in latter stages of the story actually believes, that he and his butler Mash Qasem were involved in wars against the British and their "lackeys", as well as battles supporting the Iranian Constitutional Revolution; and that with the occupation of Iran by the Allied forces, the British are now on course to take their revenge on him. The story's narrator (nameless in the novel but called Saeed in the TV series) | END ID: 118
ID: 119 | TITLE: Savushun | CONTENT: '''''Savušun''''' (also spelled '''''Savushun,''''' ) is a 1969 Persian novel by Iranian writer Simin Daneshvar. It is the first novel in Persian written by a female author. The story is about the life of a landowning family in Shiraz faced to the occupation of Iran during World War II. ''Savušun'' has sold over five hundred thousand copies in Iran.
''Savušun'' is "groundbreaking" and highly acclaimed work in contemporary Persian literature, with both literary and popular success within and outside Iran. The novel has been translated to English and 16 other languages. When writing about the novel's importance, critic Kaveh Bissari describing an exact translation by M.R. Ghanoonparvar in 1990 and the version ''A Persian Requiem'' by Roxane Zand in 1991.
Daneshvar uses folklore and myth in ''Savušun.'' Linguistically, ''savušun'' is a corruption of ''Siyâvašun'', which refers to the traditional mourning for Siyâvaš, a hero in the ''Šâhnâme''.
*Siyâvaš | END ID: 119
ID: 120 | TITLE: Illywhacker | CONTENT: '''''Illywhacker''''' is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was published in 1985 to commercial and critical success, winning a number of awards and being short-listed for the Booker Prize.
Considered metafiction or magical realism, the novel is narrated by liar, trickster, and confidence man Herbert Badgery, the "illywhacker" of the title, and tells the story of his picaresque life in Australia between 1919 and the 1980s.
The novel is related in broad chronological order by the main protagonist, Herbert Badgery, but with frequent digressions that relate the circumstances and life history of Badgery himself, and of many of the characters he meets.
The story begins in 1919 when the thirty-three-year-old Herbert lands his aeroplane in a field close to the wealthy former bullock-herder Jack McGrath. Herbert befriends Jack and persuades him to invest in the construction of an aeroplane factory. Herbert also becomes the lover of Jack's teenage daughter Phoebe, who had previously been involved in a lesbian relationship with a teacher, Annette Davidson. Jack commits suicide following a violent argument between Herbert and some other potential investors. Herbert marries Phoebe and they bear two children, Charles and Sonia. After learning to fly Herbert's aeroplane, Phoebe steals it, abandoning her husband and children to live with Annette. Herbert briefly becomes the lover of Jack's widow, Molly, but goes out on the road to scrape a living, often as a confidence trickster, accompanied by his two children. He meets Leah Goldstein, a former medical student turned dancer who is married to the Communist agitator Izzie Kaletsky. She | END ID: 120
ID: 121 | TITLE: The Hounds of the Morrigan | CONTENT: '''''The Hounds of the Morrigan''''' is a children's novel by the Irish writer Pat O'Shea. It was published in 1985, after taking thirteen years to complete. The novel recounts the adventures of 10-year-old Pidge and his younger sister, Brigit, battling with characters from Celtic mythology.
In a Galway bookshop, Pidge buys a book called ''A Book of Patrick's Writing'' and accidentally frees an evil serpent, Olc-Glas, from inside it. Pidge and his five-year-old sister, Brigit, are then caught up in a battle between good (the Dagda) and evil (the Morrigan). Talking animals and other figures from Celtic mythology help them, and they travel to Tír na nÓg.
The Irish Times wrote that "the unspoilt countryside around Lough Corrib provided the inspiration" for the book.
*Queen Maeve, her husband, Ailill, and their seven sons, the Maines
*Cathbad
*The goddess Brigid
*Angus Og
*The Morrigan, a triple goddess, and her two counterparts:
**Bodb, the Scald Crow
**Macha, the Queen of Phantoms
*Saint Patrick
*The Dagda
*Cúchulainn
Dave Langford reviewed ''The Hounds of the Morrigan'' for ''White Dwarf'' #93, calling it "A little kitchen-sinkish in its determined ransacking of Irish myth, but fun for young and old alike."
‘’The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books’’ at the University of Chicago said that "The prose is rather relentlessly ornamented, but the images are always concrete and, like the narrative, have vigorous strength."
Imogen Russell Williams, writing in ''The Guardian'' nearly 30 years after the book's publication, described it as "a bravura feat of writing ... Its impossibly delicate balance of surreal humour and evoked beauty, knowledge, fearfulness, joy, and courage have never been bettered".
Joanne | END ID: 121
ID: 122 | TITLE: Star Healer | CONTENT: First edition, published by Del Rey Books. Cover art by Rick Sternbach.
'''''Star Healer''''' is a 1985 science fiction book by author James White, part of the Sector General series.
Conway is replaced on the ambulance ship Rhabwar by Diagnostician Prilicla. Conway visits healer Khone on the planet Goglesk, and witnesses first-hand their destructive racial mass-hysteria response to physical proximity. He inadvertently links minds with Khone and learns a great deal more. Back at Hospital Station, Conway decides to treat some Hudlar accident victims with a rear-to-front limb transplant, because stranger transplants require permanent exile. Conway also proposes staving off geriatric Hudlar problems by elective amputation. At the end, he successfully delivers a sentient telepathic Unborn (seen in the other novel of the series ''Ambulance Ship'') from its violent non-sentient Protector. | END ID: 122
ID: 123 | TITLE: Aerials (film) | CONTENT: '''''Aerials''''' is a 2016 Emirati science fiction film set in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Directed by S. A. Zaidi and produced by Ghanem Ghubash, it is the first science fiction film made in UAE. It portrays an alien invasion over the city of Dubai. It stars Saga Alyasery, Ana Druzhynina, Mansoor Alfeeli, and Mohammad Abu Diak.
Earth is invaded by aliens from outer space. An multiracial couple living in the city of Dubai are confined to their home due to the uncertainty of the situation. Disconnected from the world outside due to the loss of communication, they explore around their cultural differences in science in order to understand the reason behind aliens coming to our planet; only to find themselves confronted by a pair of extraterrestrial encounters at their home.
* Saga Alyasery as Omar
* Ana Druzhynina as Omar's wife
* Mansoor Alfeeli as Marwan
* Mohammad Abu Diak as Guy in car
* Pascale Matar as Sara
* Luke Coutts as Insurance guy
* Abeer Mohammed as Arabic news anchor
* Tamara Ljubibratic as News anchor 1
* Derrik Sweeney as News anchor 2
The films official trailer was released at Middle East Film and Comic Con Dubai, and IGN Middle East Abu Dhabi. The film was released in cinemas of United Arab Emirates on June 16, 2016. The film was internationally released in May 2020 on Netflix. | END ID: 123
ID: 124 | TITLE: 3 Bahadur: The Revenge of Baba Balaam | CONTENT: '''''3 Bahadur: The Revenge of Baba Balaam''''' is a Pakistani 3D computer-animated family film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. It is the second installment in the franchise ''3 Bahadur''.
* Zuhab Khan as Saadi
* Fahim Khan as Baba Balaam
* SHAHZAIB KHAN as Kamil
* Arisha Razi as Amna
* Behroze Sabzwari as Deenu
* Ahmed Ali Butt as Gola
* Ali Gul Pir as Teeli/Lolly
* Fahad Mustafa as Imran
* Mustafa Changazi as Tony
* Sarwat Gilani as Saadi's mother
* Zeba Shehnaz as Parrot
* Bassam Shazli as Pateeli/Chatpa
* Hammad Siddiq as Ghutka/ Shikra
* Joel Frenzer as Gabru
===Marketing===
The sequel of ''3 Bahadur'' was announced in a press release in November 2015. The details revealed that Fahad Mustafa, Ahmed Ali Butt, Salman Shahid and Sarwat Gilani will also lend their voices in the sequel titled ''3 Bahadur: The Revenge of Baba Balaam''. In March 2016, ARY Films unveiled the first look poster through a tweet.
The teaser for the film was released on YouTube on 3 August 2016. Later the official Trailer for the film was released online on 27 October 2016. The film was released on 15 December 2016.
===Box office===
The movie opened better on Thursday with day one collecting in its opening week. Film grew 25% relative to previous week collecting taking two weeks total to .
The third film, ''3 Bahadur: Rise of the Warriors'' is scheduled to be released in December 2018, which has the voice by Mehwish Hayat, Fahad Mustafa, Sarwat Gillani, Nimra Bucha and Behroze Sabzwari.
*List of Pakistani films of 2016
*List of Pakistani animated films | END ID: 124
ID: 125 | TITLE: The Glassworker | CONTENT: '''''The Glassworker''''' () is an upcoming Pakistani Urdu-language animated film directed by Usman Riaz. It is Pakistan's first hand drawn animated film. The teaser of the film was released in February 2016, followed by a trailer in October 2016. It is being produced by ''Mano Animation Studios'' located in Karachi. The length of the film is 95 minutes.
The film is set to be released in 2023 (International) as described on the one pager of Mano Animation Studios on their website.The story of the film set in Waterfront Town, revolves around a young boy named Vincent who works at his father's glass shop where he falls in love with a girl named Alliz, a gifted violinist who frequently visits the shop.
===Development===
Usman Riaz crowd sourced funding and raised $116,000 via a Kickstarter campaign.Plus now they have other investors too working with them.
===Animation===
It has a team of about 30 people including Pakistani artists as well as experts in Malaysia, UK, the USA, Canada and the Philippines to whom work is outsourced.
* List of Pakistani animated films | END ID: 125
ID: 126 | TITLE: Five Point Someone | CONTENT: '''''Five Point Someone: What not to do at IIT''''' is a 2004 novel written by Indian author Chetan Bhagat. The book sold over a million copies worldwide. The films ''3 Idiots'' and ''Nanban'' are based on the book. It was also adapted into a play by the theatre company Evam.
The book is narrated by Hari, with some small passages by his friends Ryan and Alok, as well as a letter by Hari's girlfriend Neha Cherian. It deals with the lives of the 3 friends, whose elation on making it to one of the best engineering colleges in India is quickly deflated by the rigor and monotony of the academic work. Most of the book deals with two plot lines. One being the numerous attempts by the trio to cope with and/or beat the system. And Hari's fling with Neha, who just happens to be the daughter of Prof. Cherian (the domineering head of the Mechanical Engineering department of their college). It takes some dark turns every now and then, especially when it comes to the families of the protagonists. Most of the action, however, takes place inside the campus. The characters, led by the ever-creative Ryan, frequently lament over how the internationally lauded IIT system has stifled their creativity by forcing them to value grades more than anything else. Uninspiring teaching and numerous assignments add to their woes, though the boys do find a sympathizer in Prof Veera.
The book has been translated into Hindi and is published by Prabhat Prakash Advaniji releases two novels; Five Point | END ID: 126
ID: 127 | TITLE: One Night @ the Call Center | CONTENT: '''''One Night @ the Call Center''''' is a novel written by Chetan Bhagat, first published in 2005. The novel revolves around a group of six call center employees working at a call center in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. The themes involve the anxieties and insecurities of the young Indian middle class, such as career, inadequacy, marriage, and family conflicts.
The book was the second best-selling novel from the author after ''Five Point Someone''.
The book begins with a frame story recounting a train journey from Kanpur to Delhi. During the journey, the author meets a beautiful girl who offers to tell him a story on the condition that he has to make it his second book. After a lot of hesitation, the author agrees. The story is about six people working in a call center and relates the events that happen one night when get a phone-call from 'God'. Claimed to be based on a true story, the author uses Shyam Mehra (alias Sam Marcy) as the narrator and protagonist, who is one among the six call center employees. Shyam loves but has lost Priyanka, who is now planning an arranged marriage with someone else, Vroom loves Esha, Esha wants to be a model, Radhika is in an unhappy marriage with a demanding mother-in-law, and Military Uncle wants to communicate with his grandson. They all hate Bakshi, their cruel and somewhat sadistic boss.
To cheer themselves up, all the lead characters of the novel decide to go to a night club. After enjoying for a while, they leave back for | END ID: 127
ID: 128 | TITLE: The 3 Mistakes of My Life | CONTENT: '''''The 3 Mistakes of My Life''''' is the third novel written by Chetan Bhagat. The book was published in May 2008 and had an initial print-run of 420,000. The novel follows the story of three friends and is based in the city of Ahmedabad in western India. This is the third best seller novel by Chetan Bhagat.
This English national bestseller has been published in Gujarati language by a leading Gujarati book publisher, M.B.D., based in Ahmedabad & Mumbai. This book has been translated into Tamil and is published by Diamond Pocket Books. The French translation was released by Cherche Midi publisher in March 2010 as ''Les 3 erreurs de ma vie''. It was translated into Sinhala by Dileepa Jayakodi in 2011 as ''Thun Thakatheerukan Karapu Kenek Man''.
The movie version of the novel is ''Kai Po Che!'' directed by Abhishek Kapoor starring Sushant Singh Rajput, Amit Sadh & Rajkumar Rao it was released in February 2013. The film and the book are set in Gujarat, hence the title ''Kai Po Che!''. | END ID: 128
ID: 129 | TITLE: Mac & Devin Go to High School | CONTENT: bad – plain and simple. The on-screen collaboration between these two Hip-Hop heavyweights is a joke, and for their sakes, hopefully a joke that they and everyone involved with Mac and Devin were in on. At the end of the day, the only thing that ''Mac and Devin Go to High School'' proves is that we need ''How High 2'', and we need it bad!" Nathan Rabin of ''The A.V. Club'' also gave the film a negative review, saying "The protégé completes his evolution when he uses his high-school valedictorian speech to perform 'Young, Wild & Free,' the hit single from ''Mac & Devin Go To High School''. 'Young, Wild & Free' is everything ''Mac & Devin Go To High School'' should be but isn’t: fun, light, goofy, entertaining, and young. In moments like this, the movie possesses a strange, disarming innocence, but it forces audiences to endure a punishing gauntlet of misogyny and non-starting comedy to get to that middling moment of moderate enjoyment." | END ID: 129
ID: 130 | TITLE: Crossfire (novel) | CONTENT: is a novel by Miyuki Miyabe. The novel, published in Japan in 1998, and was published in English by Kodansha America in 2006. The English version was translated by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi and Anna Husson Isozaki.
The novel is about a girl named '''Junko Aoki''' (青木淳子 ''Aoki Junko''), who has the psychokinetic power of pyrokinesis. She decides to kill criminals in order to make her world better. When Junko sets off to rescue a woman kidnapped by juvenile delinquents, the arson division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and a secretive vigilante group that wants to recruit her, pursue her. '''Chikako Ishizu''' (石津ちか子 ''Ishizu Chikako''), a policewoman, is astounded by Junko Aoki's case as she digs deeper into it.
There is a 2000 film version of ''Crossfire'' entitled ''Crossfire'' (''Pyrokinesis'' in English).
A mobile phone manga version of the novel has been produced by Konami. In addition, featured in Konami's beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS is a song titled NΦ CRIME, featuring a video made up of panels from the manga. The lyrics of the English version are based loosely on the premise of the novel. | END ID: 130
ID: 131 | TITLE: Go to Hell!! | CONTENT: '''''Go to Hell
''''' is a 1997 Australian adult animated comedy film directed, written, produced, and animated entirely by Ray Nowland, making it one of the only feature-length films animated by a single person. The film re-imagines history in a world where God is actually an alien called "G.D.", who wiped out the dinosaurs and replaced them with apes from his own planet (which eventually evolve into humans), with the Devil being G.D.'s son (called "Little Red"), who appears throughout history in an attempt to thwart G.D.'s plans.
''Go to Hell
'' has received very limited distribution, despite having been aired on national television station SBS in Australia. Despite this, the film has received positive critical reception. In AllMovie, Robert Firsching awarded the film 3½ out of 5 stars, describing it as "an impressive attempt to completely rewrite the history of the universe in less time than it takes to train a Pokemon." Steven Puchalski in ''Shock Cinema'' also praised ''Go to Hell
'', stating that it "crams a wealth of imagination into only 73 minutes." ''Underground Animation'' recommended the film to "anyone that’s into weird fucked up animation, adult fans of ‘Blinky Bill’ or anyone interested in the history of underground, solo or Australian animation." Screen Australia described the film as "hilariously shocking". | END ID: 131
ID: 132 | TITLE: Minnaram | CONTENT: (2021). However, a dog explosion comedy sequence from this movie had been earlier used by Priyadarshan in another Hindi movie ''Yeh Teraa Ghar Yeh Meraa Ghar''. | END ID: 132
====== Example 1 ======
Based on the documents above, can you answer the following query? Print out the TITLE and ID of the documents you use to answer. Then format the answers into a list.
query: Action comedy films from Taiwan or comedy films about martial arts from China
TITLE: The Village of No Return | ID: 0
TITLE: The Invincible Constable | ID: 1
TITLE: The Adventures of Jinbao | ID: 2
Final Answer: ['The Adventures of Jinbao', 'The Invincible Constable', 'The Village of No Return']
====== Example 2 ======
Based on the documents above, can you answer the following query? Print out the TITLE and ID of the documents you use to answer. Then format the answers into a list.
query: Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly novels
TITLE: Une vieille maîtresse | ID: 3
TITLE: The Bewitched | ID: 4
TITLE: The Story Without a Name (novel) | ID: 5
Final Answer: ['The Bewitched', 'The Story Without a Name (novel)', 'Une vieille maîtresse']
====== Example 3 ======
Based on the documents above, can you answer the following query? Print out the TITLE and ID of the documents you use to answer. Then format the answers into a list.
query: Books about education that are African novels
TITLE: The Lives of Animals | ID: 6
Final Answer: ['The Lives of Animals']
====== Example 4 ======
Based on the documents above, can you answer the following query? Print out the TITLE and ID of the documents you use to answer. Then format the answers into a list.
query: 1950s short films that are both 1950s animated short films and 1958 comedy films
TITLE: Tot Watchers | ID: 7
TITLE: Now Hare This | ID: 8
Final Answer: ['Now Hare This', 'Tot Watchers']
====== Example 5 ======
Based on the documents above, can you answer the following query? Print out the TITLE and ID of the documents you use to answer. Then format the answers into a list.
query: 2010s Novellas but not American ones
TITLE: The Midnight Zoo | ID: 9
TITLE: This Census-Taker | ID: 10
TITLE: Black Sheep (Hill novel) | ID: 11
Final Answer: ['Black Sheep (Hill novel)', 'The Midnight Zoo', 'This Census-Taker']
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====== Now let's start! ======
Based on the documents above, can you answer the following query? Print out the TITLE and ID of the documents you use to answer. Then format the answers into a list.
query: Novels about families set in Boston and New England.
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Final Answer:
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"A Case of Need"
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| "====== Now let's start! ======\nBased on the documents above, can you answer the following query? P(...TRUNCATED)
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Final Answer:
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[
"Five Point Someone",
"One Night @ the Call Center",
"The 3 Mistakes of My Life"
] |
quest_32k
| 256
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| "====== Now let's start! ======\nBased on the documents above, can you answer the following query? P(...TRUNCATED)
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Final Answer:
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[
"At Night We Walk in Circles",
"La reina de América",
"Lost City Radio"
] |
quest_32k
| 256
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| "====== Now let's start! ======\nBased on the documents above, can you answer the following query? P(...TRUNCATED)
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Final Answer:
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[
"One Way Trip 3D"
] |
quest_32k
| 256
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"You will be given a list of documents. You need to read carefully and understand all of them. Then (...TRUNCATED)
| "====== Now let's start! ======\nBased on the documents above, can you answer the following query? P(...TRUNCATED)
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Final Answer:
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[
"Firecrest (novel)",
"Lament for Leto"
] |
quest_32k
| 256
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"You will be given a list of documents. You need to read carefully and understand all of them. Then (...TRUNCATED)
| "====== Now let's start! ======\nBased on the documents above, can you answer the following query? P(...TRUNCATED)
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Final Answer:
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[
"Crisis of Conscience"
] |
quest_32k
| 256
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"You will be given a list of documents. You need to read carefully and understand all of them. Then (...TRUNCATED)
| "====== Now let's start! ======\nBased on the documents above, can you answer the following query? P(...TRUNCATED)
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Final Answer:
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[
"Chain of Attack",
"The Final Nexus",
"The Peacekeepers"
] |
quest_32k
| 256
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"You will be given a list of documents. You need to read carefully and understand all of them. Then (...TRUNCATED)
| "====== Now let's start! ======\nBased on the documents above, can you answer the following query? P(...TRUNCATED)
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Final Answer:
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[
"Seveneves"
] |
quest_32k
| 256
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| "====== Now let's start! ======\nBased on the documents above, can you answer the following query? P(...TRUNCATED)
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Final Answer:
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[
"Elizabeth (film)"
] |
quest_32k
| 256
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| "====== Now let's start! ======\nBased on the documents above, can you answer the following query? P(...TRUNCATED)
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Final Answer:
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"Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc"
] |
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LOFT RAG - Quest (32k)
Dataset Description
This dataset is part of the LOFT (Long-context Open Foundation Tasks) benchmark, specifically the RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) task.
- Dataset: Quest
- Context Length: 32k
- Task Type: RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
- Language: English
- Source: LOFT Benchmark (Google DeepMind)
Dataset Structure
Data Fields
context(string): Full prompt context including corpus documents and few-shot examplesquestion(string): Query separator + query format + query textanswer_prefix(string): Prefix for answer generation ("Final Answer: ")answers(list[string]): Ground truth answerstask(string): Task identifier (e.g., "quest_32k")max_new_tokens(int64): Maximum tokens for generation (256)
Data Splits
dev: Development set (10 examples)test: Test set (60 examples)
Usage
from datasets import load_dataset
# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("loft-rag-quest-32k")
# Access splits
dev_data = dataset["dev"]
df_dev = dev_data.to_pandas()
test_data = dataset["test"]
df_test = test_data.to_pandas()
# Example usage
sample = dataset["dev"][0] if "dev" in dataset else dataset["test"][0]
context = sample["context"]
question = sample["question"]
answers = sample["answers"]
Dataset Creation
This dataset was converted from LOFT's original format to HuggingFace format using exact LOFT prompt construction to ensure 100% fidelity.
- Prompt Construction: Uses LOFT's
PromptRegistryandconcatenate_chunks()for exact prompt matching - Few-shot Examples: Preserved exactly as in LOFT (5 examples)
- Corpus Documents: Full corpus included in context (corpus-in-context approach)
- Verification: All prompts verified to match LOFT originals exactly
Related Datasets
All LOFT RAG datasets are available under the loft-rag-* namespace:
- Main Index - Overview of all datasets
Citation
@article{{loft2024,
title={{LOFT: Long-context Open Foundation Tasks}},
author={{Google DeepMind}},
year={{2024}},
url={{https://github.com/google-deepmind/loft}}
}}
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