14th Göteborg Film Festival (1991)
Göteborg Film Festival 25 Jan - 3 Feb 1991 a few films missing
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- DirectorVibeke LøkkebergStarsHelge JordalVibeke LøkkebergTonje Kleivdal KristiansenA shipping magnate goes bankrupt and the family being used to a high spending life. Moving to a summer resort with moonshine and smuggling as a way out. Love and art are sacrificed in the hunt for old honor, with the children as victims.
- DirectorJean-Pierre JeunetStarsDominique PinonChick OrtegaMarie-Laure DougnacA 9 minute comedy starring Dominique Pinon (Delicatessen). Featuring muted colors with a sepia black and white, Pinon takes the viewer through various examples of what he "likes and dislikes". The music is by Carlos D'Alessio and Special Thanks is given to Claudie Ossard.
- DirectorVibeke LøkkebergA young girl gets pregnant, and decides to apply for abortion. We follow her until the application is answered.
- DirectorVibeke LøkkebergThe short story film Rain (1975) is based on the short story collection Trylleglasset, written by Torborg Nedreaas, and follows the eight-year-old Herdis on a rainy day in Bergen.
- DirectorVibeke LøkkebergStarsMarie TakvamWilfred BreistrandBonne GauguinThe 50 year old house wife Ingrid is unsuccessful in her first job after the kids have grown up. her husband send her to a stay at a summer hotel, where she return to spirit and goes back home only to find him in bed with a lover.
- DirectorVibeke LøkkebergStarsNina KnapskogKenneth JohansenHelge JordalA young girl growing up in Bergen, Norway just after the 2nd world war, is trying to deal with the father's adultery and mother's deep depression, as she befriends a boy. This endangers her.
- DirectorTerje KristiansenStarsTerje KristiansenVibeke LøkkebergTonje Kleivdal KristiansenA love story about an actor, Arne Strømberg, which struggles with the changes between love and anger, and his roles as a macho man, family father and husband.
- DirectorVibeke LøkkebergStarsVibeke LøkkebergKeve HjelmTerence StampIn a rural western town in 1890 a woman has a mute old daughter after relations with her step father, which in his need of money, wants to sell them off to a rich skin tradesman. While resisting this, the woman turns lame.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsKlas-Gösta OlssonLennart BjörklundChrister ChristensenAfter witnessing an act of unprecedented violence without even flinching, an emotionally numb real-estate agent visits his ailing mother at the hospital, and then, the graveyard. Is there a speck of happiness in this cruel and short life?
- DirectorEddie Thomas PetersenStarsJesper Gredeli JensenTrine DyrholmKirsten OlesenFranco lives in a rough part of Copenhagen. His hooker mother has little time for him. Franco drifts into a life of crime, repeatedly confronting the authorities. To give him a new start, he's placed in a foster home far away from Copenhagen. His new family greets him with warm hospitality. There's also the beautiful countryside and, last but not least, the teen-aged daughter.
- DirectorAgneta Fagerström-OlssonStarsLena CarlssonUlf FribergBirgitta AhlgrenSeventeen year old Rita grows up in an upper-class Swedish seaside society in 1965, and is very close to her father, Gerhard. Rita rejects the boys from the tennis club, and prefers to go out with Jimmi in his laundry delivery van.
- DirectorHelle RyslingeStarsPeter Hesse OvergaardKirsten LehfeldtSteen SvareThe gallery owner Lasse is more vain than he is an artist.
- DirectorGöran GunérStarsMagnus NilssonKenneth SödermanSusanne SpjuthAbout the life and art of the Swedish painter Ernst Josephson (1851-1906), his many travels in Europe and about the psychological crisis in 1885 which changed Josephson's artistry completely.
- DirectorAri KristinssonStarsSigríður Þórdís BergsdóttirBryndis Petra BragadóttirIngólfur GuðvarðarsonFollows the adventure of a group of kids and a paper boy named Peter. Plane ride, box car racing and bad neighbors are all included.
- DirectorStig LarssonStarsBörje AhlstedtLeif AndréeStina EkbladAn investigative reporter is doing a story of a serial rapist, called "The rabbit man" When the reporter is given a police sketch of the rapist, he is struck by how the image resembles his own son.
- DirectorPatrice LeconteStarsJean RochefortAnna GalienaRoland BertinAntoine has always been fascinated by a hairdresser's delicate touch, the beguiling perfume and the enticing figure of a woman with an opulent bosom. After all, he always knew he would marry one, completing his idealised love fantasy.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsIsaach De BankoléAlex DescasSolveig DommartinDah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsGérard LanvinPatrick ChesnaisAnnie GirardotHow can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation.
- DirectorChristian VincentStarsFabrice LuchiniJudith HenryMaurice GarrelThere is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, decides to seduce a young woman with the singular purpose of keeping a diary of the seduction and then dump her before publishing the book about it. Unfortunately he falls in love with her.
- DirectorPierre Vinour
- DirectorSamy PavelStarsIdit CebulaArmand EloiIrène JacobVincent Van Gogh's family meets soon after the painter's suicide.
- DirectorPhilippe FauconStarsLaurence KertekianJule JaphetMathieu BauerIn a suburb of Paris, a group of teenagers enjoys the last days of summer vacation. They meet in cafes, restaurants or disco, talking about first love, experiences, disappointments and jealousy. Sandrine tries to figure out if she should keep her boyfriend Didier or try with silent Joel, whom she's just met. Riri, Alex and Paulo desperately try to get laid.
- DirectorBenoît JacquotStarsJudith GodrècheMarcel BozonnetThérèse LiotardBeth, a teenager in the midst of a painful moral education, is put in the unenviable position of holding her family together and debasing herself at the suggestion of both her scornful bedridden mother and her no-good boyfriend.
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsBulle OgierBenoît RégentFejria DelibaA drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette's work as a whole.
- DirectorF.J. OssangStarsStéphane FerraraDiogo DóriaJosé WallensteinThe world after the atomic age. An engineer disappears, together with his consortium (Kryo'Corp) and his discovery: a new energy source powered by the fusion of two primary substances. Ulysses, Kryo'Corp's heir, organises an expedition to the only place these substances occur.
- DirectorJacob BergerStarsBelinda BeckerSteven WeberJosé Esteban AlendaThe American musician Rickie falls in love with the prostitute Sara, who pretends to be a princess. As they escape together, Rickie gets into a dangerous adventure...
- DirectorSabine PrenczinaStarsTim RothMarie MatheronMatthias HabichA young man travels with his French girlfriend to Ethiopia. Whilst there he discovers a house in which the French poet Rimbaud once lived and he becomes obsessed with finding out more information about him.
- DirectorWenji TengStarsJingyang CaoPeng ChiXi DuanDang Gui saves a woman and her daughter running away from a bandit. When he falls in love with her, she is forced to go back with the bandit and leave her daughter. Dang Gui takes over the responsibility for raising up the girl.
- DirectorHaowei WangStarsYe TangBai XueLi Zhuang
- DirectorFei XieStarsWen JiangCheng LinHong YueA semi-literate who was deprived of schooling during the Cultural Revolution, Li Huiquan, is released from labor camp. But his attempts to make good are continually thwarted. His street stall selling clothes puts him on the fringe of the black market, and he soon gets lured back into his old neighbourhood gangs. His disenchanted comrades include a nightclub chanteuse as well as an escaped convict.
- DirectorTian-Ming WuStarsYujing LiangYuqing LiaoLiping LüA married village worker teams up with an old girlfriend to try to dig a well for his water-starved village. The well collapses and they are trapped. Their enforced confinement leads to them exploring their feelings for each other and those around them.
- DirectorCynthia ScottStarsAlice DiaboConstance GarneauBeth WebberA busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives.
- DirectorMichel BraultStarsGeneviève BujoldManuel AranguizDorothée BerrymanA woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with a refugee.
- DirectorStephen McCallumStarsJoy CoghillDon MacKayDwight McFeeThe story of a small boat of the shores of British Columbia during a storm and the people who are linked to its ultimate fate.
- DirectorPatricia Tassinari
- DirectorJean-Claude Bustros"Difficile de dire de quoi traite ce film. Je sais qu'il est le fruit de beaucoup de colère. Colère contre la télé, les médias, le cinéma, la politique, le social, l'économie, l'histoire, enfin beaucoup de choses. Surtout j'avais le désir d'arrêter de fabriquer de l'illusion." (propos de Jean-Claude Bustros, Répertoire Main Film 1982-1986).
- DirectorOlivier AsselinStarsLucille FluetRonald HouleSerge ChristiaenssensAn old Egyptian silent movie restored with great care and dubbed by a couple of lip-reading deaf mutes relates the story of a young girl wandering in the desert hoping upon an heroic life until she resurrects a dead man with a sneeze. This miracle attracts the attention of a lot of people, especially, from a greedy businessman and from a scientist, both trying to get as much as possible from her.
- DirectorRéal BérardAndré LeducA musical celebration of the French Canadian heritage in the Canadian West.
- DirectorJohn WalkerStarsJohn WalkerHarvey AtkinBlanche BrownPaul Strand (1890-1976) remains a curiously shrouded and paradoxical figure. While passionately devoted to humanity, he was happiest in the isolation of the darkroom.
- DirectorAlejandro AgrestiStarsTito HaasMirta BusnelliSergio Poves CamposAs an anonymous man, Fermin leaves his underground hideout in the subway. The dictatorship in the country is followed by democracy, but the bright light of it blinds Fermin: he is displaced. At the police station, his anonymity is complete and he doesn't remember his own name. He is fitted with a past of 13 years of illegal political opposition from the police archives. When he keeps silent about the crimes of the dictator regime, he will be a free man. The woman he promised to marry, doesn't recognize him anymore, and thinks he is dead.
- DirectorTristán BauerStarsJosé AndradaFranklin CaicedoPaola CardozoA married couple with two children living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires have economical troubles. The father returns to his rural birthplace, where he finds that his father and brother are out of work, so he decides to the city.
- DirectorSilvio CaiozziStarsGloria MünchmeyerRafael BenaventeErnesto BeadleA sailor prostrate in his bed maintains control of his home and his son through mirrors hung around him.
- DirectorMilan CheylovStarsDanny AielloStellina Rusich
- DirectorFrancisco J. LombardiStarsGustavo BuenoDiana QuijanoLeontina Antonina3 entwined stories set in Lima in the conflict marked 8Os: An elderly couple loses their child. A broadcaster shelters a depressed woman. A blind woman exploits her poor grandsons.
- DirectorCamilo LuzuriagaStarsLissette CabreraRossana IturraldeVerónica GarcíaThe wild and wanton Francisca, known as the "The Tigress," is the eldest of three sisters, who are bosses of a farm in Ecuador. A medicine man tells Francisca and Juliana that their youngest sister Sara must remain a virgin to protect their land. A travelling salesman, engaged to Sara, tells the police that she is being kept locked up by her older sisters.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsSergei PopovOlga AntonovaGalina ZakhurdaevaIn the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it's not much fun.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsViktor SolovyovLyudmila EfimenkoPylyp IllienkoThis film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality. A convict is forced to hide within a model of a hammer and sickle. Here a tragic romance ensues between the convict and woman worker.
- DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsAleksey BuldakovSergei KupriianovAleksey PoluyanThis docudrama of harsh conditions in the Soviet army focuses on a military man, angered by the corruption of the system, who shoots six of his fellow soldiers.
- DirectorVitali KanevskyStarsDinara DrukarovaPavel NazarovElena PopovaTwo children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.
- DirectorSvetlana ProskurinaStarsAlla SokolovaAleksey SerebryakovTatyana BondaryovaTatyana Prokofievna is an ageing woman with the aspirations and manners of a diva, but her life is uneventful, ordinary and dull. In an attempt to escape solitude and defy old age she seeks romantic friendship of her young male protégés.
- DirectorMarlen KhutsievStarsVasiliy ShukshinNikolai ChursinTamara SyominaAt the end of the Second World War, Fedor is demobilized and returns home where he meets a homeless boy, small Fedor.
- DirectorMarlen KhutsievStarsValentin PopovNikolay GubenkoStanislav LyubshinFollowing three lifelong friends who return to Moscow after military service, we see their aspirations juxtaposed against everyday life in 1960 Soviet Union.
- DirectorMarlen KhutsievStarsEvgeniya UralovaAleksandr BelyavskiyYuriy VizborLena is about to marry when she finds out her fiance is a bad person. After leaving him, she seeks for a sense in her life through adventures with artists who are also searching their own identity. When raining, she meets Zhenya.
- DirectorMarlen KhutsievStarsRostislav PlyattAndrey MyagkovThe elderly Alexey Borisovich arrives in Moscow to visit his daughter. He discovers that she is away on a business trip. Alexey has to spend time with his son-in-law, Vladimir Shvyrkov, until she returns.
- DirectorIan SellarStarsRay McAnallyDavid HaymanSinéad CusackPeter, a young boy living in the fishing village of St Monans, Scotland during 1940s, learns about life and the beauty of imagination from his grandfather and female teacher in this touching semi-autobiographical story about childhood.
- DirectorTerence DaviesStarsPete PostlethwaiteFreda DowieAngela WalshThe lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, "Distant Voices", focuses on the father's role in the family. The second part, "Still Lives", focuses on his children.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsMercedes QuadrosMíka van BloemenHelen UlmanYoung Amelia is feeling distressed and guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. She notices an angel and follows it into a dark building. Upstairs in the attic, bathed in heavenly light, is an artist's model: The Angel. The painter ascends a ladder until he is out of shot, supposedly climbing to heaven, because when he reappears he restores Amelia's joy with a pair of wings.
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsGwen Ffrangcon DaviesIsobel MullerMaxine DayA white South African is shocked on a weekly visit to her sister's farm.
- DirectorChristoph Janetzko
- DirectorChristoph Janetzko
- DirectorHugo ClausStarsAnn PetersenCarl RiddersJan DecleirThe Heylen family's annual get-together to commemorate their mother derails completely.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsWojciech PszoniakEwa DalkowskaTeresa Budzisz-KrzyzanowskaThe last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Dr. Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- DirectorÁrpád SopsitsStarsZoltán LengyelJudit DanyiLajos Kovács
- DirectorMárta MészárosStarsZsuzsa CzinkócziJan NowickiTamás VégváriDirect follow-up to "Diary for my lovers". Juli and the people who she knew throughout her life have to face the events of the 1956 failed revolution in Hungary.
- DirectorMárta MészárosStarsZsuzsa CzinkócziÁgnes CsereAnna PolonyHaving lost her parents to Stalin's purges, a girl returns from Soviet Union to her native Hungary to live with her Stalinist aunt.
- DirectorMárta MészárosStarsZsuzsa CzinkócziÁgnes CsereAnna PolonyA continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.
- DirectorKevin CostnerStarsKevin CostnerMary McDonnellGraham GreeneLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.
- DirectorMuammer ÖzerStarsZuhal OlcayHaluk BilginerSahika TekandSibel was tortured in prison as a political criminal in the 1980 coup and went silent after being released from prison. Her husband Atilla has questions.
- DirectorPhilip ChanStarsMichael HuiSamuel HuiRicky HuiHui (Michael Hui), an owner of a Hong Kong tabloid magazine company, hires martial artist Bill Lee (Sam Hui) to help him get a good headliner for a magazine story to, hopefully, save his failing business. In the process, Bill meets San-San (Catherine Hung Yan), the fiancée of a wealthy jewelry business owner, and pursues her in order to get the scoop about her life. After thinking that San-San would make a great headliner, Bill feels sorry for her because of her troubled life: her mother has cancer, her brother is mentally disabled and her fiancé puts work before her. Thus, Bill is reluctant to publish San-San's story, putting the tabloid company's fate in his hands.
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsPhillip SalvadorDina BonnevieGina AlajarIn 1985, in the obscure town of Santa Filomena, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Kontra (Roco), murders a foreign priest who gave the last rites to an alleged rebel, who was also executed by the same group. At the success of the 1986 EDSA revolt, political detainees, led by Jimmy Cordero (Salvador), celebrate the fall of the dictatorship. All political prisoners are released, including Jimmy, an ex-priest-turned-underground revolutionary. Not long, after, Jimmy marries a human rights activist, Trixie (Bonnevie). Jimmy becomes an advocate of human rights. Despite Trixie's protests, her brother, Roland (Lorenzo), and Jimmy go on a fact-finding mission to Santa Filomena to investigate the latest crime committed by the Orapronobis. Jimmy meets Esper (Alajar), his ex-girlfriend. He finds out that he has a son with her, Camilo (Herrera). They agree to keep Jimmy's true identity a secret form the boy. Conniving with the military, the Orapronobis step up their acts of terror. Jimmy's group helps evacuate the townspeople to the town church, then later to Manila. Back in Manila, Jimmy turns down a friend's invitation to rejoin the underground movement. Later, he and Roland are ambushed. Jimmy survives, but Roland does not. He recovers and shortly after that, Trixie gives birth to their child. Soldiers raid the refugee center with a masked man who identifies several of the barrio folk as rebels. The refugees and the human rights activists complain to the government. Esper and her son are abducted by the Orapronobis who accuse Esper of helping the rebels. She is raped and beaten up by Kumander Kontra in front of Camilo. Fighting back, she shoots at Kontra. In a hysterical rage, Kontra goes on a shooting rampage, killing Esper, Camilo and the captured barrio men. Later, the military bring the casualties to the town where Jimmy weeps over the bodies of Esper and his son. The film ends with Jimmy contacting his old colleague from the underground.
- DirectorJorge FurtadoStarsPaulo JoséCiça ReckziegelDouglas TraininiThe ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in a garbage dump in "Ilha das Flores"; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employees of a pigs breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people.
- DirectorMichael VerhoevenStarsLena StolzeHans-Reinhard MüllerMonika BaumgartnerWhen a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.
- DirectorHarun FarockiAn oddity: a mock-documentary, satirizing West German life, from the perspective of a leftwing East German filmmaker.
- DirectorPenelope BuitenhuisStarsMichael BeckmanInes BerthelYvonne Ducksworth"Wall", spelled backwards, is a personal diary combining archive and documentary footage with metaphorical images to depict five days surrounding the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989.
- DirectorLothar LambertStarsBaduriDagmar BeiersdorfRobert Cutts
- DirectorAlan MarrStarsStuart ClowKathleen LaskeyGerry Mendicino
- DirectorDominik GrafStarsPeter LohmeyerAnica DobraHansa Czypionka
- DirectorPaulus MankerStarsPaulus MankerHilde SochorJosefin PlattSelf-imprisoned in an apartment which is reminiscent of a theater stage, Otto Weininger recalls certain events of his life before shooting himself on October 4, 1903.
- DirectorNiko von GlasowStarsAnna DabrowskaKrzysztof SapkowskiBlazej PeszekA car drives through Poland. The scenery gradually changes: a town, high-rise flats and farmhouses. The car stops in a village. A female photographer from Western Europe gets out and avidly takes pictures of her surroundings. By chance, her eye is caught by the arrival of a wedding party. This marks the point of departure for several stories which unfold during the course of the wedding.
- DirectorMax LinderStarsJohann KleinAngela SackArnold Zirkler
- DirectorElaine ProctorStarsMichael O'BrienAletta BezuidenhoutGys de VilliersThis bleak and claustrophobic chamber piece traced the breakdown of the marriage between an Afrikaner soldier and his wife after the terrible revelations about his work activities.
- DirectorAdam KossoffStarsKelly MarcelCathy TysonClive Arrindell
- DirectorPaul BushStarsRichard Hawley
- DirectorMatthias DraweStarsRasit TunceyKerstin RehbergMatthias DraweThe film describes the life of R., a young turk man in Berlin, Germany, who is of the oppinion that he can fly. One day he succeeds in doing so, but no witness is there to testify the situation. Should all his efforts have been for nothing? In the mean time he meets a young woman, L., and temporarily forgets his aim to fly.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsRoberto BenigniPaolo VillaggioNadia OttavianiThe amusing and entertaining adventures of a recently released mental patient and his band of misfits, who discover conspiracies to participate in while looking for love.
- DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsJim BelushiMimi RogersJoss AcklandA candidate for the Mayor of New York City promises to legalize drugs. The mafia, making insane money on illegal drug trade, is about to dissuade him - at all cost.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsJulian SandsCharlotte GainsbourgMassimo BonettiYoung nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king's mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk. But his quest for perfect solitude is constantly interrupted by visitors hearing rumours that Sergio possesses miraculous powers, and by women who bet each other that they can successfully seduce him...
- DirectorFérid BoughedirStarsSelim BoughedirMustapha AdouaniRabiah Ben-AbdullahNoura struggles to reconcile two worlds, Muslim women and men, while also dealing with his own sexuality.
- DirectorMohamed Abderrahman TaziStarsJillali FerhatiMaribel VerdúZakia TahiriStory of two women in a small fishing village, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan territory. Touria is married to the school teacher, who suspects her of infidelity and confines her to the house. Touria befriends Moira and together they learn how to dance the flamenco.
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsAnjelica HustonJohn CusackAnnette BeningA small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
- DirectorCharles BurnettStarsDanny GloverPaul ButlerDeVaughn NixonA charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild-mannered family.
- DirectorBarry Alexander BrownStarsRanjit ChowdhryTirlok MalikAdelaide MillerThe dreams and aspirations about America and life of Arun, a young Indian in his 20s, change as he struggles to fit into a new and alien culture. His strained relationship with his rigidly traditional uncle, Max, further complicates his dilemma.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsPaul NewmanJoanne WoodwardSaundra McClainSet during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.