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  1. My Kingdom (2002 Film)

    Director
    Don Boyd
    Producer
    Gabriele Bacher; Neal Weisman
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film. An urban crime drama updating King Lear to modern-day Liverpool. The leader of a gang, Sandeman, decides to divide his territory after the murder of his wife in a street robbery. He would like...

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  2. Last September, The (2000)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 99 minutes), £14.99

    A film adaptation of the novel by Elizabeth Bowen. In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and...

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  3. Heimat: Chronicle of a Generation - Set 2 (1992)

    Subject
    German studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1500 minutes), £59.99

    The second series of Edgar Reitz’s monumental history of 20th century Germany, subtitled ‘Chronicle of a Generation’. Heimat 2 takes up where the first series left off, focusing on the exploits of...

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  4. Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany - Set 1 (1984)

    aka: Heimat: Eine Deutsche Chronik

    Subject
    German studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 924 minutes), £59.99

    Shot over two years, Edgar Reitz’s 11-part series HEIMAT, made for German television, is a semi-autobiographical drama telling the the saga of a German family, living in a small village, from the end of...

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  5. Woyzeck1 (1978 Film, Video)

    Director
    Werner Herzog
    Subject
    Drama; German studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A film adaptation of George Büchner’s unfinished play based on a true story of the soldier Johann Christian Woyzeck who was found guilty of murdering his mistress and executed in Leipzig in 1824.

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  6. Heart of Glass (1976 Video)

    Director
    Werner Herzog
    Subject
    German studies
    Distribution
    Sale (video - retail), Videocassette. VHS. col. 94 min., 1995 sale: £15.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Werner Herzog’s version of a German folktale about a shepherd who reveals the secrets of glassblowing to a factory boss whose expert has died.

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  7. Oedipus Rex (1967)

    Director
    Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

    Sophocles’ Greek tragedy about a boy who becomes obsessed with his mother. Filmed on location in Morocco.

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  8. Tokyo Olympiad (1965 Video)

    aka: Tokyo Orimpikku

    Director
    Kon Ichikawa
    Producer
    Suketaru Taguchi
    Subject
    Media studies; Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 130 min., £15.99 (inclusive)

    A documentary film about the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, shot by 164 cameramen using 1031 cameras, showing close, long and medium shots of the games.

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  9. Through a Glass Darkly 1 (1961 Video)

    aka: Sasom I en Spegel

    Director
    Ingmar Bergman
    Producer
    Allan Ekelund
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    A four-character drama about a just-released mental patient, her husband, her father and her younger brother who spend the summer together on a secluded island. A study of the fragility of the human psyche...

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  10. Ivan the Terrible (2 Parts) (1945 Film, Video)

    aka: Ivan Groznyj

    Director
    Sergei Eisenstein
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    1 (1944): Story of Tsar Ivan IV - Ivan the Terrible. Begins with his crowning as Tsar of Russia, follows his struggle to consolidate the Russian Empire, freeing it from Eastern domination, through his...

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