(Original title: Oberst Redl) “Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret...
“In 1935 New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.” – IMDB USA, 1985, Woody Allen. Comedy/Fantasy/Romance, 1hr22 (PG) Presented as the Amersham and Chesham Film Society
“The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.” – IMDB USA, 1974, Bob Fosse. Biography/Drama, 1hr51 (X) Presented as the Amersham...
(Original title: Poulet au Vinaigre) “In a small provincial French town, Dr Morasseau, Mr Lavoisier and butcher Filiol decide to create a significant estate business but Mrs Cuno and her son Louis do not want to sell their house. Louis...
“A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.” – IMDB UK, 1985, Mike Newell. Biography/Crime/Drama, 1hr36 (15) Presented...
(Original title: Wo die Grünen Ameisen Träumen) “A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.” – IMDB West Germany, 1984, Werner Herzog. Drama, 1hr40 (15)...
(Original title: Le Retour de Martin Guerre) “In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man’s claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.” – IMDB France, 1982, Daniel Vigne. Biography/Crime/Drama, 1hr52 (15)...
“Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.” – IMDB UK, 1984, Jack Gold. Comedy, 1hr40 (PG) Presented as the Amersham and Chesham Film Society
(Original title: Eine Liebe in Deutschland) “In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the...
“After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.” – IMDB USA, 1984, Alan Parker. Drama/War, 2hrs (15) Presented as the Amersham and Chesham Film Society
