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Counterpoint (1967)
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Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.
Style:
psychotronic, technicolor
Plot:
world war two, orchestra, world war, nazi, german army, war, holocaust, lonely, prisoner, battles, us military, survival, musician, winter, partisan, murder, castle, prisoners of war, bus, telephone call, self sacrifice, classical music, basement, acrobatics, impostor ...
Time:
1940s, year 1967, year 1944
Place:
belgium, american
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Duration: 132 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 135 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
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Style:
epic, factual, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
world war two, espionage, danger, war, anti war, escapades, mission, world war, liberation, reconnaissance, battles, soldier ...
Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1977, year 1942
Place:
ussr, soviet union, iraq, europe, russia
Similarity:
20%
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Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
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