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General Nil (2009)
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Original name: Generał Nil
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Generał Nil is a Polish historical film, based on the life of general Emil August Fieldorf, pseudonym "Nil". The film was directed by Ryszard Bugajski and was released in 2009.
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
imprisonment, world war two, army general, trial, secret service, communism, moral dilemma, arrest, assassination, prison, post war, death sentence, interrogation, spy, nazi, bureaucracy, death penalty, world war, national hero, stalinism, polish history, hanged man, underground movement, judiciary, court ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
poland, ussr, siberia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 120 min.
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Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 133 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 120 min.
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The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
Style:
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Duration: 95 min.
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Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
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Duration: 133 min.
Story:
On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal ...
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Time:
year 1940, 1940s
Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland, West Germany, East Germany
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
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Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish intelligence officer during WWII who volunteered for a Polish resistance operation to get imprisoned in the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in order to gather intelligence and ...
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Place:
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Duration: 139 min.
Story:
This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded ...
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Place:
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42%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, Poland, Latvia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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