Category: Eastern European
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Wolf’s Hole might be constrained by genre and location, but its Soviet-era paranoia and intriguing themes are more than enough to pull you in.
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Dante Remus Lazarescu, a loner alcoholic living with dozens of cats, finds himself dealing with a number of ailments, which show no signs of getting better. After his neighbors recognize how serious his condition is, they call an ambulance, which takes him to the nearest hospital. However, due to a major bus crash with a…
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After witnessing her son get arrested at a pro-democracy rally in East Germany, single mother Christiane has a near-fatal heart attack that puts her in a coma for the forseeable future. As she sleeps, her children witness the fall of the Berlin Wall and the gradual Westernization of the German Democratic Republic, leading to a…
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During the Bosnian War (1992-1995), a Bosniak soldier by the name of Ciki falls into a trench after being ambushed by Bosniak Serbs. One of the Bosniak Serb soldiers, Nino, is held hostage by Ciki after the latter ambushes him, and despite some antagonism, the two are tenuously bonded by the need to survive after…
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