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Odesa International Film Festival
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The Odessa International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in the middle of the July in Odessa, Ukraine. It was held for the first time 16 –24 July 2010, however, the organizers set before themselves a rather ambitious goal, to develop it into one of the leading film forums in Eastern Europe – The Cannes of Eastern Europe. The President of the festival is Viktoriya Tigipko, the first Odessa International Film Festival was held from the 16th to 24 July 2010. It offered to its audiences a competition program of 16 films, the Rodina theater served as the main venue for the festival as well as the festival center. It screened all films in the program as well as hosting special festival events. Other screening took place all around Odessa in many city theaters, one of the most outstanding architectural monuments in all of Ukraine, the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater, served as the venue for the opening and closing festival ceremonies. The first festival was attended by over 40 thousand audience members, in the following year, this number increased almost by a factor of 2 – over 70 thousand viewers attended and over 5 thousand guests graced the festival with their presence. Over 450 journalists from Ukraine, Russia, Germany, United States, Romania, Italy, the festival also includes a dynamic special project entitled Summer Film School), a series of master-classes, taught by noted festival guests to film students and general film fans. New opportunities for film professionals also arose in the year of the Odessa Film Festivals – a film market. The third OIFF was held during 13–21 July 2012, the latest OIFF was held the second week of July 2014. During which a fundraiser was held for, Ukrainian director imprisoned in Russia on terrorism charges, the festival competition includes 14 feature-length films. The films chosen for the competition are ones which were filmed since 1 January of the previous year, all pictures are submitted on 35mm film or DCP. Films for the competition are chosen by a committee headed by the festival program director. The central focus of the festival, as set forth by the committee, is the presence in all chosen films of a strong, unique. The Jury of the Odessa International Film Festival is made up of noted figures in areas of culture, the numbers and makeup of the jury is decided by the board of directors of the festival. In 2011, a number of parallel juries functioned alongside the international jury. The jury presents prizes in the categories, • Grand Prix of the festival for the winning film – The Golden Duke • Best Director – monetary award of 10,000 US dollars to the director. • Best Actor/Actress - award of 10,000 US dollars to the actor/actress, the films screened include the latest hits of world festivals, retrospectives and exclusive premieres of the more noteworthy works of film art shown in the category of “Special Screenings
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Breukelen
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Breukelen is a town and former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. It is situated to the north west of Utrecht, along the river Vecht and close to the lakes of the Loosdrechtse Plassen and it is in an area called the Vechtstreek. During the 17th century many wealthy Amsterdam merchant families built their mansions along the river near Breukelen, on January 1,2011 Breukelen merged with Loenen and Maarssen to form Stichtse Vecht. There is a large Van der Valk hotel, the façade of which is in the Chinese style, universiteit Nyenrode is located in Breukelen. The borough of Brooklyn in New York City is named after Breukelen, Breukelen railway station Bus services 120,130,143 and 526 The former municipality of Breukelen consisted of the following villages, Breukelen, Kockengen, and Nieuwer Ter Aa. Film actor Rutger Hauer was born in Breukelen, statistics are taken from the SDU Staatscourant A map of Breukelen
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Floris (TV series)
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Floris is a 1969 Dutch television action series, written by Gerard Soeteman starring Rutger Hauer and Jos Bergman and directed by Paul Verhoeven. It was written by Gerard Soeteman, the series was filmed in black and white, and has been aired in reruns through the years. It has also shown in East Germany and Scotland dubbed in English. Charles, who controls Guelders, is involved in a struggle against Philip the Handsome who rules the Burgundian Netherlands. Floris had so far been neutral due to his absence, but after he finds his castle stolen, he sides with Wolter van Oldesteijn, Charles and Maarten van Rossum are aided by the Frisian pirate Greate Pier partly as an ally, and partly to do the dirty work. Apart from Sindala and Floris, all the characters are based on historical figures, another divergence from history is the presence of the pirate Greate Pier, although a contemporary, he was not active as a pirate before the death of Philip the Handsome. In the series Pier is either guarded or surrounded by members of the Arumer Zwarte Hoop, although intended as a childrens series, it was very popular with adults, for example, Floris sword fight with two swords in the castle in the first episode looks surprisingly realistic. The series also had an element, customs, like timekeeping with bells. While Floris is portrayed as a typical knight-hero – not too bright but a good swordsman – Sindala is the clever one, locations included the medieval castle of De Doornenburgh, close to Doornenburg in the Dutch province Gelderland, and the Belgian cities of Bruges and Ghent. The series was the first major undertaking of both Hauer and Verhoeven, as well as their first collaboration. It was followed by Turkish Delight and Soldier of Orange, ideas not used for the series were included in the film Flesh + Blood. Finding actors for the series was a problem because television was still regarded as inferior to the theatre, Hauer was introduced to Verhoeven as maybe not such a good actor, but he will do and dare anything. Verhoeven was indeed worried by Hauers lack of acting experience, but he looked good physically, could handle swords and ride horses well, the original name of the series was Floris and the Fakir and Verhoeven used two shot filming just in case. Hauer learned the TV acting fast enough, for the time it was a major production with 80 actors and 2500 extras. Verhoeven overspent the budget of 355,000 guilders by more than 300%, when this became clear, it was already too late to stop the production because Verhoeven used vertical planning, in which the filming was done per actor instead of per episode. Stopping the production would mean that all work was lost, as a TV production of this scale had never been done before in the Netherlands, there was a lot of pioneering. Recordings were usually made in the studio, but Floris was mostly shot outside, everyone on the set, including Verhoeven, had to learn the trade as they went. Tasks were also not strictly delineated, like they are these days and we didnt stand with our arms folded smoking a cigarette when it wasnt our turn
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Flesh and Blood (1985 film)
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Flesh and Blood is a 1985 American-Dutch-Spanish dramatic adventure film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson and Jack Thompson. The script was written by Verhoeven and Gerard Soeteman, the story is set in the year 1501 in Italy, during the passing of the Late Middle Ages to the Early modern period, and follows two warring groups of mercenaries and their longstanding quarrel. The script is based on unused material for the Dutch TV series Floris. The film, originally titled Gods Own Butchers, was known as The Rose. It was Verhoevens first English language film, in 1501, a city in Italy has been taken by a coup détat while its rightful ruler, Arnolfini, is away. Arnolfini promises some mercenaries 24 hours of looting if they succeed in retaking the city, but in their revelry, Arnolfini decides that he wants them gone. Hawkwood, the commander of the troops, is caring for a young nun he mistakenly attacked during the siege, Arnolfini promises to get medical attention for her and Hawkwood leads Arnolfinis cavalry, betraying his former lieutenant, Martin. The cavalry ejects the mercenaries from the city without their loot, soon after, Martins son is stillborn. Burying the infant unearths a wooden statue of Saint Martin of Tours – a saint with a sword, the mercenaries cardinal views this as a sign from God to follow Martin as their new leader. Arnolfinis son, Steven, is betrothed to Agnes and they meet for the first time and eat from a mandrake to magically fall in love, then the entourage is attacked and robbed by Martins band. Arnolfini is seriously injured, and Agnes is hauled away, concealed among her valuable dowry, Martin discovers Agnes later evening as they strip the caravan of valuables. The men desire to rape her but Martin decides to take her himself. He rapes Agnes while she at first taunts him and then begins to flirt with him, the mercenaries come upon a castle where, unknown to the mercenaries, the inhabitants are infected with the Plague. They capture the castle easily with the help of Agnes and she induces Martin to fall in love with her and works on the other mercenaries to accept her. She appears to have given up on her former life, meanwhile, Steven is determined to rescue her and turns to Hawkwood. Hawkwood only wants to live a life, married to the former nun he had injured. Steven, becoming as ruthless as his father, seizes the nun to force Hawkwood to help his pursuit of Martin and they locate Martin and the mercenaries. They do not have sufficient force to take the castle and lay siege to it, in the castle, Martin asks Agnes where her true loyalty lies, she is noncommittal, hinting that the winner takes all
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Blind Fury
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Blind Fury is a 1989 American samurai action film written by Charles Robert Carner and directed by Phillip Noyce. It is a loosely based, modernized remake of Zatoichi Challenged, the film stars Rutger Hauer as Nick Parker, a blind, sword-wielding Vietnam War veteran, who returns to the United States and befriends the son of an old friend. Parker decides to help the boy find his father, who has been kidnapped by a crime syndicate. Nick Parker, an American soldier serving in the Vietnam War, is blinded by an explosion, and soon after rescued by local villagers. Although he remains blind, as a part of his recovery, he is taught by the master to be an expert swordsman. Years later, having returned to the United States, he visits old army buddy Frank Deveraux, Parker meets Franks son Billy and his mother Lynn, Franks ex-wife. Minutes later, Franks evil boss, MacCready has sent his henchman Slag to kidnap Billy in order to use him as leverage over Frank, Slag and two corrupt police officers attempt to kidnap Billy, but Nick stops them. The corrupts officers are killed, Billy is knocked unconscious, with her last words before dying, Lynn tells Nick to take Billy to his father in Reno, Nevada. Along the way to Reno, Parker tells Billy about his mothers death while at a rest stop, upset, Billy runs away from Nick who chases him through a corn field. Billy is grabbed by Slag and MacCreadys other henchmen who intend to kill Nick, once again, Nick foils their plan by rescuing Billy and stopping Slag. But Slag survives his encounter with Nick and his sword. Billy and Nick eventually become fond of other leading Billy to refer to him as Uncle Nick. Once they reach Reno the come in contact with Franks girlfriend Annie, after avoiding yet another attempted kidnapping plot by MacCreadys henchmen Annie suggests they hide out at home of Annies friend Colleen. Later that evening Annie takes Nick to MacCreadys casino, where Frank is making MacCreadys drugs, Annie leaves to return to Colleens to watch over Billy, while Nick saves Frank. When Nick and Frank are reunited, Frank takes the key ingredient in MacCreadys drugs, despite being searched for by casino security, Nick and Frank escape and head to Colleens to reunite Billy with his dad. But when they arrive they find Colleen dead, killed by Slag, the note they recover instructs them to bring the drugs to MacCreadys mountain penthouse in exchange for Billy and Annie. Knowing they could be walking into an ambush Nick and Frank arm themselves with homemade napalm bombs, with Nicks sword skills and Franks bombs they put up a fight killing all of MacCreadys henchmen. But their victory is short-lived when MacCready arrives hold both Billy and Annie at gunpoint, impressed by Nicks martial-arts skill, MacCready hires a Japanese assassin to defeat Parker once and for all
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Blade Runner
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Blade Runner is a 1982 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. The film, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is an adaptation of the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. by Philip K. Dick. The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in which genetically engineered replicants, the use of replicants on Earth is banned and they are exclusively utilized for dangerous or menial work on off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down, during his investigations, Deckard begins a relationship with Rachael, an advanced replicant who causes him to question his and the replicants humanity. Blade Runner initially polarized critics, some were displeased with the pacing, the year following its release, the film won the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Blade Runner underperformed in North American theaters, but has become a cult film. Hailed for its design, depicting a retrofitted future, it remains a leading example of the neo-noir genre. It brought the work of Philip K. Dick to the attention of Hollywood, Ridley Scott regards Blade Runner as probably his most complete and personal film. In 1993, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed culturally, historically, Blade Runner is now regarded by many critics as one of the all-time best science fiction films. Seven versions of the film have been shown for various markets as a result of changes made by film executives. A Directors Cut was released in 1992 after a response to workprint screenings. This, in conjunction with its popularity as a rental, made it one of the first films released on DVD, resulting in a basic disc with mediocre video. A sequel, Blade Runner 2049, is scheduled for release in 2017, in Los Angeles in November 2019, ex-police officer Rick Deckard is detained by officer Gaff and brought to his former supervisor, Bryant. Deckard, whose job as a Blade Runner was to track down bioengineered beings known as replicants, as Tyrell Corporation Nexus-6 models, they have only a four-year lifespan and may have come to Earth to try to extend their lives. Deckard watches a video of a Blade Runner named Holden administering the Voight-Kampff test designed to distinguish replicants from humans based on their response to questions. The test subject, Leon, shoots Holden after Holden asks about Leons mother, Bryant wants Deckard to retire Leon and the other three replicants, Roy Batty, Zhora, and Pris. Deckard initially refuses, but after Bryant ambiguously threatens him, he reluctantly agrees, Deckard begins his investigation at the Tyrell Corporation to ensure that the test works on Nexus-6 models. While there, he discovers that Dr. Eldon Tyrells assistant Rachael is a replicant who believes herself to be human
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The Hitcher (1986 film)
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The Hitcher is a 1986 American road action-horror film directed by Robert Harmon and written by Eric Red. It stars Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Howell plays Jim, a young man who gives a ride to a hitchhiker, played by Hauer. After narrowly escaping death, Jim repeatedly encounters the hitchhiker, who is revealed to be a killer. It was released in the United States on February 21,1986, Jim Halsey, a young man delivering a car from Chicago to San Diego, spots a man hitchhiking in the West Texas desert and gives him a ride. The hitcher, John Ryder, is brooding and evasive, when Jim passes a stranded car, Ryder calmly states he murdered the driver and intends to do the same to Jim. Terrified, Jim asks what Ryder wants and he replies, I want you to stop me. Ryder strokes Jims face with a knife while telling him to say, when Jim realizes that Ryder never put on his seat belt and the cars passenger door is ajar, he shoves him out of the door. Relieved, Jim continues on his journey, when he sees Ryder in the back of a family car, Jim tries to warn them but becomes involved in an accident. He later comes across the familys blood-soaked car and vomits, at a nearby abandoned gas station, Ryder corners Jim but simply tosses him the keys he took from Jims car. After Ryder leaves with a trucker, Jim encounters him again at another gas station, as Jim flees, Ryder ignites the spilled gas and causes the station to explode. At a roadside diner, Jim meets Nash, a waitress, as Jim relaxes, he finds a severed finger in his food and realizes Ryder is present. The police arrive and, after finding Ryders knife in Jims pocket, though the police doubt his guilt, they lock him up overnight as protocol. When Jim wakes, he finds the door is unlocked. Jim panics, takes a pistol, and flees, at a gas station, he sees two officers, takes them hostage, and speaks to Captain Esteridge on the radio. As Esteridge convinces Jim to surrender, Ryder pulls up alongside them, the patrol car crashes, and Ryder disappears again. After briefly considering suicide, Jim reaches a cafe, where Ryder suddenly confronts him, after pointing out Jims pistol is unloaded, Ryder leaves him several bullets and departs. Jim boards a bus, where he meets Nash and attempts to explain his situation, after a police car pulls over the bus, Jim surrenders, and the furious officers accuse him of killing their colleagues. As the officers goad Jim into a fight, Nash appears with Jims pistol, disarms the officers, as the police chase after them, their car crashes, and Ryder shoots down a helicopter, causing the police cars to also crash
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Escape from Sobibor
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Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British made-for-TV film which aired on CBS. It is the story of the escape from the extermination camp at Sobibor. The film was directed by Jack Gold and shot in Avala, on 14 October 1943, members of the camps underground resistance succeeded in covertly killing 11 German SS-Totenkopfverbände officers and a number of Sonderdienst Ukrainian and Volksdeutsche guards. Of the 600 inmates in the camp, roughly 300 escaped, after the escape, SS Chief Heinrich Himmler ordered the death camp closed. It was dismantled, bulldozed under the earth, and planted over with trees to cover it up, the screenplay was based on Richard Rashkes 1983 book of the same name. Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacuła, and Rutger Hauer were the stars of the film. Hauer received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, eshter Rabb who died on April 15,2015, was a camp survivor who had assisted Rashke with his book and served as a technical consultant. The film begins with a new trainload of Polish Jews arriving for processing at Sobibor, the German Commandant gives them a welcoming speech, assuring the new arrivals that the place is a work camp. Other SS officers move along the lines of prisoners, selecting a small number who have trade skills. The remaining prisoners are sent away to a different part of the camp from which a pillar of smoke rises day and night. It is some time before the new prisoners realize Sobibor is a camp, all of the other Jews are exterminated in gas chambers. Despite their usefulness, these surviving prisoners existence is precarious, and beatings, gustav Wagner is the most clever and sadistic of the German officers. The leader of the prisoners, Leon Feldhendler, realizes when the trains eventually stop coming, the camp will have outlived its usefulness, and all the remaining Jews will be executed. He devises a plan for every prisoner to escape, by luring the SS officers and NCOs into the barracks and work huts one by one. A new group of prisoners arrives, Russian Jews who were soldiers with the Soviet army and their leader, Perchersky, and his men willingly join the revolt, their military skills proving invaluable. The Camp Commandant leaves for several days, taking Wagner with him, on 14 October 1943, the plan goes into action. One by one, SS officers and NCOs are lured into traps set by groups of prisoners armed with knives, eleven Germans are killed, but one officer, Karl Frenzel, unwittingly evades his killers, discovers the corpse of one of his colleagues, and raises the alarm. By now, the prisoners have assembled on the ground and, realizing the plan has been discovered, Perchersky and Feldhendler urge the prisoners to revolt
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Nighthawks (film)
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Nighthawks is a 1981 American action-thriller film directed by Bruce Malmuth and starring Sylvester Stallone, Rutger Hauer, Billy Dee Williams, Lindsay Wagner, Persis Khambatta and Nigel Davenport. Its score was composed by Keith Emerson, the film was noted for production problems. Three armed assailants attack a woman who turns out to be NYPD Detective Sergeant Deke DaSilva in drag and his partner, Detective Sergeant Matthew Fox, immobilizes two of the assailants, Deke chases the third upstairs to a subway-station platform, taunts him and incapacitates him with a scarf. That day in London, terrorist Heymar Reinhardt bombs a department store, in New York City, DaSilva and Fox serve a high-risk warrant in the Bronx. They raid a drug-distribution spot, where they discover corrupt police officers among the dealers, after the arrests DaSilva meets his estranged wife, Irene, and tells her he loves her, although she initially rebuffs his advances, they eventually reconcile. Wulfgar meets a member of his network at a party to receive travel documents, suspicious of the delivery man, Wulfgar kills him and three Metropolitan Police Service officers sent to arrest him. He escapes, and the police superintendent berates lead investigator Inspector Hartman, in Paris Wulfgar meets his partner, Shakka, and learns that his handlers are ostracizing him because the bombing killed a number of children. Wulfgar undergoes facial surgery to alter his appearance and decides to move his terrorist campaign to New York City, lt. Munafo transfers DaSilva and Fox to the newly-formed ATAC squad, where they meet Hartman. Hartman and DaSilva clash, since Hartman believes that American police are not ruthless enough to deal with a terrorist such as Wulfgar, although he hesitates to condone killing Wulfgar, DaSilva absorbs his new training and begins to understand the terrorist. In New York, Wulfgar moves in with a flight attendant, acting on a tip, Munafo orders DaSilva and Fox to search every nightclub the flight attendant had visited. They find Wulfgar in a nightclub and, after a shootout and foot chase through the subway, Wulfgar first takes a hostage and uses her as a human shield. Wulfgar then escapes by slashing Foxs face with a knife, at the hospital, Fox admonishes DaSilva for not shooting. DaSilva vows to kill Wulfgar, and ATAC guards a United Nations function at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Shakka, infiltrating the party in disguise, corners Hartman on an escalator and kills him. After hijacking a car, Wulfgar executes the wife of the French ambassador while DaSilva watches from a hovering police helicopter. Wulfgar demands that DaSilva board the tramway to receive an infant that he wishes to be taken to safety, DaSilva is winched up to the aerial tram and confronts Wulfgar, demanding to know why Wulfgar killed the woman. Wulfgar says that he killed her because he wanted to, considering himself a speaker for people who speak for themselves. The police agree to Wulfgars demands for a bus to escort him and the hostages to an airport, Wulfgar and Shakka hide among the hostages. As they board the bus, DaSilva plays a recording of a Hartman lecture denouncing Shakka
