The movie “Mary Shelley” is another attempt to look at the events of 1814-16, which prompted a very young girl to write one of the most piercing works about solitude. 16-year-old Mary followed in the footsteps of her mother and left everything for the sake of a handsome poet. However, the happiness did not last long. The poet was still a rascal. The girl had to survive the betrayal, deprivation, death of the child. It shows the carefree life of young people who do not understand what they are doing. In the environment of heroes there is the atmosphere in which words about eternal and fine intertwine with constant drunkenness and debauchery reigns.
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The new movie “The Catcher Was a Spy” will tell about one baseball player named Berg, at the same time terribly clever, which is a rarity for athletes in those days and in America. He is recruited to the US special services, and at this time in Germany, a universal scientist, but better known as a physicist, named Heisenberg, invents a nuclear bomb for the Fuhrer, while traveling abroad in Europe from lectures to popularize science.
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The movie “The Mercy” is based on real events that occurred in 1968, when one amateur yachtsman arranged an incredible adventure from the round-the-world race of the Sunday Times newspaper. The businessman and entrepreneur Donald Crowhurst as a hobby is fond of yachts, regattas and related sports. And when he is threatened with bankruptcy, he decides to win the main prize in a round-the-world race organized by one big newspaper. He decides on a desperate cunning in order to benefit from even such a difficult situation.
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The second season of the project “Genius” tells about an outstanding artist of the twentieth century. The focus of the plot is Pablo Picasso, a representative of Cubism and Surrealism, a stunning Spanish artist, sculptor and just an amazing person. In this series, we are told not only about his work, but also about the difficult life that made the protagonist beg for different countries, to learn all the bitterness of love and leave a trace in the history of world art, opening up new directions for the public in the work, a unique view of people’s ideas , nature and peace. Many people call Picasso the genius of his time.
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10 episodes
The action of the historical series “Versailles” takes place in the middle of the XVII century. After the death of her mother, Queen Anne of Austria, Louis XIV becomes a full-fledged monarch. The young king fears betrayal on the part of his associates, therefore he decides to begin strengthening the authorities with the construction of a new residence. The center of the concentration of state power is no longer Paris, but the luxurious Versailles.
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In 1973, Italian bandits kidnapped in Rome 16-year-old Paul Getty third, the grandson of the richest man in the world. Criminals demand a ransom of 17 million dollars – a modest sum by the standards of Paul Getty, who became rich in Arabian oil. However, the billionaire is famous for his stinginess, and he does not give up his principles even for the sake of his grandson. Getty announces that he will not pay a penny to the kidnappers. Instead, he sends his security expert Fletcher Chase (Mark Wahlberg) to Rome, who is trying to find the kidnapped youth and morally support his mother Gail.
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The movie “The Post” tells about a secret dossier, which collected a little bit about the turbulent activity of Americans in Vietnam. Not about war crimes, but about the fact that they fought several years in vain, when the government knew that it was impossible to defeat the Vietnamese. For the whole film no one goes into the details of the dossier, as the essence of the film is not in it, but in the work of journalists. This is the movie about the work of journalists Washington Post.
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The new movie “Final Portrait” of the multiple prize-winner and nominee of the Golden Globe and other prestigious cinema awards Stanley Tucci is a story about a few days at the end of the life of one of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century – Alberto Giacometti. Alberto Giacometti promises a young American journalist, James Lord, to write his portrait in one day. Actually, an hour and a half tells how the portrait … was not written for 1 day, neither for 7, nor for 15 days. It would seem that before us there is the torment of creativity, the failures of a prefectionalist who is constantly unhappy with the result, but the personality of Giacometti himself is so eccentric, and his journalist-model is so pleasant in all respects.
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Molly Bloom, a beautiful young Olympic-class skier, ran the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding automatic weapons. Her players included Hollywood royalty, sports stars, business titans, and finally, unbeknownst to her, the Russian mob. Her only ally was her criminal defense lawyer Charlie Jaffey, who learned that there was much more to Molly than the tabloids led us to believe. (more…)
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The events in the TV series “The Durrells” occur in 1935, when the Durrell family sells property in England and moves to live on the island of Corfu in Greece. Mother Louise and four children are trying to survive with little or no means of livelihood, using as food everything that grows and runs. But this is nonsense compared to the uneasy characters of all four children. The plot is based on autobiographical memoirs of the British naturalist Gerald Durrell.
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