Only Bordier's singular intransigence allowed him to articulate the seriousness of existence with such distancing, to manifest his hatred of the old world with such icy elegance.
A veteran sea captain abducts his niece for what he believes is his last chance at love. As the sad demon of the ocean Klabautermanden watches the passing of doomed ships, the niece awakens in her uncle's cabin.
While happily engaged to Rosalia, Tony has the misfortune of falling for a vibrant pilot named Valeria — and that’s just the beginning of his problems.
A farmer receives land from the king and discovers a buried golden mortar. He decides to give it to the king out of gratitude, but his clever daughter warns him that the king will surely want him to bring a corresponding pestle as well.
Dr. Roth, a respected veterinarian and head of a state-owned stud farm, had accepted papers from a man for safekeeping when he was 16 years old, toward the end of the war.
A balladic story based on the motifs of M. Urban's short story, in which the arduous work of loggers and the harshness of the environment interlace with the poetry of the Slovak mountains.
When Korea Highway Corporation is about to destroy the grave of O Gong-nyeo, the locals oppose the idea because they are worried of the legend of the grave.