The late Friedrich Gulda, an Austrian pianist who died on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birthday in 2000, puts decades of studying Mozart's music into practice in this concert of all-Mozart compositions performed on solo piano. The evening includes memorable interpretations of Mozart's "Fantasia in D minor, K. 397," "Sonata in F major, K. 332," "Fantasia in C minor, K. 475" and "Sonata in C minor, K. 457."
Dim-witted and stuttering Pidol is the brunt of his townsfolk's ridicule. Not even being reconciled to his dad Andres changes his luck, for under Andres' nose Pidol is tormented by his stepmother Husing and stepdaughter Sunshine.
In 1973 Vietnam, gas bombs are dropped on villages, killing men, women, and children. Two downed American pilots, accused of the bombings, are captured and tortured.
Andreas, who is ten, has been brought up by his grandmother. When she dies, he removes a putto from the crucifix placed upon her, puts it in his mouth and does not speak again.
Lucia (Natassja Kinski) is a volatile, exciteable young woman. She forms a romance with Carlo (Stefano Dionisi), who is somewhat callow and is very skittish.
Young people living in Poland in the late 1960s had to face difficult times and make tough choices. Some of them were forced to leave their country for having Jewish origin.
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