Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to the human body and spirit, culminating with the marathon, where Jesse Owens became the first track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics.
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time.
The animated corpse of Moscow goes on after its inhabitants left. Filled with weeps and whispers of the mourning ghosts, torn apart with phone calls from distant countries and unfamiliar sounds, emotionally devastated and deserted, the city attempts to reconcile with its own voice.
Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the many halls and fields deployed for such sports as fencing, polo, cycling, and the modern pentathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris.
Carefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinematography in an effort to demonstrate the history of various regions.
A group of professional skateboarders and their friends take part in the Gumball 3000 rally, an 8 day race around the world from London to Los Angeles.
Meditative and quiet movie about transphormations of Dnipro river in Ukraine, that touches theme of collective versus individual rights, filmed in the dusk of USSR.
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Samsara (2011) Official Trailer HD
Release date UK: 7 September 2012 Documentary.
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Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents and shot on seventy-millimetre film Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred ...
Samsara (2012) Movie Trailer (HD)
Art film Samsara is out in cinemas in the UK on August 31st 2012. According to its makers the high-definition movie "illuminates the links between humanity ...
Samsara (2011) Clip
A moving clip from the visual tone poem Samsara: This does contain images of animal welfare which some ...
Samsara - 2011 - Guns scene - Ayub Ogada
Director: Ron Fricke Writers: Ron Fricke (concept and treatment written by) Mark Magidson (concept and treatment written by) Stars: Balinese Tari Legong ...
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