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ZETOR - BORN FREE

6.4.2005 TV2

(Zetor - vapaana syntynyt)

The message of good mood spreads from the countryside village of Temmes in Pohjanmaa with the old Zetor-tractors. The sight of tractors driving across the village evokes a nostalgic image of the reconstruction and the 1950's - the Golden Age of the Finnish countryside living.

Director: Jukka Kärkkäinen
Production: Videcam Oy, Finland, 2004

Photo: Mika Kamula


06.04.2005 WELCOME TO DENMARK

6.4.2005 TV2

(Tervetuloa pohjolaan)

Whose door is the policeman knocking on? Joseph, Tanja and Zakia came to Scandinavia in the hope of a better life. The filmmakers followed their dramatic life in Denmark for three years.

Director: Erlend Mo

Production: Koncern ApS, Denmark, 2003

Photo: TV2 Tiedotus


FIGHT OF THE CENTURY

13.4.2005 TV2

(Vuosisadan ottelu)

In 1938, New York was the stage for world championship boxing match and a collision of two worlds. Joe Louis was a black American and Max Schmeling a white man from Nazi-Germany.

Director: Barak Goodman
Production: WGBH, USA, 2004

Photo: Bettmann/Corbis


GREY GARDENS

20.4.2005 TV2

(Grey Gardens)

A classic documentary by the Maysles brothers about the aunt of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Edith Bouvier Beale, and her daughter, Edie. The women lived their absurd and bohemian life in an isolated and decaying mansion called Grey Gardens.

Directors: David and Albert Maysles
Production: Maysles Films, USA, 1976

Photo: TV2 Tiedotus


CLOSING

20.4.2005 TV2

(Viimeinen päivä)

Flavia started her career as a hair dresser when she was eleven years old. For the past 43 years she has run her business in the town of Padova in Northern Italy, but the time has come to close the doors of her beauty parlour for the last time.

Directors: Carlo Cresto-Dina and Alessandro Rossetto
Production: Fandango and Millennium Film, Italy, 2001

Photo: Millennium Film


27.04.2005 THE BURNING WALL

27.4.2005 TV2

(Vastarinnan vuodet)

Günter Grass, Wolf Bierman, Vaclav Havel, Ehrhart Neubert and many others tell us the story of the East German dissidents from the year 1949 to the fall of the Berlin Wall. The focus is given to the life of Robert Haveman, who was strongly against Hitler's ideas.

Director and producer: Hava Kohav Beller, USA, 2003

Photo: TV2 Tiedotus