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Im Zeichen der Spinne

Im Zeichen der Spinne

1983 • 48 min • East Germany
Heynowski and Scheumann infiltrate the ultra-right-wing Chilean organization Patria y Libertad
How Old Man Became a Brood-Hen

How Old Man Became a Brood-Hen

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union
The wife tells her husband to hatch the chickens, but the cheerful soldier is ready to save him. Puppet cartoon based on a folk tale.
Kite in the Attic

Kite in the Attic

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union
Star Suburb: The Suburb of the Stars

Star Suburb: The Suburb of the Stars

1983 • 27 min
In an HLM in space, Mireille, a little girl, gets up at night, attracted by strange noises and lights.
A Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific

A Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific

1983 • 55 min
Recorded in 1983 during a ten-day gathering in Vanuatu, a newly independent island nation in the south Pacific that had recently declared itself a nuclear-free zone, this program takes a look at the Pacific-wide movement towards independence and de-nuclearization. 
Testimony is presented by Pacific islanders and Pacific Rim representatives who experience various aspects of the nuclear cycle, from uranium mining in Australia and Canada to nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands and Tahiti. Health, social, economic, military and political effects of the nuclear presence in the Pacific are the subject of the conference and the focus of a march through downtown Port Vila to the French consulate on Bastille Day.
 

Crossroads-Pocket Money

Crossroads-Pocket Money

1983 • 21 min • Hong Kong
Decision: Ma Ji (Liu Dehua) and Zhu Nu (Liu Yijun) are good brothers who have sympathy for brotherhood. They have experienced all kinds of storms and waves together, and their feelings are very firm. However, in an accident, the two unintentionally set off a fire which caused heavy casualties. Ma Ji decided to make a good man from now on, but Zhu Nv still went her own way and gradually drifted away. "Pocket money": A Bang (Stephen Chow) is a son-in-law born with a golden spoon, but in an accident, he became addicted to drugs, and from then on he went deeper and deeper into extinction. Wrong Way: Arvin (Tony Leung) is a kind and filial boy who always takes care of his sick mother. One day, on the basketball court, Ah Wen was repeatedly harassed and provoked by gangsters. Untolerable, he clashed with the other side, resulting in a homicide. Ah Wen was immediately pursued by the police.
Battling Beauties

Battling Beauties

1983 • 60 min
Root for your favorite buxom boxer among the Valley Girl, Nancy the Naughty Nurse, Cactus Kelly and more. This is boxing like you've never seen it before. Duke it out with the prettiest pugilists on the planet.
The World of 'The Dark Crystal'

The World of 'The Dark Crystal'

1983 • 57 min • United States of America
A documentary which explores the making of Jim Henson and Frank Oz's 1982 fantasy film 'The Dark Crystal', which originally aired on PBS in the United States on January 9, 1983. This one-hour documentary details the technological innovations in the field of animatronics, art design, film making, and Henson's own brand of magic. Requiring 5 years of production, including over two years of pre-production, The Dark Crystal was inspired by the imagination of artist Brian Froud and conceived by scores of talented designers, builders, technicians, and performers. The World of the Dark Crystal shows how Jim Henson's Creature Shop in London and the Muppet Workshop in New York brought Brian Froud's art and Jim Henson's vision to life.
The Great Bear Scare

The Great Bear Scare

1983 • 24 min
As Halloween approaches, the bears of Bearbank begin to fear an invasion of monsters from nearby Monster Mountain. As most of the bears prepare to leave the city, one brave little bear, Ted E. Bear, sets out to confront fear!
Our Century

Our Century

1983 • 50 min • Soviet Union
A man paves his own way to his own soul through an intellectual quest, tragedies of nations and personal drama. The road moving through the cosmic distances is a flight into one's internal world. This flight and this drama are revealed in this philosophical film-poem.
Revolução das Massas

Revolução das Massas

1983 • 10 min
After exhausting workday, policeman relaxes by making bread at home.
Bewitched

Bewitched

1983 • 48 min • United Kingdom
The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies suddenly one day. Not long after she's buried, the villagers begin to see her walking around the area and especially along the shoreline. The village minister begins to look into her life and her death, hoping to lay the spirit to rest.
Gallagher: The Maddest

Gallagher: The Maddest

1983 • 60 min
Gallagher wants to talk to you about style. Yeah, the sweaty guy on roller skates with the one-of-a-kind "bowling ball wearing a hula skirt" hairdo. Might seem like an odd topic coming from the man who uses humor as a blunt instrument (and not just when he's wailing a watermelon with his Sledge-O-Matic), but that's just what you get in this hour-long stand-up piece from 1983. You see, for comedy's prop master extraordinaire, style isn't so much about finesse as it is about flair. Flair he's got in spades, as long as you're willing to call stupid hats and a trampoline disguised as a huge couch flair. The bits travel well-worn paths through mating and parenthood, and the material does often betray its age (the fact that National Enquirer headlines are stupid isn't exactly revolutionary comedy). However, what ultimately makes Gallagher giggle-worthy isn't the material itself, but the zeal with which he swings for the big laugh. Hammer in hand or not, the man's got style.
Thanks for the Ride

Thanks for the Ride

1983 • 28 min
This finely crafted drama, set in Ontario's cottage country, revolves around two teenaged boys from the city who pick up two local girls on a Saturday night and take them for a ride. Based on an Alice Munro short story, Thanks for the Ride is about values and morals, expectations and broken dreams, class differences and peer pressure. It is also about the overwhelming intensity of adolescent emotions and that momentous event--the first sexual encounter. An excellent film for use in family life, values education, Canadian literature, and creative writing courses.
Just Enough Time

Just Enough Time

1983 • 13 min • France
A pivotal work for video art of the 1980s. Fragments of time during a journey where the changing landscapes become full players in a story shown in shadowy backplay, which relates the imagined encounter of two passengers.
June, the Beginning of Summer

June, the Beginning of Summer

1983 • 46 min • Soviet Union
Varya Gracheva's husband left her. During these difficult days, a chance acquaintance, a television technician named Mitya Paramonov, comes to her aid. He helps Varya sort out her feelings and tries to reconcile her with her husband. However, Varya is still unable to forgive the betrayal...
Born of Fire

Born of Fire

1983 • 54 min
National Geographic's cameras travel to Iceland, Africa, Japan, California and Greece to record how the huge plates of the earth's crust crash together, pull apart and override each other, causing ground-shattering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Follow scientists around the world as they search for clues to the causes of these powerful geologic events. BORN OF FIRE demonstrates that while man is capable of hernessing this tremendous power for his benefit, he must also prepare for the possibility of cataclysmic disaster
Portrait #2: Judy Fyve

Portrait #2: Judy Fyve

1983 • 3 min
"Just what it says." –B. C.
Dog's Path

Dog's Path

1983 • 60 min • Yugoslavia
A TV adaptation of the story “Twins” by Prezihov Voranc.
Believe You Can... And You Can!

Believe You Can... And You Can!

1983 • 30 min • United States of America
Essentially an informercial to advertise the newly remodeled Fantasyland at Disneyland in 1983. It features Heather O'Rourke fresh off of Poltergeist and Morey Amsterdam.
Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns

Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns

1983 • 52 min
Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider film culture.
Kate Asabuki: The Woman in the Peep Room

Kate Asabuki: The Woman in the Peep Room

1983 • 30 min
Kate, a female college student, is in agony as she peeks into the intense sex between her sister and her husband in the room next to her. It depicts the greedy and open nature of modern female college students...
On Probation

On Probation

1983 • 5 min • United Kingdom
A probationer wants to miss a meeting to go and see his brother, but must negotiate with his officer.
Prisoners of Debt: Inside the Global Banking Crisis

Prisoners of Debt: Inside the Global Banking Crisis

1983 • 57 min • Canada
This feature documentary reveals how Bank of Montreal chairman William Mulholland dealt with his debt-laden customers Dome Petroleum and Mexico during the global debt crisis of '82. Interviews with bankers and financial experts demystify the causes of debt crisis, confirm the fragility of the international banking system and outline the problems to be solved if the system is to survive.