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- A half century of history in the Balkans is dramatized in this 4 part miniseries of 360 minutes total duration. Episode 1 takes us from the 1890s to 1914. In 1892, the Ottoman Empire is being threatened by patriotic nationalists. In Goricka, the lord of the region celebrates the birth of his heir, Zufikar, receiving the name of the prestigious family's founder. The boy is brought up regally, and graduates from the University of Salonika (at the time Turkish). There he befriends a young Greeek, Takis. Zufikar then returns home, where he again meets Esma, the mill owner's daughter, a childhood acquaintance. Passion erupts between "Z" and Esma. Disagreeing over Esma's sense of virtue, "Z" leaves her without knowing she is carrying his child. Alone and abandoned, Esma marries the coach driver Mustafa, to avoid the disgrace of being a single mother. "Z", in an attempt to forget Esma marries Myriam, a Jewish refugee from Salonika In Episode 2, World War II erupts in the Balkans, then extends all over Europe. In the Balkans however, War continues until the early 20's, when Turkey definitely loses its European territories, and Albania, Yugoslavia and a new larger Greece are all created, including Salonika whose Turkish (Muslim) population is resettled in Turkey proper. Now in Albania (and in Episode 3), "Z", a follower of Zog, the Prime Minister, is elected Deputy of Albania. Esma and Hikmet live near him. "Z" and his son (with Esma) still don't know about their bond. Meanwhile, Suleyman decides to live in Goricka, with Hikmet. Years pass and Zog proclaims himself King of Albania, while young Rasit becomes an active communist. In Goricka, Suleyman marries Pembé, Hikmet's daughter. Then in 1939, Mussolini invades Albania and "Z" is arrested for refusing to collaborate with the Fascist occupation. Rasit again joins other communists and partisans in the underground struggle against the Fascist Italians and Germans. Then in 1940, certain of an easy victory, Italy attacks Greece. This leads us on to Episode 4 which covers 1943 to 1950. In Albania, "Z" and Esma have gone underground. Hikmet is killed, while Suleyman and his young daughter are deported to a German camp. In Goricka, Pembé -persuaded she would never again see her husband and daughter, falls in love with Dimitri, a young partisan with whom she shares a passionate relationship. Escaping from the Germans, "Z" finds refuge with a former mistress. But, for his refusal to her advances, she betrays him revealing the whereabouts of the refugees to the enemy. When "Z" comes back to Bilisté, he finds devastation. Additionally, communists have seized power in Albania and "Z"'s lands and holdings have all been confiscated. He himself is sent away to "Re-education" in a collective farm. Suleyman makes it back to Goricka to discover the fate of his family members. Soviet-supported communism takes hold of all the Balkans, not counting Greece which rid itself of communist threats after a bloody civil war.
- An American tourist is found dead and her husband demands the body and all her possessions be returned. Just before her death, she visited a renowned photographer, fuelling the suspicion of adultery. Detective Wallander takes an interest in the cuckolded husband and suspects there is more to the photographer than meets the eye.
- Through Adela and Antonia's lives, we have a glimpse of those brief moments of joy and sorrow common to anyone who lives in a big city.
- Hanan es una niña marroquí de doce años que vive desde pequeña en España con sus padres, Hamid y Fatiha, y su hermano pequeño, Nur. Hamid, cansado de que lo traten con recelo y desconfianza por su origen marroquí, decide volver a Marruecos.
- Bolivia, 1945. Two murders have been committed in Hotel Central, the inhospitable meeting point of the mixture of indigenous, Creole and European people who live in San Jacinto, a city of despair. Adela, the attractive owner's wife, blames Maria, one of the servants. But Timar, a young traveler, finds out some information that suggests a very different truth. In an oppressive atmosphere, where escaping seems to be the only thing that matters, Timar will struggle between his feelings for Adela and the injustice of convicting an innocent person. The risk of it is losing the few values he still has; the reward, experiencing love at its most.
- At 40, Sara seems to lead a balanced life. But she realizes that men no longer look at her. Under pressure, Sara clears herself by spending a night with a young lover.
- The gray and monotonous life of Abel takes place between a small family shop selling unisex clothes, his dates with his girlfriend Tere, his mother's house, a friend's kiosk and the neighborhood bars. Always the same problems, the same faces, the same conversations. However, under the appearance of calm and affable man, Abel hides a dark, violent and sickly personality.
- Intimate story of love and sacrifice of an Andalusian immigrant lady in Catalonia from the 60's
- Noelia lives in a suburb of Barcelona with no free time: at night she works at a gas station, during the day she distributes advertising on portals. He is not yet thirty years old and he does not look for or have friends. He never says goodbye to anyone, he leaves no clues or footprints. Noelia is one of thousands of young people who survive in a big city: with their small conflicts and illusions, in their daily struggle to survive.
- Jordi is playing his weekly poker game with friends and he forgets about the dinner for two that his girlfriend, Celia, is preparing him in order to celebrate their anniversary. Celia doesn't put up with his disrespect and she leaves him. Jordi, disconcerted, goes out and gets drunk and meets an enigmatic woman.
- Julià, a dynamic, naughty and very vital boy, is diagnosed as having AIDS. His parents do all they can to go ahead with their life, but the rejection they find in their little community, of which they had felt a part of until then, will lead them to a crisis. Finally, the attitude of children of the town, with Cosme - Julià's friend - as their leader, will be a lesson for the whole town.
- A Spanish cleaning lady arrives in Aix en Provence the same day her son is being judged for murder. The public defender does what is in her hands, but she cannot avoid a sentence to life imprisonment. The victim was his fiancée, a girl everyone in town knew. In a face-to-face meeting, the son tells his mother about his innocence. With the assistance of the public defender, and then of a police inspector who realizes there are some dark spots in the case, she starts a double procedure: she will face the blind and deaf justice and the media, as well as the xenophobic and conservative society. Her actions, even if direct and sincere, lead to many problems. Finally, after having gathered many evidences that prove his son's innocence but are not enough to reopen the case, the mother finds out the culprit: a rich industrialist of the area. As she has no more options, the mother starts a hunger strike to oblige the institutions to reopen the case and to get the industrialist to get himself up. Will she achieve her objective? Will her son be released from prison?
- A man traveling from Spain to visit his father is forced to experience life from an altogether different perspective after becoming stranded in a strange land where survival is an everyday struggle.
- Ana and Marta are good friends but very different women. Ana is a housewife whereas Marta is an agressive lawyer, single and very independent. Ana is married to Santi and after a crisis she proposed Marta to be the lover of her husband to save her matrimony. Santi does not suspect anything and the triangle works fine during years... till Santi begins to go out with another person.
- One night, while Raul is with his girlfriend in his car, he sees how two boys are beating another one. Raul saves the guy, Alex, frightening the other two, and proposes a revenge to him: to burn their car. Thus they do it and it creates a link between them: from that moment they will be burning cars through the city and they will record it in video to upload it later on the Internet. A year later, while they are burning a car, an old man is injured when he tries to extinguish the fire. Alex goes to help it while Raul flees. Alex and the old man, Antonio, goes to the hospital, where the boy knows Isabel, Antonio's granddaughter. Isabel studies and works, and now, without a car, the things will become more difficult to her. Alex quickly feels attracted by Isabel; they become good friends and Alex is moved away of Raul in spite of his attempts recover him.
- When a group of charming teenagers ring the bell of their high school headmistress (Carmen Maura) with a big bouquet of flowers and a birthday present, we are far from thinking that they are the protagonist of a machiavellian plan. Alice Nabat invites this group of jolly young people to have a drink, not knowing that once the door has closed behind them, they will become her tormentors. What is their purpose? As the plot slowly unfolds and thickens, we learn that they have been cheating in class all year and that they feel more powerful than the "authority" that they are challenging. They actually want to steal the answers to the Baccalaureat (French A Level), to order to pass the precious diploma without any effort on their part. A blackmail of insidious violence happens throughout the night between these "new barbarians" and their terrorized headmistress, hostage to their uncontrolled and threatening actions.
- A family experiences two traumatic events in a lapse of forty-odd years: the loss of one of the family members and how this affects the others; and the arrival of new neighbors, strangers, who upset the family and supposed social harmony.
- To Javier Etxaniz life smiles. After much efforts have achieved stability as a professional cyclist, and has made his dream a reality: sharing a team with his twin brother Roberto. But their existence gives one unexpected turnaround when, while on a training road are killed Javier and Roberto. Roberto died on the spot. The chances of saving the life of Javier are scarce, but the hope his family keeps him remove the breathing. 'Sprint Special' faithfully recounts the life in those hard years of getting Javier Otxoa several championship victories in Spain and Europe and has adapted a successful participation in the Paralympic Games in Athens, where the Basque rider crashed two medals. The film begins with the triumph at the top of Haucatam and recreates the desperate struggle of a person clinging to life, his strong will and the desire to overcome obstacles to return to being the athlete and person.
- After 13 years of marriage, a couple decides to split. He chooses to stay at a friend's, who happens to be a divorce specialist lawyer and she goes to live with some friends, with a feminist lawyer among them. Soon the couple's fights start to involve their lawyer friends, and preposterous situations ensue.
- A young mother, her small baby girl and her current partner must learn to live without fear while confronting the presence of her abusive husband; whom she abandoned in fear after learning that he was getting out of prison.