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Hitlers amerikanische Geschäftsfreunde (2003)
Shocking!!!
I just found and re-watched this... had it on VHS for some 15 years.
Don't know, if this is true, but the claims made are more than shocking and they are presented in a way that does sound plausible.
US respecting the trade agreements, IBM having experts in Nazi Germany doing the statistics of the death camps... it's all very shady, but it's not impossible. WW2 is the event that has shaped much of our recent history (drawing new borders, setting new alliances, shifting power...), so I am convinced there's much more that meets the eye, but some of the claims made in this documentary are really shocking.
So, if you get a chance to watch it (I don't understand Hungarian, but have a Croatian translation of the documentary), you should probably not take it at face value... but be prepared to start thinking about some things in a different way than before, because this documentary does open some very important questions - especially on the US position leading right up to the war... and also during the war.
Let's just say that until somebody does a fully unbiased research of all available data about WW2 and synthesize it into a one complete story (and that seems rather impossible), we would probably never find out the truth.
Frozen II (2019)
Letting go of the past
I must say, this was a movie that I really was looking forward to (OK, it helpped that I've a daughter who's crazy about Elsa and all things Frozen), but nevertheless - it didn't dissapoint.
It's a bit more lighthearted than the first part - as there is less drama and tragedy on the personal level (remember that in the first part the parents died, the sisters were seperated and an evil prince wanted to overthrow them and take their kingdome).
In part two there is danger and a two part quest, where the sisters have to make an old wrong right again, discovering their family history along the way - so it's a bit more of an action movie than the first part (more of a family drama), and is therefore more lighthearted (as I've already said).
Still, there are moments, when our heroes face great obsticles, being seperated from one another... and overcome them in order to bring the movie to its happy ending.
The only thing that is repeated, I'd say, is that the main problem they have to overcome in the movie comes from their grandfather, who feared magic (just like in the first part, the main problem was the father, who seperated the sisters and thought that suppresing the magic would make it go away - instead of letting Elsa practice and develop her talent).
However, a this is a disney movie - they overcome the odds and have a happy ending.
Posljednji Srbin u Hrvatskoj (2019)
Laughing my head off!
OK, I guess this is the best Zombie parody I've seen since Shaun of the Dead :)
I guess today, in the world of overly sensitive politically correct activists for animal rights, regarthless of which of the 7 unnatural genders they are, this movie would be too much to watch.
It's typical Balkan humor, with intentionally cheezy overacting and cartoonish characters set into the cartoonish world of a zombie apocalypse so many people are taking seriously for no apperant reason.
If you like zombie movies, high budget action, or actors making you believe the silver screen is more real than reality - this is not the movie for you.
However, if you like a good laugh and are not taking yourself (or life, or world) too seriously - enjoy!
Vlak bez voznog reda (1959)
Real people, real stories, real new hope!
This is a movie about a time just after Second World War, where parts of Yugoslavia (although the narrative is limited to the Republic of Croatia only) were depopulated, while other place had very scarse resources.
Therefore an initiative was taken to resettle the people from the land that was not suited for agriculture to land that was extremely suited for agriculture. And the resettlement was done by the means of a train that took whole villages from the coastal to inland regions - through the Republic's capital city.
It is a story of a whole community's journey towards a better future in the promissed land - Baranja (a very fertile lowlands along the Drava River), but at the same time, it's a story of individuals building up new lives in new ways, declining tradition (such as arranged marriages).
Personal Note
For me personally, though, it is a movie where I get to see my grandfather, as he was a musitian in the band that came to escort the villagers when their train started... my grandfather, who passed long before I was born, yet I still get to see walking along with his fellow musicians.