Bizarre

Der Menschenhasser

Portraits of Women Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.

The Price of a Town The film takes place in a small town where the Germans are getting ready to retreat near the end of the war. But a carload of Russian prisoners get people to feed them, then the prisoners overcome their guards and escape. The town people try to save them from the Germans but do not succeed.

First Joys A TV film based on the novel of the same name by Konstantin Fedin. The film is set in a small provincial town on the Volga River in the pre-revolutionary era. The story centers on Kirill Izvekov, an 18-year-old student at a technical college. The young man is just entering adulthood. He is full of hope and is making his first, as yet not fully conscious, attempts to find his place in his future life. What awaits him in the future? How will his fate and the fate of those around him unfold?

Don't Deliver Us from Ev... Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a salacious novel, they get a classmate in trouble, they spy on the nuns, they set aside their communion wafers; they make a pact of devotion.

My Contribution An illustration of the difficulties women encounter when they seek to achieve economic integration and equality with men in a country at the height of revolution.

The Green Grasshopper

Love-Hungry Girls Éliane and Juliette share a suburban pavilion which shelters their love affair. One day, Éliane picked up an injured man in her car: Pierre, a mobster who had just escaped. She decides to hide the fugitive in the house, then heals his wounds. While Éliane soon succumbs to the gangster's charm, the latter discovers that Juliette has a lover, Gérard. Pierre then uses this situation to his advantage to sow discord between the two women and manipulate them as he pleases. But they will rebel (Le Chat Qui Fume).

Number Two Jean-Luc Godard mixes video and film in his Grenoble studio, discussing how he secured funding for the film. The action unfolds on two monitors, as a young working-class couple lives in a claustrophobic, high-rise apartment complex and marital discord is set off by the wife’s infidelity.

Murphy's War Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He is rescued, and ends up at a forgotten mission station near the mouth of the Orinoco, and begins to plot his vengeance. He wishes to sink the U-Boat by means of any method imaginable to him, and sets about to make the courageous attempt, assisted by Louis, the administrator of the local oil company.