post war life

Fred Zinnemann’s sensitive film on the plight of paraplegic WWII veterans features Marlon Brando in his superbly moving screen debut. He ...

An American in Ho Chi Minh City looks for a daughter he fathered during the war. He meets Woody, a child who’s a street vendor, and when ...

The making of “Roma, città aperta” by Rossellini, the difficulties in producing it, the mild reaction from the audience at the ...

Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who’d been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven ...

Okaasan is the story of a poor, working class mother with a sick husband who sacrifices herself to support her family in suburban Tokyo. The film ...