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12.07 - 13.00 Moscow Cinema, Red Hall
15.07 - 15.00 Moscow Cinema, Red Hall
2004, USA, 106 min.

Script: T. DiFiglia, Michael A. Goorjian, C. Horvath, R. Marasco, Dir.: Michael A. Goorjian, Dir. of Phot.: R. Humphreys, Compos.: C.Ferreira, Edit.: B. Racineux, L. Wassmer, Prod.: A. Nazarian, K. Weisman.
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Michael A. Goorjian, K. Tucker, B. Cranston, R. Arquette, R. Marasco, T. Raimi.

A once powerful, but now ailing and remorseful father desperately seeks out his estranged son. After exhausting all conventional resources, he reluctantly visits a mystic who offers to show him three visions of his son's life. At first suspicious, then curious, and ultimately captivated, he watches as a life unknown to him unfolds before his eyes. Each vision shows the son at a different age and at a different stage in his pursuit of his life long love, Isabelle. The old man discovers the surprising truth about his son and himself.

Michael A. Goorjian

Born 1970, San Francisco.
Film actor and director. Studied acting, singing, and dancing at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater. Attended an undergraduate course at UCLA and studied theater arts. In 1991 with some friends established the Buffalo Nights Theater Company in Los Angeles. He also founded the San Francisco Bay Area Maldoror Productions in 1994. He guest starred in the TV series Growing Pains (1985), Touched by an Angel (1994), Sweet Justice (1994), Under Suspicion (1994), Party of Five (1994), as well as in movies Newsies (1992), Forever Young (1992), The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children? (1993), Something More (1999), The Invisibles (1999). In 1992 he snagged his Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor as an autistic boy in the CBS TV movie David's Mother (1994).

Filmography
Oakland Underground (1997), Call Waiting (1998).

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Script/Dir.: Marco Bellocchio, Dir. of Phot.: Alberto Marrama, Compos.: Ennio Morricone, Prod. Design.: Gisella Longo, Edit.: Silvano Agosti, Prod.: Enzo Doria.
Cast:. Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace, Stefania Troglio, Jeannie McNeil.

On a rural estate live three brothers, a sister, and their blind, religious mother. Three of the siblings have epilepsy, the fourth and eldest, Augusto does not, and he's about to break away from the family: he's in love with Lucia and planning to move to the city. Augusto's sister Guilia tries to frustrate the lovers, while another brother, Alessandro, hatches a far-reaching plot to free himself of his mother's demands and other family responsibilities, to give Augusto the wherewithal to leave with Lucia, and, perhaps, to pursue incestuous impulses with his sister.

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Silver Ribbon - Best Original Story, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, 1966; Silver Sail, Locarno IFF, 1965.

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Script/Dir./ Dir. of Phot./Prod.: Cristobal Vicente, Compos.: Carlos Canales, Toto Alvarez, Sound: Mario Diaz, Rafael Huerta, Cristobal Vicente. Edit.: Cristobal Vicente, Carlos Klein.

This film presnts a record of the last working year of the old prison of Valparaiso, which closed in 1999. It is a homage to the prison and to the values and customs of the men, who have secretly lived within it during its 150 year history.

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