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Our favourite Christmas films?

  Our favourite Christmas films We found five movies we would like to see this year.   If they become our favourites we will know soon. And we will let you know :).  Or maybe they are already yours? The order beyond is alphabetic.   A Christmas Carol (1951) – one of the best film adaptation of Charles Dickens ' Christmas story. When this British film was first released it was called Scrooge and it got its second title – A Christmas Carol – in the United States.   It is Christmas Eve, 1843 and Ebenezer Scrooge is seen leaving the London Exchange on the way to his counting house. Scrooge does not want to celebrate Christmas, but then…   Fot. Getty Images Das ewige Lied (Silent Night) by Xavier Bogner (1997) about one of the best known Chrismas carols – “Silent night, holy night”. „Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht”   has been performed first on Christmas Eve 1818 in Oberndorf, close to Salzburg, Austria. This famous song has been translated into 300 different

The last Prosecco

The last Prosecco - successful Italian film “Crime story crossed with comedy” – this description of the Italian film encouraged us to go to the cinema. We do not regret it. Inspector Stucky investigates a series of murders and the mysterious suicide of Desiderio Ancillotto, a count and winemaker.   The story unravels on the picturesque hills where Prosecco grapes are grown and recounts the conflict between greed and respect for the land and surrounding nature.  Best Italian film in 2017 Desiderio Ancillotto wants to protect beautiful hills and to produce the best Prosecco in the region. On the horizon though there is a huge cement plant. And its manager who is killed by gunshots shortly after the theatrical death of the old count. Who wrote the symbolic sentence on the wall - "Dust you were and dust you will become again"? Half Italian, half Persian Stucky is a stubborn person and does not look for easy solutions. Looking for the murder (murders?) he

Wolkenbruch – a successful Swiss comedy among the Jewish minority

Wolkenbruch - a successful Swiss  comedy When Paul was a boy his parents often drove via Zurich to Bern. The quickest way coming from the South passed through the so called Kreis 3. Especially on Saturdays this calm and seemingly boring part of Zurich turned into a different place. Bearded men with long black coats and big hats were walking around. – Who are they? – Paul asked his parents. – They are going to their church service – explained his mother. – Church, on Saturday? – Paul wondered.  Wolkenbruch - best Swiss film 2018 Almost forty years later, during our visit to Switzerland, the biggest cinema hit is called “Wolkenbruch”. The film staged exactly in this part of the city is a love story. A young orthodox Jew, Motti (Mordechai), feels attracted by his fellow student Laura, while his energetic and dominant mother tries her matchmaking skills within the Jewish community. After many fruitless attempts, upon a Rabbi suggestion, Motti’s parents send him to Isra