Hanoi, martes 13 [Hanoi, Tuesday 13th] (Santiago Álvarez, 1968)
Dec
13
Tue

A collage image of President Lyndon B. Johnson. His face is a hole and footage of a military burial service can be seen. DP: Iván Nápoles.
Hanoi, martes 13 [Hanoi, Tuesday 13th] (Santiago Álvarez, 1968)
Dec
13
Tue

A collage image of President Lyndon B. Johnson. His face is a hole and footage of a military burial service can be seen. DP: Iván Nápoles.
Balada o trobenti in oblaku [Ballad About a Trumpet and a Cloud] (France Štiglic, 1961)
Dec
11
International Mountain Day
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A young couple dances among the mountains (via). DP: Rudi Vaupotič.
Set in the mountains for International Mountain Day
1943. With the family preparing for Christmas, old man Temnikar hears the sound of a trumpet. The patriarch sees it as his calling to follow – and kill – the White Guardists who visited his mountain farm looking for wounded Partisans.
“They sent me out by plane to a boarding school. But I ran away. There's a war on. I can't cram some stupid stuff when it's a war.”Иваново детство [Ivanovo detstvo / Ivan's Childhood] (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962)
Dec
7
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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Ivan (Nikolay Burlyaev) scouting (via). DP: Vadim Yusov.
A special soldier for National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (USA)
– Ivan
A twelve-year old boy works as a scout for the Soviet army. His age and size make him an inoffensive figure in the war-scarred landscape. But inside, he's brooding for revenge.
“If that's Americanism, it's very hyphenated.”December 7th (John Ford + Gregg Toland, 1943)
Dec
7
1941

A Japanese person paints over the Japanese characters on their store's sign. AZUMA PHONE and SUS[HI obscured] can stay. DP: Gregg Toland.
– narrator
“Mister Moldovan, this is not for the first time that a criminal case is entrusted to you. It is precisely your political objectivity that made us choose you.”Un comisar acuză [A Police Inspector Calls] (Sergiu Nicolaescu, 1974)
Nov
26
1940

DP: Alexandru David.
Takes place on the night of November 26-27, 1940.
– Alexandru Dincă
3. November 1918 [Third of November 1918] (Edwin Zbonek, 1965)
Nov
3
1918

A calendar page for November 3, 1918. It's a Sunday. DP: Rudolf Sandtner.
Takes place on November 2 and 3.
“One… two… three… four… five… seven… six… six… eight… nine… nine…”Peace, little girl [Daisy / Daisy Girl] (Sidney Myers, 1964)
Nov
3
1964

Monique Corzilius aka Monique Cozy as the Daisy Girl. DP: Drummond Drury.
– Daisy Girl
La sixième face du pentagone [The Sixth Face of the Pentagon] (Chris Marker + François Reichenbach, 1968)
Oct
21
1967

Armed police seen from the back. In front of him someone holds up a sign that reads WHY WAR. DPs: Tony Daval, Chris Marker & Christian Odasso.
1943-1997 ['43 – '97] (Ettore Scola, 1997)
Oct
16
1943

The boy (Francesco Cencioni) on the run in a locked down town. DP: Carlo Tafani.
Smrt si říká Engelchen [Death Is Called Engelchen] (Ján Kadár + Elmar Klos, 1963)
Sep
19
ER – 1994

Pavel (Jan Kačer) recovering face-down in his hospital bed. DP: RudolfMilič.
An emergency room: ER debuts on this date in 1994.
A paralysed Czechoslovak partisan recovering from a shot in the back in an emergency ward, feverishly remembers the events that brought him to that moment. He particularly remembers Engelchen, the SS Sturmbannführer who killed his best friend and massacred the local villagers.