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It has such direct honesty and innocence you can not possibly believe it was made after the world war when Italy was ravaged and devastated, and was filled with a huge homeless, impoverished population.
They are homeless but cheerful, in a societies too impoverished and selfish to care for or acknowledge them, footmats for the Italian carpetbaggers.
In this truly fascinating, dark film, a young impoverished student sells his soul to the devil for a lot of money, in return the devil takes his mirror image (this is done brilliantly in the movie and eerily presaged when Balduin, the student is earlier practicing swordsmanship in front of the mirror), a visual metaphor for a "man at war with himself" which portents his immediate future.
This very powerful film, which is as fantastic as it is vividly concrete and sad (imagine Kafka with a Sicilian accent), tells the story of two Italians, Fiore (Michele Placido, director of the recent Romanzo criminale) and his assistant Gino (Enrico Lo Verso) who come to the impoverished, wrecked post-communist Albania with the scam of setting up a shell shoe factory as what they -- or Fiore, at least, because he alone is the mastermind and evil genius of the scam -- thinks will be a profitable tax shelter.
It's hard to remember now what an impoverished time the 1970s were for science fiction and superhero television shows.
There are some hints at something finer in the script but the poor direction and impoverished production subvert it.
Irene Dunne is Hilda Bouverie, an impoverished serving girl who wants to sing.
When the story advances to the road aspect of the movie, we get 'surprise' devices like .... finding a blind man listening to a radio in the boonies somewhere in Mexico .....how this living-alone, elderly impoverished sightless man was able to find the fuel to run the .....presumed..... generator since his cancer-ridden son hadn't visited in six months is a different story problem......
The outsider reporter/photographer Ga Yu from Beijing echoes "Yellow Earth" character Brother Gu, of the Eighth Route Army, who is a visitor to the impoverished peasant family in that earlier film.
If an impoverished 10-year-old can come to that realization, so must the rest of the world.
The musical number "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" is so effective an illustration of the appeal this new Nazi hope held for impoverished suffering Germans, and yet we have The Master Of Ceremonies' evil nodding grin to remind us, in retrospect, what it really led to.Just as every musical number (aside from being so beautifully choreographed and presented) reminds us of the desperation in Sally Bowles' life and in most of Germany.
J.T. is the heartwrenching story of a lonely young boy growing up in an impoverished area of New York City whose life is changed by his discovery of an ailing stray cat.
Off they go, but at the back of their minds, nagging them, threatening to ruin their date, is their impoverished circumstances.
With Hollywood's usual sugar-coated approach to everything, including prison life, it's nice to see how independent filmmakers in some of the most impoverished societies of the world handle the subject.
The last thing impoverished Moldovans need is an autocratic, unaccountable government that lacks sufficient imagination to find a way to revive the country.
In the meantime, economic growth, which is vital for an impoverished but ambitious population, was the central issue of the presidential campaign.
A few self-serving white men (there are hardly any women or minorities in the blockchain universe) pretending to be messiahs for the world’s impoverished, marginalized, and unbanked masses claim to have created billions of dollars of wealth out of nothing.
The difficult business of providing quality education to the impoverished masses was largely ignored – one of the greatest injustices that India has experienced in modern times.
Two-thirds of the world’s most impoverished people live in about 60 developing or transition countries that depend on oil, mining, or gas revenues.
Given all of this, it is perhaps not surprising that impoverished and restive northern youth are joining Boko Haram in droves.
In an impoverished, war-ravaged Europe, people yearned for peace, freedom, stability, and a new chance to prosper.
This is especially the case in impoverished countries.
When drought comes to Southern Africa, as it has this year, tens of millions of impoverished peasant families struggle for survival.
This is not to deny that workers in industrialized countries are becoming relatively impoverished over time.
The communist Cuba he helped to forge is an undisputed and unmitigated failure, much more impoverished and much less free than it was before its “liberation.”
An impoverished welfare state is a dangerous, undemocratic, and deracinating idea.
But aren't countries that export their "brains" impoverished by the process?
With the gap between the world’s rich and poor increasing, the impoverished South seeks a home or a job in the developed North.
Extremist groups like the Taliban find ample recruitment possibilities in such impoverished communities.
A series of recent studies shows how fragile the water balance is for many impoverished and unstable parts of the world.
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