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Remembrance (Polish: Zagubiony Czas German: Die verlorene Zeit The Lost Time) is a 2011 German drama film directed by Anna Justice. A German-Jewish young woman and Polish young man fall in love and escape a Nazi concentration camp. As the film prologue notes, it is based on the true story of Jerzy Bielecki and Cyla Cybulska. [1] [2]
Night Crossing is a 1982 thriller drama film starring John Hurt, Jane Alexander and Beau Bridges.The film is based on the true story of the Strelzyk and Wetzel families who, on September 16, 1979, escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot-air balloon during the Inner German border-era, when emigration to West Germany was strictly prohibited by the East German government.
This is an index of articles that features lists of films based on real-life events. As new entries are produced, they should be included to ensure the list remains current and complete.
29th Street (1991) – comedy drama film based on the true-life story of actor Frank Pesce, who won the first New York State Lottery in 1976 [84]; A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story (1991) – biographical drama television film recounting the life of Ricky Bell, a Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back sickened with dermatomyositis, and Ryan Blankenship, a physically impaired child [85]
This is a list of films and miniseries that are based on actual events. All films on this list are from American production unless indicated otherwise.. True story films [1] gained popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with the production of films based on actual events that first aired on CBS, ABC, and NBC.
The Search is a 1948 American film directed by Fred Zinnemann that tells the story of a young Auschwitz survivor and his mother who search for each other across post-World War II Europe. It stars Montgomery Clift , Ivan Jandl , Jarmila Novotná and Aline MacMahon .
"The Leaden Time" [1] or "Leaden Times" [2]), also called The German Sisters in the United Kingdom, [3] is a 1981 West German film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. The screenplay is a fictionalized account of the true lives of Christiane and Gudrun Ensslin. Gudrun, a member of The Red Army Faction, was found dead in her prison cell in ...
The film was released in France under the title L' Ami Retrouvé and in Germany as Der wiedergefundene Freund. [1] The story is centred on the "enchanted friendship" of two teenagers in 1933 English-speaking Germany. Hans Strauss (Christien Anholt) is the son of a Jewish doctor and Konradin Von Lohenburg (Samuel West) is from an aristocratic ...