Resistance Stories
What can a Spanish priest, an Hungarian Jewish family, Polish and Czech dissidents, Italian peasants and a Norwegian special agent have in common? They are all resistants portrayed in the films that make up Festroia’s showcase Resistance Stories.All in all, the showcase includes eleven features that will allow the audience of the International Film Festival of Setúbal to know different stories of struggle for freedom and against oppression in the most diverse ways, some of them based on true events, and always set on the European continent.
The list includes the following pictures: A path across the Danube, by Miloslav Luther (Slovakia); Berlin 36, by Kaspar Heidelbach (Germany); Winter in wartime, by Martin Koolhoven (The Netherlands); General Nil, by Ryszard Bugajski (Poland); Max Manus, by Espen Sandberg and Joachim Roenning (Norway); Protektor, by Marek Najbrt (Czech Republic); Rose’s song, by Andor Szilágyi (Hungary); Tears of April, by Aku Louhimies (Finland); The man who will come, by Giorgio Diritti (Italy); The good news, by Helena Taberna (Spain); and the documentary The dissidents, by French filmmaker Ruth Zylberman.