- The film comprises six interconnected stories, one of them co-written with actress-screenwriter Iulia Lumânare. Interestingly, the feature recycles (and completes) The Christmas Gift and another, unreleased short film, New Year’s Eve. One of the protagonists is Ştefan Silvestru, the director of the national television station, who has to deal with a career-ending issue: an actress who appeared in a sketch to be broadcast on New Year’s Eve has defected the country. Silvestru’s son, Laurenţiu, who plans to defect by swimming across the Danube to Yugoslavia, is the protagonist of another story, all six of them exploring the atmosphere in Bucharest before the “end of the world”, or the fall of the regime.
- Ya Nina / Lucky Girl is a realistic drama based on true stories. It is featuring a sudden change of life of successful TV star Nina after the cancer diagnosis and loss of her arm. The storyline takes the main character from the highest peak of her beautiful life to the darkest place one can possibly find oneself. Nina discovers a whole new world for her, the world she doesn’t a...
- Kristin is the daughter of a prominent landowner in medieval Norway. She grows up in total harmony with the ideals of the time: strong family ties, social pride and devout Christianity. She accepts the fact that her father has arranged for her to marry the son of another landowner. Kristin's beauty and purity create violent emotions around her. There are envy and attempted rape, murder and revenge. She seeks refuge from the world in a convent, awaiting the time for her marriage. Here the passion of her life strikes, the knight Erlend Nikulaussonn. He, an accomplished seducer, also falls hopelessly in love. They have to cross not only convent walls to meet, but social boundaries as well. Their love cannot be kept secret, and suddenly the innocent Kristin is the centre of a scandal. Her fiance withdraws from their engagement, her father rages, and Erlend's former mistress tries to poison her. The affair grows into a political issue, and finally some of the country's most dignified leaders persuade Lavrans to give in. The lovers win each other, but it is in front of a charred altar in a burnt down church, and their happiness has a double edge. Written by The Norwegian Film Institute
- 那是一个遥远而又让人永世难忘的时代,一位圣者将他的名字、他的精神永远镌刻在历史的丰碑之上。备受世人爱戴的上帝之子耶稣(詹姆斯·帕特里克·卡维泽 James Patrick Caviezel 饰)为生活在穷苦和磨难中的人们带去了希望和喜悦,与此同时他的存在也触犯了教廷和统 治者的利益。他拒绝着魔鬼的引诱,而门徒犹大(卢卡·莱奥内罗 Luca Lionello 饰)则抵抗不出金钱的魅力,他为此出卖了耶稣,其丑态永久留在了“最后的晚餐”之上。在此之后,耶稣被捕,当局者为他戴上荆棘做的王冠,命他背上沉重的十字架,更用带着铁刺的鞭子抽打圣人的肌肤。耶稣痛苦呻吟着,决绝地忍受当下的一切。“仁慈之父,他们什么都不知道。”