A fairy appears to the old man and his old lady and offers to fulfill any wish, but on the condition that their neighbour will get twice as much. The old man hesitates and cannot make up his mind, so the right to make a wish is given to the old lady..
Shortly before his 75th birthday, Wilhelm Schürmann has no desire to adapt his lifestyle even a little to suit his age and his health problems. When, after a bout of weakness, he was told to stop driving - at least for the time being - and move in with his daughter Bettina, the headstrong old man suddenly decided to run away..
A platoon of South Korean soldiers find themselves cut off from their squad without communication. They are aided by an old man in a nearby village who did not evacuate his home..
The old man had a dog. For many years, the dog lived with him and protected him loyally. Abandoned in the street, the old dog finds a new home and a loving family, while the old man finds himself alone and out of his home..
Like an unlucky old man selling a cow, he blasphemed its buyers, because he was too honest. Based on comic Russian fairy tales..
Volka, un adolescent, trouve une jarre ancienne en se baignant dans la Moskova. Une fois rentré chez lui, au lieu du trésor espéré c’est un génie qu’il y découvre. Pour le remercier de l’avoir délivré de près de mille ans de captivité Hassan Abdourahman ibn Khattab est prêt à réaliser ses moindres désirs, mais en mille ans la Russie à bien changé, les mœurs aussi....
Georgian cartoon, in which the spirit of Winter harasses anyone he finds..
Two boys in the conspiracy - imaginary or real? ... The adventures of two boys who themselves create "a conspiracy". At the beginning of summer vacation boy moved to a new neighborhood, where start start unusual ....
A group of peasants comes to see Leo Tolstoy and his wife, the Countess, to request some land. Tolstoy must explain to them that it is his wife who has authority over their land-holdings, and she will not help them. Stung by their negative reaction to him, Tolstoy becomes increasingly preoccupied with the problems of the poor. This leads to a number of conflicts with his wife, and then to a deep despondency, as the noted writer continues vainly to search for answers to the sufferings he sees around him..
The lives of two men who live on the streets of Caracas, Venezuela, are followed in a documented prophecy of the coming underground rebellion..
The Three-Hundred-Year-Old Man is the reconstruction of a lost silent film made in 1914 on the basis of an album of 66 photographs kept in the Film Archive. The 50-minute silent film was made to raise money for charity: the aristocratic group initiating the making of the film exploited the popular medium of film to promote a new achievement, aviation. The screenplay was written by Sándor Bródy and Endre Nagy, its actors were young Hungarian aristocrats, many of whom later became notable personalities. Money raised from the film was to go to improve Hungarian aviation and the Polyclinic. The Three-Hundred-Year-Old Man became the first time-travel science fiction film in Hungarian film history. Unfortunately, the film itself was lost in the course of subsequent decades, but it has now been revived from still photographs....
Folk art–like hand-drawn stills illustrate this sweetly simple pastoral fable, in which a peasant comes into possession of a small fortune—but realizes there are treasures greater than gold..
An old man is looking for his place in the world which seems have let him behind. But who are the boys with their stockings?.
Though he is near death, blind Rene, an elderly Italian-French intellectual, continues to make his annual conference abroad accompanied by his self-centered loyal, beautiful assistant Sibilla who may or may not be his lover. Rene's domineering mother strongly disapproves of Sibilla and his continual galavanting, but Rene disregards her and goes anyway. While in Spain, Sibilla falls for a handsome young toreador who also captures the interest of Rene, though it is hard to say whether his feelings for the bullfighter are fatherly or more romantic. It is also unclear as to whether Sibilla and the bullfighter are lovers either. Thus an enigmatic romantic triangle forms until Rene and Sibilla suddenly decide to wed. The character of Rene seems to be closely patterned after Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges..
Old man Yang is about to move away from the Beijing Hutong that he lived in for years, but he cannot help reminiscing about the old times. Until one day, he gets a mysterious Prize Drawing....
An old man travels to the city in search of a book. After a long journey, he returns to his town empty-handed and resumes his strange routine..
