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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1978 - 29 July.6 August

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Jew's harp has a lot in common with limberjack, spinning tops and rocking horses; they are all very simple wooden toys with which Canadian children played in the nineteenth...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film

From an original story by Hiro Miyagawa. The new school year begins and the students of class 4a, sect. A, they are happy to have Miss Kimura as their teacher again, but they are...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film

Three friends - Tomás, Hubert and Jozka - are boys growing up in a little town. Tomás lives with his aunt Apolena (Iva Janzurová) and uncle Václav (Karel Augusta), who holds...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film

A film that questions the right of parents to force their children into the adult world's rational behavior. A 6-year-old revolt by going to a lawyer and ask for a divorce from...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film

This children's film is based on a popular series of stories written by Anne-Cath Vestly, who also plays the grandmother here. In one segment her grandchildren are out looking for...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film

Story of an orphan girl who lives with her grandfather in the mountains and then forced to act as a lady-in-waiting for a paralytic girl in Frankfurt.

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film

Filmmaker Hark Bohm captures the interaction of a group of young children from a working-class neighborhood in the Bergedorf suburb of Hamburg, whose playground is a partially...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film

A 9-year-old girl wishes to be kidnapped by an ex-con whom she dreams of a prince charming on white horse. This dull-witted ex-con man about town plays the role of the prince in...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film

Documentary on the Danube valley, it is based on a labile pretext: the story of the old Captain Pop who crossed the waters of the great river with his boat for forty years.

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Documentary, Feature Film

New California is under the rule of Queen Isabel II Queen of Spain. Don Esteban of the Fuente Governor, greedy for money and riches, squeezes the people with taxes and taxes of...

Category Official Competition
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film