Résultats pour "The Door" dans 20e siècle

Poland, 1943. 'We owe you our lives.' The elderly woman clasps my hands before climbing the attic ladder to hide with her family. I am filled with anger, sadness and fear, but I can't give in to my tears now. Not when this isn't the only secret I'm keeping from the German soldiers next door... When German soldiers take over the neighbouring farm in her little village, Aneta tries to pretend life with her four-year-old son, Janek, is continuing as normal. No one can ever know about the Jewish doctor's family she's hiding.

'One of Britain's most visionary writers', David Peace ‘That uniquely valuable writer and independent film-maker Chris Petit’, Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian 'A tale for our feverish times ... It's fascinating to wander round Petit's baroque imagination.' The Times THE FINAL DAYS OF ADOLF...

It is September 1940. Maggie and her young siblings, Grace and Billy, are living in the East End of London with their mother. Their father has been killed at Dunkirk, and their mother goes into hospital to have her fourth child, leaving the children with a neighbor. In one of the worst bombing raids of the war, their home is destroyed, and the neighbor is killed. Bewildered and frightened, the children wander the streets until they are taken in by some nuns.

It's 1948 and the freedom granted women by the Second World War is gone. Edith Sloan, earning her doctorate, is told by her law student husband to cancel her academic plans. His bright future requires a certain kind of wife, one in the kitchen making dinner for important guests. Frustrated and defiant, Edith leaves him but returns when his begging letters become too much. Trapped by marriage and her husband's ambition, Edith struggles to find her footing and the means to her own survival.

June 1940. France is falling. Thirty thousand refugees are trapped in Bordeaux with nowhere to run—and one Portuguese diplomat has been ordered to let them die.

One of Joseph Conrad's most haunting sea-stories, describing a haunting life or death decision at sea which is made in a moment... and takes a lifetime to doubt it's wisdom.