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FOUR February 2004 highlights
Ali
Zaoua
Historians of Genius – In Their
Own Words
Tetris – From Russia With Love
The Three Sisters
The Trespasser
Ali
Zaoua
Ali
Zaoua is one of many boys left to wander the streets of Casablanca,
sniffing glue and getting into scrapes, until one day he and his
friends are set upon by another gang of boys and Ali is killed.
Kwita,
Omar and Boubker are devastated and decide to give Ali a burial
fit for a prince. The film shows the grim life of these young boys.
Ali
Zaoua sharply contrasts the harshness of the brutal world in which
the boys live with the innocence of childhood hopes they are unlikely
to fulfil.
Nabil
Ayouch directed the film, released in 2000, which he co- wrote with
Nathalie Saugeon.
Ali
Zaoua receives its UK television premiere as part of Ö÷²¥´óÐã FOUR's
Saturday Cinema strand.
Historians
of Genius – In Their Own Words
If
the great historians of the past were alive today, how would they
compare to the Simon Schamas and David Starkeys of the TV celebrity
age?
That
is the question posed by this fascinating series, which uses the
techniques of contemporary television history to bring to life the
work of three of the UK's greatest ever historical writers.
Edward
Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(1776– 88) is performed by Simon Russell Beale; Bill Paterson
takes on the mantle of Thomas Carlyle to tell the story of The French
Revolution (1837) and Samuel West delivers Thomas Macaulay's History
of England (1849).
The
text for the films is taken entirely from the books themselves,
filmed on location and in modern dress.
Tetris
– From Russia With Love
Tetris,
the fiendishly addictive computer game, took the world by storm
in the early Nineties. The story of its development and global success
is as gripping as the game itself.
Tetris
– From Russia with Love charts how a deceptively simple puzzle
game, devised by a computer programmer at Moscow's Academy of Science
in 1985, became one of the biggest selling computer games ever made.
It
is a tale of high stakes, intimidation and legal feuds with some
of the biggest companies in the capitalist West pitted against each
other in the fight to secure the rights from Soviet Russia.
The
Three Sisters
Kristin
Scott Thomas, Robert Bathurst, James Fleet and Douglas Hodge head
the cast of Christopher Hampton's acclaimed adaptation of Chekhov's
The Three Sisters.
Directed
by award winner Michael Blakemore and filmed at the London Playhouse
Theatre, The Three Sisters is set in a provincial town in Russia
and follows the Prozorov sisters
who reflect on their childhood and look forward to their reintroduction
into Moscow society.
The
play is a funny and moving study of character and relationship.
This fascinating drama explores the dynamics between love, hope
and fulfilment in the lives of the Prozorovs
and their friends.
The
Trespasser
The
Trespasser is a blistering thriller that shows the new Brazilian
cinema at its sharpest and most uncompromising.
When
Giba and Ivan have their business partner murdered, the hit man
proves far more difficult to remove from their lives.
The
film shows the grim reality of a gangster world, the imagined differences
between the middle class and the slums, and the reality of the businessmen's
and the hit man's ambitions
to fulfil their desires.
Released
in 2002, The Trespasser is directed by Beto Brant and based on the
novel written by Marcal Aquino.
It
receives its UK television premiere as part of Ö÷²¥´óÐã FOUR's Saturday
Cinema strand.
Notes
to Editors
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THREE February 2004 highlights (06.01.04)
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