Survival, when you've lost all else

[takncarabizniz]

Just watched a classic foreign film, "Kapo"...1959 Gillo Pontecorvo-
 
Stars Susan Strassburg as a young Jewish girl who must find a way to survive the Holocaust and in joining the ranks of the enemy, ends up being the savior of many...
 
Not a bad film, totally sexy young man by the name of Laurent Terzieff plays a young Russian soldier...
 
I did enjoy it...

[Griobhtha]

Old movies are the best!

[takncarabizniz]

I love the classics and foreign films are my favorite.  My all time favorite movie is still Cinema Paradiso...
 
Other fave foreign films
 
Pan's Labrynth
Strictly Ballroom
Shirley Valentine
The Lover
Farewell My Concubine
The Bicycle Thief
La Dolce Vita
Fanny and Alexander
Yesterday
Europa Europa
 
boy I could go on and on

[emilyB]

I'll have to take a look at "Kapo" if I can find it.
 
I thought "Mad about Mambo" was a neat movie:
 
Mad About Mambo has very little to do with “mambo”, despite the inclusion of cover versions of Ricky Martin’s hit Maria and the Spice Girls’ Spice Up Your Life, both Latin-flavoured songs slowed down substantially for these cover versions. No, this humble little film - very much in the style of affectionate romantic comedies like Gregory’s Girl - is actually about... soccer! Young and awkward Danny Mitchell lives for his dream of playing soccer in his idea of the big leagues - the rather unglamorous Belfast United club. When he hears that a well-regarded Brazilian import has been recruited into that team, he decides that the one thing his game is missing is that special kind of soccer footwork that comes from knowing Latin American dance moves and having “the rhythm”. The logical step? To take dance lessons!
[JUSTIFY]Danny finds a dance instruction studio and soon runs into Lucy McLoughlin, a feisty and talented dancer with a posh boyfriend and a very dubious Irish accent that appears to have been learnt from endless screenings of The Commitments and a night out with Tim Curry. A momentous occasion indeed, it’s many things at first sight - among them passion, mambo, lurve, fear, determination and embarrassment. Such is the way, y’see, of quirky Irish love seen through the eyes of a lens hired from Panavision. To be sure. To be sure.[/JUSTIFY]
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[JUSTIFY]I would also add "Georgy Girl" to the list with the late Lynn Redgrave.  I could always relate to her rushing out of the Beauty Salon after her hairdo and sticking her head under the closest rest room faucet![/JUSTIFY]

[n1te-stalker]

I believe  Susan Strassburg committed suicide went she was young...shame !