Author Archive: Retro

The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler. He kidnaps the young man from a mental institution and prepares him to start the Fourth Reich.

Helga moves the action to South America, where she lords over a castle of female political prisoners, who are stripped and tortured at whim.

Sci-fi flick exploring the moral aspects of modern technological advances.

A fur-trapper battles the elements and robbers when a gold shipment is ambushed – leaving a boy in urgent need of medical attention.

This is the inspiring, epic journey of a noble warrior’s quest to prove his worth, his might, and his destined fate to become the next ruler of Britain.

In the chaos of post-World War II Rome, architecture students Paola and Marco meet, fall in love, and marry. Despite their separate convictions–he’s a Communist, she’s a Catholic–they plan an egalitarian marriage, in which each will pursue a career. Although they agree to wait to have children, the babies arrive. Burdened with four children, each parent blames the other. Abandoning her career after the birth of her first child, Paola redirects her energy toward caring for others, and the couple’s home becomes a haven for both relatives and friends. This, plus the permissive rearing of the children, soon takes its toll on Paola, who neglects her appearance and her husband. Marco suffers from frustrated ideals; his pragmatic friends grow rich designing buildings he despises, while he barely can pay bills from the meager salary he makes as a civil servant. In the tenth year of marriage, Marco takes a young emancipated woman, Adriana, for a [...]