Author Archive: Retro

Narrative of Anastasia in Germany.

A blacklisted airline pilot redeems himself by the way in which he handles a particularly dangerous flight.

This story depicts a detention camp for refugee women in the years just after World War II. Subtitled

Sandra searches for her missing sister. For this, she enters the morally degraded seaside of Genoa.

Hideko Takamine. An elementary schoolteacher grows angry and frustrated while watching her pupils’ lives ruined by war and poverty. (F)

The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war. Mindzhenty was arrested, tortured and eventually released, but was persecuted to the extent that he wound up taking refuge in the US Embassy in Budapest for many years, still acting as a spokesman for the Hungarians who wanted the Russian occupation forces and their Hungarian collaborators out of the country.

Explores the modern day views and customs of the residents of Peru, with English narration.