Told by a cast of 10 to 12 year-olds and filled with quirky, unusually delightful moments. The Argonauts flee across the sea with the furious people of Kolchis in hot pursuit. Medea, the powerful daughter of the king, falls in love with Jason and helps him in his fight for the Golden Fleece. With intelligence and inventiveness they negotiate the passage to finally they reach the mythical land of Kolchis. Then they come to the Symplegaden, two floating cliffs which mark the entry to straits with constantly changing tides and sure death. After this catastrophe the Argonauts reach the island Lemnos, where they are captured by a tribe of women and where they discover the secret of the island and its inhabitants. Their first stop is the island Dolionen, whose inhabitants they accidentally kill. Will the inspector from the nearby city discover the real purpose of the college? Will Hidalla be successful in her revolt against the destiny assigned to her by the Headmistress?ДЄ rare and wonderful find from West Germany, 'The Golden Thing' is based on the great journey of the Argonauts and set in a time when mankind was still in a state of childhood (and children were viewed as adults).ДЄn 11-year-old Jason (Christian Reitz) goes searching for treasure on a ship of his design, the Argo, along with Hercules, Castor, Pollux, Orpheus and a crew of other Greek princes. When two of them disappear mysteriously, the initial fairytale atmosphere grows more and more eerie. At the age of 16, some of them start asking questions about their origins, their parents and the true purposes of the Headmistresses strict rules. Young Hidalla and her friends Irene, Vera, Blanka, Melusine and Rain are brought up in an isolated world: the girls don't know anything about live outside the college's high walls. A group of young girls are brought up in a college withinh dark forests and gloomy lakes. Thuringia, Germany, in the early 20th century. 'Laughing Water - Mine Ha-Ha' is based on 'Mine-Haha or Physical Education of Young Girls' by German author Frank Wedekind (Spring Awakening, Lulu, Pandora's Vase). In the present-day Helsinki the middle-aged Helena has looked into her past, ceased to hate and now, for the first time in her life, voluntarily accepts responsibility for another human being. The violent life, however, separates the three from each other. Now she is burdened with both her mother and her sister. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating. The hard work soon exhausts Irene and she falls from height, as if on purpose. She becomes the trapeze star of the circus. Ramon trains the reluctant Irene during circus tours in Central Europe. They are on a talent search for a German circus. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. Which is stronger, biology or will-power. But romance almost destroyed her family and almost cost her her life and Ida wants nothing to do with it. She is also growing up and developing romantic urges of her own. She is looking forward to the upcoming dance contest. Ida and her family are recovering from the divorce. Ida's father has left the family for another woman, and so far Mum has found consolation in the bottle. 7-year old Ida, a brave little girl, has to take care of her kid brother Skrubsak, feed the family and keep the child welfare officers at stake. Harsh realism and pure magic go hand in hand in this moving story about love, abandonment and alcohol.

Fearless Skrubsak follows Ida's proposal - so far that he is lowered into the deep chimney. Grandmother has given Skrubsak a yelping teddy bear, and severely affected by jealousy Ida suggests to him that he should show the teddy bear to the Bogey Man. When the children show signs of naughtiness, she threatens them with the Bogey Man, who lives in the chimney and eats bad children. The two siblings Ida and Skrubsak are visiting their grandmother, a harsh woman without much understanding of small people and their thoughts and feelings. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen.

Little girl in blue velvet 1978