At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a ...
A young doctor from the lower classess is helped in his career by a rich woman. When he comes back from study in Paris he takes a job at a watering spa. He comes up against the owners when ...
A story about reckless Irenka Borowska takes place in the thirties. Quite suddenly, her family experiences numerous misfortunes: sale of the family estate at auction, rejection of their ...
Enver Hoxha ruled Albania with an iron fist for nearly 40 years and for a long time Albania was the only Maoist regime and by far the most isolationist society in Europe - politically, ...