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The Passenger

1963, Movie, NR, 60 mins

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Slaska, a former overseer at Auschwitz and an SS member, is reunited with Ciepielewska, a prisoner in the concentration camp. The two had become friendly when Slaska arranged for the prisoner to meet with her lover, a fellow prisoner. Slaska also reveals the jealousy she felt over the woman's relationship, and how she used her power to control the prisoner. Before the film was completed, director Andrzej Munk was killed in an auto accident. The unfinished picture, later piec... read more leave a comment
A TV newsman on an African assignment exchanges identities with a dead look-alike and escapes into a new and dangerous life. Fine performances!
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Length: 02:02
Posted: 3/17/2008
Three-time Oscar -winner Jack Nicholson (Best Actor, As Good As It Gets - 1997, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1975; Best Supporting Actor, Terms of Endearment - 1983) and iconic screen beauty Maria Schneider (Last Tango In Paris) star in The Passenger, a cinematically brilliant romantic thriller written and directed by Oscar -winning filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni 1995 Honorary Award (Blow Up, L'Avventura). When a fellow traveler dies suddenly, burned-out journalist David Locke (Jack Nicholson) assumes his identity. Using the dead man's datebook as a guide, Locke travels throughout Europe and Africa, taking meetings with dangerous gun runners and falling for a beguiling young woman (Marie Schneider). But his exciting newfound freedom carries a fateful price as Locke realizes he is in over his head. Featuring a tour-de-force performance by Nicholson, The Passenger won the Bodil Award in 1976 for Best European Film and was nominated for the Golden Palm at the 1975 Cannes Film Festi
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Length: 02:06:08
Posted: 3/28/2008
Jack Nicholson portrays a reporter who takes on the identity of a dead man in this re-release of Michelangelo Antonioni's groundbreaking 1975 film.
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Posted: 12/19/2009
A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the I.D. of a dead arms dealer acquaintance.
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Length: 02:07:00
Posted: 1/25/2008
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Year: 1963
Rated NR

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Cast
Aleksandra Slaska: Liza
Anna Ciepielewska: Marta
Jan Kreczmar: Walter
Marek Walczewski: Tadeusz
Maria Koscialkowska: Inga
Irena Malkiewicz: "Ober"

 

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