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1) Fraulein
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 8
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Germanic
Description
Ana, a new employee in Reza's cafeteria, has high spirits that thaws Reza's joyless life in Zurich.
2) The visitor
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Walter Vale is a widower who teaches economics at a Connecticut university. He lives alone and is no longer motivated by his work. In New York to present a paper at a conference, he goes to the apartment that he has not visited in some time, but has kept since his wife was alive, only to discover a young couple living there. Despite their great cultural differences, Walter befriends Tarek, a Syrian citizen and drummer, and gradually builds a friendship...
3) The namesake
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The son of Indian immigrants born in America wants to fit in with fellow New Yorkers, but his family is unwilling to let go of their traditional ways.
4) Brooklyn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Circus saxophonist Vladimir Ivanoff suddenly defects from his touring troupe in that temple of "Western decadence," Bloomingdale's. He wins asylum and moves into the crowded Harlem flat of Black security guard Lionel Witherspoon. Although Vladimir learns that life in America can be cold and even painful, he grows to love what seems to him a strange and wondrous land.
6) Brooklyn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 125 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The tale of an immigrant and his family trying to live the American Dream in the 1980s and expand their business amidst rampant violence, urban decay, and corrupt city officials during one of the most dangerous years in the city's history.
8) Entre nos
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (82 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Mariana brings her two children from Colombia to New York to reunite with her husband, only to be abandoned by him. Desperate and alone, Mariana must find a way to survive and care for her family.
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