3 Movies Starring Lionel Abelanski

Train of Life

Train of Life

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-09-16

Languages:

French, German

Countries:

France, Belgium, Netherlands, Israel, Romania

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (6925 Reviews)

Director:

Radu Mihaileanu

Cast:

Writer:

Radu Mihaileanu

Moni Ovadia (italian version)

Fullplot:

Central Europe, WWII. The village fool of a small Jewish community warns the townsfolk that the Nazis are coming, and advises them to build a fake deportation train to cross the Russian border and get to Palestine. Some Jews are dressed up with German uniforms, and soon they start getting strange ideas about how it feels to be a Nazi; others are infected with the fast-spreading germ of communism. Meanwhile, the Russian border gets closer and closer...

Let's Be Friends

Let's Be Friends

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-02-23

Languages:

French, Mandarin, Spanish, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (757 Reviews)

Fullplot:

One is too shy to start a relationship, other too unsettled to stay in one. Will their friendship help them to find the right woman for both?

Not Here to Be Loved

Not Here to Be Loved

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-10-12

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

93 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (1307 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Stèphane Brizè

Juliette Sales

Fullplot:

The fifty years old Jean-Claude has a boring life, working in a notary office of his own and as court official evicting tenants or seizing properties, or spending the Sundays afternoons in the retirement home with his sour, rude and bitter father. When he has a minor heart problem, his doctor advises him to exercise, and Jean-Claude begins to have tango lessons in a studio in front of his office. He meets the charming forty and something years old Franèoise, who is also having classes for her wedding party, and she recalls she was her neighbor in her childhood. They become close and love flourishes between them, changing their lives.

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