简介:改编自William Kamkwamba所著自传《驭风男孩》(The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind),讲述一个改变人生的故事:Kamkwamba本人在13岁那年,以小块金属废料、旧自行车零件和木材修建了风轮机,拯救了自己的村庄。 13岁的Kamkwamba因家里没钱交80美元一年的学费而被学校开除,热爱学习的他溜到学校的图书馆,找到了一种拯救饥荒村庄的方法:用父亲的自行车的主架打造了一个简陋但可行的风车,为西部地区提供了急需的电力,不受政府断电的干扰。这个发明也让Kamkwamba得到马拉维一名教授的资助,获得学校的奖学金,并于非洲大陆其他的发明者进行深入交流。
简介:à la veille de No?l, Greg, un policier solitaire et taciturne, n’hésite pas à abandonner sa fille pour partir en mission. Pour lui donner une le?on, le Père No?l décide d’exaucer le souhait de sa fille : que son père ressemble à Richard Silestone, le bon père de famille un peu benêt et lourdement endetté du film de No?l qu’elle adore. Alors que Greg est envoyé dans ce monde imp...
简介:Growing up is tough on Berlin’s Gropiusstadt housing estate. No one can avoid the drugs and the fights. The summer is tedious, money is urgently needed, a theft goes wrong. No frills, just like Felix Lobrecht’s source novel.
简介: Classic British comedy adapted from a James Thurber story about a tweed manufacturer's elderly accountant who devises a plan to save the company from an American takeover bid. The arrival of an efficiency expert from the States causes enough of a stir but, when it turns out to be a woman, the old-fashioned number cruncher declares war. Man-eating businesswoman, Angela Barrows is sent by her US company to Edinburgh to investigate export opportunities. She meets businessman Robert MacPherson en route and he persuades her to help bring his company into the 20th century. The staff, lead by Mr. Martin, have other ideas and a battle between the old and new business methods breaks out.
简介: Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because it is hard to get a conviction at Christmas time. But he feels sorry for her and arranges for her bail, and ends up taking her home to his mother for Christmas. Surrounded by a loving family (in stark contrast to Lee's own family background) they fall in love. This creates a new problem: how do they handle the upcoming trial?
简介:When a troubled couple escape to their rural farmhouse for a weekend of re-connection, they realize that their ability to save their marriage will literally determine the fate of humankind itself.