In the mid-1970s, Saul Bellow visited Israel. This book presents his account of his time there. Immersing himself in its landscape & culture, he records the opinions, passions & dreams of Israelis of varying viewpoints
- from Prime Minister Rabin, novelist Amos Oz & the editor of an Arab-language newspaper to the barber at Bellow's hotel.
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One of Ingmar Bergman's early works. Marta (Maj-Britt Nilsson) & Stig (Stig Olin) meet & marry while playing in an orchestra. However, their relationship deteriorates after Stig has an affair. The central themes of this film
- the incompatability of spouses & the responsibility of artists
- are recurrent fascinations for Bergman.

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Mike Barker's costume drama is set 1645 when England is coming out of a civil war. The New Model Army have defeated the Royalist forces & King Charles I (Rupert Everett) is now imprisoned. General Thomas Fairfax (Dougray Scott) celebrates with his deputy Oliver Cromwell (Tim Roth) but they don't agree on what to do with the King. However, it is the more powerful of the two, Cromwell who manages to take charge & in order to indroduce his new parliamentary ideas he must put the King on trials & eventually execute him. ...

One of a series of fiction titles for schools. Scout, the keen-eyed narrator, & her brother Jem interrupt their games to champion their lawyer father when, in a hostile, racist town in the American South, he battles to defend Tom, who is black & accused of murder. ...

Alabama in the 1930s. The children Scout (Mary Badham) & Jem (Phillip Alford) play in the street, while their lawyer father Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) defends a black man accused of raping a young white woman. The controversial nature of the trial, taking place in the racist culture of the Deep South, leads the local townsfolk to turn against Finch & sees his family become the victim of a series of terror attacks. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, ' To Kill a Mockingbird' won Oscars for Peck & screenwriter Horton Foote. ...

Alabama in the 1930s. The children Scout (Mary Badham) & Jem (Phillip Alford) play in the street, while their lawyer father Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) defends a black man accused of raping a young white woman. The controversial nature of the trial, taking place in the racist culture of the Deep South, leads the local townsfolk to turn against Finch & sees his family become the victim of a series of terror attacks. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, ' To Kill a Mockingbird' won Oscars for Peck & screenwriter Horton Foote. ...