Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Twenty years Two people Directed by Lone Scherfig (director of An Education Academy Award-nominated for Best Picture) the motion picture One Day is adapted for the screen by David Nicholls from his beloved bestselling novel One Day After one day together
- July 15th 1988 their university graduation
- Emma Morley (Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway) & Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess The Way Back 21) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime She is a working-class girl of principle & ambition who dreams of making the world a better place He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground For the next two decades key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives Together & apart we see Dex & Em through their friendship & fights hopes & missed opportunities laughter & tears Somewhere along their journey these two people realize that what they are searching & hoping for has been there for them all along As the true meaning of that one day back in 1988 is revealed they come to terms with the nature of love & life itself Actors Anne Hathaway Patricia Clarkson Jim Sturgess Romola Garai Georgia King Jodie Whittaker Rafe Spall & Sarah Jane O& Neill Director Lone Scherfig Certificate 12 years & over Year 2011 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Spanish Closed Captions Yes Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players



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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Lone Scherfig directs this romcom based on the best-seller by David Nicholls about two friends who reunite every year on the anniversary of their first meeting Since the day when they first met at their college graduation
- July 15th 1988
- Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) & Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) have kept in touch meeting up again on the same day each year Over the following two decades the ups & downs of the relationship between the idealistic Emma & wealthy ladies& man Dexter are revisited every July 15th as they try to take stock of their lives & attempt to discover what they&ve both been missing all along

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Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him This world came to him as a chaos of loud & colourful sounds the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlour black mamba bicycle bells mechanics in Nairobi the music of Michael Jackson
- all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother & sister He could fall in with their patterns but it would take him a while to carve out his own In this vivid & compelling debut Wainaina takes us through his school days his failed attempt to study in South Africa a moving family reunion in Uganda & his travels around Kenya The landscape in front of him always claims his main attention but he also evokes the shifting political scene that unsettles his views on family tribe & nationhood Throughout reading is his refuge & his solace & when in 2002 a writing prize comes through the door is opened for him to pursue the career that perhaps had been beckoning all along Resolutely avoiding stereotype & cliche Wainaina paints every scene in One Day I Will Write About This Place with a highly distinctive & hugely memorable brush
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April 6 1944 A detachment of German soldiers arrive in a rural French town hunting down resistance fighters many of whom are hiding in the region More than sixty years later the villagers clearly remember the day when four peasants from a nearby village were taken hostage & shot as an example to others But do they remember the whole story? Jean-Marie Borzeix sets out to investigate the events of Holy Thursday 1944 & to reveal the hidden truths of that fateful day He uncovers the story of a mysterious &fifth man& shot alongside the resisters & eventually unravels a trail which leads him to Paris Israel & into the darkest corners of the Holocaust in France A captivating story the events of this day in a small entirely typical town illuminate the true impact of World War II in France ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Kevin Mac Donald directs this Oscar-winning documentary examining the events of the 1972 Munich Olympics when the extreme Palestinian group Black September held eleven Israeli athletes hostage Archive material & music mingles with interview footage of those involved at the time including the only surviving member of the Black September group ...

Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics This brutal shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia & shocked the world when it first appeared Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup the incredible luxury of a book the ingenious possibilities of a nail a piece of string or a single match in a world where survival is all Here safety warmth & food are the first objectives Reading it you enter a world of incarceration brutality hard manual labour & freezing cold
- & participate in the struggle of men to survive both the terrible rigours of nature & the inhumanity of the system that defines their conditions of life Though twice-decorated for his service at the front during the Second World War Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was arrested in 1945 for making derogatory remarks about Stalin & sent to a series of brutal Soviet labour camps in the Arctic Circle where he remained for eight years Released after Stalin's death he worked as a teacher publishing his novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich with the approval of Nikita Khrushchev in 1962 to huge success His 1967 novel Cancer Ward as well as his magnum opus The Gulag Archipelago were not as well-received by Soviet authorities & not long after being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970 Solzhenitsyn was deported from the USSR In 1994 after twenty years in exile Solzhenitsyn made his long-awaited return to Russia If you enjoyed One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich you might also like Yevgeny Zamyatin's We available in Penguin Classics' It is a blow struck for human freedom all over the world & it is gloriously readable' Sunday Times
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From breakfast to dinner dusk to dawn children will love spending the day with this curious penguin chick In the latest volume of Ella Bailey s picture book exploration of the daily lives of baby animals we head to the ice shelf to meet a young penguin chick What does she & her family eat? How many brothers & sisters does she have? What do they do for fun? Ella Bailey is an illustrator & writer who graduated from Falmouth University She lives in Nottingham where she spends her days drawing every animal she can think of" ...

From breakfast to dinner dusk to dawn children will love spending the day with this curious young spider monkey The series focused on the way our young animal friends spend a day continues with an adventurous spider monkey exploring the bustling rainforest of South America with his mother by his side Ella Bailey is an illustrator & writer who focuses on creating charming characters & character-based illustrations particularly for stories & children s books Bailey s style is playful & engaging resulting in stories that are charged with imagination & will undoubtedly captivate any young reader She lives in Nottingham ...

Follow this adventurous spider monkey exploring the bustling rainforest of South America with his mother by his side in the third title from Ella Bailey's bestselling series now in paperback ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Twenty years Two people Directed by Lone Scherfig (director of An Education Academy Award-nominated for Best Picture) the motion picture One Day is adapted for the screen by David Nicholls from his beloved bestselling novel One Day After one day together
- July 15th 1988 their university graduation
- Emma Morley (Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway) & Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess The Way Back 21) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime She is a working-class girl of principle & ambition who dreams of making the world a better place He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground For the next two decades key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives Together & apart we see Dex & Em through their friendship & fights hopes & missed opportunities laughter & tears Somewhere along their journey these two people realize that what they are searching & hoping for has been there for them all along As the true meaning of that one day back in 1988 is revealed they come to terms with the nature of love & life itself Actors Anne Hathaway Patricia Clarkson Jim Sturgess Romola Garai Georgia King Jodie Whittaker Rafe Spall & Sarah Jane O& Neill Director Lone Scherfig Certificate 12 years & over Year 2011 Screen Widescreen 235 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Additional Languages Spanish ; Latin American Spanish ; Brazilian Portuguese Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Spanish ; Brazilian Portuguese ; Latin American Spanish Closed Captions Yes


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