Peace In Our Time

On a summer day, a man, his daughter and his companion arrive at their country house to spend the weekend. The daughter has just moved in with her father, whose attention she desires. The man is tired of his life, and does not know where to find the strength to carry on living. The woman, a violinist, is confused in her priorities - music, love or career. Despite the fact that the man and the woman love each other, their tense relationship is on the brink of collapse.

September 28, 1938, war is about to break out. Tension was mounting, as Chamberlain and Daladier on one side, and Hitler and Mussolini on the other, met in Munich. This conference marked the culmination of the weakness of European democracies in the face of the rise of fascism. Through period documents and interviews, author Marcel Ophüls recounts this meeting and recreates the European climate of 1938.

Peace in Our Time is a political satire about living in the USA under the "sanctuary" of the Patriot Act...

Filmed in Moscow in 1988, Big Country broke barriers by playing in a nation not usually amenable to Western rock bands. With their innovative blend of rock music and traditional Scottish folk rhythms, the group wowed their Soviet audience. Songs include "Peace in Our Time," "Wonderland," "Broken Heart (Thirteen Valleys)," "Steel Town," "River of Hope," "Thousand Yard Stare," "King of Emotion" and "Chance."

The protagonist of the story is a place of calmness, purity and serenity: an ancient shrine on an islet, dedicated to Our Lady. It is facing a strange antagonist: speed, tumult, superficiality, and vanity of the modern era. Heavenly vs. mundane, temporarily vs. eternal, material versus spiritual…

Secret agents try to defeat terrorists on the Orient Express.