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“A man, an accordion, a ladder, and a video camera. It’s as simple as that.” - Andrew Lampert

Dmitry Gromtsev was a volunteer to go the front where he was wounded. He couldn't get back to his beloved profession of musician. The movie tells us about difficult destiny of a person who couldn't become an artist because of war.

A couple of children earn their living by playing music on the streets of Teheran. But a thief steals their accordion.

In the absence of sex education in school and at home in a Russian province in the early 90's, the boy Serezja discovers his sexuality in a strange and comical way in which an accordion plays a crucial role.

David Imaz had to flee from the Basque Country in the mid-seventies, repudiated by his people, accused of betrayal. Despite having found happiness in California, his past still weighs him down and the feeling of guilt prevents him from being able to settle down and peacefully enjoy the last days of his life. Joseba Altuna, his childhood friend, comes to say goodbye and to settle the score while he's at it. It's been a long time since they saw one another, but the time has come to face the truth.

The action takes place in a village where police investigates a murder committed because of an accordion.

Ji-soo, a literature enthusiast who believes a mysterious being once visited him as a child and gifted him with talent in writing, finds school life boring. But everything changes when Hyeon-joo, a bold, soccer-loving girl, transfers to his school. Her boyish charm and passion to soccer instantly captivates him. From that day on, Ji-soo is plagued by unsettling, yet vivid dreams that blur the line between reality and something far more mysterious.

Exploration of the connections between sex, love and technology.

This short profile of Agnès Varda’s longtime bakery and accordion shop was shot by the filmmaker in 2005.

Igor Savchenko's Accordion (Garmon', 1934) was adapted from a poem by A. Zharov. This film sheds light on the reasons why the mass song came into being. In it, the country boy Timosha stops playing the accordion after being chosen leader of the local Komsomol. When he understands that he must compete with the sad kulak songs played by Tlskliby ("Mournful"), he recognizes his mistake in abandoning his accordion, and in the end he gathers the other youths around him with his lively and merry songs.

The son of a poor shoemaker dreams of the titular accordion. He is ready to give up his shoes, jacket, and savings in order to get the instrument displayed in an antique shop.

In present-day Monterrey, three downtown musicians confront the urbanization of the city as they perform Fara Fara pieces in search of clients.

A girl with an accordion body tries to escape from a castle in which she is held captive...

This story of a Soviet soldier who was killed during the liberation of Prague in May 1945 combines Zdenek Seydl's animated drawings with documentary footage by war correspondents.

Adel is a singer from the Caribbean coast who wanders through the villages playing his accordion and falling in love with girls. He meets Blanca who gives him her love, he agrees to marry her and go to live with her in Barranquilla. Despite the promise, and the pressure of Blanca's family, it will be very difficult for Adel to fulfill his commitment: the same night of the wedding day he will be seduced and will be obsessed by La Mohana, goddess of the waters, about whose legend the old people tell more than one story.

'The Accordion's Journey' narrates the story of three Colombian musicians. Year after year they participate in the world's largest competitive accordion festival, held in Valledupar, Colombia. But they never win. One day a letter arrives, inviting them to play alongside the legendary Hohner Accordion Orchestra in Trossingen, Germany, the birthplace of the 'Corona', Colombia's most popular accordion. It's the first time abroad for our three heroes and they discover a very different culture, a first encounter with snow and ice and make new friends. But will their adventure help them in winning the accordion festival back in Valledupar?

The money Erpan saved from the part-time job was divided up by his father, making him unable to buy his beloved accordion. Erpan and his friend Musa fool around and beaten by a group of people lead by Kamil, he had to follow his mother home. Finally, Ayisha helped Erpan to get an accordion, in this process, the relationship between them became closer.

A film by Dragan Nikolić.

24-year-old Pavlo is going on a journey to cross the Polish border and get to Paris. There he wants to work as a musician. Unable to obtain a passport, Pavlo crosses the border in a coffin. Paris, six months later. Police officers are trying to detain illegal musicians. Pavlo is saved by an old acquaintance.

Bimbo becomes a long distance accordion champ and comes through with a load of credit.

Andrea is a young woman with innocent looks, but a ravishing sexual appetite. By using her sexuality she can get most anything she wants, but as each days passes she gets deeper and deeper into a world that she despises and fears she will never escape.

Ten-year-old Clossie is having the worst holiday of her life – dragged to a seaside naturist resort by her fun-loving single mother. When Mum starts flirting with a fishmonger called Nick, there’s nothing for it but her to tail them with binoculars to try and unravel the adult mysteries of attraction.

The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father.

Joy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of society, getting by on benefits and earning a little extra by playing the accordion in the subway. In addition, she is a skilled shoplifter and has never been caught.

We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.

Idi and Rita live with their grandmother, Manie. Idi tries to keep the memories they have of their mother, by drawing on his school notebook. By the force of their desire, the children keep the link they have to their funny mother, despite the separation.

Exploring every facet of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like ‘Eat It’ and ‘Like a Surgeon’ to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle, this biopic takes audiences on a truly unbelievable journey through Yankovic’s life and career, from gifted child prodigy to the greatest musical legend of all time.

Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.

Alex is a passionate musician. He travels from one gig to the next with his tango band. He can't make a living from his music, but he doesn't really care. This changes when he and his bandmates steal a rocker band's tour bus and there is an accident. Alex's friend Tommy dies and the tango band is finished. Suddenly Alex finds himself without an apartment, a pile of debts and with the grim rockers breathing down his neck. There's only one thing to do: go into hiding.

Kotori Haneda is a university student interning at a publishing house. While doing her internship, she is partnered with another intern named Eba Shimazaki; the two start a relationship, but her happiness is not to last.

An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.

An old Brazilian musician, Rato Branco, seeks out the old masters of the 8-bass sanfona in the backlands of Bahia to recover the secrets and traditional touches of the Pé de Bode, as this sanfona is known in northeastern Brazil. The film recounts the friendship between the master Rato Branco and the great musicians of the sertão, revealing the musical memory of this region.

A man pursues stand-up comedy encouraged by his fellow garbage man. Though his friend, who accompanies him on accordion, continues to tell him how great he is, he actually stinks. When the "comedian" grows a third arm out of his back, the friend uses this twist to get him signed up with a sleazy talent agent, and it begins to look like his career is on the move, even though his girlfriend has left him.

For him, the accordion is like a box in which you can get an entire orchestra in order to always have it on your own. Dynamic portrait of the gifted and charismatic accordionist Martynas Levickis.

After his wife's death, a vallenato singer from Majagual, Sucre, decides to quit music and return his allegedly cursed accordion to his master. He is joined by Fermín Morales, a teenage boy who admires him and wishes to follow his footsteps. Together, they start a journey throughout several towns in Northern Colombia to Taroa, in La Guajira desert, where the singer's master supposedly lives.

A young boy plays an accordion in a shopping mall. Béla Tarr picks up the camera one more time to shoot his very last scene. It is his anger about how refugees are treated in Europe, and especially in Hungary, that drove him to make a statement.

Grusha's (Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina) husband has left her and she is now a single parent to her adolescent son Vitya (Vladimir Naumenko). Her brother Nikolay (Mikhail Ulyanov) is determined to hook her up with his friend Vladimir (the film's co-director Stanislav Lyubshin). For Grusha and Vladimir to have privacy to build up their relationship, Nikolay decides his nephew Vitya needs to stay out of the way, so he urges Vitya to come live with his family for a while. However, Grusha's not so sure about the arrangement. Based on a play by Vasiliy Shukshin.

In a distant nation, even foreign to those within, an oppressed factory worker embarks on a perilous odyssey to find his polka idol and prove himself to his long-lost love.

The last remaining film of Le Prince's LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera is a sequence of frames of his son, Adolphe Le Prince, playing a diatonic button accordion. It was recorded on the steps of the house of Joseph Whitley, Adolphe's grandfather.