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     Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy - becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes of friendship and shared vision, and giving a voice to America's lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men remains Steinbeck's most popular work, achieving success as a novel, Broadway play and three acclaimed films. Resource prepared by Deniz Kodaş

Director: Mark Herman Writer: John Boyne(novel) Stars: Asa Butterfield, Rupert Friend, David Thewlis    Bruno an eight-year- old boy from Berlin, Germany is moved with his mother, Elder sister, SS Commander father to a countryside in Europe where his father powers over a concentration camp for Jews. Bruno went "exploring" one day and befriended a child his age named Shmuel. Shmuel was a Jew. The boy became good friends until Bruno was scheduled to move to a new location. Resource prepared by Deniz Kodaş

Director:  Roman Polanski Writer: Ronald Harwood Stars : Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox, Maureen Lipman, Thomas Kretschman IMDb: 8,5/10     The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war drama film produced and directed by Roman Polanski, with a script by Ronald Harwood, and starring Adrien Brody. It is based on the autobiographical book The Pianist (1946), a Holocaust memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman, a Holocaust survivor. The film was a co-production of France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Poland.   The Pianist met with significant critical praise, and received multiple awards and nominations. It was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. At the 75th Academy Awards, The Pianist won Oscars for Best Director (Roman Polanski), Best Adapted Screenplay (Ronald Harwood), and Best Actor (Adrien Brody), and was nominated for four other awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. It also w...

 There is no blood, no suspense, only a simple story that makes people think.    Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption takes place from 1947 to 1965. After accused of murdering his wife and the man she was having an affair with, Andy Dufresne is sent to Shawshank Prison. He is greeted by brutal treatment from guards, the warden, and his fellow inmates. After a brutal initiation into Shawshank Prison, Andy befriends an Irish man Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding. Red is in Shawshank Prison for murder as well, and is known as the man who can get things. He has a talent for procuring items of luxury from the outside world that are more valuable than gold inside the prison wall of Shawshank. Red is confused when Andy asks him for a rock hammer. Red is suspicious of him but gets him the hammer because of Andy's story that he carves chess pieces. Little does Red know, Andy fully intends to escape from Shawshank prison by carving through the rock wall in his cell. Andy is dete...

  The Kite Runner is the first novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini.   Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, whose closest friend is Hassan. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the Soviet military intervention, the exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime.   Hosseini has commented that he considers The Kite Runner to be a father–son story, emphasizing the familial aspects of the narrative, an element that he continued to use in his later works.   Themes of guilt and redemption feature prominently in the novel,   with a pivotal scene depicting an act of sexual assault that happens against  Hassan that Amir fails to prevent. The situation as a whole was the main reason why Amir and Hassan's friendship ended. The latter half of the book ...

Director: Nitesh Tiwari Writer: Nitesh Tiwari, Piyush Gupta , Shreyas Jain, Nikhil Meharotra Stars: StarringAamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Zaira Wasim, Sanya Malhotra IMDb: 8,4/10  Dangal   is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language sports film, directed by Nitesh Tiwari and produced by Aamir Khan, under his studio Aamir Khan Productions with UTV Motion Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures India. Loosely based on the Phogat family, Aamir Khan stars as Mahavir Singh Phogat, a pehlwani amateur wrestler who trains his daughters Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari to become India's first world-class female wrestlers.     Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanya Malhotra portray the adult versions of the two Phogat sisters, Zaira Wasim and Suhani Bhatnagar their younger versions, Sakshi Tanwar their mother, and Aparshakti Khurana their cousin. The development of the film began in early 2013 when Tiwari began writing the screenplay. In 2014, Khan had interviewed...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Chronicle of a Death Foretold An already foretold death, in which, the whole town participates!    Chronicle of a Death Foretold relates the events leading up to and, to a lesser degree, those that follow the murder of Santiago Nasar, a twenty-one year old Colombian of Arab descent. He is killed by the Vicario brothers to avenge the loss of their sister's honor. Told twenty-seven years after the crime by an unnamed narrator (arguably García Márquez himself) who returns to the village where he once lived to put back together "the broken mirror of memory," the story is constructed from the fragmented and often conflicting versions of events as they are remembered by the townspeople and by the narrator himself.