LOMBARDO FILMS

Germany 2008
by Gaby Scheewe-Pfeil

It seems to be a long time ago but the era, the 45-minutes long documentary immerses in, is more contemporary than thought. Although it is not a story about nostalgia or glorification of the "good old times", but a realistic image of the everyday life of four aged Black Forest protagonsits and their extraordinary, endangered profession. This generation was affected by work and acquittal, but these exponents still understand working as a kind of quality of life, despite age-related physical reduc

Germany 2008
by Lara Juliette Sanders (Lombardo Films GmbH)

Celebration of Flight is about a very rare sort of adventurer you are unlikely to find today. A film about a pilot who flew sheiks and kings like Haille Selassie or the king of Yemen. A film about the oldest dream of mankind and the only remaining dream of an old man: at the age of 78, Daniel Rundstroem wants to build his own plane in the middle of the tropical forest, on Dominica, an island paradise in the Caribbean. And about a unique friendship between a 78 year old Swede and a 16 year old na

Germany 2008
by Sebastian Lemke, Thomas Halaczinsky

„If Paris is France, then Coney Island is the entire world from June to September“, is how George C. Tilyou – the builder of the legendary Steeplechase Park – described Coney Island. A sparkling amusement institution in New York´s West End, colourful and fantastic. That´s how it used to be. Coney Island´s entertainment district is supposed to be sold to a major investor, who plans to erect a Las Vegas-style artificial world. With the destruction of these old amusement sites, New York does not on

Germany 2008
by Eric Borner

Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code, now seems much closer to the truth than many had previously believed. While the character played by Tom Hanks searches for the sarcophagus, with its symbol of the Holy Grail, French researchers recently discovered precisely such an object in the south of France. Does this mean that we have finally found an explanation for the mysterious tale of the Pyrenean village, Rennes-le-Château? Did André Douzet, after 40 years of painstaking research, finally discover