Touko Laaksonen (Pekka Strang), a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds postwar Helsinki rampant with persecution, and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhabitations. His work - made famous by his signature 'Tom of Finland' - became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.
Paris, 1942 and Nazi Germany is tightening its grip on occupied France. Thousands of Jewish families are being sent to camps outside the city. Meanwhile, Jean is doing what he can to help his family get by. However, his greatest secret is also his biggest liability – his boyfriend Philippe has risky connections with forgery artists. One day, Jean’s Jewish school friend Sarah comes begging for help, her family have been murdered and he is her only hope. The couple agree to take her into hiding, but with the Nazis hot on their trail, they must do everything they can to avoid being sent to the camps. ‘A Love to Hide’ is a gripping portrayal of wartime prejudices and the lengths people will go to be reunited with their loved ones.
Meet the inhabitants of the "Casa di Riposo" in Milan, the world's first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. Swiss director Daniel Schmid has captured a world in which these wonderful characters, many of whom had significant careers on the opera stage, re-live and re-enact their triumphant roles of the glorious past.
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