Which 2004 Tom Hanks film centres around a stranded traveler from Krakozhia?
"A Cold Case A Cold Case is a 2002 work of nonfiction by Philip Gourevitch. A film adaptation of the book starring Tom Hanks was attempted, but the project did not enter production. ""A Cold Case"" follows real-life chief investigator Andy Rosenzweig from the Manhattan District Attorney's office as he investigates the 1970 murders of Richie Glennon and Pete McGinn, a case which was seemingly closed too soon. An ex-con, Frank Gilbert Koehler, is finally arrested in 1997. ""A Cold Case"" was originally slated to have a film adaptation starring Tom Hanks after the actor's performances in ""The Terminal"" (2004)"
"not know Godot's identity. The men are trying to keep up their spirits as they wander the empty stage, waiting. ""The Twilight Zone"" (1959–2003) is a US television anthology series that explores unusual situations between reality and the paranormal. ""The Terminal"" (2004), is a US film in which the main character (Viktor Navorski) is trapped in a liminal space; since he can neither legally return to his home country Krakozhia nor enter the United States, he must remain in the airport terminal indefinitely until he finds a way out at the end of the film. In the film ""Waking Life"","
"Krakozhia is briefly displayed on one of the airport's television screens during a news report on the ongoing conflict and its borders are those of the Republic of Macedonia, but in another scene the protagonist shows his driving license, which happens to be a Belarusian license issued to a woman bearing an Uzbek name. The film presents a reasonably accurate picture of the process of naturalistic second-language acquisition, according to professional linguist Martha Young-Scholten. John Williams, the film's composer, also wrote a national anthem for Krakozhia. The Terminal The Terminal is a 2004 American comedy-drama film co-produced and directed by"
"The Terminal The Terminal is a 2004 American comedy-drama film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Stanley Tucci. The film is about an Eastern European man who becomes stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy Airport terminal when he is denied entry into the United States and at the same time cannot return to his native country because of a military coup. The film is partially inspired by the 18-year stay of Mehran Karimi Nasseri in Terminal 1 of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, from 1988 to 2006. After finishing his previous film,"
"worldwide. Viktor Navorski, a traveler from Krakozhia, arrives at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, only to find that his passport is suddenly no longer valid. The United States no longer recognizes Krakozhia as a sovereign nation after the outbreak of a civil war, and Viktor is not permitted to either enter the country or return home as he is now stateless. Because of this, Customs seizes his passport and airline ticket. With no other choice, he settles in at the terminal with only his luggage and a peanut can, much to the frustration of Frank Dixon, the temporary"
"Fiji and more or less separate the north of the country from the south. In a fictional setting, the Fijian island of Monuriki was the filming location for the 2000 Robert Zemeckis film ""Cast Away"", starring Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland, the sole survivor of a plane crash who is washed ashore on the island to endure a lonely existence of 1,500 days in absolute isolation. Since the 'Cast Away' film, Monuriki – remaining uninhabited today - has developed into a tourist attraction. Monuriki Monuriki is a small, uninhabited island situated off the coast of Viti Levu in the Fiji"
"Transit (2006 film) Transit () is a 2006 film from Russian writer-director Aleksandr Rogozhkin, which was presented at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Several of his past films have screened there, including ""Life with an Idiot"" and the Chechen war drama ""Check Point"" (Blokpost), for which he won the Best Director Prize in 1998. ""Transit"" is a story set on a secret military transit base in the remote Chukotka region, where planes from allied forces came in from Alaska, including quite a few with female pilots, which of course attracted the attention of the mostly male Russian crew at"
"Mars (2004 film) Mars () is a 2004 Russian film, directed and written by Anna Melikian. Set in a small Russian city of Mars, the film tells the story of a professional boxer who has run away from his life to a small Russian town on the coast of the Black Sea. The story contains elements of surrealism and magical realism. The town's main industry is the manufacture of plush toys, which function as a local currency. The boxer is color blind; his color blindness is portrayed, for example, by a profusion of blue apples. The city of Mars was"
"and born. Transit (2006 film) Transit () is a 2006 film from Russian writer-director Aleksandr Rogozhkin, which was presented at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Several of his past films have screened there, including ""Life with an Idiot"" and the Chechen war drama ""Check Point"" (Blokpost), for which he won the Best Director Prize in 1998. ""Transit"" is a story set on a secret military transit base in the remote Chukotka region, where planes from allied forces came in from Alaska, including quite a few with female pilots, which of course attracted the attention of the mostly male Russian"
"inspired by Robinson Crusoe, is about a man (Hanks) who becomes stranded on a desert island and undergoes a profound physical and spiritual change. While working on ""The Castaway"", Zemeckis also became attached to a Hitchcockian thriller titled ""What Lies Beneath"", the story of a married couple experiencing an extreme case of empty nest syndrome that was based on an idea by Steven Spielberg. Because Hanks's character needed to undergo a dramatic weight loss over the course of ""The Castaway"" (which was eventually retitled ""Cast Away""), Zemeckis decided that the only way to retain the same crew while Hanks lost"
"the Kazon were threatening to condemn her to the life of a slave. ""Voyager"" attempted to extract Seska and the child, but it was a trap and resulted in the Kazon boarding the vessel and stranding the Federation/Maquis crew on a nearby planet. While Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeil), The Doctor, and Lon Suder (Brad Dourif), along with allied Talaxian forces, sought to retake ""Voyager"", Chakotay was instrumental in the crew's survival on the planet. He saved Kes (Jennifer Lien) from a local tribe, and built an alliance with them. The crew retook ""Voyager"", and in the process Seska was"
"In Transit (2008 film) In Transit (originally titled In Tranzit) is a 2008 Russian-British drama film based on the true story of German prisoners of war in a Soviet work camp after World War II. The film was directed by Tom Roberts, and stars Thomas Kretschmann, Daniel Brühl, Vera Farmiga, and John Malkovich. The film was released in Russian cinemas on 4 March 2008 and in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2010. In the winter of 1946, in Leningrad, a group of German prisoners of war are sent to a female transit camp by the cruel Russian Colonel Pavlov"
"for the most part."" By way of contrast, another critic, Don Groves, saw the film as ""almost totally devoid of tension, marred by slack pacing, thinly developed characters and banal dialogue."" In Transit (2008 film) In Transit (originally titled In Tranzit) is a 2008 Russian-British drama film based on the true story of German prisoners of war in a Soviet work camp after World War II. The film was directed by Tom Roberts, and stars Thomas Kretschmann, Daniel Brühl, Vera Farmiga, and John Malkovich. The film was released in Russian cinemas on 4 March 2008 and in the United Kingdom"
"4 (2004 film) 4 is a 2004 Russian drama film directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky after a screenplay by Vladimir Sorokin. Originally it was conceived as a short film, but turned into a full-length film after four years of work. Meat merchant Oleg, prostitute Marina, and piano tuner ""simply Volodya"" drop into an all-night bar in Moscow, where they are served by a narcoleptic bartender (three plus one is four) while each regales the others with made-up biographies. Oleg claims to work in President Putin's administration, supplying him with bottled water and his wife with liquor; Marina passes herself off as"
"the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world. In 2006, Russian producer Alexey Petrukhin and Russian director Oleg Stepchenko decided that they wanted to make a film based on the horror story of ""Viy"" by Nikolai Gogol. By then, two other projects based on Gogol's tale were in production, such as ""Taras"
"Cast Away Cast Away is a 2000 American survival film directed and co-produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. The film depicts a FedEx employee marooned on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific and his attempts to survive on the island using remnants of his plane's cargo. The film was released on December 22, 2000. It was a critical and commercial success, grossing $429 million worldwide, with Hanks being nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 73rd Academy Awards. In December 1995, Chuck Noland is a"
"that the couple take a break, Hanka goes on a skiing trip alone to Zakopane, unaware that Mariusz has followed her there. Roman spots Mariusz loading his skiing gear onto his car and calls his house posing as a classmate of Mariusz. His mother confirms that Mariusz has left for a skiing trip to Zakopane. Jumping to the conclusion that Hanka and Mariusz must be continuing their affair, Roman leaves a note for Hanka at his flat. When Hanka realizes that Mariusz has followed her, she rushes to return to Warsaw. Meanwhile, Roman attempts suicide by riding his bicycle off"
"formerly called Marks: ""Марс"" as opposed to ""Маркс"", the name change being effected by removing one letter from the roof of the railway station. Mars (2004 film) Mars () is a 2004 Russian film, directed and written by Anna Melikian. Set in a small Russian city of Mars, the film tells the story of a professional boxer who has run away from his life to a small Russian town on the coast of the Black Sea. The story contains elements of surrealism and magical realism. The town's main industry is the manufacture of plush toys, which function as a local"
"later turned into the ABC show ""Lost"". Cast Away Cast Away is a 2000 American survival film directed and co-produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. The film depicts a FedEx employee marooned on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific and his attempts to survive on the island using remnants of his plane's cargo. The film was released on December 22, 2000. It was a critical and commercial success, grossing $429 million worldwide, with Hanks being nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 73rd Academy Awards."
"daughter live. This strange pair seem to have plans for him, but it is unclear what those plans might entail. As he discovers there is no escape from this place, he also gets closer to solving the mystery of what happened to his family, and who this strange man and woman really are. Strayed (2009 film) Strayed () is a 2009 Kazakhstani thriller directed by Akan Satayev. The film was selected as the Kazakhstani entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it didn't make the final shortlist. A man (Andrey Merzlikin) traveling with his"
"Gul Evek (Richard Poe) in the Badlands, the vessel is transported some 70,000 light years across the galaxy into the Delta Quadrant by the creature known as the Caretaker. After the Federation starship USS ""Voyager"" is also trapped in the Delta Quadrant and Tuvok was revealed to be a Starfleet agent, Chakotay agrees with Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) to work together to find two of their missing crew. Following an attack by the Kazon, Chakotay destroyed the ""Val Jean"" to save ""Voyager"" and the Maquis crew joined the Federation ship. Chakotay was given a provisional rank of commander and"
"a marketing executive; and Volodya, the infamous lead singer of the rock group Leningrad, as a geneticist who clones twins (two times two makes four, again) in a laboratory that has been engaged in these experiments since the days of Stalin. After they separate, these fantasy realities, especially Volodya's, begin to dominate their everyday lives. The film won the VPRO Tiger Award (shared with Daniele Gaglianone's ""Changing Destiny"" and Mercedes Álvarez's ""The Sky Turns"") at the 34th International Film Festival Rotterdam. 4 (2004 film) 4 is a 2004 Russian drama film directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky after a screenplay by Vladimir"
"lone passenger reflects on the life he has left behind (""I Remember""). Rebecca Hershkowitz, a Jewish woman, has fled Russia with her young son David, hoping to find her husband, Nathan, who left for America years before and never wrote back to his family. Rebecca has made friends with Bella Cohen, a teenager emigrating to America with her father Avram (""If We Never Meet Again""); her brother Herschel remains behind in Russia. Bella has fallen in love with Ben, another passenger, but Avram does not approve. On Ellis Island, the unfeeling immigration officials treat the immigrants like animals (""Greenhorns""). With"
"Rotten Tomatoes. It grossed $4,429,093 worldwide. The Return (2003 film) The Return (, ""Vozvrashcheniye"") is a 2003 Russian drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev and released internationally in 2004. It tells the story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (as well as the award for the best first film). In a 2016 BBC critics' poll, ""The Return"" was"
"the ice with first aid supplies to treat the survivor. Bringing supplies with him, Royce lands near the wreckage and finds Averyanov (Aleksandr Potapov), a Soviet navigator, the sole survivor who is injured and unable to be moved. Intending to wait until further help arrives, Royce makes repairs on the shattered aircraft, but soon realizes help is not coming, as the aircraft is far off course. The ice shifts below the wreckage, further complicating their survival. When a blizzard strands the two men and forces them to survive on their own, they have to accept that different cultural backgrounds cannot"
"Chekhov for lifetime ""Fangoria"" subscribers"" and ""style in search of a movie"". Erin Meister of the ""Boston Globe"" called it ""more of an exercise in audience torture than titillation"" that makes no sense. The Abandoned (2006 film) The Abandoned is a 2006 horror film co-written and directed by Nacho Cerdà, about an American film producer who returns to her homeland, Russia, to discover the truth about her family history. It is an international co-production between Bulgaria, Spain, and the United Kingdom. A Russian peasant family is eating dinner when a truck stops in the front yard. The father opens the"
"caused the actor to almost drown. The Adventurers (2014 film) The Adventurers () is a 2014 Russian adventure film directed by Konstantin Buslov. The film's plot bears strong similarity to the 1967 film ""The Last Adventure"". Katya and Andrey arrive in Malta on the eve of their wedding and they coincidentally encounter Max in a diving center, a scuba diver and Katya's former fiancé. Max suggests that they all begin diving together. During one of the dives, Katya finds a fragment of a life jacket with the number of a German submarine from the time of the Second World War."
"at their destination. In the Carpathian mountains their paths diverge, but Boris (played by Vasyl Zinkevych, soloist of the instrumental band ""Smerichka"") discovers where she is staying. The couple meet again and rekindle their love. Their friends invite them to perform in a concert for vacationers at a mountain resort, where they sing about their feelings for each other. The idea to make a movie about Ukrainian pop-folk culture set in the Carpathian mountains arose from the fame of Smerichka and the popularity of the song ""Chervona Ruta"" in the Soviet Union. The original idea was to make a movie"
"Voss, Tomasz, Zoran and Kazik during a severe snowstorm that covers their tracks. Kazik freezes to death the second night of the trek, after losing his way back to the campsite while looking for wood, and the group buries him. After many days of travelling across the snows of Siberia, the group reaches Lake Baikal. There they meet Irena (Saoirse Ronan), a young Polish girl, who tells them that Russian soldiers murdered her parents and sent her to a collective farm near Warsaw, where they treated her cruelly, so she escaped. Smith realises the inaccuracies in her story, as Warsaw"
"as to lie to the police to cover for Frank. His cooking prowess is established as well. Frank has been pressured into transporting Valentina (Natalya Rudakova) the kidnapped daughter of Leonid Vasilev (Jeroen Krabbé), the head of the Environmental Protection Agency for Ukraine, from Marseille through Stuttgart and Budapest until he ends up in Odessa on the Black Sea. Along the way, with the help of Inspector Tarconi (François Berléand), Frank has to contend with the people who strong armed him to take the job, agents sent by Vasilev to intercept him, and the general non-cooperation of his passenger, who"
"The Return (2003 film) The Return (, ""Vozvrashcheniye"") is a 2003 Russian drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev and released internationally in 2004. It tells the story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (as well as the award for the best first film). In a 2016 BBC critics' poll, ""The Return"" was ranked the 80th-greatest film of the"
"other. Just before he relents, she suddenly becomes ill. No one knows the cause of her distress. His only hope is to go against time, changing its course and in this way, change her destiny. A mysterious person, 'Stranger' (Mark Hamill) offers a solution to eluding fate. The film is based on Balázs Hatvani's screenplay, with Hamill's help, who also was the film's creative consultant. Thelomeris Thelomeris is a 2011 science fiction film directed by Balázs Hatvani. It is the first mainstream science fiction film shot in Hungary. The steampunk film is currently under production by Trickorn Productions, an independent"
"blue and white tinted monochrome scenes from the film were restored. Solaris (1972 film) Solaris (, tr. ""Solyaris"") is a 1972 Soviet science fiction film based on Stanisław Lem's novel of the same name published in 1961. The film was co-written and directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The film is a meditative psychological drama occurring mostly aboard a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris. The scientific mission has stalled because the skeleton crew of three scientists have fallen into separate emotional crises. Psychologist Kris Kelvin travels to the Solaris space station to evaluate the situation only to encounter the same"