S1.E1 ∙ A Smoggie Break-Up

A French artist, a bit shell-shocked from the Great War, tries to bring 'art' to a small country town.

Based on a TV sit-com series and set in World War II, about how an ordinary woodcutter develops into an active partisan fighter.

7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his will. Soon their train breaks and the have to find a way to carry on towards Venice. While they are ponderously traveling through Italy the new Italian government sign the armistice with the Allies: everything will change in Italy, also for our three travelers.

Outgoing banjo-playing Southern country girl Wendy Hooper joins the Army thinking it might advance her career in music.

In the dark Times is featuring Syrian artists struggling to build up a new Cultural identity in Exile. The movie shows their startling film-, music-, dance- and theatre productions in Istanbul and Amman as a rising independent Syrian vision in search of freedom and recognition. The movie is using Bertolt Brecht quotations as a metaphor for a strong appeal to call for solidarity globally.