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La fascinante realidad del país más hermético del mundo.
En mayo de 2018, Michael Palin, estrella de los Monty Python, expresidente de la Real Sociedad Geográfica de Londres e intrépido trotamundos, pasó dos semanas en la República Popular Democrática de Corea, un país hermético sin cobertura ni internet donde el campo vive anclado en el pasado y en las ciudades abundan rascacielos brillantes y lujosas estaciones de tren.
En su Diario de...
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Driven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter Michael Palin explores the world of HMS Erebus, last seen on an ill-fated voyage to chart the Northwest Passage. Michael Palin brings the fascinating story of the Erebus and its occupants to life, from its construction as a bomb vessel in 1826 through the flagship years of James Clark Ross's Antarctic expedition...
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Martin Sproale is an assistant postmaster obsessed with Ernest Hemingway. Martin lives in a small English village, where he studies his hero and putters about harmlessly--until an ambitious outsider, Nick Marshall, is appointed postmaster instead of Martin. Slick and self-assured, Nick steals Martin's girlfriend and decides to modernize the friendly local office by firing dedicated but elderly employees and privatizing the business. Suddenly, gentle...
4) Erebus
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English
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• A major new work by one of the most loved and admired of travel writers
• Interest in the Franklin expedition will be heightened by a major AMC series called The Terror, airing in March 2018. The series is a fictional telling of the doomed expedition based on the Dan Simmons bestselling book of the same name. The Terror was the name of the Erebus' sister ship on the doomed voyage
• Draws on fresh research to bring to life one of the greatest...
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English
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Michael Palin's diaries begin in the late 1960s when he began writing for hugely popular programs. He recounts how Monty Python emerged and triumphed. From the success and cult status brought by Monty Python, Palin shares stories from their world tours, their stay at hotels recently trashed by Led Zeppelin, their battles over censorship, and how individually the Pythons went their separate ways. Yet at the same time they were working on the now celebrated...
6) The Truth
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English
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Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. A professional writer of some repute, he has reached the age of fifty-six with nothing resembling the success of his two great literary heroes, George Orwell and Albert Camus. When he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime-to write the biography of the elusive Hamish Melville, a widely respected and highly influential activist and humanitarian-he seizes the chance to write something meaningful. His search...
7) Jabberwocky
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English
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A young peasant, with no interest in adventure or fortune, is mistaken as the kingdom's only hope when a horrible monster threatens the countryside.
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PBS Distribution
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2014.
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English
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It's 1916 and British Captain Fred Roberts and his detachment discover an abandoned printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium. Roberts has an idea, he will produce a newspaper to raise the spirits of his soldiers, taking their minds off 'the attentions of Messrs Hun and Company' They call it The Wipers Times, after the army slang for Ypres, and fill it with spoofs, jokes, and subversive comedy. A hit with the troops on the Western Front, it also...
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
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English
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The quest for the Holy Grail by King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is retold in the inimitable Python fashion.
King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles.
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Publishing to coincide with Bradt's 40th anniversary, The Irresponsible Traveller is a light but edgy collection of travellers' tales. Travel writers and celebrities alike recount their exciting, and often dangerous, adventures which include being chased by a sea lion, accosted by Brazilian kidnappers and a midnight raid to free turtles on the Amazon. Over 40 years Bradt has built a reputation for publishing books covering the road less travelled,...
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A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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Michael Palin, globe-trotting adventurer and comedian's comedian, has somehow managed to sit still just long enough to put together his compilation of the very best of Monty Python, including the fan-favorites Fish Slapping Dance and The Cheese Shop.
15) Not The Messiah
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English
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A comic oratorio inspired by Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) filmed at its only European performance at the Royal Albert Hall in October 2009 to celebrate forty years of Monty Python.
18) Time bandits
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Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Young Kevin's daydreams burst into astonishing and hilarious life when a band of time-traveling little men come crashing through his bedroom wardrobe and carry him off on an unbelievable crime spree, weaving through the greatest and strangest moments of history. Features Terry Gilliam Interview and trailer.
