Rickshaw Boy is a novel by the Chinese author Lao She about the life of a fictional Beijing rickshaw man. It is considered a classic of 20th-century Chinese literature. The story is about the rickshaw man "lucky son" who came to Beijing in the 1930s as a poor peasant boy. He works as a simple labourer and saves so that he can afford his own rickshaw and become an "independent" and "free" person. Despite all efforts, he fails because of the circumstances and himself.
How the Steel Was Tempered is a novel by the Soviet writer Nikolai Alexejewitsch Ostrowskivon from 1932. The life story of Pavel "Pawka" Kortschagin is based on the biography of the author. Korchagin fights in the Red Army, the Komsomol and the Communist Party. He goes blind and is tied to the bed. But the hero never loses his confidence and courage to fight.
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"Block B - locked up" is a German television series that tells the everyday life in a prison for women. Block B is the German adaptation of the Australian series Wentworth. In this episode, Rita warns Bea with a subtle threat not to rise up against her. Concerned about the well-being of her daughter, Bea seeks support from Chris. But Chris gives Bea a tough lesson in loyalty in prison: Bea has to face Rita alone. Meanwhile, Chris gives Alex the idea that an inmate, but a law enforcement officer, could be behind the murder of his wife.
More than once Karin Ugowski has surprised with her versatility, as shown again in the more recent years, like in the cinema short film Open (2005) of the director Charlotte Siebenrock, when she turned from an old frustrated canteen kitchen porter into an attractive buoyant and beautiful looking women within minutes, leading to the presentation of the short film at various short film festivals...