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Les Années Lumière / Light Years Away / A años luz - by Alain Tanner (1981)

In the year 2000, Jonas is 25 years old and lives in Ireland. Disillusioned with his life as a pub barman, he decides to give up everything and live with a mysterious old man, Yoshka, at a run down garage in the middle of no-where. At first, the old man taunts Jonas, giving him useless tasks to do, such as attending a derelict petrol pump.

Prostituta independente e de forte personalidade, Esmeralda, mora num cortiço em São Paulo, cercada de personagens marcados pela miséria e desesperança: Dodô, o pilantra barato, de pequenos golpes, cujo rendimento é inferior ao salário que ganharia se trabalhasse; o casal nordestino esmagado pela cidade, em busca de sobrevivência; o português proprietário do armazém, apaixonado por Esmeralda, a quem não consegue seduzir, consolando-se com a empregada.

From bionic arms and legs to artificial organs, science is beginning to catch up with science fiction in the race to replace body parts with man-made alternatives. How to Build a Bionic Man follows psychologist Bertolt Meyer, who has a bionic hand himself, as he meets scientists working at the cutting edge of research to find out just how far this new technology can go. Meanwhile, a team of roboticists create a complete 'bionic man' for the first time, using nearly $1 million-worth of state-of-the-art limbs and organs - the products of billions of dollars of research - borrowed from some of the world's leading laboratories and manufacturers.