A woman who can’t stand being alone, but also can’t stand living with a man.

Single.Plus.2012.720p.HDTV.x264-Silver007.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/C2F23F9B5403D97/Single.Plus.2012.720p.HDTV.x264-Silver007.mkv

Language(s):Hebrew
Subtitles:Hebrew hardcoded

The post Dover Koshashvili – Revaka plus AKA Single Plus (2012) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Navy captain Avanti Planetaros is inspired by his astronomer-father to travel through outer space to reach other worlds. He becomes an aviator, and, along with the young scientist Dr. Krafft, the driving force behind the construction of a spaceship. Despite opposition from the mocking Professor Dubius, Planetaros gathers a crew of fearless men and takes off. During the long voyage, the crew becomes restless; a mutiny is narrowly avoided. Finally they reach Mars, and discover that the planet is inhabited by a people who have reached a higher stage of development, free of disease, sorrow, violence, covetousness, sexual urges, and the fear of death. Avanti falls in love with Marya, daughter of the Prince of Wisdom, the head of the Martians. Marya shares his feelings, and decides to return with him in order to bring the wisdom of the Martians to the backward Earthlings.

This lavishly produced space-travel picture is something of a milestone in the science-fiction genre. The contemporary fascination with aviation is evident: the spaceship has wings and a propeller, and the members of the crew are clad in leather aviator outfits. While the druid-like Martians may seem unintentionally comic, the film’s ideas of a utopian ideal world are quite fascinating from the viewpoint of cultural history. Ole Olsen was credited as co-author of the screenplay, and both he and the well-known writer Sophus Michaëlis hoped that the film would speak to the hearts of spectators and inspire them with “ideal sentiments”, particularly pacifism.

Himmelskibet - A Trip to Mars (1918) Holger-Madsen - 1080p.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 20 min
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https://nitro.download/view/A1AF8DCC8AFFEC8/Himmelskibet_-_A_Trip_to_Mars_(1918)_Holger-Madsen_-_1080p.mkv

Language(s):Danish / English intertitles
Subtitles:none

Many thanks to @Marcio for this copy

The post Holger-Madsen – Himmelskibet AKA A Trip to Mars (1918) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

CinemaSerf, IMDB wrote:
Bruno Decarli (“Count Greven”) is quite good here, as the nobleman who likes to collect works of art. When in Java, he alights on a mystical totem and decides he has to have it – despite the objections of the local priest (Conrad Veidt) whom he swiftly despatches. That’s not the end of our holy man, however, as he haunts his killer with portents of impeding doom… Veidt looks superb as the spirit; his (heavily made up) facial features – always hugely effective – are lit with added poignancy and the direction from Robert Wiene builds a good degree of tension as the denouement, quite literally, looms.

Der Kinematograph, 29 September 1917 wrote:
These four acts … are quite beyond the usual standard. One is really pleased, not only by the rich, deep thoughts, but also by the courage of a film factory to put aside thoughts of pure business for the sake of art, for the sake of refining taste… Wiene has crafted a great, soulful picture and he has proved that psychology — the most difficult subject for the screen, does not have to be excluded from the art of film…

Furcht.1917.WEB.1080p.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 13 min
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https://nitro.download/view/17FABB74CAAB0A3/Furcht.1917.WEB.1080p.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/DA137826232F168/Furcht.1917.WEB.1080p.srt

Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:English, Danish intertitles, German (hardcoded)

The post Robert Wiene – Furcht AKA Fear (1917) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Paul Korner is a homosexual musician who falls in love with his protégé Kurt. Unfortunately, the two are seen walking hand in hand by the blackmailer Franz. Though Paul agrees to Franz’s demands at first, it gets out of hand and he ends up refusing to pay which has dire consequences for the lovers.

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Many thousands of homosexual men in Germany were sentenced to prison terms of up to five years under Paragraph 175 of the Penal Code. Enacted in 1871, with the creation of the modern German nation, this law against “unnatural vice between men” was toughened in the Nazi era and later liberalized in East and West Germany, but not fully repealed until 1994.

The law was challenged as early as 1897 by the German homosexual emancipation movement, the first such initiative worldwide. Its leader, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), held that homosexuals constituted a biological “third sex,” a social minority unjustly subjected to discrimination.

Hirschfeld argued that Paragraph 175 did far less to prevent the victimless crime of homosexuality than to promote the crime of extortion. For each homosexual prosecuted under the law, another 100 were victimized by blackmailers.

During World War I, director Richard Oswald (1880-1963) began collaborating with Hirschfield and other sexologists to produce a series of widely hailed “enlightenment films” aiming at sexual education. They dealt with such issues as venereal disease, prostitution, and abortion, embedded in a storyline that included counseling by a sage physician.

Following the war, censorship was temporarily lifted in all German media, opening a window of opportunity for filmmakers. Early in 1919, Hirschfeld and Oswald collaborated on Different from the Others (Paragraph 175), the world’s first film to deal explicitly with homosexuality.

Within a year, German studios had released some 150 feature films with sexual themes. Many of these “enlightenment films” were lurid and exploitative, but also commercially successful. The outcry they provoked led to the reintroduction of film censorship. At the center of controversy was Different from the Others, which was banned in 1920 and survives today only as a fragment.

Different.from.the.Others.1919.WEB-DL.x264.AAC.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/5572CAF42BEA88C/Different.from.the.Others.1919.WEB-DL.x264.AAC.mkv

Language(s):English Intertitles
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The post Richard Oswald – Anders als die Andern AKA Different from the Others (1919) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla’s farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family’s starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland’s mountains.

	
The.Outlaw.and.His.Wife.1918.720p.NF.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.x264-TEPES.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 50 min
Size: 	3.27 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/FDD9CBFA276E6AD/The.Outlaw.and.His.Wife.1918.720p.NF.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.x264-TEPES.mkv

Language(s):Swedish
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian

The post Victor Sjöström – Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru (1918) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The Buddhist priest wants the Daughter of the Daimyo to become a priestess at the Forbidden Garden. The Daimyo thinks if he were in Europe that his daughter should decide on her own, but he is denounced and has to commit harakiri. She meets Olaf, a European officer, falls in love and marries him, but after a few months he has to return to Europe. She gives birth to a child and is waiting for him, while he marries in Europe. When he comes back to Japan four years later, he is accompanied by his European wife…

Harakiri (1919) BDRIP 576p x264 AC3 KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 27 min
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Language(s):English Intertitles
Subtitles:None

The post Fritz Lang – Harakiri (1919) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A desperate, haggard-looking man puts a message into a bottle, and is able to throw it into the sea just as he is shot by an arrow. Some time later, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a large audience that he has found the message, which tells of a lost civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, plans her own expedition, and she is determined to get the treasure for herself.

The Spiders Part 1 - The Golden Sea (1919) BDRIP 576p x264 AC3 KJNU.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/21157AE73F45DBF/The_Spiders_Part_1_-_The_Golden_Sea_(1919)_BDRIP_576p_x264_AC3_KJNU.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/5484CB1FD600F62/The_Spiders_Part_2_-_The_Diamond_Ship_(1920)_BDRIP_576p_x264_AC3_KJNU.mkv

Language(s):English Intertitles
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The post Fritz Lang – Die Spinnen, 1. Teil – Der Goldene See, 2. Teil – Das Brillantenschiff AKA The Spiders: The Golden Lake & The Diamond Ship (1919) first appeared on Cinema of the World.