Jewish life in Poland before World War II. The Vladimir Medem Sanatorium stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty.

Mir.kumen.on.AKA.Children.Must.Laugh.1936.576p.BluRay.x264.AAC-PLAINVIEW.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 1 min
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https://nitro.download/view/5487C72A2027C9A/Mir.kumen.on.AKA.Children.Must.Laugh.1936.576p.BluRay.x264.AAC-PLAINVIEW.mkv

Language(s):Yiddish
Subtitles:English, Russian

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A politically correct social drama maintained in the convention of a social realist film. The film received the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

The work of Aleksander Ford, an artist of the pre-war avant-garde, the omnipotent “Red Tsar” of Polish culture in the postwar period and the director of “Krzyżacy”, the biggest Polish box-office success of all time.

A very good role of Tadeusz Janczar, who managed to put life into his otherwise rather conventional and flat character.

An adaptation of Kazimierz Koźniewski’s novel.

Warsaw, 1947. The ruined city is ridden with gangs of juvenile delinquents, young people often crippled by war and marginalized. Five members of one of these groups are put on trial. They get a probation officer, Wojciechowski, who is an experienced physical worker. He finds the boys a job, which gives them a chance to live a new life. The young characters grow up and find their place in the world. However, their past catches up with them. They are found by their former boss, the leader of an anti-communist organization which intends to destroy the newly built W-Z (East-West) route in Warsaw.

Simultaneously, a love motif is presented between one of the film characters, Kazak, and a young draftswoman, Hanka.

Piatka.z.ulicy.Barskiej.1954.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.x264-KG.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 50 min
Size: 	1.02 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/A20AF173759B03B/Piatka.z.ulicy.Barskiej.1954.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.x264-KG.mkv

Language(s):Polish
Subtitles:English

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The First Day of Freedom (Polish: Pierwszy dzień wolności) is a 1964 Polish drama film directed by Aleksander Ford. It was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.

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Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor’s daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy. by Dan Pavlides, Rovi

1.09GB | 1h 29m | 720×400 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/5643970A83F8322/Pierwszy_dzien_wolnosci_(1964)-KG.mkv
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https://nitro.download/view/6391119650867FC/Pierwszy_dzien_wolnosci_(1964)-KG.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/B7F7EDD49FD321E/Pierwszy_dzien_wolnosci_(1964)-KG.part2.rar

Language(s):Polish,Russian
Subtitles:English

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A story of the formative years in Chopin’s life between 1825 and 1831, a time of social unrest throughout Europe, of rising nationalism, and of cries for reform. Chopin, an outstanding student in music, and inflamed with the revolutionary spirit in his native Poland, gives a number of concerts which are praised by the aristocracy. His fame growing, he sets out on tour and, while in Vienna, hears of the November uprising in Warsaw. He makes an attempt to return and join the fight but his carriage breaks down, and his is brought back ill. Warned by his doctor, he settles down to a quieter life in Paris, and continues his work.

From the blu-ray notes:

Aleksander Ford was thinking about producing a film about the youth of the composer before WWII, but it was made in 1951. The then management of Polish cinema had high hopes for this project because of the possibility to show an artist, sympathetic with social inequality, in search of inspiration in folklore, and open to revolutionary ideas. This monumental film covered five years of Chopin’s life, from his study in music school under the supervision of Prof. Elsner until his leaving Warsaw in the fall of 1830. Those years definitely affected his creativity. The shoot was done in well-chosen locations and places which Chopin used to visit. The composition of frames referred to Polish painting of the 19th century, that of Chełmoński’s, Kotsis’s, and Grottger’s.

It was the biggest production project of Polish cinema in the years immediately following WWII. The shoot took a year, with 1,500 extras and 2,000 costumes used to faithfully reproduce the Polish reality of the early eighteen hundreds. Czesław Wołłejko’s lead role earned him high acclaim. What’s striking is the uncanny relationship of the image and the sound track. The moviegoers watch the composer process situations and emotions they evoke into sounds; the most suggestive being the scene of Etude C minor, the so-called Revolutionary. Halina Czerny-Stefańska, an ex aequo winner of the 1st post-war Chopin Piano Competition, recorded Chopin’s pieces for the film. Wanda Wiłkomirska performed the Paganini’s and Slavik’s pieces. Stefania Wojtowicz sang the vocal part of Konstancja Gładkowska. All the pieces were recorded in a Vienna studio, using playback during the shoot. The film was awarded as a biopic at the Karlove vary Festival and received a “Gold Medal” at the Ferrara festival in Italy.

2.13GB | 2h 7m | 792×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/646456C14E070A6/Chopin’s.Youth.1952.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:Polish
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish

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The history of watermen living on barges and floating on the Vistula. Anna has a deep affection petty thief who steals from her father in order to buy her Berlinka. Matyjaska a poor woman who has a damaged boat – it must get money from her former husband, and therefore resorts to blackmail. Soon fate will combine these two women.

0.98GB | 1 h 10 min | 739×570 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D1D38CC4AB6E045/The.People.of.the.Vistula.1938.TVRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:Polish
Subtitles:English Hardsubbed

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A documentary record shot on the 24th and 25th July 1944 of the concentration camp in Majdanek. Comparable to Resnais’ Nuit et bruillard, it’s filled with images of such staggering awfulness that they take on an almost abstract quality – one might regard the images of mountains of shoes, spectacles and hairbrushes as beautiful if one was unaware of the horrifying reality behind them.

274MB | 24m 8s | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0D5F3D65EB11DC3/Majdanek.Cmentarzysko.Europy.(Aleksander.Ford.1945).WEB-DL.576p.mkv

Language:Polish/German
Subtitles:English

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