Plot:
This film is an adaptation of the historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It tells the story of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. Taras’ sons studied at the Kiev Academy and return home. The three men set out on a journey to Zaporizhian Sich located in Southern Ukraine, where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland.

The work is non-fictional in nature, in that the main character іs based on several historical personalities, and other characters are not аs exaggerated or grotesque as was common in Gogol’s later fiction. This story can be understood in the context of the Romantic nationalism movement in literature, which developed around a historical ethnic culture which meets the Romantic ideal.

Tarass_Boulba.avi

General
Container:	AVI
Runtime:	1h 26mn
Size:	1.03 GiB
Video
Codec:	XviD
Resolution:	768x576
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 512 kb/s
Audio
2.0ch MP3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/5DAE207A3DF4BBB/Tarass_Boulba.avi

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

The post Alexis Granowsky – Tarass Boulba (1936) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Released in America as The Song of Life, this German film stirred up quite a tempest back in 1931 for its depiction of a Caesarian birth. Though not much was really shown, it was enough to cause women filmgoers — and not a few men — to faint dead away. The film was banned outright in Germany and ran into some censorship problems in the US; still, by its very controversial nature it proved to be a hit wherever it was shown. And oh, yes, there was a plot, albeit a somewhat nonsensical one: After discovering that her elderly fiance has false teeth, a young bride-to-be becomes so distraught that she contemplates suicide! She is rescued by a young sailor, with whom she has a baby, leading to the aforementioned “C-section” sequence. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

DVD Source: regionfree, DVD5
DVD Format: PAL
DVD Audio: German Mono
Program: Unknown
Menus: none
Video: Untouched
Audio: Untouched
DVD extras: none

https://nitro.download/view/830363688835769/Das_Lied_vom_Leben_1931_E_Busch.rar

Language(s):German
Subtitles:none

The post Alexis Granowsky – Das Lied vom Leben aka Song of Life (1931) first appeared on Cinema of the World.