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Stella unexpectedly inherits an old house in Berlin from her Jewish great uncle. Due to the dramatic history of this building, which has gone through various changes throughout the 20th century, she will have to fight for the right to claim ownership of her inheritance. Willing to do this, she embarks on a personal journey into the past that turns out to be more complex and ambiguous than she ever could have expected. A conceptual quest full of suspense, depicting a person who gets a chance to find her ‘secret homeland’ as well as rediscover herself.
Narrated and brilliantly filmed in a restrained, almost Brechtian manner, this film by Cynthia Beatt looks like a mix of fiction and non-fiction and challenges our ‘common knowledge’ about the genealogy of contemporary Europe. Partly shot in Rotterdam, a city which also plays an important role in Stella’s journey.

Ein.Haus.in.Berlin.2014.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 35 min
Size: 	3.46 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	4 948 kb/s
BPP: 	0.095
Audio
#1:  	German 2.0ch AAC LC @ 253 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/809F67808DA14EF/Ein.Haus.in.Berlin.2014.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/377FF2CCA611791/A_House_in_Berlin_English_subtitles.srt

Language(s):English, German
Subtitles:German (Hardcoded), English

The post Cynthia Beatt – Ein Haus in Berlin AKA A House in Berlin (2014) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This film with a marked ethnographic nature, which was filmed without a pre-established plan and with a script that crosses the lines of documentary and fiction, tells the story of a group of five Germans who arrive on a remote island in the South Pacific called Parapara and belonging to Vanuatu. Their aim is to prepare a publication on the lives of the inhabitants of this remote island. The tasks were personally assigned: one would study the language, another would study the fauna; another the traditions, institutions and family systems; another the plants and another the songs and stories. However, the blind trust in the western scientific objective clashes head-on with the values and customs of the natives. Therefore, from the very beginning, the head of the tribe does not cease to ask and express his surprise regarding some foreigners “who have not come to rob his land”. On the other hand, as the film progresses, the head of the expedition is clear about one sentence: “the more time we spend on the island, the less we know it”.

2.87GB | 3h 10min | 754×566 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/63A3032AACAEBBA/Cynthia_Beatt_&_Rudolf_Thome_-_(1979)_Description_of_an_Island.mkv

Language:English, German
Subtitles:German (hardcoded)

The post Cynthia Beatt & Rudolf Thome – Beschreibung einer Insel AKA Description of an Island (1979) first appeared on Cinema of the World.