Dimitri Kirsanoff’s masterpiece “Ménilmontant” opens with a furiously fast edited axe murder that somehow foreshadows “Battleship Potemkin”. It then resolves to be a moving drama about two sisters, one of them played by Nadia Sibirskaia who is probably the most talented silent film actress next to Lillian Gish. Kirsanoff tells his poetic story without intertitles and knows exactly that the facial expressions of his actors reveal everything we have to know about the emotional states of the characters.

Menilmontant.1926.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	37mn 53s
Size:	719 MiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	706x480 ~> 706x529
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	29.970 fps
Bit rate:	2 409 Kbps
Audio
English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/44D635DF48AF88B/Menilmontant.1926.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:English

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Rapt, also released under the names ‘The Kidnapping’ and ‘Magic Mountain’, is a simple drama set in the enchanting Swiss Alps. Two agrarian villages are separated by the mountains; they are idyllic but each is wary of the village on the other side. Bucolic life is disturbed when a young maiden, Dita Parlo, is stolen from her side of the mountain.

The director Dimitri Kirsanoff, “considered part of the French Impressionist movement in film”, is mostly known for his thoughtfully edited and photographed short films. Rapt is not the only full-length feature he made, but it seems to be the one that really features his poetic style.

1.45GB | 1h 18m | 762×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/39989B09488B3CB/Kirsanoff__1934__Rapt.mkv

Language:French, German
Subtitles:English, Portuguese

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