A reporter hears that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car. She goes to the hospital to interview the actress, who tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.

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Miss Mend, an action-packed adventure serial in three feature-length episodes, was produced in Russia with the goal of rivaling, and possibly even surpassing, the most entertaining American movies of the 1920s. It features beautiful location photography, impressive stunt scenes; horse, car and boat chases, radio towers, jazz bands and even a spectacular train wreck, interspersed with visual references to German film classics like Nosferatu, Caligari and Dr. Mabuse. The film’s heroine, Vivian Mend, is an elegant urban professional who earns her own living and raises a child without the help of any man. But the film, partially set in an imagined America where everything is new and progressive (from technology to social relations and lifestyles) also includes a few more-than-pointed comments on labor relations, racism, excessive wealth, gratuitous violence and even rape. Based upon a 1923 pulp novel allegedly written by an American, “Jim Dollar” (actually the nom-de-plume of a Russian woman, Marietta Shaginian), the film adaptation is directed by Fedor Ozep and Boris Barnet, each at the start of long and distinguished filmmaking careers. Although it responded to an official call for a new art that could win over mass audiences, Miss Mend was condemned by the Soviet press of the time as ideologically lightweight and a prime example of shameless “Western-style” entertainment. It was nonetheless a huge popular success and after more than eighty years, it remains as exhilarating as it is fascinating.

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Plot Synopsis
This is a stripped down (but still excellent) version of “The Brothers Karamazov.” Young Dimitri Karamasoff, on leave from the army, returns home to ask his father for money to get married. When he arrives he finds that his father has become smitten with a young woman of extremely questionable character named Gruschenka. His father gruffly rebuffs Dimitri’s request for money. Dimitri immediately seeks out his fathers lover to demand that she break off the engagement. Things get a bit more complicated when his anger towards her turns to infatuation – and eventually obsession. Dimitri and his father are both mad for Gruschenka, but she doesn’t want anything from either of them – except their money. Things come to a head when the old man is found murdered. Did Dimitri really commit patricide? Or is there more to the story?

1.09GB | 1h 25m | 560×432 | avi

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:Hard Spanish, Soft English

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A jolly French film, with a rich vein of satire, is at the little Acme Theatre on Union Square under the name of “Mirages de Paris.”

In this fast-moving fantasy of the unsophisticated student (Mlle. Francell) who escapes from a boarding school to become, after many trials and tribulations, the “toast of Paris,” Fedor Ozep has managed to combine much of the technic of his native Russia with the flair for the ridiculous supposed to belong to all true Parisians.

Consequently, the rather threadbare theme is treated so skillfully and decked out with such luxury of interesting and exciting detail that the spectator forgets about the obvious ending in following the speedy succession of hilarious incidents. From the time the charming heroine arrives in Paris, only to learn that talent doesn’t count for much unless preceded by plenty of publicity, until the last reel shows her and her sweetheart (M. Theville) on the stage in a love scene, there is hardly a dull moment. Especially amusing is the coming to grief of the great artist Tonnerre (M. Vallee) on a revolving stage.

— New York Times.

1.29GB | 1h 17mn | 760×570 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/FD90195CBCA0560/Mirages_de_Paris_(1932)_–_Fyodor_Otsep.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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Amok is a 1934 French film, directed by Fyodor Otsep. The director was nominated for the Mussolini Cup at the 1934 Venice International Film Festival. The movie centers on a physician, Dr. Holk, in a small Dutch colony in the tropics. A strange illness, known as Amok, is turning innocent people into madmen. When a young woman, Hèlène, comes to him asking for an abortion so that her returning husband will not know she has been unfaithful, he refuses. Hélène seeks help elsewhere, leading Dr. Holk to try to find and save her before it’s too late.

David Cairns in the mubi notebook:

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Amok (1934) is the third of Ozep’s Pathé-Natan films, and the most baroque. It’s based on a story by Stefan Zweig (Letter from an Unknown Woman) later filmed in Mexico with less fidelity but plenty of gusto. It’s a very weird orientalist fever dream.

Jean Yonnel, a specialist in haunted dissipation, plays Holk, a washed-up doctor continually gambling away his savings in a tropic hellhole, where even the natives are prone to explosive mania brought on by the heat and humidity, resulting in regular killing sprees. We first see this in the person of Valery Inkijinoff (another Russian, quite convincingly playing Balinese or something: the film isn’t too specific about its setting), who knifes a couple of fellow “natives” (every non-white looking extra the studio could rustle up) before being shot down like a rabid dog.

On the sound of the gunshot, Ozep then cuts, with breathtaking audacity, to another Inkijinoff, the same actor now playing a manservant/chauffeur to a swank lady (Marcelle Chantal, bewitchingly veiled). They’re heading to see Holk to procure an abortion. Holk, on first sight of a white woman in some years, immediately loses any vestige of sang-froid (despite having been surrounded by topless girls, one of whom shares his bed) and offers to perform the op in exchange for sexual favors.

She storms out and Holk, mortified at his faux pas, spends the rest of the film trying to win back her trust and persuade her to accept his help. The situation is complicated by the presence of her lover, a terribly young Jean Servais, and the approach of her husband from abroad.

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…probably his most acclaimed post-Karamasoff film, Amok (1934), based on a Stefan Zweig story about a doomed adulterous affair in the tropics which Raymond Durgnat describes as “Ophuls bittersweet modulated to the tragic squalor of Graham Greene.” Alas, it was banned by the British censor (and in the US) for the presence of abortion in the plot, so we don’t get to see what Greene himself (reviewing movies at that time) would have thought of it. (It actually had a run on the exploitation circuit in the US after the war; William K. Everson mentioned seeing it then.) Continuing the Ozep-Rathaus musical collaboration at a more advanced point of film technology, Amok seems the likeliest of these films to be an unappreciated major work.

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French

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