From the blu-ray cover:
Henri Storck (Ostend 1907 – Brussels 1999) lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to commercial films. He is recognised as a pioneer of Belgian cinema and a key figure in documentary. Misère au Borinage, which he co-directed with Joris Ivens in 1933, has become a classic of the ‘cinema of reality’ with which he was most closely associated.

Misere au Borinage (1933) Henri Storck 576 SD.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	28 min 19 s
Size: 	647 MiB
Video
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Audio
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https://nitro.download/view/4C580346505B085/Misere_au_Borinage_(1933)_Henri_Storck_576_SD.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, Dutch

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At the age of 13 Joris Ivens was fond of Cowboys and Indians stories, so he decided to invent one himself. He made a script and used a camera from his father’s shop. This became his first film Wigwam, with his own family as cast. Black Eagle, a bad indian, kidnaps the daughter of a farmer’s family. Flaming Arrow, played by the young Joris Ivens, saves the child from the kidnapper and brings it back to her family. No better conclusion than smoking a peace pipe.

110MB | 7m 37s | 686×450 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/378FA48235DBDEB/The.Tipi.1912.DVDRIP.x264.KJNU.mkv

Language:Dutch Intertitles
Subtitles:English

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Documentary about the resistance of the Chinese against the Japanese invasion and occupation from Manchuria. The Chinese had joined forces against this common enemy. The nationalistic Kuomintang, led by Chiang Kai-sjek and the communist party cooperated, at least on paper.

The film opens with a Japanese bombardment of Hankow, shows all aspects of warfare: the field battles, the refugees, dead and wounded, fear and human suffering. The film also places the resistance in the context of China’s ancient culture. With images from a.o. Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-sjek, his wife Song Meiling and the future prime minister Zhou-enLai. Ivens cooperates again with cameraman John Fernhout (Ferno) and with photographer Robert Capa, as he did making The Spanish Earth. The music by Hanns Eisler is the first score composed with the twelve tone technique of Eisler’s teacher Arnold Schönberg.

809MB | 53m 54s | 720×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B692B7D444DAC1E/The.400.Million.1939.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

The post John Fernhout & Joris Ivens – The 400 Million (1939) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A movement study in which all possible camera angles are tried out to observe the chaos of traffic flows in Paris.

61.6MB | 4m 18s | 720×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9FC667167A406C2/Studies.in.Movement.1928.DVDRIP.x264.KJNU.mkv

Language:French Intertitles
Subtitles:English

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Soviet solidarity is strong in Germany where the Communist Party (KPD) marches under the clenched fist in spite of police harassment… Radio broadcasts reach all parts of the Soviet Union, including Magnitogorsk. On the steppe near the city, a family of nomads lives in their yurt. The father hears blasting: iron ore for the steelworks. Crushed ore and coke yield molten steel for the ladle. Stop-motion animation shows the bountiful tractor and freight car output of the future… A new blast-furnace is under construction. Accepting jobs at the site are women, ethnic minorities, and the nomad. An English-speaking engineer supervises; a young riveter learns his trade from an old hand… In the Kubass region, miners labour to produce the coal which becomes coke in Magnitogorsk… At last the blast-furnace is complete. Workers celebrate. A cheerful patriotic song is sung. Steel pours forth. The new day reveals a finished plant.

748MB | 49m 55s | 720×478 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8C89AEF1A7D54C9/Song.of.Heroes.1932.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:Russian
Subtitles:English

The post Joris Ivens – Pesn o geroyakh AKA Song of Heroes (1932) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The vertical lift-bridge in Rotterdam is the object of study in The Bridge. Normally it seems to be a very static object, but Joris Ivens made a very dynamic film out of it. “For me, the bridge consisted of a laboratory of movements, tints, forms, contrasts, rythms and the relationship between all these phenomena”. The film was immediately recognised as a masterpiece by international critics and colleague filmmakers; Joris Ivens was at once the most famous avant-garde filmmaker of the Netherlands.

200MB | 13m 59s | 720×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0895C83A1FDA5D0/The.Bridge.1928.DVDRIP.x264.KJNU.mkv

Language:None
Subtitles:None

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Eigth part: HISTOIRE D’UN BALLON: LE LYCEE NO. 31 A PEKIN (The Football Incident):
A report on an ideological debate between a teacher and a pupil regarding an incident with a football.

Between 1971 and 1975 Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan worked on the preparations and filming of the monumental 12 hours Yukong series, consiting of twelve parts. The series became a portret of the Chinese and their daily life with its many aspects, and the benefits of the Cultural Revolution, intended for a Western public. Little was known in the West about China, so this work was a welcome source of information and for many people a first inside view at Chinese culture and life, letting the Chinese speak themselves. Despite the restrictions Ivens and Loridan met (which often became clear only afterwards), and the regular political changes, the films remain an important document of a period in Chinese history. The filmseries was made on invitation of Zhou En-Lai, the prime minister of China.

297MB | 20m 49s | 640×464 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/CCFC9CAB0B4E824/Une_histoire_de_ballon_(Joris_Ivens,_1976).avi
https://nitro.download/view/16E1BEA77E920F9/Une_histoire_de_ballon_(Joris_Ivens,_1976)_-_subpack_en-nl_srt+idx-sub.zip
https://nitro.download/view/198E3D8051D138B/Une_histoire_de_ballon_(Joris_Ivens,_1976)_dutch_audio.mp3

Language(s):English,French,Dutch
Subtitles:English and Dutch idx/sub and srt

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