A bourgeois family, who is harassed and humiliated, ruins their young maids without pay for several years.

Les.abysses.AKA.The.Depths.1963.720p.Bluray.AAC.x264-LAA.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 32mn
Size:	5.06 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
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Resolution:	1196x720
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Frame rate:	24.000 fps
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Audio
French 2.0ch AAC LC @ 111 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/54FF1B61B14CCAA/Les.abysses.AKA.The.Depths.1963.720p.Bluray.AAC.x264-LAA.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French, Greek

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Quote:
Ilias Apostolou, a young furrier who has had a hard time under the dictatorship, leaves Castoria in 1971 to emigrate to France, where he hopes to join a distant relative of his, Gerassimos Tzivas, who has been living there since 1950. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a person that he finds on the pavement. He asks Gerassimos to help him in finding work in Paris. A misunderstanding around the photograph, however, sets off a series of dramatic events.

2.54GB | 1h 52mn | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/DBDDBE270E185A5/I_fotografia_(Papatakis,_1986).576p.mkv

Language(s):Greek, some French
Subtitles:English,French

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Marcel Spandice, a famous homosexual writer during the sixties in Paris, is trying to make a young Arab into the greatest tightrope walker in the world. Behind the figure of Spandice, author, poet and lover of the circus (“because there one truly risks getting killed,” in his own words)

The story of this film was allegedly based on a true story witnessed by the director Nico Papatakis during his filmmaking collaboration with the controversial and much-lionized monstre sacrée Jean Genet.

We recognize Jean Genet and at the time in his life when he was involved with the Arab Abdullah. This was an unproductive period for Genet from a literary point of view, since, instead of writing, he used his art to lead his transient lovers to perfectionism.

3.06GB | 1h 59mn | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8ACCCE1DF66161F/Les_equilibristes_(Papatakis,_1992).576p.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English, Greek, French HOH

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Synopsis:
Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marriage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to Despina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But when Despina’s father, Vlahopoulos refuses to give his blessings and wants Despina to marry a more wealthy gentleman, named Yankos. The wealthy and spoiled Yankos plots to break up the romantic union between Thanos and Despina any way possible while the young lovers plot to run away in a futile attempt to being a new life for themselves.

http://www.nitroflare.com/view/E02435B468861FF/The_Shepherds_of_Calamity_720p.mkv

Language(s):Greek
Subtitles:English, French, French HOH

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Synopsis:
During the dictatorship, a young man goes to Paris, where he seeks help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relative who works as a furrier. The young man carries with him the photograph of a singer whom he presents as his sister, thus causing a series of misunderstandings which trap him in a vicious circle of lies and fantasies. An allegory in the form of a modern-day tragedy of the “misunderstandings” and deceits of modern Greek History, as seen through the eyes of a Greek of the Diaspora.

Cast:
Christos Tsagas (as Christos Tsagkas)
Aris Retsos
Zozo Zarpa
Despina Tomazani (as Despoina Tomazani)
Hristos Valavanidis (as Christos Valavanidis)
Marina Delivoria
Yannis Totsikas (as Giannis Totsikas)
Stratos Pahis (as Stratos Pachis)
Orestis Tsanakis
Yiorgos Kalantzis (as Giorgos Kalatzis)
Metaxia Deliou
Kostas Markopoulos

http://www.nitroflare.com/view/06FC40510824091/I_Fotografia_720p.mkv

Language(s):Greek
Subtitles:English, French, French HOH

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Synopsis:
Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marriage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to Despina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But when Despina’s father, Vlahopoulos refuses to give his blessings and wants Despina to marry a more wealthy gentleman, named Yankos. The wealthy and spoiled Yankos plots to break up the romantic union between Thanos and Despina any way posible while the young lovers plot to run away in a futile attempt to being a new life for themselves.

Review:
EVERY now and then, just when I think I’ve reached the point of no return in cinematic sophistication, I see a film such as “Thanos and Despina” and am magically returned to that state of dumb innocence in which I looked at movies as a child. Watching it in the company of a (probably) bored parent, I wouldn’t have hesitated to ask such questions as “Why’d the goat explode?” or “What’s that lady doing crawling on the ground — is she sick or something?”The goat explodes and the lady (who’s not sick, just mad with passion) crawls on the ground because “Thanos and Despina” is a mock-folk epic about passions so primitive and basic that perhaps only music can define them.The scene is contemporary Greece and the people picturesque, peasants oppressed by church, state, drought and superstition, to say nothing of other peasants. It opens with the belly of that starving goat erupting into the eye of the camera and it ends with a young man and a young woman, fleeing authority, jumping off a cliff. Because it’s Easter, someone says “Greece is resurrected.” Greece is resurrected, indeed.The film, which opened yesterday at the Cinema Village as part of the Grove Press International Film Festival, is the second movie to be directed by Nico Papatakis, a Jack-of-all-trades of Greek-Ethiopian parentage who lives in Paris and calls himself a spokesman for the avant-garde. (His first film; “Les Abysses, which I did not see, wa presented here in 1964.)Papatakis apparently means for “Thanos and Despina” to be taken as political allegory (the villian of the piece is a young man named Yankos). Allegory, however, is rather like quicksilver: it needs some kind of vessel to give it shape. There are times when “Thanos and Despina” seems on the point of becoming a lunatic “Romeo and Juliet,” but because it never makes sense as coherent drama, it has even less meaning as allegory.The photography is quite lovely with its brilliantly contrasting, grainy tones of blacks and whites. There is, however, something patronizing about this loveliness, as there is about the entire film. It’s as if somebody said: “Oh, let’s go down and look at the peasants tonight. They are real.”
— Vincent Canby (The New York Times)

2.78GB | 2h 01m | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0EF2FCDBD809E4D/Thanos_and_Despina_(1967)_–_Nikos_Papatakis.mkv

Language(s):Greek
Subtitles:English,French (muxed)

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The young actress Galai is hired by his friend and director Hamdias to interpret a film denouncing the torture of suspected terrorists during the war of Algeria. The woman, using audio recordings made during the torture, practices the worst violence on herself to make her own interpretation as realistic as possible, to confuse reality with fiction. Galai, as the character she plays, is a part, along with her lover, a subversive movement. In an attempt to rejoin Hamdias is forced to flee an exhausting marked by humiliation and betrayal that ends in an unpredictable finish.

3.28GB | 1h 56m | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F6BC59BC27A07B1/Gloria_Mundi.1976.576p.mkv
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/1aecbba4a0423/Gloria_Mundi.1976.576p.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English,Greek,French SDH

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