Synopsis:
This is the two-part film “Noon in Tunisia” by Peter Lilienthal, a meeting of jazz and Arabic music at various public or open-air venues in Tunisia. Under the direction of George Gruntz, European and US jazz musicians play his suite-like composition “Maghreb Cantata”, which is based on original Bedouin dances, together with Arab performers. The highlight is the Fazani, a rhythm of Bedouin tribes from the desert region of the Libyan-Tunisian border. The recording took place from 5.5. – 24.5.1969 in and around Tunis.

	
Noon in Tunisia. Part 1 (1970).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	26 min 15 s
Size: 	394 MiB
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Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
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https://nitro.download/view/3BFC56E14AFBB4C/Noon_in_Tunisia._Part_1_(1970).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/0CD83CE95B13892/Noon_in_Tunisia._Part_2_(1970).mkv

Language(s):German, English
Subtitles:None

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David (Mario Fische) is the son of a German rabbi during the early days of the Holocaust. The boy is a horrified witness to the burning of his father’s synagogue and the humiliation of his relatives and neighbors. Breaking away from his family, David is able to earn enough money to emigrate to Palestine. The film makes an effort to weed out humanitarians amongst the hellraisers, giving points to a kindly German officer who helps David escape. A long film, David is based on the even longer (but no less compelling) novel by Joel Konig.

David.1979.720p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-WELP.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	2h 1mn
Size:	4.25 GiB
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Codec:	h264
Resolution:	1200x720
Aspect ratio:	5:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
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German 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

Language(s):German
Subtitles:None

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David is a 1979 West German film by director Peter Lilienthal. It tells the story of a rabbi’s son in Germany during the Holocaust, who tries to raise money to escape to Mandate Palestine.

David follows an adolescent Jewish boy, David Singer, who comes of age in Nazi Berlin. The film reveals the struggles for identity and survival that often overlapped among the Jews of war-torn Europe, particularly the young.

“Father says we must be proud of being Jewish, especially now,” David tells his brother Leo, who tries to camouflage his Jewish identity by wearing a Nazi uniform. But the yellow star that David and his fellow Jews are forced to wear is not a mark of Jewish pride. When Jews’ essential identity became a death sentence in Nazi Germany, its value was called into question for so many Jews who endured the Holocaust.

The film reveals the unfolding and progression of the war against the Jews in Germany, as seen from the limited perspective of one young boy. As he navigates through dangerous streets and railway cars, we observe with him the effects of Hitler’s policies on daily life in Berlin and on relations between Jews and non-Jews. Together with David, we witness the gradual but steady removal of the city’s Jews.

The film opens in pre-War Germany, depicting the young protagonist’s experience of the rampant anti-Semitism that would soon grow into the Holocaust. In the first scene, young David is harassed by a group of German schoolchildren who beat him and taunt him with the words “Jew pig.” Later, a communal celebration of Purim — the Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of the Jews of ancient Persia from extermination — foreshadows the impending war. David’s father, the congregation rabbi, delivers a sermon that describes the attempted annihilation of the Purim story, a grim portent of what is to come. But the scene is a case of dramatic irony: Rabbi Singer is not aware of, or does not want to acknowledge, the relevance of his own words to the situation in early Nazi Germany. When, in the middle of the celebration, a group of Germans march by the synagogue chanting “Jews get out, Jews get out,” he insists that they are in fact only calling out to the city’s youth, that their chant is actually: “Youth come out, youth come out.”

The film is particularly compelling in its depiction of the intimate space of the Singer family and their interactions with one another — marked by love, devotion and the all-too-real fear of imminent loss and separation. When the rabbi is forced to watch his synagogue set aflame by the Nazis, and returns home with a swastika emblazoned on his head, he insists that the important thing is that the family is alive and together.
[edit] Awards

In 1979 David won three awards at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival

Golden Bear – Peter Lilienthal
Interfilm Award – Peter Lilienthal
OCIC Award – Peter Lilenthal

The same year, David won two awards at the German Film Awards:

Outstanding Individual Achievement- Walter Taub
Outstanding Feature Film- David

1.09GB | 2:01:45 | 640×480 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/8859E4AE348F0F5/David.avi

Language(s):German
Subtitles:None

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Plot: Joe Pesci is a small man looking for a big break. Owner of a bowling alley and nightclub in Jersey, Ruby Dennis (Pesci) sets his sites on making it big in Vegas. But Ruby finds more than he gambled for and in the end is a much bigger man for it.

Many of the crew members from this film went on from this production to work on John Sayles’ Baby It’s You the following year, including cinematographer ‘Michael Ballhaus’. Sayles’ film was released first in the U.S. while “Dear Mr. Wonderful” premiered in Germany in 1982.

700MB | 1h 50mn | 432×320 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/0A7A7FD2A8E43CE/Dear_Mr._Wonderful.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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