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Yuri Illyenko, the master Ukrainian cinematographer who shot Sergei Paradjanov’s Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1965) and directed the long-banned A Spring for the Thirsty (1965) and The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (1968), based this striking 1990 allegorical film on stories by Paradjanov that were inspired by his long sojourns in prison. The film was shot at the prison where Paradjanov was confined, using contemporary prisoners as extras, and it might be said that the documentary and poetic-symbolic aspects of this movie are equally germane to its overall impact. Three days before his sentence is to end, a prisoner (Victor Solovyov) escapes and hides out inside a giant hammer and sickle that borders the prison grounds, where he is discovered and nursed back to health by a beautiful woman (Liudmyla Yefymenko, Illyenko’s wife) who becomes his lover. One of the first independent Soviet productions, partially financed in Sweden and Canada, the film tells its story with a minimum of dialogue and very striking imagery. – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

From Yuri Ilyenko’s letter to a friend, Marko Stech:
“As you undoubtedly know, the art of cinema has no appropriate rendering in the verbal realm of expression. Such in the case with any form of visual art. Hence, my subjugated mind seeks remedy in an image. An image is wiser than a word because it always represents a prophecy that has not as yet bound itself with words. I made this film because it was impossible for me not to have made it. it is about escape – about a prisoner. I myself have always felt a prisoner in a vast zone, together with my entire nation. Escape is the last, desperate hope. Such is also an escape into art.”

Swan.Lake.The.Zone.1989.dvdrip.x264.catrogers.mkv

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The post Yuri Ilyenko – Lebedyne ozero-zona aka Swan Lake – The Zone (1990) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The young peasant, Petro, falls deeply in love with the daughter of his employer. Though she reciprocates his affection, her father staunchly opposes the idea of her marrying a simple laborer. Overwhelmed by grief, Petro seeks solace at a local tavern, where he encounters Basavriuk, a figure believed by many to be the devil himself. Basavriuk presents Petro with a chilling proposition, one that could enable him to win the girl he yearns for.

The.Eve.of.Ivan.Kupalo.1968.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-ZETA.mkv

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Subtitles:English

The post Yuri Ilyenko – Vechir na Ivana Kupala AKA The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (1968) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

An absurd and strict dystopian society is suddenly disrupted when its leader is overthrown.

Nomery.AKA.Numbers.2020.720p.WEB.x264-gooz.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/405700046AB4D17/Nomery.AKA.Numbers.2020.720p.WEB.x264-gooz.mkv

Language(s):Ukrainian
Subtitles:Portuguese

The post Oleh Sentsov & Akhtem Seitablaev – Nomery AKA Numbers (2020)  first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Ukraine, 1996. 5 months before the moratorium on the death penalty, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague.

La.Palisiada.2023.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-ZTR.mkv

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Subtitles:English, Spanish

The post Philip Sotnychenko – La Palisiada (2023) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A filmmaker returns from Kyiv to his rural village to marry the love of his life. He is expected to marry the Rabbi’s daughter, which disrupts the balance of the whole town. In one unflinching shot, this film presents a day in the life of a Jewish village before it disappears. SHTTL is the story of the inhabitants of a Yiddish Ukrainian village at the border of Poland, 24 hours before the Nazi invasion, known as Operation Barbarossa. Today, there are no such villages in existence; the production fully reconstructed a traditional ‘Shtetl’ outside of Kyiv. Following the filming, the set was to be turned into a museum but has since been destroyed in the ongoing political crisis between Russia and Ukraine.

SHTTL (2022).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/ECB8E12C8F91908/SHTTL_(2022).mkv

Language(s):Yiddish, Ukrainian
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Ady Walter – Shttl AKA SHTTL (2022) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Mykola and Vasya go in search of their father, who left them when they were children, after they come to know that he is dying in Luxembourg. Kolya considers him a hero, while Vasya thinks he is a scoundrel.

Luxembourg.Luxembourg.2022.720p.NF.WEB-DL.DD+5.1.H.264-playWEB.mkv

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Language(s):Ukrainian, German
Subtitles:English, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian

The post Antonio Lukich – Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2022) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The small town of Vavilon hears of the recent Russian Revolution, but attempts to communize it are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance.

Vavilon.XX.1983.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/1640AA132E98F60/Vavilon.XX.1983.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Ukrainian, Russian
Subtitles:English, Ukrainian, Russian

The post Ivan Mikolaychuk – Vavilon XX AKA Babylon XX (1983) first appeared on Cinema of the World.