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Set in the bleak aftermath and devastation of the World War I, a recently demobbed soldier, Timosh, returns to his hometown Kiev, after having survived a train wreck. His arrival coincides with a national celebration of Ukrainian freedom, but the festivities are not to last as a disenchanted.

Stephen L. Hanson wrote:
The film’s central theme obviously revolves around the idea of the sheer horror of war and is most fundamentally incarnate in the physical symbol of an arsenal in the midst of Russia’s civil war. Yet, this theme is fragmented throughout the film within three distinct visual contexts. First, Dovzhenko exploits the inherent metaphorical potential of the individual shot as it is brilliantly exemplified in an opening image of a barbed wire trench barrier suddenly and unexpectedly exploding after a prolonged period of stasis. The contrast thus established between the transfixed image and the force of the off-camera shell explosion sets the stage for an interaction of fixed and moving images that runs the course of the film and establishes a semblance of poetic meter.

1.77GB | 1h 28m | 704×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/6FD759D85FE8101/Arsenal_-_O._Dovzhenko_(1928)__1972_version_.mkv

Language:Russian intertitles
Subtitles:English,French

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Soviet agent Fedotov is air-dropped into Nazi occupied land. He changes over into Mr. Eckert, a German entrepreneur wishing to take advantage of eastern worker slave labor in occupied Ukraine. Eckert (Fedotov) enters into a partnership with a German entrepreneur whose son, Willy, is a high ranking Nazi. Together they go to Vinnitsa, Ukraine and start a factory. Fedotov begins seeking contacts with headquarters, but faces problems when a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator manages to infiltrate the Soviet partisans.

1.68GB | 1 h 31 min | 762×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8E13DF77B2CDFD8/Podvig_razvedchika_-_Boris_Barnet_(1947).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/6C910EBF962B19F/Podvig_razvedchika_-_Boris_Barnet_(1947).en.srt

Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English

The post Boris Barnet – Podvig razvedchika aka Secrets of Counter-Espionage (1947) first appeared on Cinema of the World.