When a Red Army detachment captures Sultan Mazar, the brains behind the Bazmachi contingent, a decision is made to escort urgently the prisoner to the Bukhara province. The difficult mission is entrusted to a grizzled mountain trapper and conscientious revolutionary called Mirzo. His expertise is essential to traverse the precarious paths and steep mountain ridges along the way, impossible terrain for the inexperienced. A group consisting of Mirzo, his brother Kova, the Sultan, his daughter Zaranghis and slave Saifulla set off on this journey, pursued doggedly along the way by Fattobeck, the ruthless new head of the Basmachis. They are forced to fight on the mountain ridges as well as negotiate the natural dangers and harsh elements.

The Bodyguard (1979).mkv

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Subtitles:English

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A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

Stalker.1979.REPACK.1080p.BluRay.FLAC1.0.x264-ZQ.mkv

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Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English, French

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Victor and Natasha drive back to Moscow after a good honeymoon trip by the Black Sea. Already nearing home, Victor hits an elderly lady while driving too fast. All of a sudden, their plans for a good life together are in doubt. Victor is going to face trial, may go to prison.

To start with, the situation seems to him just ridiculous and sad. They are so young and bright. Their whole life is ahead of them. The lady that was hit by Victor was old, probably half blind and careless in the street. Surely the old lady is more to blame for her own death than Victor, isn’t she? Why did this have to happen precisely to him? Should he accept the blame for the accident and thus risk long-term prison, and the end of his career and marital prospects? Does he have to pay for it or not? Should he not escape, somehow? What is the point of self-sacrifice in such a situation? The film also shows a clash between the young and the old, the bright and the ordinary, the haves and the have nots.

Excellent acting by the late Oleg Yankovsky, as always, and by Irina Kupchenko in the main roles. Some other distinguished actors contribute to the film’s success.

A realistic view of a turning point in people’s lives, sad, sometimes gut-wrenching, but never sentimental, containing nothing superfluous. Not an optimistic film, but one worth watching, not only for what is said and acted, but also for the hidden emotions, the things left unsaid that greatly contribute to it.

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https://nitro.download/view/EC57FF14C9FCB5D/Povorot_1979.mkv

Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English

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The Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis.

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Subtitles:English

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Tanya Tyotkina is a nurse in a hospital train taking the wounded soldiers from Civil War battle fields. The plain, shy and semi-illiterate young girl sincerely believes in world revolution. She does not realize the importance of the events she is taking part in but wants to express what she sees around her in drawings. Tanya has a rare gift of a true original artist and that makes her death even more tragic.
“Golden Leopard” and Award to I. Churikova for Best Female Lead at the 22nd IFF in Locarno, Switzerland (1969).
Source www.lenfilm.ru

kinoglaz.fr:
Gleb Panfilov met en scène dans son film le conflit entre la liberté de l’expression artistique et le devoir pour les artistes de contribuer aux progrès du socialisme en créant un art de masse. Le réalisateur a choisi pour son film une situation-limite qui juxtapose la violence et l’urgence de l’action révolutionnaire et l’inspiration contemplative de la jeune artiste. Le montage du film qui coupe les scènes d’action par des tableaux peints par l’héroïne met en relief cette contradiction. Le fait que ces tableaux soient l’œuvre d’un peintre contemporain suggère aussi la vérité toujours actuelle en 1967 de la dialectique art-politique indissociable de l’expérience des artistes soviétiques. Le dénouement de Pas de gué dans le feu montre d’ailleurs que face à l’ennemi commun la solidarité entre la jeune artiste et son censeur artistique se manifeste, dans l’héroïsme.

Panfilov raconte qu’avant d’engager Inna Tchourikova, qui deviendra son épouse, il avait été séduit par l’émotion avec laquelle il l’avait vue jouer au théâtre pour enfants le rôle de la sorcière Baba-Yaga. Pour la première fois, dit le réalisateur, il eut pitié de cette vieille redoutable. Selon Gleb Panfilov « elle a un registre d’emploi très étendu, et quant à son jeu il n’y a pas de limite à ce qu’elle peut faire ». Un article du New York Times titrait à son sujet en 1977 : « Une actrice du XXIème siècle ».

1.56GB | 1h 29m | 1029×438 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/BD87C247BC8C880/V.ogne.broda.net.AKA.No.Path.Through.Fire.1968.DVDRip.x264-O2STK.mkv

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Subtitles:English,French (muxed)

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Presented as a tableaux of seven sections in black and white, with a final montage of Rublev’s painted icons in color, the film takes an unflinching gaze at medieval Russia during the first quarter of the 15th century, a period of Mongol-Tartar invasion and growing Christian influence.

Commissioned to paint the interior of the Vladimir cathedral, Andrei Rublev (Anatoli Solonitsyn) leaves the Andronnikov monastery with an entourage of monks and assistants, witnessing in his travels the degradations befalling his fellow Russians, including pillage, oppression from tyrants and Mongols, torture, rape, and plague. Faced with the brutalities of the world outside the religious enclave, Rublev’s faith is shaken, prompting him to question the uses or even possibility of art in a degraded world. After Mongols sack the city of Vladimir, burning the very cathedral that he has been commissioned to paint, Rublev takes a vow of silence and withdraws completely, removing himself to the hermetic confines of the monastery.

Rising quickly out of this mire, the film’s final section (a short story in its own right) concerns a boy named Boriska (Nikolai Burlyayev) who convinces a group of travelling bell-makers that his father passed on to him the secret of bell-making. The men take Boriska along, mostly because they pity and are amused by him, but they are quickly enthralled by the boy’s ambition, determination, and confidence that he alone knows how to build the perfect bell. Boriska is soon commanding an army of assistants and peasant workers, and, indeed, his fierce temperament and refusal to accept anything but the best possible work and materials from the men fools the viewer – possibly Boriska himself is fooled – into thinking that he does in fact possess the secret, and that on the appointed day when the silver bell is lifted from the ground and its mallet set in place, it will ring.

Amid this maelstrom of activity and confusion, Rublev appears; at first standoffish and mistrustful of the boy, he finds himself drawn to Boriska’s courage and unselfconscious desire to create. Moved to put aside his vow of silence, Rublev serves finally as the boy’s confessor, and he finds that, through Boriska, his faith, and art, have been renewed.

Features
• The definitive 205-minute directorâ€s cut
• Exclusive widescreen digital transfer
• New English subtitles translating 40% more dialogue
• Screen-specific audio essay by Harvard film professor Vlada Petric
• Rare film interviews with Andrei Tarkovsky, with an essay on the filmmaker’s work by Professor Petric
• A timeline featuring key events in Russian history, plus the lives and works of Andrei Rublev and Andrei Tarkovsky
• Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

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Language:Russian
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.

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This is the original cut i.e. 205 min

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