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Based on a true story, this film focuses on three Polish labourers of vastly different social, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds. Unlike many of their recalcitrant contemporaries, the three men overcome their differences and work together. Eventually they create a textile factory founded upon the edicts of equality, trust, and respect.

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https://nitro.download/view/BEB014902E793E4/The.Promised.Land.1975.1080p.BluRay.x264-HD4U.mkv

Language(s):Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Andrzej Wajda – Ziemia obiecana AKA The Promised Land (1975) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Made after THE DAMNED, but before 1900, this operatic-style melodrama, about the industrial revolution in Lodz ca. 1895, is far better than either. Like the other two films, it takes an extreme situation in history and makes it more extreme, piling on the excess. Two examples here: a garden party that’s like a Roman orgy, with naked women, tigers in cages, etc., and a scene where a worker grapples with his boss and they fall into a giant machine which instantly spews out their bodies as huge chunks of raw meat. But whereas Visconti, and, particularly, Bertolucci, ultimately drown under their excesses, Wajda maintains total control over his narrative. The characters and their single-minded mission hold the film tightly together, and the visual excesses seem like an inevitable part of the narrative, not sideshow set-pieces. The film is incredibly visceral: the thrill of making a killing on the financial market, the inhuman noise of the factories, the excitement of undercurrents of rumors among patrons at the opera. Most of all there’s the brilliant use of relentless, machine-like music throughout that keeps up the unremitting unflagging pace. The film has a power which stays with you long after you’ve left the theatre! And it’s a virtuoso recreation of a time and place. It must have been extremely costly to make. The subject certainly seems safe for an East European-bloc filmmaker–if ever capitalists were villains, it must have been at that time and place. But in fact Wajda was making a politically dangerous statement. The final scene of workers being shot at the order of the owners was an explicit comment on workers being shot in communist Poland a few years before the film was made. This is a great film by one of the greatest filmmakers of the twentieth century!

Andrzej Wajda - (1975) The Promised Land.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/76798ED64882AB9/Andrzej_Wajda_-_(1975)_The_Promised_Land.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/1A2DAAEB33C7150/Andrzej_Wajda_-_(1975)_The_Promised_Land.srt

Language(s):Polish, German, Yiddish, Russian
Subtitles:English, French

The post Andrzej Wajda – Ziemia obiecana AKA The Promised Land (1975) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

From Wikipedia:
“Gates to Paradise” is a 1968 film by Polish director Andrzej Wajda. The film is set in medieval France and is based on a story by Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski (1960) that seeks to expose the motives behind youthful religious zeal. It was entered into the 18th Berlin International Film Festival.

In 1212, a Children’s Crusade is launched after Jakob (John Fordyce) claims to have had a vision in which it is said that the innocence of children would be able to liberate Jerusalem. A monk (Lionel Stander), returning from Jerusalem, joins the crusade and hears the children’s confessions, gradually realizing that most of them are taking part not for religious, but for more worldly reasons, like rejected love.

Both Alexander (Mathieu Carrière) and Bianca (Pauline Challoner) are in love with Jakob. Alexander, who has learned that his adoptive father (and his lover), Count Ludwig (Ferdy Mayne), also a crusader, had killed Alexander’s Greek parents, is gleeful that Jakob himself is in love with the Count, whom he had met after the Count and Alexander had split after an argument. This allows Alexander to take revenge for the Count’s infidelity by telling his beloved Jakob about the Count’s recent demise by drowning in a river, watched by an unmoved Alexander.

Finally, it is revealed in Jakob’s confession that Jakob received the inspiration for the crusade not from God but from the Count, which means that the crusade must fail, since it is not by the will of God. However, the monk is unable to stop the children’s progression and is left behind.

Gates_to_Paradise__Wajda_.avi
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https://nitro.download/view/B40B52E6E43CF5B/Gates_to_Paradise__Wajda_.avi
https://nitro.download/view/1054557F29A5BA2/Gates_to_Paradise__Wajda_.avi.srt

Language(s):German dub
Subtitles:English

The post Andrzej Wajda – Bramy raju AKA Gates to Paradise (1968) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This film was born of a theatrical production of Nastasya Filipovna, first staged in 1977 at the Stary Teatr in Cracow. I based my adaptation on the last chapter of Fyodor Dostoyevski’s The Idiot, in which Prince Myshkin and Rogozhin return to the past in a conversation over the dead body of Nastasja.

For years I was tormented by apprehension, and later, by certainty that there exists some better solution for a stage version of The Idiot. Finally chance came to my aid. When in 1981 I visited Kyoto, I saw a performance of La Dame aux Camélias. In this way I met Tamasaburo Bando, one of the greatest Japanese performers of female roles.

Tamasaburo Bando is an unusual figure. He began his career at the age of six as a student of Kanya Morita in the Kabuki theatre. He was exceptionally quick in gaining the necessary skills to appear as onnagata – sometimes also called oyama – a performer of female roles. Today, Tamasaburo Bando is regarded as the most outstanding onnagata in Japanese theatre. The scale of his talent, however, goes far beyond the bounds of traditional Kabuki: he also plays roles belonging to classical European repertoire such as Lady Macbeth, Desdemona, Medea, Juliet, and La Dame aux Camélias, which I saw during my stay in Kyoto. I had no difficulty to view him as my ideal Nastasya. Strangely, I also thought at the time that this young man would also be an excellent choice for Myshkin. Thus, the audience was able to witness the miraculous transformation of a man into a woman, and so experience the deep mysterious mental link between Myshkin and Nastasja.

The theatrical production of Nastasya was, in its way, an event, so it is not surprising that it met with such interest. Unfortunately, after several performances in Tokyo and Osaka, it had to close due to the actor’s other obligations. Then I had the idea to make it into a film, which would record our show and at the same time give us a chance to present it to a wider audience.

Tamasaburo played the film rich in the experience, gained from almost a hundred performances of Nastasja. In the presence of the camera, his acting became detached and exceptionally film-like – particularly in the interpretation of the character of Myshkin.

The female parts created by Tamasaburo Bando are especially dear to me because of the idealisation of women, also present in our Polish tradition. This is exactly how he views Nastasya, revealing everything about her, making her worthy of the love of both men (Myshkin and Rogozhin). What’s more, he has been able able to inspire admiration even for her faults. The creation of this amazing artist is not a female type, but rather an image of eternal femininity born of masculine admiration, never an act of imitation or mimicry. It is this creative form which is for us as Europeans the most striking feature of Japanese art.

Nastasya.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/FE2C773B533D644/Nastasya.mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/89e0435fb7b3fa85f1e5615043fda76d/Nastasya.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Andrzej Wajda – Nastazja AKA Nastasya (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being “unwanted” parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding is reduced to silence.

Andrzej Wajda - (1978) Rough Treatment.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/EB68CF8F9999C9C/Andrzej_Wajda_-_(1978)_Rough_Treatment.mkv

Language(s):Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Andrzej Wajda – Bez znieczulenia AKA Rough Treatment (1978) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The Dead Class (1975), by Tadeusz Kantor and the Cricot 2 company, is considered one of the most innovative and influential works of twentieth-century theatre. The breakthrough first version of the production – performed to great critical acclaim, but only rarely seen live by audiences outside Poland – was documented on film in 1976 by the Oscar-winning director Andrzej Wajda.

	
Umarla klasa.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/80AA51427CFF62F/Umarla_klasa.mkv
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https://nitro.download/view/58C9CA5AA9EEFE5/Umarla_klasa.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/92C773FFE1344B9/Umarla_klasa.part2.rar
Language(s):Polish
Subtitles:English, Polish

The post Andrzej Wajda – Umarla klasa (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The authors decidedly refute the myth of the woman – guardian of the hearth. Their heroine is a modern and an energetic girl who demands her partners to be successful in every field. A beginning writer and translator, running from his wife and mother-in-law, falls into her trap. What happens to a sensitive man in an encounter with overwhelming female force?

2.53GB | 1h 44m | 960×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/50A58AE3B6E06C3/Andrzej_Wajda_-_(1969)_Hunting_Flies.mkv
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https://fikper.com/N7gRHZgGEP/Andrzej_Wajda_-_(1969)_Hunting_Flies.mkv

Language:Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Andrzej Wajda – Polowanie na muchy AKA Hunting Flies (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.