Synopsis:
The aristocratic families of Rossitz and Warwand, who are relatives, have started to treat each other with mistrust and hatred, since a testamentary contract has stated, that the complete goods will be inherited to the respective surviving line. At the same time the young generation is in love, how can the tender ties between Agnes of Warwand and Ottokar of Rossitz be protected? Killed by their own fathers, they lie in their blood. A radical drama about the term “family”.

Die Familie oder Schroffenstein.mkv

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Runtime: 	2h 16mn
Size: 	2.04 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/5F3012C1BA0CC2D/Die_Familie_oder_Schroffenstein.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English (soft subs)

The post Hans Neuenfels – Die Familie oder Schroffenstein (1984) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Count Five and Die is a neat British-made programmer set just before the D-Day invasion. Nigel Patrick plays a British major who heads a group of special agents, dedicated to misleading the Nazis into thinking the invasion will take place in Holland. The Allied spies, which include American Jeffrey Hunter and Frenchwoman Annemarie Duringer operate under cover as the owners of a documentary filmmaking firm. The plan is nearly destroyed when one of the spies turns out to be a Nazi agent. The title Count Five and Die refers to the length of time its takes for the traditional cyanide capsules (always doled out to secret agents in films of this nature) to take effect.

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Runtime: 	1h 32mn
Size: 	1.37 GiB
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Resolution: 	720x544 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
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https://nitro.download/view/C4CDC8A0612655E/Count_Five_and_Die.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:none

The post Victor Vicas – Count Five and Die (1957) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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One of the most controversial productions by the late German writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was his stage play The Garbage, the City and Death; when he sought to film the play in Germany, Fassbinder was denied state funds on the basis of a charge of anti-Semitic content. Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid, a film-school colleague and longtime friend of Fassbinder’s, undertook the project in 1976, employing Fassbinder’s now-familiar repertory company including Fassbinder and his then-wife Ingrid Caven. Set amid the Frankfurt lowlife–prostitutes, pimps, sadistic police and perverted businessmen–the story concerns a streetwalker (Caven) who is reportedly too chic for her own good and can’t make a go of it among her only available clientele. She is brutalized by her pimp (portrayed by a very slim Fassbinder), who continues to send her out on the streets while he indulges his preference for men. Luck comes her way in the form of a Jewish businessman (Klaus Lowitsch); he hires her only to listen to him talk and, occasionally, pose as his bride in the murky nocturnal street scene.

This character, referred to simply as “the rich Jew,” is the center of the controversy surrounding both the play and the film. American critics have responded in a somewhat more favorable light to the character, Jim Hoberman (Village Voice) noting, “Making Frankfurt’s ace capitalist a Jew is aggressively tasteless but not, I think, anti-Semitic…Lowitsch is neither unsympathetic nor racially stereotyped.” His viewpoint concurs more or less with that of the director, Daniel Schmid, who notes, “For us, Shadow of Angels was a film about a Germany where no one is starving and no one is scared anymore, and the only two people who are still sensitive are the prostitute and the Jew, because both of them are outcasts.”

Shadow of Angels is as provocative as one might expect from Fassbinder; it is not a pretty picture, and it anticipates in a raw way themes which he would take up in a later, more commercial period of filmmaking, from Berlin Alexanderplatz to Lola. Schmid, whose films include La Paloma (1974), Violanta (1978) and Hecate (1982), sketches Fassbinder’s cryptic dialogue, characters and action in broad, operatic terms characteristic of his own work, sometimes jarring scenes alive with unexpected riffs of Latin music. His style adds to the generally disquieting mood of this tour of prosperity’s grotesque underside.

Schatten der Engel.1976.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 41 min
Size: 	2.10 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	768x576 
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Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
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https://nitro.download/view/9FB704AAF740071/Schatten_der_Engel.1976.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/69989457BFDE169/Schatten.Der.Engel.1976.BluRay.Remux.1080p.AVC.FLAC.2.0-BeerGAS.srt

Language(s):German
Subtitles:Japanese, English

The post Daniel Schmid – Schatten der Engel AKA Shadow of Angels (1976) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Probably Früh’s most unique work: an elliptical sort-of-biopic about Karl Tellenbach, a barber from Bern, who was known in the whole city for his strange, unhinged jokes. Also, a dark, desperate film about alcoholism and loneliness. In a way, DÄLLEBACH KARI sees an old master discovering modernism – indeed, today the film is thought of as an important part of the New Swiss Cinema. At the same time, the film might be seen as a reflection of Früh’s own personal and artistic struggles.

Extras: interviews, notes on the production and on Tellenbach’s life.

DVD Source: Praesens, R2, DVD9
DVD Format: PAL
DVD Audio: German AC3 2.0 192kb/s
Program: DVDShrink
Menus: Untouched
Video: Untouched
Audio: Untouched
DVD extras: Untouched

https://nitro.download/view/82544166A3B5913/fruh,_kurt_-_dallebach_kari_schweiz_1970_dvd.rar
https://nitro.download/view/FFA61431809BB01/Dällebach_Kari_(1970)_eng.srt

Language(s):Swiss, German
Subtitles:German, German HoH, English

The post Kurt Früh – Dällebach Kari (1970) first appeared on Cinema of the World.