Synopsis
Erich von Stroheim portrays a world-class charlatan who, freshly back from a 1938 one million dollar New York scam, (straightening, in blackface under the name of Carter, the hair of Harlem residents), resurfaces in Paris under the name of Korlick to sell shares in a development of the seaside of a yet to be created sea in the Sahara.

Tempete.1940.DVDRip.XviD.avi

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Container:	AVI
Runtime:	1h 31mn
Size:	1.15 GiB
Video
Codec:	XviD
Resolution:	640x480
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 666 kb/s
Audio
2.0ch MP3 @ 131 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/ACDFE85EA57EE64/Tempete.1940.DVDRip.XviD.avi
https://nitro.download/view/01C293AD28C2FD2/Tempete.1940.DVDRip.Xvid.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Dominique Bernard-Deschamps – Tempête AKA Thunder Over Paris (1940) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

If one were to gather the hundreds of books written about Ludwig van Beethoven, sift through each with a fine-tooth comb, and extract every simple mistake, wild speculation, and outright falsehood, the result would still be nowhere near as fabulous and artificial as this 1936 biopic, which rewrites the composer’s life story into a throbbingly melodramatic tale of genius ignored and love unrequited. Director Abel Gance, best known for his expansive silent classic Napoleon, wasn’t interested in the truth of Beethoven’s life, but instead the romantic ideal of a great man tormented by history; Gance’s Beethoven is merely a variation of the filmmaker’s beloved Bonaparte, triumphant yet scorned by his inferiors in the artistic realm rather than the political. (Needless to say, among the film’s many omissions is Beethoven’s bitter rededication of the “Eroica” Symphony.)

Beginning where every portrait of Beethoven the man must, with the identification of the Immortal Beloved, the film nominates (wrongly) Giulietta Gallenberg, née Guicciardi, reconstructing their brief passion as a lifelong obsession. During each of Beethoven’s struggles–with love, poverty, deafness–thunder cracks against the sky and the opening notes of the Fifth burst onto the soundtrack to punctuate the action. Meet the film on its own novelette-like terms, however, and it can be quite moving, not least for the magnificent presence of Harry Baur in the lead, who captures to perfection the tortured nobility the film foists upon its protagonist. Baur’s conception is as outsized as Gance’s, but also gentler and less sentimental; he humanizes what could have been a treacly salute to a marble statue. An unusual final credit places the actor’s name alongside the director’s, a touching admission by Gance at how indebted his film was to its star.

Beethoven's.Great.Love.1936.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 56 min
Size: 	1.79 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	718x572 ~> 762x572
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.203
Audio
#1:  	French 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/5190270A6F7BADD/Beethoven’s.Great.Love.1936.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/46AD2291EEB7099/Beethoven’s.Great.Love.1936.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU_-_eng.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Abel Gance – Un grand amour de Beethoven AKA Beethoven’s Great Love (1936) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
With interests ranging from banking to commodities and publishing, the Schoudlers are one of France’s wealthiest and most powerful business families. The present head of this formidable dynasty is Noël Schoudler, a driven, plain-speaking magnate who runs his affairs with an unwavering ruthlessness, and this applies as much to his private life as it does to matters of business. Short of breaking the law, Schoudler is ready to resort to any means to protect his family’s wealth and good name, and anyone who dares to oppose him can expect nothing but the roughest of treatment. Noël Schoudler is a patriarch and a tyrant, a capitalist in every atom of his being. and he seems not to have an ounce of compassion in his soul. The pursuit of wealth and power is all that matters to him.

At the present time, Schoudler has two overriding preoccupations. The first is to give his son François the opportunity to prove himself; the second is to bring about the complete ruin of his cousin Lucien Maublanc, a lazy good-for-nothing whom Schoudler considers a disgrace to the family. François proves to be an enthusiastic man of commerce, but his methods soon bring him into conflict with his father, who is quick to detect signs of weakness. To teach his son a valuable lesson, Schoudler refuses to bail him out when he gets into difficulty. In desperation, François turns to Maublanc, but the family rivalry has made the latter reluctant to help him. In the end, François’s situation becomes so desperate that he is driven to suicide. The shock of his son’s death goads Schoudler into action. For the sake of François’s three-year-old son he embarks on a decisive course that will allow him to preserve his fortune and his family’s honour…
— James Travers.

2.18GB | 1h 34m | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D1ADA805C8FDEC9/Les_grandes_familles_(The_Possessors)_(1958)_–_Denys_de_La_Patelliere.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Denys de La Patellière – Les grandes familles AKA The Possessors (1958) first appeared on Cinema of the World.