Winter, 1941. World War II rages on as Nazi troops invade the Soviet Union and besiege the devastated city of Leningrad. Foreign journalists are quickly evacuated, but in the chaos that ensues, Kate Davies is left behind.

Leningrad.AKA.Attack.on.Leningrad.2007.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 50mn
Size:	2.18 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	1024x436
Aspect ratio:	2.35:1
Frame rate:	24.000 fps
Bit rate:	2 050 kb/s
Audio
#1:	Russian 5.1ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s (Surround)
#2:	English 5.1ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s (Surround)

https://nitro.download/view/998E679070AEED0/Leningrad.AKA.Attack.on.Leningrad.2007.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

Language(s):Russian, English
Subtitles:English, Dutch,Hungarian,Italian,Portuguese,Romanian

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Synopsis:
‘Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to power, Michael rebels against the regime and is sentenced to fifteen years in a concentration camp. Magdalena, meanwhile, goes underground with the help of a friend and later immigrates to the Soviet Union. Michael, who has joined the Red Army, discovers on the way to Moscow that Magdalena is staying there…’
– DEFA Film Library

Konigskinder.1962.DVDRip.x264.AC3.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 25mn
Size: 	1.46 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	720x576 ~> 768x576
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 270 Kbps
BPP: 	0.219
Audio
#1:  	German 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/87E35CFDE657738/Konigskinder.1962.DVDRip.x264.AC3.mkv

Language(s):German with occasional Russian
Subtitles:None

The post Frank Beyer – Königskinder AKA Star-Crossed Lovers (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

By STEPHEN HOLDEN
In its most unsettling scenes, set at a castle being used as a military training school for Hitler youth, Volker Schlondorff’s film “The Ogre” suggests the stirring cinematic equivalent of a Wagner opera.

As you watch hundreds of adolescent boys being hyped with a messianic blend of heroic German mythology and Nazi ideology and participating in torch-lit rituals and athletic contests, you sense of the thrill of being a boy swept up in the demented pageantry and passion of the Nazi cause.

“The Ogre” — made by the director of “The Tin Drum,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and, most recently, the overripe American film noir, “Palmetto” — is just the sort of grand, tortured allegory in which Central European filmmakers have long specialized. Adapted from Michael Tournier’s novel “The Erl King,” the film poses knotty questions about good and evil and innocence and guilt, focusing many of them on an ambiguous (and pathetic) symbolic figure named Abel (John Malkovich) who narrates the movie.

When we first meet Abel, he is a misfit and troublemaker at a strict French boarding school. One day, while on his way to be disciplined for disrupting a chapel service, he prays that the school burns down. As if by magic, fire suddenly breaks out in the chapel, distracting the headmaster and saving Abel from a severe beating but killing his best friend.

As a result of this incident, Abel grows up with an inordinate sense of personal power and the rightness of his own destiny, even though he is consistently treated as an outcast.

When a little girl he has befriended falsely claims he molested her, Abel avoids prison by going to the front in 1939 as World War II breaks out. Captured by the Germans, he becomes a lackey to a group of high-ranking German officers. One of them is Hermann Goering (Volker Spengler), whom the movie portrays as a grotesquely charismatic supermacho caricature, a Prussian giant obsessed with German mythology and with hunting wild animals.

When it is discovered that Abel has a talent for making friends with children, he is sent into the countryside to find young boys and lure them to the castle as military conscripts. Abel’s escapades earn him the nickname “the Ogre” in the neighborhood.

In the film’s climax, the last-ditch Nazi fantasy of a heroic children’s crusade against the invading Russian army collapses in a fiery Gotterdammerung as the Russian tanks arrive at the castle.

Schlondorff treats this fantastical story as an expressionistic fable with some scenes shot in sepia, others in color and still others in black and white.

As Abel, Malkovich gives an understated performance that captures the ambiguity of a character who does monstrous things yet remains a tender-hearted innocent, a kind of idiot savant who identifies with children and animals. Malkovich, who speaks in the soft, halting voice of a man-child, moves through the film with a blankly questioning, slightly cross-eyed stare. What’s odd about his performance, and about the movie in general, is that a film this European, teeming with references to Goethe and German mythology, should have been made in English.

“The Ogre” has strong supporting performances by Armin Mueller-Stahl as a count involved in a plot against Hitler, and Gottfried John, as Goering’s fanatically loyal henchman and chief forester.

But for all its ambitions and moments of brilliance, “The Ogre” doesn’t feel unified or even complete. Episodic and vaguely surreal, it is the antithesis of a Hollywood film that tells us what to feel. Having unfolded an ever-widening series of moral questions, it deliberately leaves them hanging.

1.64GB | 1h 57m | 704×400 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/73A693277E6E480/The_Ogre.mkv

Language(s):English,German,French
Subtitles:English,Spanish

The post Volker Schlöndorff – Der Unhold aka The Ogre (1996) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.

3.28GB | 2h 30m | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/358A646121484E8/Colonel.Redl.1985.576p.BDRip.x264.mkv

Language(s):Hungarian,German
Subtitles:English, French, Hungarian

The post István Szabó – Oberst Redl AKA Colonel Redl (1985) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
In post-war West Germany, the charming Von Bohm is appointed a city’s new Building Commissioner. His morality is tested when he unknowingly falls in love with a brothel worker, Lola, the paid mistress of a corrupt property developer.

2.30GB | 1h 54mn | 960×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/524D016E3361E0F/Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder_-_(1981)_Lola.mkv

Language:German
Subtitles:English

The post Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Lola (1981) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
In this “film essay,” director Alexander Kluge handles two different stories with both fictional and documentary aspects. In one story, a foster parent cares for a traumatized young girl who is now an orphan after witnessing a car crash that killed both her parents. After the foster-parent does the right thing and takes the girl to her aunt — her court-appointed guardian — she is shocked to see that neither the wealthy aunt nor her servants are very interested in the girl. An unusual decision follows. In the other story, a director goes blind in the middle of a film project but has to be kept on because of his contract. This situation leads to some philosophizing on the nature of film and art in the modern world. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

1.37GB | 1h 36m | 640×480 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/A09E31570E09548/Der_Angriff_der_Gegenwart_auf_die_ubrige_Zeit_(Alexander_Kluge,_1985).avi
https://nitro.download/view/556DC3F7CCF10AC/Der_Angriff_der_Gegenwart_auf_die_übrige_Zeit_(Alexander_Kluge,_1985)_en,es,fr,ch,ru_subs.rar
https://nitro.download/view/1A7529BDAA9E039/16_Minutenfilme_(Alexander_Kluge).avi
https://nitro.download/view/21EA4636849D946/16_Minutenfilme_(Alexander_Kluge)_en,es,fr,ch,ru_subs.rar
https://nitro.download/view/B1DB178946E5A71/Blinde_Liebe._Gesprach_mit_Jean-Luc_Godard_(Alexander_Kluge,_2001).avi
https://nitro.download/view/35472D68D69A85C/Blinde_Liebe._Gespräch_mit_Jean-Luc_Godard_(Alexander_Kluge,_2001)_en,es,fr,ch,ru_subs.rar
https://nitro.download/view/215B245F204C786/Zwischen_Mitternacht_und_der_vierten_Nachtstunde_segelte_Kolumbus_immer_Richtung_Westen_(Alexander_Kluge,_2006).avi

Language:German
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian vobsubs+srt

The post Alexander Kluge – Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit aka The Blind Director [+extras] (1985) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Spider’s Web is a 1989 West German film directed by Bernhard Wicki. It is based on the eponymous 1923 novel by Joseph Roth. It was chosen as West Germany’s official submission to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination. The film was the last ever submission by West Germany, due to German reunification in 1990, Germany competed at the 63rd Academy Awards as a single country.

The film was also entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot:

The film centers on young right-wing Leutnant (lieutenant) Theodor Lohse (Ulrich Mühe) who suffers personal and national humiliation during the downfall of the German Empire and the subsequent German Revolution of 1918 as the aftermath of World War I, from whence on he pledges revenge on all those he blames for the new times: Democrats, socialists, and Jews. Thus, he becomes increasingly active in the right-wing underground of the early Weimar Republic, joining an organization called “S II” (probably based on real-life Organisation Consul that was responsible for a number of political and anti-Semitic assassinations) where his immediate superior is Baron von Rastchuk (Armin Mueller-Stahl). Baron von Rastchuk brings Lohse in contact with former Crown Prince Heinrich in order to get Lohse employed, a favor for which the homosexual Prince demands one-time bodily obligingness from Lohse. In spite of his apparent shock and disgust, Lohse yields to the Prince out of his opportunism and willingness to please his superiors.

1.18GB | 3h 20m | 504×336 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/C82687F60BFACF3/Das_Spinnennetz.avi
or
https://nitro.download/view/54C078EA756C79C/Das_Spinnennetz.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/08BDF226B84AA49/Das_Spinnennetz.part2.rar

Language(s):German
Subtitles:None

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