Carl is having trouble writing. As the film progresses, his novelistic character develops into a real person who intervenes in his life with increasing menace. The lector Roy supports Carl but is marked by a severe illness. To escape his difficulties, Carl accompanies Jon and Liza on an architectural journey. Bela and Fred remain behind with Roy and are confronted with his approaching death. For his friends, his death becomes the motive to reconstruct their life spent together.

Heinz Emigholz analyses in his film the meaning of death and loss for an artistic correlation of work, as it existed between the friends. With photographic exactness Emigholz uses the spatial architectonic possibilities of every filmic take. On the one hand he contrasts architectonic positions, the architecture of power, as represented by the Cologne Cathedral and Gaudí’s organic designs exemplified by La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, and on the other hand he succeeds in cinematographically exploring the relationships of the individual to buildings and architectural environments anew. His camera transposes the audience into a tight mesh of spatial relationships. In doing so, Emigholz does not rely upon outmoded avantgarde conceptions, but manages, by means of the study conducted in the film, to reconstruct personal past from things left behind – and this includes all works of art – and to create a context that is meaningful and experienceable for a wider audience.

THE HOLY BUNCH is a weapon because it is explosive, because it traces back the path from the buildings to the mind of the builder, from the sentences to their conceivers, from the products to the producers. The wit of the film is that of its literalness. It does not shy away from showing reality as the bad joke it has been made into, from analysing the distortedness of feelings instead of denying them, from allowing complexity to exist where sellout calls the tune, from accepting the fact of loss where it is so convenient to go over to the order of the day.

“The Holy Bunch is a modernist melodrama – beyond-Antonioni in its images; decisively Dreyerian in its spirituality – the body’s pathos, sex’ fleeting beauty and the soothing calm of pop songs and hymns. Within Emigholz’s œuvre, The Holy Bunch is something like a Great Nave, connecting his 1970s essays in neo-/post-/straight-forward classical feature filmmaking with Photography and Beyond’s narratives of space and time, meditations on the eternal in the only too finite. One of German cinema’s few modern (or Modernist) masterpieces.”

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https://nitro.download/view/235FEB36891E30F/The_Holy_Bunch__Heinz_Emigholz_1991_.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English hard subs

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In this autobiographical feature, Frank Ripploh plays himself: a German elementary-school instructor who lives a double life in his beloved Berlin, socializing with his fellow teachers only when he has to, and venturing into a world of anonymous sex whenever he can. In-between bathroom encounters and trips with his colleagues to the bowling alley, Ripploh manages to forge a steady relationship with a handsome, sad-eyed theater manager named Bernd Broaderup. As Ripploh’s sexual ardor for Broaderup gives way to a wandering eye, and Broaderup begins pressuring Ripploh to give up the city and its many temptations, the couple’s relationship replays a scene that was occurring in urban areas across the world and was satirized in such cultural snapshots as the Larry Kramer novel Faggots. Ripploh, who wrote, directed, and starred in Taxi Zum Klo, which, unlike most German films at the time, received no state funding, saw the picture become an international art-house hit after it played at 1981’s New York and Berlin film festivals.

	
Taxi.zum.Klo.1980.1080p.WEB-DL.x264.AAC-PTerWEB.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 30 min
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https://nitro.download/view/EC0DFDAD871C4E2/Taxi.zum.Klo.1980.1080p.WEB-DL.x264.AAC-PTerWEB.mkv

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

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