Between Dorothy Lange and Walker Evans, a realistic and sensitive snapshot of the 1965 rural world in the South of West Germany.

179MB | 12m 46s | 720×526 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/08152606A86188C/Granstein1965.mkv
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https://fikper.com/RccdbvpNK5/Granstein1965.mkv

Language:German
Subtitles:English – French – German – Spanish – Russian

The post Christian Doermer – Granstein (1965) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
‘Two old school friends, both in their late twenties. One lives on his parent’s rural estate and does nothing; the other half-heartedly pursues work as a journalist in Düsseldorf. While he allows himself to be lulled by the stifling petty bourgeoisie of his mother-in-law to be, he also enjoys the baronial hunting parties in the country. With their indifferent attitude, the two make cynical and blasé comments about prevailing conventions – the ones they’ll never break away from… Precisely located in place via documentary images, and in time with a reference to “the new Godard” (Une femme mariée), Schonzeit für Füchse is a milieu study that recaps the end of the Adenauer era for the petty and grand bourgeoisie in the lower Rhine region. Criticism of the continuity of handed-down authority was clearly evident in scenes of the hunt, with the hunters’ soldierly demeanour and its military rituals. As a hunting author who is as brutish as he is sentimental, the former star of UFA films Willy Birgel emblematically embodies “the stable, restorative self-assurance of the forefathers” (Günter Seuren), against which the young men had, at the time, no chance.
– Berlinale [Edited for inaccuracies]

1.37GB | 1h 28m | 544×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/498B6B6FF06F9EB/Schonzeit.fur.Fuchse.1966.DVDRip.x264.AC3.mkv

Language:German
Subtitles:None

The post Peter Schamoni – Schonzeit für Füchse AKA No Shooting Time for Foxes (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Based on the novel of the same title by Heinrich Böll.

The young electrician Walter Fendrich has started a promising career. Everything seems to be on the right track. As the future husband of his employer’s daughter Walter even can hope to once succeed him as head of the company. All of a sudden, the visit of a girl from his home town, whom he last saw seven years ago, changes his entire life. Walter realizes that his entire life so far has been all wrong. He breaks out of his former “reasonable“ life and gives up and the wonderful security of the affluent society. He simply disapperas without a farewell or explanation… The Bread of those Early Years expresses the concepts of concern to German intellectuals in the early sixties: criticism of the petrified conditions in the society of the economic miracle and the search for new forms of expression, life and thought. Vesely’s film is an attempt not only to describe such a search as Walter Fendrich gradually becomes conscious of his life, but it is a search in itself.

One of the first feature-length films of the “New German Cinema”, Herbert Vesely’s Das Brot der frühen Jahre, made in 1961, was envisioned to be a German variation on Alain Resnais’ ast Year at Marienbad, complete with disorienting visual imagery and an open story structure that refused narrative closure and left many questions unanswered. In contrast to films produced in a studio system, like the classic Hollywood or Ufa films that were made under the control of studio executives, New German Cinema was entirely director-driven. New German directors saw themselves as “authors” who should have complete creative control over their projects.

1.17GB | 1h 24mn | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/67EBA077FD7A7BA/Das_Brot_der_fruhen_Jahre_(1962).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/FD3C32E9826F3B1/Das_Brot_der_frühen_Jahre_(1962).eng.srt

Language:German
Subtitles:English

The post Herbert Vesely – Das Brot der frühen Jahre (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.