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A charismatic man in his old age acts as a spiritual guide in the village. Everyone wants him to deliver a beautiful funeral speech for them in the event of their death. Meanwhile, he himself, sensing the end of his life, is looking for a successor.

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“Requiem” is a film related to the debut “The Lives of Matthew” (1967) by Witold Leszek (1967) by Witold Leszczyński. It is not a continuation or a variant of that story, but it is connected to it through its poetics and cast: Franciszek Pieczka reprised the role of God’s madman, and Anna Milewska played Olga, who was close to him, in both films. In “The Life of Matthew” she was his sister, in “Requiem” she is his unfulfilled love. One of the last films in Witold Leszczyński’s output was shot in Borowiec on the Czarna River, near Piotrków Trybunalski, where he lived for the last 14 years of his life.

Requiem.(Witold.Leszczynski.2001).WEB-DL.1080p.mkv

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Mateusz (Franciszek Pieczka) lives with his sister Olga (Anna Milewska) in a cottage by a lake. Unsophisticated in life, he is condemned to her care. He is troubled by the thought that Olga might one day leave him. When lumberjack Jan (Virgilius Gryn) appears in his sister’s life, Matthew experiences a drama. The film is based on Tarjei Vesaas’ novel “The Birds.

Zywot.Mateusza.(Witold.Leszczynski.1967).WEB-DL.1080p.mkv

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The post Witold Leszczynski – Zywot Mateusza AKA The Days of Matthew (1968) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Films made under the state socialist regimes of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth century tend to fall roughly into two categories: the rigidly institutional and the scathingly anti-establishment. These films either serve to trumpet the cause of Communism or else find ways to avoid or subvert its conventions. The early films of Krzysztof Kieslowski present a slightly different alternative. On the one hand, these films duck the scrutiny of government censors with minute, incisive portraits of the system’s failings; but on the other, they tend to humanize and complicate the causes of these failings. Rather than make the system seem a corrupt, faceless entity, Kieslowski’s early films present a collection of individuals whose personal problems and shortcomings compose this system and thereby bring about its failure.

With its sympathetic portrayal of the trials and tribulations of a bureaucrat, Kieslowski’s debut feature, The Scar, exemplifies this complex tone of the director’s early work. The film follows the construction of a new fertilizer factory in the small, rural town of Olecko. A forest and many homes are leveled to make way for this new factory, which is ostensibly to be built to provide jobs for the region. Nonetheless, the public and the press are skeptical about the motives and the management behind the building of the factory, and so the affable Stefan Bednarz is hired to act as the factory’s director.

Kieslowski presents Bednarz as the complete opposite of the archetypal anonymous bureaucrat. He is sympathetic and dedicated, befriending the factory workers and candidly chatting with the journalists who oppose his cause. His relationship with his wife and daughter in shambles, Bednarz immerses himself in the minute problems of the factory: public relations, technical inadequacies, and the greed and disorder of the Party. As one citizen of Olecko describes him: “He’s no ordinary engineer [or] technocrat. He’s another breed: a genuine humanist. He wants his town to flourish.”

But the responsibilities of the factory, and its dishonesty and mismanagement, prove to be more than even one conscientious man like Bednarz can control. This provides the film with its central theme: the effect of a single individual on a corrupt system. Bednarz is true to his party’s principles of collectivity and cooperation, and so Kieslowski’s film is not an indictment of state socialism as a whole, but rather of its implementation. In the world of the film, one good Communist is ineffectual in a system full of bad ones. And as another citizen laments: “after he’s gone, he might be replaced by a pigheaded technocrat with a philistine mentality who will destroy everything he fought for.”

Like all of Kieslowski’s films, The Scar is concerned with the problems of the social order, but it is less combative and more mournful. Shot in a dreary and unforgiving documentary style, with only the sporadic use of an eerie and unsettling modernist score, the film calls not for the radical change of society but for a contemplation of the individual’s place within it.

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https://nitroflare.com/view/3369A22D53F962A/Krzysztof_Kieslowski_-_(1976)_The_Scar.mkv

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A yellow tram lies overturned on the riverbank at the end of the war. Tattered, ragged, homeless men huddle together in a group, load it on rails trying to take it to the remise. Their journey is not easy, they have many difficulties to overcome. Each one has its own drama, yet they are united by a common will to reach their goal.

	
Budapesti.mesek.1976.1080p.FMIO.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.H.264-WUMBA.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 25 min
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Language(s):Hungarian
Subtitles:English, Hungarian

The post István Szabó – Budapesti mesék AKA Budapest Tales (1976) first appeared on Cinema of the World.