The young noblewoman Katharina von Holstein loves the poor painter Johannes. After the death of her father, her brutal brother wants to marry Katharina to the wealthy estate neighbour in order to save his own estate from ruin.

After “Immensee” and “Der Puppenspieler”, “Unsterbliche Geliebte” was the third film adaptation of a Theodor Storm story that director Harlan undertook in his capacity as director and screenwriter. It is a free adaptation of Storms novella “Aquis submersus”.

The film was shot in the second half of 1950 at the film studio in Göttingen as well as on the Hallig Oland and in Itzehoe. Tilo von Berlepsch, portraying Johannes’ rival von der Risch, made it possible for Harlan’s film team to shoot the castle scenes at his ancestral home, Schloss Berlepsch.

Unsterbliche Geliebte (1951) -- Veit Harlan.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 49mn
Size: 	1.64 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	686x530 ~> 731x530
Aspect ratio:  	1.381
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 900 Kbps
BPP: 	0.218
Audio
#1:  	German 1.0ch AC-3 @ 256 Kbps

Picture and sound quality is not good. Source is a hard to obtain VHS copy from the Dutch Film Museum.

https://nitro.download/view/2A08053925B0DE7/Unsterbliche_Geliebte_(1951)_–_Veit_Harlan.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:Dutch (hardcoded)

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The story of the Viennese butcher Karl Bockerer from the moment the Nazis took power until their end. He and his family are no noble men, and they all don’t seem to be gifted with wisdom. But while the rest of his family follows the Fuehrer, Karl Bockerer refuses to get assimilated by the new system. With his aggressive but charming behavior but also with a whole lot of luck he survives through the years…

No, this is not a very realistic movie, grumblers of Karl Bockerer’s kind, demonstrating their antipathy for the system in public, wouldn’t have survived those times. But he instead is a narrator, showing how easy it is to recognize evil even without a profound education. Also without prejudice his circle of friends contains all kinds of Austrians, an how they reacted/had to react to the new situation. Especially his wife and son, fanatics about the Nazis, introduce us to a very dark side of these days.

After all this movie is not meant to get translated, because its feeling comes out of the way those people talk and how Bockerer opposes the system by underlining he is Viennese, no Aryen, where his dialect plays an important role. (Still I am disappointed that such a great movie doesn’t come with subtitles and on a very spartanic DVD with its way worse second part.) Still this movie is one of the best Austrian movies ever (I also recommend Indien, Muellers Buero and Silentium). (blunznkistl from imdb)

1.44GB | 1h 43m | 702×478 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/3A09A4FD145BED3/Der.Bockerer.(Franz.Antel.1981).DVDRip.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/CDE712ABFCCDC08/Der.Bockerer.(Franz.Antel.1981).DVDRip_corr.srt

Language:German
Subtitles:English,German HOH

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