Plot:
This film is an adaptation of the historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It tells the story of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. Taras’ sons studied at the Kiev Academy and return home. The three men set out on a journey to Zaporizhian Sich located in Southern Ukraine, where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland.

The work is non-fictional in nature, in that the main character іs based on several historical personalities, and other characters are not аs exaggerated or grotesque as was common in Gogol’s later fiction. This story can be understood in the context of the Romantic nationalism movement in literature, which developed around a historical ethnic culture which meets the Romantic ideal.

Tarass_Boulba.avi

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Container:	AVI
Runtime:	1h 26mn
Size:	1.03 GiB
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Codec:	XviD
Resolution:	768x576
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
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2.0ch MP3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/5DAE207A3DF4BBB/Tarass_Boulba.avi

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

The post Alexis Granowsky – Tarass Boulba (1936) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A red-haired boy is his mother’s punching bag ; only his father’s presence is a great comfort to him,but this weak man is under the shrew’s thumb. His pain is so great he feels suicidal.

Poil.de.carotte.1932.1080p.CRIT.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-WELP.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 32 min
Size: 	3.59 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1480x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	1.370
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https://nitro.download/view/180B8CAB608CAC9/Poil.de.carotte.1932.1080p.CRIT.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-WELP.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

The post Julien Duvivier – Poil de carotte AKA The Red Head (1932) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

An excellent little suspense thriller with an air of the occult, filmed on location in Morocco by Julien Duvivier. Two versions were made: a German version with Anton Walbrook, and this French version with René Lefèvre and Harry Baur.

One by one, a group of five travellers starts to die, apparently the result of a sorcerer’s curse…

Les cinq gentlemen maudits (1931) -- Julien Duvivier.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 19 min
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Codec: 	x264
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https://nitro.download/view/DC1E071E6F651D9/Les_cinq_gentlemen_maudits_(1931)_–_Julien_Duvivier.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/4493CC33A7FD25F/Les_cinq_gentlemen_maudits_(1931)_–_Julien_Duvivier.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Julien Duvivier – Les cinq gentlemen maudits AKA Moon Over Morocco (1931) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

If one were to gather the hundreds of books written about Ludwig van Beethoven, sift through each with a fine-tooth comb, and extract every simple mistake, wild speculation, and outright falsehood, the result would still be nowhere near as fabulous and artificial as this 1936 biopic, which rewrites the composer’s life story into a throbbingly melodramatic tale of genius ignored and love unrequited. Director Abel Gance, best known for his expansive silent classic Napoleon, wasn’t interested in the truth of Beethoven’s life, but instead the romantic ideal of a great man tormented by history; Gance’s Beethoven is merely a variation of the filmmaker’s beloved Bonaparte, triumphant yet scorned by his inferiors in the artistic realm rather than the political. (Needless to say, among the film’s many omissions is Beethoven’s bitter rededication of the “Eroica” Symphony.)

Beginning where every portrait of Beethoven the man must, with the identification of the Immortal Beloved, the film nominates (wrongly) Giulietta Gallenberg, née Guicciardi, reconstructing their brief passion as a lifelong obsession. During each of Beethoven’s struggles–with love, poverty, deafness–thunder cracks against the sky and the opening notes of the Fifth burst onto the soundtrack to punctuate the action. Meet the film on its own novelette-like terms, however, and it can be quite moving, not least for the magnificent presence of Harry Baur in the lead, who captures to perfection the tortured nobility the film foists upon its protagonist. Baur’s conception is as outsized as Gance’s, but also gentler and less sentimental; he humanizes what could have been a treacly salute to a marble statue. An unusual final credit places the actor’s name alongside the director’s, a touching admission by Gance at how indebted his film was to its star.

Beethoven's.Great.Love.1936.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 56 min
Size: 	1.79 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/5190270A6F7BADD/Beethoven’s.Great.Love.1936.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/46AD2291EEB7099/Beethoven’s.Great.Love.1936.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU_-_eng.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Abel Gance – Un grand amour de Beethoven AKA Beethoven’s Great Love (1936) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Vautier, a wealthy surgeon in his fifties, falls in love with Hélène, a young woman from a modest background. He allows her to have a string of short-lived lovers – but when Jean Trapeau, an old boyfriend, resurfaces, things get complicated.

The.Old.Devil.1933.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 34 min
Size: 	2.13 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
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https://nitro.download/view/51DFDE5B52D708A/The.Old.Devil.1933.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/A168E3DD4ADD9B1/The.Old.Devil.1933.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:French,English

The post Anatole Litvak – Cette vieille canaille AKA The Old Devil (1933) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A rich widow, nostalgic for the lavish parties of her youth, embarks on a journey to reconnect with the many suitors who once courted her. In doing so, she sets off on a course of discovery, both of herself and of how greatly the world has changed in two decades. Julien Duvivier’s smash hit is a wry, visually inventive tale of romantic pragmatism that deftly combines comedy and drama.

3.63GB | 2h 10m | 790×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/2CBB7B5F6B0F86D/Un.carnet.de.bal.AKA.Dance.Program.1937.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English,Japanese

The post Julien Duvivier – Un carnet de bal AKA Christine AKA Dance Program (1937) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Pierre Blanchar plays the murderer Raskolnikov, and Harry Baur is the police inspector on his trail…

Quote:
Crime et châtiment is one of the overlooked masterpieces of 1930s French cinema, an early and almost faultless adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s celebrated 1866 novel Crime and Punishment. One of the reasons for the film’s comparative obscurity is that it was released in the same year as Josef von Sternberg’s better known American adaptation which starred Peter Lorre and Edward Arnold. The French version appears to have been heavily influenced by an earlier silent adaptation Raskolnikow (1923) from the renowned German filmmaker Robert Wiene, whose best-known work – Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (1920) – is powerfully evoked in this film’s staging of the pivotal murder scene.

This first French version of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel was directed by Pierre Chenal, the first important film he made having started out as a documentary filmmaker. Chenal would later direct Le Dernier tournant (1939), cinema’s earliest adaptation of James M. Cain’s thriller novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. Although he was active as a film director for four decades (including a four year stint in Argentina during WWII), Chenal made fewer than thirty films and had a largely undistinguished career. His Crime et châtiment is undoubtedly his best work, a far more inspired piece than his subsequent literary adaptation L’Homme de nulle part (1937). Georges Lampin directed a subsequent (less impressive) version of Crime and Punishment in 1956, starring Jean Gabin and Robert Hossein.

1.37GB | 1:46:55 | 640×480 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/6DEE52885A032C1/Crime.et.chatiment.1935.DVDRip.XviD.avi
https://nitro.download/view/24A16AE91394215/Crime.et.chatiment.1935.DVDRip.XviD_-_eng_02.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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