Synopsis:
Keller, a painter, while at the ballet is impressed with the beauty of Nicole and sketches her head on the body of a nude model. When it is shown, it causes embarrassment to Nicole’s husband, Walter, a diplomat whose career is threatened. Nicole decides to get a divorce to ease things. She sees Keller, who tries to make amends for the trouble he has caused. Nicole resumes her singing career in nightclubs, and Keller agrees to help her get a divorce.
— Adams@imdb.

Bildnis einer Unbekannten (Portrait of an Unknown Woman)(1954).mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 47mn
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https://nitro.download/view/91E6767158DED99/Bildnis_einer_Unbekannten_(Portrait_of_an_Unknown_Woman)(1954).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/FD3892E1E3BFC10/Bildnis_einer_Unbekannten_(Portrait_of_an_Unknown_Woman)(1954).srt

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

The post Helmut Käutner – Bildnis einer Unbekannten AKA Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954)  first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
King Ludwig II of Bavaria is frustrated, having to accept parliament’s will to join Bismarck, rather he his cultured Habsburg friends, in wars. His love-life being as fruitless, he seeks comfort in art. But building fairytale castles and an even grander opera for his musical idol Wagner proves so expensive, his cabinet ends up resorting to formally challenging his mental health, plausible as his beloved brother Otto contracted schizophrenia earlier. Tragedy now lurks in Ludwig’s prison-castle.
— IMDb.

1955 - Ludwig II Glanz und Ende eines Königs 24p.mkv

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Arabic (muxed), English (srt)

The post Helmut Käutner – Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs AKA Mad Emperor: Ludwig II (1955) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The film tells the story of the blond “singing sailor” Hannes Kröger who works in a St. Pauli club on the Große Freiheit 7, and falls in love with a girl. But she prefers his rival Willem and Hannes returns to the sea.

Port.of.Freedom.1944.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-t0m.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 51 min
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https://nitro.download/view/52EBF5CC0841DAD/Port.of.Freedom.1944.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-t0m.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

The post Helmut Käutner – Große Freiheit Nr. 7 AKA Port of Freedom (1944) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
In the last decades of the 19th century, Karl May (1842-1912) was the most successful author in Germany. For 30 years he turned out 40 pages a day, constructing a staggering body of kitsch adventure-fiction that may originally have owed a certain debt to James Fenimore Cooper but that, finally, created a mythology quintessentially German.
In his most popular stories, written in the first person, May recalled his adventures in the American West with his idealized white blood-brother, Old Shatterhand, and the equally idealized Indian warrior, Winnetou. Seeking a change of locale, May also wrote similar first-person tales about adventures in the Near and Far East.
As he entered his old age, May was beloved and rich. He was also ripe for attack by jealous publishers and all sorts of opportunists seeking to make their own reputations at the expense of his. Unfortunately for him, Karl May was exceedingly vulnerable.

As his fame had become virtually self-perpetuating, he’d allowed the public to believe that his tales were basically true, though he’d never set foot in America or any of the other exotic lands about which he wrote with such conviction. He manufactured fake degrees for himself and, most shocking to his fans, he’d somehow failed to mention that, as a young man, he’d been imprisoned for a total of more than seven years for various offenses, including thievery.
May spent most of the last decade of his life in and out of the courts, defending himself against a series of lawsuits that had as their goal the destruction of his reputation and formidable popularity.

It is this period of May’s extraordinary career that is the center of Hans-Jurgen Syberberg’s lengthy cinema meditation “Karl May”. The film, which was made in 1974, is the second in Mr. Syberberg’s huge, impressionistic trilogy that opens with “Ludwig, Requiem for a Virgin King” (1972) and ends with the 7 1/2-hour “Our Hitler” (1977).

“Karl May,” which runs a bit over three hours, like “Ludwig” and “Hitler,” makes no concessions to those members of the great, unwashed audience who can’t make sense of references that would be immediately clear in Germany. Chronology and documented fact are beside the point.

The film is structured like a piece of music, with themes introduced, explored, dropped and then recalled in variations

The conflict, as in Ludwig, is between the romantic and the rational. May is seen as the last great mystic and the creator of legends that, beginning with Ludwig, reached their inevitable end in Hitler. Whether one believes this or not, Mr. Syberberg couldn’t care less. It’s what he’s telling us in each of the three films, concluding with what seems to be the principal point of Our Hitler. That film’s final question is not Where would we be without Hitler?, but Where would Hitler have been without us?

3.12GB | 3h 01m | 624×480 | avi

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https://tezfiles.com/file/66f3bfb0c55a8/Karl_May_Eng_srt.rar

Language:German
Subtitles:English

The post Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Karl May (1974) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
The film can be best described as Käutner goes Antonioni with Fellini’s cinematographer on the camera. The critics slaughtered the film as they did with many films of the era which only get rediscovered today and it didn’t help that the author attacked during a press conference the film which he had himself written following his own novel unwisely too closely while Käutner fought against that. Don’t let that disturb you, it’s quite a remarkable film and a great showcase for the cool understated beauty of Ruth Leuwerik who was correctly labeled the German Deborah Kerr.

The story tells of Franziska who leaves her arrogant husband and drifts lonely to Venice where she meets some men among them a NS criminal who is threatened with assassination by another acquaintance of Franziska, so murder looms in the air

1.42GB | 1h 34m | 740×444 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/FF953D41C927443/Die_Rote_(Redhead)_(1962)_–_Helmut_Kautner.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/40BBC903DCE02AA/Die_Rote_(Redhead)_(1962)_–_Helmut_Kautner.srt

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, Russian, German (muxed), English (srt)

The post Helmut Käutner – Die Rote AKA Redhead (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Anna (Eva Kotthaus) is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen, lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl (Erik Schumann) who helps her with her son and they fall in love.

2.94GB | 1h 48mn | 790×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/FA209A5BAFE1DC6/Himmel.ohne.Sterne.AKA.Sky.Without.Stars.1955.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post Helmut Käutner – Himmel ohne Sterne AKA Sky Without Stars (1955) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Karl Zimmermann plays piano at the Café Rigoletto because he needs the money, but actually his whole passion is classical music, and work on his own opera is in progress. Then he meets the pop singer and song writer Anni Pichler, whom he wants to convert to “serious” music, but even the private lessons at his bachelor pad cannot convince her. Despite everything, the two find each other appealing, and they marry after a short time.
Professionally now everyone goes his/her own way, but at home things don’t go well. Money’s always scarce, and Anni complains he could earn more if he’d write music people like. And when Karl’s opera bombs, he hits rock bottom and they break up. The music publisher Peter Schaefer, an old friend of Anni, can persuade him to orchestrate Anni’s new show. The Revue is a great success, and Anni learns only later that her husband has written all the arrangements – and so all’s well, and in the future they will make music together.

1.37GB | 1h 32mn | 765×574 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/4EBEA316C17849C/1942_-_Wir_machen_Musik_24p.mkv

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

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