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Schmid’s satire on 19th-century class relations is also a thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution. Once a year, an aristocratic Austrian family holds a traditional feast at which masters and servants trade places. A troupe of actors (including cult cabaret artist Ingrid Caven) are hired to entertain the guests, performing fragments from the “cultural scrap heap”: GONE WITH THE WIND, Madame Bovary, Tennessee Williams, Swan Lake. The decadent proceedings take on a dangerous edge when the actors incite the servants to revolt against their masters-but is the Revolution also part of the act?

Tonight or Never (1972).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/A7788CE9B7BE0BB/Tonight_or_Never_(1972).mkv

Language(s):German, Italian
Subtitles:English, German, French, Italian

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One of the most controversial productions by the late German writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was his stage play The Garbage, the City and Death; when he sought to film the play in Germany, Fassbinder was denied state funds on the basis of a charge of anti-Semitic content. Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid, a film-school colleague and longtime friend of Fassbinder’s, undertook the project in 1976, employing Fassbinder’s now-familiar repertory company including Fassbinder and his then-wife Ingrid Caven. Set amid the Frankfurt lowlife–prostitutes, pimps, sadistic police and perverted businessmen–the story concerns a streetwalker (Caven) who is reportedly too chic for her own good and can’t make a go of it among her only available clientele. She is brutalized by her pimp (portrayed by a very slim Fassbinder), who continues to send her out on the streets while he indulges his preference for men. Luck comes her way in the form of a Jewish businessman (Klaus Lowitsch); he hires her only to listen to him talk and, occasionally, pose as his bride in the murky nocturnal street scene.

This character, referred to simply as “the rich Jew,” is the center of the controversy surrounding both the play and the film. American critics have responded in a somewhat more favorable light to the character, Jim Hoberman (Village Voice) noting, “Making Frankfurt’s ace capitalist a Jew is aggressively tasteless but not, I think, anti-Semitic…Lowitsch is neither unsympathetic nor racially stereotyped.” His viewpoint concurs more or less with that of the director, Daniel Schmid, who notes, “For us, Shadow of Angels was a film about a Germany where no one is starving and no one is scared anymore, and the only two people who are still sensitive are the prostitute and the Jew, because both of them are outcasts.”

Shadow of Angels is as provocative as one might expect from Fassbinder; it is not a pretty picture, and it anticipates in a raw way themes which he would take up in a later, more commercial period of filmmaking, from Berlin Alexanderplatz to Lola. Schmid, whose films include La Paloma (1974), Violanta (1978) and Hecate (1982), sketches Fassbinder’s cryptic dialogue, characters and action in broad, operatic terms characteristic of his own work, sometimes jarring scenes alive with unexpected riffs of Latin music. His style adds to the generally disquieting mood of this tour of prosperity’s grotesque underside.

Schatten der Engel.1976.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/9FB704AAF740071/Schatten_der_Engel.1976.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/69989457BFDE169/Schatten.Der.Engel.1976.BluRay.Remux.1080p.AVC.FLAC.2.0-BeerGAS.srt

Language(s):German
Subtitles:Japanese, English

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This heady exercise in excess mixes the operatic passion of La Traviata, stylish decadence of Stroheim and Sternberg, and the macabre glee of Grand Guignol. Ingrid Caven plays Dietrich-like chanteuse stricken with CamilIe-like wasting disease. The disease seems to be arrested when a plump, wealthy young man (Peter Kern) develops a grand passion for her, but mortality raises its grinning skull again when she falls helplessly in love with another man. Jay Cocks in Time wrote, “La Paloma is a wonderful mad shotgun wedding of high camp movie mythology, bad taste, obsessive, romanticism, and impudent satire… Whatever it is, it certainly is some kind of fantastic movie.”

Daniel Schmid. La Paloma (1974).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/A794AFFC8BB48C5/Daniel_Schmid._La_Paloma_(1974).mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:German

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Bonello seized on the idea of making a cinematic tribute to Ingrid Caven when he first heard her sing at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, but the portrait he eventually made finds her exploring a more expansive range of performance styles and moods. A former member of R.W. Fassbinder’s cinematic troupe—the two were married for a brief stretch in the 1970s—and the ostensible subject of a fictional biography by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Caven spends Bonello’s movie singing a rich repertoire of songs, some of them traditional ballads, others non-verbal, and still others verging on abstract performance art. Ingrid Caven: Music and Voice is a showcase for a truly sui generis musician—a sort of cabaret singer for the 21st century—and a respectful tribute to one artist from another.

2.02GB | 1h 38m | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/633F86E7121B592/Ingrid_Caven,_musique_et_voix_(2012).mkv

Language(s):French,German,English
Subtitles:None

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Malou feels that the difficulties she is experiencing in her relationships lie in her past and so she searches out information about her mother. Her mother, a nightclub singer who lived in Germany, France and Argentina, becomes the focus of a series of flashbacks through which we learn of her mother’s stormy life and the difficulty she had in bringing her up. These insights enable Malou to sort out the difficulties in her own life.

1.39GB | 1h 30m | 726×484 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E0778B49AA14196/Malou.1981.DVDRip.x264.mkv
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https://nitro.download/view/87172C7BF9D9610/Malou.1981.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/5C4F1D783C652A3/Malou.1981.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English German Spanish

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KAFFEEHAUS, DAS
(nach Carlo Goldoni)

“In Ridolfo’s coffeehouse, citizens meet to talk about money, friendship, love, and honor. This is a modernistic staging for television of a play by Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793), the Venetian playwright whose many works preserve in scripted form the improvisational productions of the Italian commedia dell’arte.”

1.23GB | 1h 43m | 686×574 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/51E39AB2F5954DE/Kaffeehaus.avi
https://nitro.download/view/8D42152AD29445C/Kaffeehaus.EN.srt

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis
North of Italy, the von Ketten dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After their honeymoon journey back home, Ketten leaves again for the war. Eleven years elapsed… Rumours are running about the presence of that ‘foreign’ in the castle. Some say she’s a heretic. Until one day, the Bishop of Trento ends up dying and, with the signature of peace, falls the background of von Ketten’s life. Will the Portuguese win, where death seems to be moving in?

9.36GB | 2h 17m | 1920×1040 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/24C2C4E2D5BB277/A.Portuguesa.2018.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-TEPES.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese | German
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Turkish

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