Year 1945. The second World War is over and the soldiers from the sisbanded army are returning home. Yet there is still no sign of Joze Malek. His wife Mimika and their children Tincek and olga know only that he had deserted the German army and gone over to the Soviet Red Army. Mimika works a a hired hand for the farmer, Medved, who givesher bread and milk for her child instead of regular wages. This is not at all to the liking of her relative Vanc. One fine day, father Malek comes home and the family is happilly reunited. Vanc tells Jozeabout the agrarian reform, through which the Maleks even get their own plot of land. In exchange of this, they have to remove all the religious symbols from their home. They stop going to the church, and must shout Tito’s and Stalin’s praises every day. Joze Malek changes completely. He tills his plot of kand as though obsessed, becomes greedy and begins to emulate the big landowners, calling himself a socialist kulak. Yet suddenly, the fact that Malek was a solider in Red Army is no longer acceptedable. He is suspected of being a collaborator with the Soviet Informbureau. Joze manages to clear his name at the hearing by acting stupid, but he shifts the blame to his relative Vanc, saying that he was only doing what he hadtold him to, and Vanc is arrested. Malek’s land rights are taken away from him, as agricultural co-operatives will be established.

1.81GB | 1h 57m | 735×490 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8E53A34D346EC89/Moj_ata,_socialisticni_kulak_AKA_My_Dad,_the_Socialist_Kulak_-_1987_-_Matjaz_Klopcic.mkv

Language(s):Slovenian
Subtitles:English,Italian,Serbian,Croatian

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Post-war Yugoslavia, out of favor with the Soviets because President Tito (1953-1980) was not communist enough and disliked by the Western powers because Tito was not capitalist enough, had to pull itself up by its own make-shift bootstraps. During a period of flagging morale, a group of musicians was sent out from a radio station to entertain the farmers and workers but instead of staying with the traditional songs, the musicians devise one trick or another to swing into jazz and blues and boogie-woogie — trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the militant culture watchdogs, be they policemen, petty bureaucrats, or party officials. However tone deaf they may be, the guardians of politically correct music usually catch the banned sounds — and so the musicians have to keep their battered truck at the ready for a hasty getaway whenever needed. Not all is fun and games, as the shocking ending soon proves — slightly out of sync with the mood until then.

This is part of UNESCO’s Memory of the World National Cinematic Heritage.

1.28GB | 1 h 23 min | 744×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/484EDF64F5FAF95/Red.Boogie.1982.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:Slovenian
Subtitles:English hardsubbed

The post Karpo Acimovic-Godina – Rdeci boogie ali Kaj ti je deklica AKA Red Boogie (1982) first appeared on Cinema of the World.