Plot: In the 1950’s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.

The.Joke.AKA.Zert.1969.1080p.WEB-DL.H.264.AAC2.0-ZAP.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 21 min
Size: 	3.11 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1490x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	1.380
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	5 190 kb/s
BPP: 	0.135
Audio
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https://nitro.download/view/EA717797EF06964/The.Joke.AKA.Zert.1969.1080p.WEB-DL.H.264.AAC2.0-ZAP.mkv

Language(s):Czech
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

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Bára, the daughter of a communal herdsman, is pursued by all the young men from the village. The parents of the village boys are not pleased with this at all, because they believe the superstitious old women who claim that Bára is a daughter of a noonday-witch. The beautiful girl has one friend, Eliška, foster-daughter of the parish priest. The priest also likes Bára and always takes her side. The manorial administrator Sláma is trying to win Eliška, but Eliška loves a student from Prague. Bára decides to frighten Sláma away from his courtship. She disguises herself as a ghost, scares Sláma to death near the graveyard and makes him promise to leave Eliška in peace. But Sláma’s coachman alarms the entire village and they recognize Bára in the ghost. They lock her in the morgue to punish her. The village boys Josífek and Vojta want to help Bára. Josífek goes on his horse to get the huntsman who has liked Bára already for a long time, and Vojta is running to the morgue. Here, in a nasty quarrel with his father, he drops a lantern and the morgue starts burning instantly. Fortunately, the huntsman arrives in time, and takes Bára with him, away from the superstitious village folks.

1.34GB | 1h 15mn | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/81EF00FA6C3B892/Diva_Bara_(Wild_Barbara)_(1949)_–_Vladimir_Cech.mkv

Language:Czech
Subtitles:English, Czech, Russian (muxed)

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In the 1950’s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.

1.42GB | 1h 21m | 714×476 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B00768B3AE99EC9/The.Joke.1969.Criterion.DVDRip.x264.AC3-zopz-_CG_.mkv

Language:Czech
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
In this 1976 character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart (Rudolf Hrusinsky) establishes a practice in a small town. Gradually he’s drawn into the lives of his patients—a childless couple, a pregnant girl with a stern mother, the son of a duck farmer—and each relationship reveals a bit more about him and the idyllic but insular community. Vlacil is hardly known for his light touch, but the film’s austere look and elegiac chamber music, at times Bressonian in their severity, convey the doctor’s quest for fulfillment and peace of mind. Hrusinsky, who was blacklisted in Czechoslovakia for his anticommunist stance, ennobles his role by underplaying it.

Review:

A measured, evenly paced, extremely controlled, psychologically mesmerizing film about a doctor’s split with his wife, and his subsequent return to his Communist homeland, brilliantly underplayed by Rudolf Hrusinsky, a man in real life who was blacklisted in Czechoslovakia for his anti-Communist leanings, and only the slightest movement in his face could ever be detected. But he was superb in this role, his dignity challenged at every turn, but always remaining intact. He is introduced to a countryside clinic by the local Communist lackey, his quarters are spare and without possessions. Immediately, as the outsider, he is the object of the entire town’s suspicion, represented in a single scene where he is smoking potatoes, something he must have learned as a child, in a small attempt to gather some semblance of himself. Yet across the landscape a cry is heard for him to put out the fire; that’s not allowed; what is he, crazy? Every attempt to help someone is met with whispers behind his back and with the town’s scorn. The psychological pressure to allow so little to be shown, always holding everything inside, as who knows, someone near could, and would use any piece of information against you. This film reminded me of some of the early Kieslowski films, such as the rarely seen CURRICULUM VITAE, where in that film the Communist Party pressure is relentless to obtain confessions from your neighbors for the most ordinary actions of men. To live under the pressure of such a constant cloud of suspicion, where the Party representative is rarely even seen or heard, is wonderfully transparent in this film.
— cranesareflying from USA.
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Extras included:

1. Interview – Alois Svehlik
2. Interview — Josef Somr
3. Interview — Vitezslav Jandak

All the extras are in Czech language with only Czech Subtitles.

http://www.nitroflare.com/view/C9A56994E24E040/Smoke_on_the_Potato_Fields_%281976%29_–_Frantisek_Vlacil.mkv
http://www.nitroflare.com/view/514626257E641F4/Smoke_on_the_Potato_Fields_%281976%29_–_Frantisek_Vlacil.srt
https://nitro.download/view/1F243A95FF1132F/Extras.rar

Language(s):Czech
Subtitles:English (srt)

The post Frantisek Vlácil – Dým bramborové nate AKA Smoke on the Potato Fields [+extras] (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.