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Filip buys an eight-millimetre movie camera when his first child is born. Because it’s the first camera in town, he’s named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie-making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.

amator.1979.720p.bluray.x264-ghouls.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/85ED8B960D4C9A5/amator.1979.720p.bluray.x264-ghouls.mkv

Language(s):Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Krzysztof Kieslowski – Amator AKA Camera Buff (1979)  first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to ‘volunteer’ for the exploration of far-away planets. Landing on planet Australia 458, he is given a hero’s welcome with all the sex, booze, and violence that any one man can stomach. But as his new caretakers push him towards even more heinous and deplorable acts, Scope finds that his freedom comes with a high price; his own violent demise, broadcast live for the viewing pleasure of Australia 458’s inhabitants. Is there a way out? Or is Scope’s fate sealed?

	
Ga-ga.Glory.to.the.Heroes.1985.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 24 min
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Language(s):Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Piotr Szulkin – Ga, Ga – Chwala bohaterom AKA Ga, Ga – Glory To The Heroes (1986) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of ‘The Dome’. Soft is a shepherd for the last remnants of humanity who have gathered together as they await rescue from a mysterious craft known only as ‘The Ark.’ He wanders among the masses, performing his regular daily tasks; keeping morale from plummeting, wooing prostitutes, squashing rebellions, and sometimes feeding the hungry. But as the true and sinister nature of ‘The Dome’ comes to light, Soft must ask himself if humanity is worth saving?

O-Bi.O-Ba.The.End.of.Civilization.1984.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/3CBAB9CE92F248E/O-Bi.O-Ba.The.End.of.Civilization.1984.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.part1.rar
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https://nitro.download/view/108992C3DB48BC9/O-Bi.O-Ba.The.End.of.Civilization.1984.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.part3.rar

Language(s):Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Piotr Szulkin – O-bi, O-ba – Koniec cywilizacji AKA O-bi O-ba – The End Of Civilization (1985) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This comedy follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia.

2.82GB | 1h 45m | 960×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7EE7A9DCFD4E278/Kingsajz_1990_576p_BluRay_x264-tranc.mkv

Language:Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Juliusz Machulski – Kingsajz AKA King Size (1988) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Two scientists are placed in hibernation and should be awaken after three years. But when they wake up, it turns out that it has been fifty years, and they are the only two males in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.

3.59GB | 1h 56mn | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/893A8EF4D28BA81/Sexmission.1984.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.mkv

Language(s):Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Juliusz Machulski – Seksmisja AKA Sexmission (1984) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Films made under the state socialist regimes of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth century tend to fall roughly into two categories: the rigidly institutional and the scathingly anti-establishment. These films either serve to trumpet the cause of Communism or else find ways to avoid or subvert its conventions. The early films of Krzysztof Kieslowski present a slightly different alternative. On the one hand, these films duck the scrutiny of government censors with minute, incisive portraits of the system’s failings; but on the other, they tend to humanize and complicate the causes of these failings. Rather than make the system seem a corrupt, faceless entity, Kieslowski’s early films present a collection of individuals whose personal problems and shortcomings compose this system and thereby bring about its failure.

With its sympathetic portrayal of the trials and tribulations of a bureaucrat, Kieslowski’s debut feature, The Scar, exemplifies this complex tone of the director’s early work. The film follows the construction of a new fertilizer factory in the small, rural town of Olecko. A forest and many homes are leveled to make way for this new factory, which is ostensibly to be built to provide jobs for the region. Nonetheless, the public and the press are skeptical about the motives and the management behind the building of the factory, and so the affable Stefan Bednarz is hired to act as the factory’s director.

Kieslowski presents Bednarz as the complete opposite of the archetypal anonymous bureaucrat. He is sympathetic and dedicated, befriending the factory workers and candidly chatting with the journalists who oppose his cause. His relationship with his wife and daughter in shambles, Bednarz immerses himself in the minute problems of the factory: public relations, technical inadequacies, and the greed and disorder of the Party. As one citizen of Olecko describes him: “He’s no ordinary engineer [or] technocrat. He’s another breed: a genuine humanist. He wants his town to flourish.”

But the responsibilities of the factory, and its dishonesty and mismanagement, prove to be more than even one conscientious man like Bednarz can control. This provides the film with its central theme: the effect of a single individual on a corrupt system. Bednarz is true to his party’s principles of collectivity and cooperation, and so Kieslowski’s film is not an indictment of state socialism as a whole, but rather of its implementation. In the world of the film, one good Communist is ineffectual in a system full of bad ones. And as another citizen laments: “after he’s gone, he might be replaced by a pigheaded technocrat with a philistine mentality who will destroy everything he fought for.”

Like all of Kieslowski’s films, The Scar is concerned with the problems of the social order, but it is less combative and more mournful. Shot in a dreary and unforgiving documentary style, with only the sporadic use of an eerie and unsettling modernist score, the film calls not for the radical change of society but for a contemplation of the individual’s place within it.

2.67GB | 1 h 46 min | 960×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/3369A22D53F962A/Krzysztof_Kieslowski_-_(1976)_The_Scar.mkv

Language(s):Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Krzysztof Kieslowski – Blizna AKA The Scar (1976) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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It all starts when Filip Mosz (Jerzy Stuhr) buys a little 8mm movie camera to film his new-born baby. Like a true enthusiast, Filip enters into the spirit of his new hobby, filming everything that moves and working on the material on a small editing suite. When he is commissioned by his boss to film a reception being held to commemorate the company’s 25th anniversary, he becomes aware of the pressures of outside expectations and even censorship. The film however gets entered into an amateur film festival and wins third prize (second prize really since none were judged good enough to win first prize!) and he soon finds himself caught up in the world of TV and film-making, helped by an attractive film producer. Suddenly he finds that his new hobby isn’t compatible with the responsibilities of bringing up a small child, nor is it compatible with the wishes of his employer.

Camera Buff (Amator) is in many ways Kieslowski’s most openly biographical film, although there are a lot of the director’s personality and ideas in all his films. What starts out as a harmless hobby develops into a passionate calling. Before he really knows what is happening or what exactly he is doing, Filip starts to become aware of the complexities of film-making and the responsibilities it brings. A simple edit can change the whole meaning of a scene, can change the audience’s whole attitude to a person. When one has a responsibility towards depicting the truth, how can one be sure of objectivity and the consequences and perceptions of those images when they are shown? In the end Filip turns the camera on himself and tells a story, the film coming now from within – the only way he can know his film’s will not falsely portray another person.

This is a marvellous film. It’s funny, it’s touching, it’s relevant – it’s Kieslowski. It’s Kieslowski in the way he can blend all these elements, constructing a story with clarity and precision, examining the issue in hand with a documentary-maker’s rigorous questioning and probing of all conceivable angles. With Kieslowski also, you know that every frame and image is important – nothing is added for elaboration, decoration or for aesthetic reasons. It is also pure Kieslowski in the way he handles the subject matter with warmth, sensitivity, humanity and a sense of humour.

2.86GB | 1 h 53 min | 808×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/684F80E03B35FAD/Krzysztof_Kieslowski_-_(1979)_Camera_Buff.mkv

Language(s):Polish+commentary
Subtitles:English

The post Krzysztof Kieslowski – Amator AKA Camera Buff (1979) first appeared on Cinema of the World.