A boy and a rather younger girl lost their families in an air raid. They have heard about a valley where there is always peace and fancy that this is the house of the boy’s uncle. They start wandering for the valley. At the same time an airplane is shot down and the black American pilot jumped by parachute. He finds the children at a ford. There is absolutely no danger. But the girl is standing in the middle of the river, scared and crying and neither daring to go forth or back. The pilot cannot abandon the children although they will reduce his chance of escaping. Both the Germans and the partisans know that the pilot had survived. Who will find him first? Several things happen in rapid succession. The children and the pilot find the uncle’s house, which had since a long time been abandoned. The Germans arrive and catch the pilot. The partisans attack and liberate the pilot, who joins them. But during the fight he is soon deadly wounded and orders the children to run away….

2.00GB | 1h 29min | 788×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7262F5052012ACC/Valley.of.Peace.1956.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:Slovenian
Subtitles:English

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Filmed in 1948 as Senza Pieta, this Alberto Lattuada-directed effort came to America the following year as Without Pity. The film’s sensitive subject matter caused problems in distribution and approval; Lattuada was never known to shirk from a sociopolitical statement, even when it meant loss of revenue overseas. The plot is based on an actual postwar dilemma: in Northern Italy, dozens of black American GIs chose to go AWOL rather than return to a racially divided United States. John Kitzmiller plays an occupation soldier named Jerry, who decides to remain in Italy when he falls in love with a blonde, Caucasian local girl named Angela (Carla Del Poggio). Reviewers in 1949 felt that Lattuada exercised poor taste in depicting the interracial romance: while these scenes cannot realistically be described as offensive when seen today, they are still quite frank by 1940s standards. A “regular” in Italian neorealist films, Michigan-born black actor John Kitzmiller went on to win a Cannes Film Festival award for his performance in 1957’s Sergeant Jim.
— Hal Erickson (allmovie.com)

1.50GB | 1h 29mn | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B791D05A3194EAD/Senza_pieta_(Without_Pity)_(1948)_–_Alberto_Lattuada.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/430B130B53B2A36/Senza_pieta_(Without_Pity)_(1948)_–_Alberto_Lattuada.srt

Language:Italian,English
Subtitles:English, Italian (muxed)

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