King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear’s loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

King.Lear.1970.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English

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Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. With Solaris, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic, adapted from the famous novel by Stanislas Lem. Much more than a sci-fi film, Solaris is a meditation that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself.

Solaris.1972.Potemkine.BluRay.1080p.x264.FLAC-SaL.mkv

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Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English, French

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Synopsis:
Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world and strange things are going to happen. Seems that some visitors may be extraterrestrial.

Review:
Estonian cinema Dead Mountaineer’s Hotelunder its occupation by the Soviet Union until 1991 has been sorely Dead Mountaineer’s Hotelunderrepresented on worldwide home video, and few of its entries are more deserving of a potential cult following than Hukkunud Alpinisti’ hotell, or Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel, a visually staggering murder mystery with a sci-fi twist. Writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (who wrote Hard To Be a God and Roadside Picnic, the latter filmed as Stalker) adapted their own novel here, though the aesthetics really grab your attention as much as the script all the way to the incredible synth score by Estonian prog rocker Sven Grünberg, which grabs you within the opening moments of the film and never lets up. The book and film have remained familiar in their native country (even inspiring a video game, believe it or not), but there are probably a lot of people out there who would love to still discover this one if given the chance.

Looking back years after the fact, Inspector Peter Glebsky (Pūcītis) is still haunted by an unnerving experience when he was sent by an anonymous call to the remote Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel in the snowy mountains. There he discovers a dark, eerie place with peculiar habitants as well as a neon-lined shrine to the ill-fated Dead Mountaineer’s Hotelmountain climber who gave the place its name (and whose St. Bernard works as a bag-carrying porter). Dead Mountaineer’s HotelAssured no crime has been committed, he gradually gets to the know the guests who range from fun-seeking skiers to a recuperating tuberculosis sufferer and a jittery physicist who literally climbs the walls. A mysterious note, pansexual seductions, an apparent locked-room murder, and wild dancing are just a few of the diversions when an avalanche ensures that no one will be able to leave until our by-the-book sleuth finds out what’s really going on.

Difficult to really describe without spoiling the multiple genre-bending plot turns in the second half, Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel is an arresting film as it juggles visuals worthy of the most opulent music videos of the ’80s with surprisingly subversive commentary about the treatment of the vulnerable and the inherent cruelty of power structures. Released right after Stalker and featuring the most elaborate set in the country’s history, it’s the sort of film that really sticks with you and is probably best viewed late at night when its strange, poetic rhythms can work their magic without any resistance. It’s easy to draw comparisons to films that came in its wake, most obviously The Shining, The Thing, and Blade Runner, with its visual style pointing the way to filmmakers like David Fincher and Nicolas Winding Refn. However, this is very much unlike anything else out there in its execution.

— Nathaniel Thompson (Mondo Digital)

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Language(s):Estonian
Subtitles:English,French,Spanish,German,Portuguese,Russian,Estonian (muxed)

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King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear’s loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

Quote:
Black and white cinematography of Gritsius, the music of Shostakovich and the enigmatic face of Jarvet, makes all other versions of King Lear smaller in stature. Lord Olivier himself acknowledged the stark brilliance of this film. Oleg Dal’s fool lends a fascinating twist to the character. The “Christian Marxism” of Kozintsev can knock-out any serious student of cinema and Shakespeare.

Kozintsev is one of least sung masters of Russian cinema. His cinema is very close to that of Tarkovsky and Sergei Paradjanov. Kozintsev’s Lear is not a Lear that mourns his past and his daughters–his Lear is close to the soil, the plants, and all elements of nature. That’s what makes Kozintsev’s Shakespearean works outstanding.

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https://nitro.download/view/AB6ECF43B68561A/Korol.Lir.1971.DVDRip-AVC.AC3._rutracker.org_.mkv

Language:Russian
Subtitles:English, Spanish, Portuguese

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A Gestapo officer arrives in a small asylum. His mission: to find the enemy agent who’s hiding among the insane…

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https://nitro.download/view/0653723A62FC418/MADNESS.mkv

Language(s):Estonian
Subtitles:English

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