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In the village Mrduša Donja in Dalmatian Zagora, the position of the president of the working community was grabbed by Mate, who also stole some money and put the blame on a war veteran. But Joco, the veteran’s son, wants to find out the truth. In order to celebrate the anniversary of his election, Mate orders the villagers to organize the play ‘Hamlet’ with himself playing the king. The professor simplifies the text for the villagers, while the role of Hamlet goes to Joco…

The humor shines in the first half where the local professor is anguished by trying to “adapt Shakespeare to the Balkan way”, i.e. making it simple enough for the villagers to understand it. That way Hamlet and Ophelia became Amlet and Omelia, and among the “improved” monologues is also this one: “Look at Polonius over there, how he wants to ride an ox all by himself! The king would always like a seat, because it always licks his bare ass!” In English it doesn’t sound so funny, but since it rhymes in Croatian, it’s a riot. Too bad Papić didn’t more passionately embrace such a hilarious subplot that makes a caricature of Hamlet, but the parallels between the play and the relationships of the characters are good, while the ending, although too bitter, is wonderfully nihilistic: such a subversive critique of politicians who celebrate, devour and dance, is equal to a classic…

Won Golden Arena, Pula Film Festival of Yugoslavian Films: Best Actor.
It was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.

	
Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrdusa Donja (1974).avi

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Language(s):Croatian
Subtitles:English

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A poor writer discovers that a species of rats has banded together to impersonate humans and supplant them unnoticed, in a manner reminiscent of the transformations in Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, or the covert conspiracy of pod-people in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This film’s story is based on a book by the Soviet writer Alexander Grin.

1.20GB | 1h 18m | 758×474 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/C7001F08A472FD0/The.Rat.Savior.1976.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.mkv
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/66d8408b34ed0/The.Rat.Savior.1976.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.mp4

Language(s):Serbo-Croatian
Subtitles:English

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Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.

A bewitching film about Nikola Tesla (Peter Bozovic), one of the world’s most gifted but unknown scientific discoverers, the genius who ushered in the age of electricity, who was born in 1856 in the village of Smiljan, in the province of Lika, Croatia—then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Tesla’s inventions were stolen but whose name nevertheless remains legendary for his overwhelming scientific contributions. He is quoted as saying “Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.”

The biopic attempts to clear up the mystery that surrounds him and his over 700 patents and numerous discoveries in electricity. They include some of the following: design of the first hydro-electric power plant in Niagara Falls, “space energy,” discovery of radio waves, builder of the first hydroelectric dam, inventor of the remote control, radar tracking for the military, x-ray, conductor of the first wireless transmission experiments at the Colorado Springs Experimental Station in 1899-1900, the Tesla Coil, the fluorescent light, receiver of unidentified signals from outer space, innovative user of the ionosphere for scientific purposes, converser with the dead, and his plans for the emerging science of free energy.

The film begins with his mysterious death in a NYC hotel in 1943, where the impoverished inventor wasn’t found until three days after his death. It left open the possibility that the Nazis had something to do with it. All his NYC notes were stolen, only his ashes were preserved for a museum in Belgrade.

A flashback takes us back to Tesla’s entry in 1884 as a young man in the United States arriving from Paris with four cents in his pocket, and his visit with the arrogantly tyrannical Thomas Edison in his lab. Edison hired Tesla but is hostile to his idea of alternating-current and rigidly defends his direct-current, already in use but soon to be proven inferior to Tesla’s discovery which was used to light the World Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. Through his contact with Edison, the workaholic bachelor met lifetime friends Catherine and Bob Johnson–the editor of Century Magazine. He soon came to the attention of George Westinghouse, founder of the Westinghouse Electric Company, and will sign a contract with him for $10 million as Westinghouse buys his patent for alternating-current. When Westinghouse was being squeezed by Edison and General Electric, Tesla tore up his contract to save Westinghouse’s hide all because he felt honored that Westinghouse believed in his work. In 1900, Tesla began construction on Long Island of a wireless broadcasting tower. The project was funded with $150,000 capital from financier J. Pierpont Morgan (Orson Welles), but the project was abandoned when Morgan withdrew his financial support. Not interested in money Tesla worked to bring a clean and free energy source to the world, but was sabotaged by tycoon J.P. Morgan who was afraid that Tesla might actually have invented a way to give the world a free energy source. In Tesla’s later years he wasn’t able to find anyone to finance his projects and died with his ideas remaining on the drawing board.

Many stole from the non-competitive Tesla, including Marconi who took credit for inventing the radio from ideas he stole while allowed full access to Tesla’s lab. Tesla was also known for his eccentric behavior, refusing to shake hands with anyone and washing his hands frequently.

1.60GB | 1 h 44 min | 704×528 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0BF400DD5DF3971/The.Secret.of.Nikola.Tesla.1980.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):English, Serbian
Subtitles:English hardsubbed for Serbian dialogue

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