A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.

1.77GB | 1h 39mn | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/FCAD922F228C176/Russkiy.Kovcheg.AKA.Russian.Ark.2002.576p.BDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis
In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun (Yelena Rufanova) is alone, when Adolf Hitler (Leonid
Mozgovoy) arrives with Dr. Josef Goebbels (Leonid Sokol) and his wife Magda Goebbels
(Yelena Spiridonova) and Martin Bormann (Vladimir Bogdanov) to spend a couple of
days without talking politics.

2.05GB | 1h 43m | 763×458 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/9232FF2CC89F058/Molokh_(aka_Moloch)_(1999-DVD-x264).mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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Quote:
“If ever a film replicated the state of dreaming, Stone does. Which is not to say it is, in the classical sense, surreal; but it has the flow and fugitive feeling of a half-remembered reverie, full of mysteries, portents, inexplicable happenings, and chimerical objects. Set in (and filmed in the actual) Chekhov museum, Stone centers on the relationship between a young museum guard and an older visitor who seems at different times to be a lover, a doctor, or a surrogate father. Shot in evanescent black and white with a sound track of silences, breathing, natural sounds, and fragments of classical music, Stone is haunting and enigmatic” (James Quandt)

1.30GB | 1 h 18 min | 716×537 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F660D51DA93ECAE/Kamen.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/C4EAD6477B96A77/Stone.rar

Language(s):Russian, English commentary, English BBC audio program (30 minutes)
Subtitles:English sub/idx

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Based on the novel of the same title by the Strugatsky brothers

“Konstantin Lopushansky was a student of classic Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, and master’s influence is highly visible in “The Ugly Swans” — not just as a ghost in the background, but as full-fledged foreground presence. Which is not to deny Lopushansky his originality. More than anything, it’s a sign of a certain artistic style being handed down over the generations… The film is …aesthetically outstanding and emotionally moody in a way that’s very hard to gauge… Tarkovsky would have been proud.” (Tom Birchenough, “The Moscow Times”)

Synopsis

Victor Banev, a Russian writer now living in America, is seeking his daughter, Ira, in the expanse of his former homeland. Banev’s ultimate destination is a remote Siberian town of Tashlinsk, where military forces are now in control after some sort of unexplained catastrophe.
In a city of Tashlinsk, mysterious circumstances have led to non-stop rainfall and the appearance of eerie characters called ‘mokretsy’ (the Wet Ones, or “Aquatters”), who are either aliens or mutants, and who generate a special energy barrier to protect themselves from or to prevent communication with undesirable human specimens.
The mokretsy appeal to gifted children who in the past had been in a special boarding school in Tashlinsk. And amongst them is Victor Banev’s daughter. Under the keen supervision of the mokretsy, the gifted kids are gradually transformed into a cadre of twisted mental geniuses with seemingly no humanity, no attachments or sentimentalities. And if indeed “Truth comes from the mouths of babes…”, what we, mere mortals, should do if we simply cannot accept this Truth? …And so, the confrontation unfolds.

The imagery of light, sound, and plasticity is exquisite. The scenery is eerily lit in dominating red tints as the rain pours down everywhere, the entire time. The brilliant musical score, recorded before the shooting to inspire the makers, comes from Andrei Sigle, Alexander Sokurov’s regular composer.

IMHO…
It is not a thriller. It is not an ecological warning.
Some may find it visionary, others infuriating.
It is philosophical sci-fi, highly atmospheric and beautiful, created in the best arthouse tradition.

http://nitroflare.com/view/F4A8F96517BCCE8/Gadkie.lebedi.avi

Language:Russian
Subtitles:English build-in subtitles

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