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Memories and desires of the residents of a Pest apartment block condemned to be demolished swirl through this film by István Szabó. For the director in his thirties, the 1970s was the age of discovery; this work is an experiment at adapting the Modernist stream of conscious film genre for a Hungarian audience. The struggle of the individual against history is a recurring Szabó theme, which in this movie he takes closest to the limits of the narrative form.

2.90GB | 1h 30m | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E17727F53AE88EF/25.Fireman’s.Street.1973.1080p.WEB-DL.H264.AAC-PTerWEB..mkv

Language(s):Hungarian
Subtitles:English

The post István Szabó – Tüzoltó utca 25. AKA 25 Fireman’s Street (1973) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Polish filmmaker Jerzy Kawalerowicz, who helped define the Polish School of the 1950s and 1960s with Andrzej Wajda, offers a melancholy meditation on the impact of WWII and the Holocaust.Roza and Juliusz marry just before the outbreak of WWII in Poland. When Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp, Roza fears the worst. Convinced he will never return, she falls in love with another man and starts a new life. When Juliusz returns after the war, Roza reluctantly tries to care for him but her life has changed and his scars are too deep. (-Polart)

1.35GB | 1h 25m | 688×478 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/C5EA48F707F6772/Prawdziwy.koniec.wielkiej.wojny.1957.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv
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https://fikper.com/FR4LSsnuoE/Prawdziwy.koniec.wielkiej.wojny.1957.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv.html

Language:Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny AKA Real End of the Great War (1957) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In the seventeenth century, Father Suryn arrives in Ludyn, a village on what was then the eastern border of Poland, to perform exorcisms on the Ursuline nuns who are allegedly possessed by the devil. While trying to drive evil spirits out of the body of the prioress, Mother Joan, Father Suryn starts experiencing uncomfortably secular and sensual feelings towards her.

One of the most celebrated achievements of the Polish Film School, this is not a war drama like Andrzej Wajda’s Kanal or Andrzej Munk’s Eroica but a religious and psychological study. Screenwriters Tadeusz Konwicki and Jerzy Kawalerowicz, the latter also directing the film, took a novella by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz and retold the famous narrative of the possessed nuns in the French monastery of Loudun by transferring it to 17th century Poland and emphasizing its universal dimension.

This universality on screen is accentuated by the film’s ascetic form, achieved by limiting the set design to just a few sacred and secular buildings, situated in a desert landscape. The black and white images by cinematographer Jerzy Wójcik are dominated by shades of grey, symbolising the ambiguity of reality. Mother Joan of the Angels is a masterfully executed film, with outstanding acting by Lucyna Winnicka and Mieczyslaw Voit, whose characters touch on many problems. The clash between religious dogma and human nature is only one of them.

1.80GB | 1 h 49 min | 756×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8F11FA8FE90F54E/Mother.Joan.of.the.Angels.1961.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Matka Joanna od aniolów AKA Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Two strangers, Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) and Marta (Lucyna Winnicka), accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. While handsome, well dressed and rather laconic, Jerzy seems ill at ease, while Marta is not talkative and would prefer to be alone. Staszek (Zbigniew Cybulski) is a student and Marta’s spurned lover, and will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit. [spoiler removed from quote]

This is a more amorphous and ambiguous tale than other contemporary films of the Polish School, and Night Train seems to lack the direct references to recent history and the contemporary political situation of the Poland of the 1950s that are a hallmark of the style. However, the Hitchcockian atmosphere, the unimaginably tight shots and the overall sense of claustrophobia and dread evoke the sense of disappointment following in the wake of 1956 and the end of the ‘Polish Spring’. All of Kawalerowicz’s films deal with individual fate in a society being crushed by overwhelming external forces, whether war or politics, in an attempt to examine moral choice under pressure. Night Train is no exception, only here he has created an allegory of misfits among a society of passengers, a society that is predictable, suspicious of individuality, and eager to punish. All of Poland escaping though the night to the end of the line. Ironically, the film may represent in its way the end of the Polish School as well.

https://nitro.download/view/F5CB25AF0281EB4/Jerzy_Kawalerowicz_-_(1959)_Night_Train.mkv

Language(s):Polish
Subtitles:English, French

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