Synopsis: Professor Ferlach and his daughter Helga undertake an expedition to Ceylon to look for a statue of Buddha with a priceless ruby set on its forehead. They believe the statue is still intact in a temple that disappeared after a massive earthquake…

Das.Todesauge.von.Ceylon.1963.DVDRip.x264.AC3-KG.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 22mn
Size: 	1.15 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	720x432 ~> 1036x432
Aspect ratio:  	2.40:1
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 800 Kbps
BPP: 	0.241
Audio
#1:  	German 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/F564F5AA3A615B2/Das.Todesauge.von.Ceylon.1963.DVDRip.x264.AC3-KG.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/640715E860D1359/Das.Todesauge.von.Ceylon.1963.DVDRip.x264.AC3-KG.v2.0.srt

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

The post Gerd Oswald & Giovanni Roccardi – Das Todesauge von Ceylon AKA Scarlet Eye AKA Storm Over Ceylon (1963) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

La ragazza in vetrina was supposed to be a turning point in Emmer’s cinema but it went on to become a cursed film. In accordance with the evolution of Italian cinema, the director chose a story by Rodolfo Sonego which combines a tough theme, Italian migrants working in Dutch and Belgian mines (the tragedy in Marcinelle, near Charleroi, which left 262 dead, half of which were Italian, took place only four years earlier), with a raunchy one, about the red light district in Amsterdam. It combines his love of wandering and the sketch with a harsh new gaze, bolstered by the black-and-white cinematography of Otello Martelli, fresh from La dolce vita. The first half-hour of the film depicts the difficult lives of the miners; then it concentrates on two characters, one timid, the other self-confident, but both lonely and unhappy, as they meet two prostitutes. The unity of time and the idea of the voyage involving impossible encounters (Domenica d’agosto, Parigi è sempre Parigi) now takes on a documentary flavour and a deep bitterness. However, the film was blocked by the Italian censor, who held it up for months before finally issuing a 16 rating, after eliminating one scene considered too raunchy. Nevertheless, many felt that the censor’s real target was actually the description of the working conditions faced by Italian emigrants. Embittered by the experience, Emmer dedicated himself to Tv advertising until 1990. The full-length Italian version was only restored forty years after its release.

Emiliano Morreale

Given that there were no hotels in the region [of Marcinelle], I slept on a camp bed, a guest in a miners’ hut. One day, a handsome young man from the province of Padova, a sort of young Vincenzoni, arrived at the hut and began telling me about the girls in the windows in Amsterdam. He was going out with one of these prostitutes, who had Sundays off. He would go to collect her on Saturday evening and they would spend the weekend going around the little hotels along the canals that fed into the ocean, celebrating with caviar and champagne.

Naturally I asked him how on earth he had so much money and he told me that there were certain mine shafts that, statistically, were prone to explode every ten-twelve years […] and the teams that accepted to work in them were paid as much as five times the usual rate. So, every Saturday this Italian minor, who didn’t have a wife in Padova to whom he could send a money order, found himself with all this money to spend with his woman in the window.

Following this meeting, I naturally decided to base the film entirely around this character. I drew up a story outline about twenty-five pages in length, which Pasolini came across in the producer’s office. Fascinated by the idea of the contrast between these Mediterranean lads and these porcelain dolls all made up under the lights of the shop windows, he called me. He wanted at all costs to write the screenplay, and that is what he did. “It’s beautiful. I don’t care if they don’t pay us anything for it.”

Rodolfo Sonego in Il cervello di Alberto Sordi. Rodolfo Sonego e il suo cinema, edited by Tatti Sanguineti, Adelphi, Milano 2015

This film brought me back to arthouse productions, which I had always preferred. It shows the hardship of immigrants of all origins working the mines, the slavish existence of girls for hire displayed like consumer goods, and the improbable dream of a young miner who wants to save a girl from the strange double life she admits to leading. The locations are stunning: a shoreline, a tiny house, a landscape that seems larger than life in the eye of Martelli’s camera. The performances were perfect: Lino Ventura, who shows with this part, at last, his humanity; Magali Noël, sparkling with life and wit; Bernard Fresson, astonishingly right for a first-time part. My own character’s inner violence allowed me to show an equivocal and unsettling aspect of my being that had been ignored and ill-used for years.

Marina Vlady, 24 images/seconde, Fayard, Paris 2005

Luciano_Emmer_-_La_Ragazza_In_Vetrina__1961_.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 31 min
Size: 	6.31 GiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1792x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	5:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	10 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.215
Audio
#1:  	Italian 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/F9AC303E55C8CAE/Luciano_Emmer_-_La_Ragazza_In_Vetrina__1961_.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/3227AC44A3BE105/Luciano_Emmer_-_La_Ragazza_In_Vetrina__1961_.EN.srt
https://nitro.download/view/A6D0D315A3BDDA9/Luciano_Emmer_-_La_Ragazza_In_Vetrina__1961_.ES.srt

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English, Spanish

The post Luciano Emmer – La ragazza in vetrina AKA Woman in the Window (1961) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
A country road glimpsed through a dirty windscreen… a mangled car wreck on a garage forecourt…Volonté blowing up an inflatable coat hanger and reminding his assistant that ‘it’s the details that count’. And so they clearly do in Goretta’s film, although quite what they add up to is never sharply defined. A crippled TV journalist (Volonté) arrives in a Swiss village to interview a specialist in world food shortages disillusioned by the non-application of his theories. But he soon becomes embroiled in a web of local intrigue resulting from the death of a young immigrant worker. Goretta counterpoints his two stories with deft assurance, letting them strike subdued ironies off one another; there are thematic strands galore here, clearly signposted but seemingly left deliberately smudged. Yet there is no shortage of delights either: fine atmospherics, immaculately fluid camerawork, and a towering performance from Volonté, sympathy and disdain flickering back and forth across those marvellously expressive features.

La.mort.de.Mario.Ricci.1983.VFF.HDTV.1080p.H264.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 36 min
Size: 	4.13 GiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	6 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.116
Audio
#1:  	French 2.0ch AAC LC @ 128 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/A870BF555C74550/La.mort.de.Mario.Ricci.1983.VFF.HDTV.1080p.H264.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, Russian (muxed)

The post Claude Goretta – La Mort de Mario Ricci AKA The Death of Mario Ricci (1983) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Life and loves of a theatre inside and outside the stage. The troup is playing Les noces de Figaro.

	
Christine Laurent - (1985) Vertiges.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 49mn
Size: 	754 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	640x352 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	800 Kbps
BPP: 	0.142
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC

https://nitro.download/view/48796A833934BCD/Christine_Laurent_-_(1985)_Vertiges.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

The post Christine Laurent – Vertiges (1985) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

PLOT SYNOPSIS:
A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico (Lino Ventura) and Vincenzo (Bernard Fresson) take off together for the city’s red-light district, where the women pose in windows for prospective customers. There the duo meet Else (Marina Vlady) and Carrel (Magali Noel) who are willing to leave their windows to spend a weekend at a resort with the two men. Soon Else has fallen in love with Vincenzo and the future of the two hookers, as well as the miners, seems to look brighter.
(Allmovie)

1.17GB | 1h 28m | 688×368 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/514DC3E762701F0/La_ragazza_in_vetrina_(1961).avi https://nitro.download/view/87EA8C13C445775/Interview_with_Emmer.avi
https://nitro.download/view/0848B2D90F142BC/La_ragazza_in_vetrina_(1961).Eng.srt
https://nitro.download/view/6EFD1AB2607395F/La_ragazza_in_vetrina_(1961).idx
https://nitro.download/view/6E9A65526F7C166/La_ragazza_in_vetrina_(1961).sub

Language(s):Italian,French
Subtitles:French idx/sub,English

The post Luciano Emmer – La ragazza in vetrina AKA La Fille dans la vitrine [+Extras] (1961) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Federico Fellini returned to the provincial landscape of his childhood with this carnivalesque reminiscence, recreating his hometown of Rimini in Cinecittà’s studios and rendering its daily life as a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge. Sketching a gallery of warmly observed comic caricatures, Fellini affectionately evokes a vanished world haloed with the glow of memory, even as he sends up authority figures representing church and state, satirizing a country stultified by Fascism. Winner of Fellini’s fourth Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Amarcord remains one of the director’s best-loved creations, beautifully weaving together Giuseppe Rottuno’s colorful cinematography, Danilo Donati’s extravagant costumes and sets, and Nino Rota’s nostalgia-tinged score.

3.29GB | 2h 05m | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/90975C5F4C05241/Federico_Fellini_-_(1973)_Amarcord.mkv

Language:Italian
Subtitles:English

The post Federico Fellini – Amarcord (1973) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Surprised by a burglar (Michel Serrault), the doleful Philippe (Jean Poiret) regains his composure, then asks the thief for his assistance. It seems that Philippe wants to commit suicide but hasn’t the nerve to pull off the deed himself. In flashback, Philippe recounts the events that led up to this critical and anxious moment. As it turns out, our “hero” is a bigger criminal, both actual and moral, than the nonplused burglar could ever be.

1.24GB | 1h 20mn | 762×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/3434738779BFF77/Murderers_and_Thieves_AKA_Assassins_et_voleurs_-_1957_-_Sacha_Guitry.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post Sacha Guitry – Assassins et voleurs AKA Murderers and Thieves (1956) first appeared on Cinema of the World.