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Dominik Graf – Im Angesicht des Verbrechens aka In Face of the Crime (2010)

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Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (2010)

“In this epic-scale saga of life on both sides of the law, Max Riemelt plays Marek Grosky, a Russian Jew who immigrated to Germany in the 1920s. Grosky is one of a large number of Russians who have fled their homeland and settled in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. While Marek has become a police officer in Berlin, his sister Stella (Marie Baumer) is married to a high-ranking crime chieftain, and the cop finds himself caught between two worlds, torn between his devotion to duty and his ties to his family. As a war rages between criminal factions in Charlottenburg, Marek witnesses the death of his brother and falls for a Ukrainian woman who has been brought to Germany to work as a prostitute. Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (aka In Face Of The Crime) was originally created as a ten-part series for German television; it was later re-edited into a pair of feature-length films which were screened as part of the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival. “
by Mark Deming

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, German hard-subs for the non-german parts

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Oskar Roehler – Der Alte Affe Angst (2003)

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hypersquared wrote:
You know you’re in for a ride with this picture from the opening moments. Roehler drops us smack in the middle of a blowout argument between a young couple whose sex life is on the skids. The fight is at that fever pitch where the woman is crying almost convulsively, and where each of them is beginning to lose their grip on saying sensible things and are on the verge of cheap shots and unhelpful attempts at humor. The scene is tangible and familiar to anyone who’s ever grappled with a fraying relationship, and, with a shocking abruptness, we’re immediately in the reality of Robert and Marie.

For 95 minutes that reality never wanes, and in fact expands to involve Robert’s deathly ill father and Marie’s previous attempts at suicide. There are a lot of movies about messed-up middle class couples. What makes “Angst” special is that, as messed-up as they are, Robert and Marie’s reality is not uniformly bleak. There are moments of delirious joy between them, and we have to take them at their word that these are moments that only occur when they are with each other. And like any of us, they have to figure out if they can live with the devil’s bargain: take the joy, and deal with the enormous fears that come with it.

Marie Baeumer’s a complex and deeply honest performance. She has what Martin Scorsese calls the ability to wage full wars on her face (although he was talking about classic, male movie stars when he said it). Her slightest expression shows the depth of both her affection and her contempt for Robert. For his part, Andre Hennicke plays Robert brilliantly. He’s as panicked over his own impulsive behavior as he is lovestruck for Marie.

In the Q&A at the AFI Fest, Roehler described his shooting process as being more theatrical than cinematic, which would go some length in explaining how he got such fantastic work from his actors, but he doesn’t give himself enough credit. He has a magnificent cinematic sense, one that had me thinking of Kieslowski and Tarkovsky throughout (and not just because of a blatant reference to “Solaris”). It is one of the most psychologically intelligent films I’ve seen in a good long time, but it’s also just a damn good movie.

One which, by the way does not have an American distributor, which is a goddamned crime! Of course, the suits are probably terrified by the level of nudity, both male and female, in the picture, and a few very graphic sexual moments. There’s no question it’s an NC-17 picture, but it would also get killer reviews and do serious art house business. The fact that a film like this has any trouble at all finding distribution in this country is all the evidence needed to indicate how culturally ass-backwards we have become.

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Language(s):German
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Paolo and Vittorio Taviani – Resurrezione aka Résurrection [Italian audio] (2001)

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At the end of the XIX century in Russia, Prince Dimitri Necklivdov is called as a jury-man in a trial. The defendant is Katiuscia Maslova, accused of murdering a merchant in order to rob him. Dimitri recognizes Katiuscia: she was the girl he seduced many years before. Dimitri decides to save her.(imdb)

2.53GB | 3h 04mn | 688×368 | avi

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https://nitro.download/view/3B7ABFB7C8FEA95/FRE.srt.rar

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:French

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