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A 1972 crime film directed by Steno and starring Enrico Maria Salerno. Set during Italy’s tumultuous anni di piombo (“Years of Lead”), the film obtained a great commercial success.

Italian film historian Roberto Curti stated that many critics have consider Execution Squad to be the initiator of the “poliziottesco” film genre. Curti opined that Execution Squad was just a logical continuation of Damiano Damiani’s Confessions of a Police Captain.

The film is credited to Stefano Vanzina, the first time in his career that Vanzina had abandoned his usual credit of Steno which he had used since 1949. The film is also a drastic change from Steno’s usual output which consisted primarily of comedy films.

Commissioner Bertone is an upright officer in a Rome over-run by crime. Due to a justice system which protects the rights of suspects and citizens against the police, many crimes go unpunished with convictions not being obtained the criminals ending up back on the streets. However, some of the released criminals turn up dead. Bertone discovers an organized group of vigilantes are dealing with the criminals the police cannot obtain convictions for.

A young criminal on the run after a bungled robbery costs the lives of two citizens is the syndicate’s next victim, followed by an older criminal. The vigilantes start to target prostitutes and homosexuals active on the streets at night, as well as a trade union leader who was accused of killing a policeman during a riot, and even a criminal in custody. Bertone tries to bring the second kid involved in the robbery to justice legally, but the self-appointed executioners are closing in and his own officers are sympathetic to the ‘clean up squad’.

La.polizia.ringrazia.1972.BDRip-AVC.mkv

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Language(s):Italian, English
Subtitles:Russian, English

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A young woman’s life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.

Die.verlorene.Ehre.der.Katharina.Blum.AKA.The.Lost.Honor.of.Katharina.Blum.1975.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, French, German

The post Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta – Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum AKA The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In a deserted mining town at the end of nowhere three desperate men fight over a suitcase full of cash.

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Plot
Jakob Windisch has written THE number one bestselling novel. Since he is very shy, no-one has seen him except Uhu Zigeuner who is the designated director of the film adaption. Zigeuner is on the hunt for the woman of his dreams, a woman who should also play the main role in the film. Meanwhile, ruthless producer Oskar Reiter wants to buy the film rights at all costs – and he is struggling for the love of the beautiful Valerie. These and a lot more egos meet every night in a restaurant called “Rossini” where everybody must go so that everybody else sees them.

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The post Helmut Dietl – Rossini (1997) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he’s the wrong man. When the pimp’s wife and daughter are murdered in the course of the “manhunt”, he swears revenge on everyone who had anything to do with it.

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The post Fernando Di Leo – La Mala ordina AKA Manhunt (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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During the closing months of the Second World War, two small-town German women discover some money in an attic and decide to spend it on a trip to Vienna.

1.30GB | 1h 40m | 1024×576 | mkv

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Language(s):German
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The post Edgar Reitz – Die Reise nach Wien (1973) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A documentary short film by Ferdinand Khittl on Munich’s 800th anniversary.

Ferdinand Khittl was born on the 20th of January, 1924, in Frantikovy Lázně, Czechoslovakia. As a ship’s boy he signed on for a training vessel and for six years until 1945 he was a sailor with the merchant marine. After his release from two years as a POW in Italy he tried his hand at various professions (labourer, bricklayer, poultry-breeder, barman and baker) and first came in contact with the film business in 1951, when a friendship with a cinema owner led to a job as the representative of a film rental agency. Between 1952 and 1955 he worked as a trainee in Robert Sandner’s Olympia-Film company and became a cutter for Luis Trenker. From 1955 on, he directed cultural, documentary and industrial films, most of which, from 1958, were produced by the Gesellschaft für Bildende Filme (Educational Film Company) (GBF) and won many prizes. On the 28th of February, 1962, during a press conference at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Khittl read out the “Oberhausen Manifesto,” which marked the beginning of the New German Cinema. Die Parallelstrasse (The Parallel Street) remained Khittl’s only full-length narrative feature film. At the end of the 1960s he founded his own production company, but his own first film for it, Die Vergangenheit der Zukunft ist heute (The Past of the Future Is Now), an assignment for Bayer, was never distributed. In 1968, as head of a preparatory group responsible for audio-visual media, he worked out a concept for the organising committee of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, which was, however, not accepted: 90 famous directors would each make a five-minute film about the Munich Olympics, of which the best would be put together for an entire evening’s entertainment. According to the magazine “Der Spiegel” (23rd of August, 1971) Khittl wanted to engage Heinz Rühmann to play a janitor who would act as commentator of the Olympics. Following a trip to Asia, Khittl became seriously and protractedly ill, leading to his death on the 28th of February, 1976, in a Munich hospital. (Stefan Drösslerl)

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