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In this intriguing experiment, four Austrian filmmakers (Barbara Albert, Michael Glawogger, Ulrich Seidl, Michael Sturminger) take their cameras to the streets to find out what’s going on in their country, most notably why in the last election the country elected a far-right candidate (Jörg Haider) to the presidency. The film is divided into six documentary segments of varying lengths, capturing the rhythms of life around the country.

Zur.Lage.Oesterreich.in.6.Kapiteln.Xvid.KG-stahl.avi

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Runtime: 	1h 24mn
Size: 	706 MiB
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https://nitro.download/view/0F9933966241B10/Zur.Lage.Oesterreich.in.6.Kapiteln.Xvid.KG-stahl.avi
https://nitro.download/view/15BE2281B6BFB59/ZurLagePROOFREAD.srt

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https://rapidgator.net/file/214a4a506b938622eafcb9d9042624b3/ZurLagePROOFREAD.srt

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

The post Ulrich Seidl, Barbara Albert, Michael Glawogger, Michael Sturminger – Zur Lage: Österreich in sechs Kapiteln AKA State of the Nation: Austria in Six Chapters (2002) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
“I want to give a view of the world that can only emerge by not pursuing any particular theme, by refraining from passing judgment, proceeding without aim. Drifting with no direction except one’s own curiosity and intuition.” (Michael Glawogger) More than two years after the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, film editor Monika Willi realizes a film out of the film footage produced during 4 months and 19 days of shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa. A journey into the world to observe, listen and experience, the eye attentive, courageous and raw. Serendipity is the concept – in shooting as well as in editing the film.

Untitled.2017.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-ZTR.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 42 min
Size: 	3.73 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
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Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
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https://nitro.download/view/182900F161E4B3C/Untitled.2017.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-ZTR.mkv

Language(s):German, English
Subtitles:English(Soft for non-English parts)

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“Wim Wenders was bitten by the 3D bug when he made his 2011 dance docu, “Pina,” and he expands the possibilities of the format still further with “Cathedrals of Culture.” Giving all new meaning to the expression “if these walls could talk,” this conceptual six-part omnibus invites half a dozen international helmers to imagine the personalities of various cultural institutions, lending voices to their unique designs while allowing cameras to explore the buildings’ unique architectural features in all their multidimensional glory. Such an overlong and only intermittently absorbing project wouldn’t suffer in the slightest if broken up across several nights for non-3D arts TV, where the otherwise taxing presentation will likely find its broadest audience.

If Walt Disney can delight children by making forest animals talk, who’s to stop Wenders from entertaining adults by anthropomorphizing six of the world’s most magnificent modern structures? The German director kicks off the experience by tackling the Berlin Philharmonic, whose radical design — which placed the orchestra at the center of an abstract gold-paneled building — has spawned iconoclastic imitators as far away as Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Wenders’ installment is the most conventional of the lot, offering viewers access to secret corners and reflective rooftops that no tour would provide. Indeed, only the maintenance crew sees much of what Wenders shows, and it is through a janitor’s eyes that much of the segment unfolds, while the orchestra warms up Debussy’s “Jeux” down below.

Next, Michael Glawogger takes us to the National Library of Russia, circling the stacks as clerks carry leather-bound treasures to and from the shelves (which are said to hold two copies of every important book) or leaf through the pages of beautifully illustrated old volumes. The segment is narrated by a female voice representing the collective cultural heritage housed within, quoting freely from the whole of Russian literature.

In the “which of these is not like the others” segment, Danish docu director Michael Madsen (not to be confused with the American character actor) decides to profile a Norwegian jail designed to provide the most humane form of incarceration, where the cells put convicts in direct contact with the natural world. While it’s not immediately clear how Halden Prison fits the “Cathedrals of Culture” concept, the resulting half-hour is far and away the pic’s most fascinating, partly because it seems equally interested in the prisoners themselves. Humans, after all, prove infinitely more compelling than the esoteric “souls” of buildings.

Collaborating with cinematographer Ed Lachman, Robert Redford contends with the rigid geometry of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., revealing a research facility that feels more like an abandoned alien temple, seemingly better suited for meditation than for rigorous scientific discovery. The segment feels similarly torn in its approach, blending trancelike music by Moby with highly specific snatches of explanation as to the structure’s intended purpose, lifted from interviews with Salk, architect Louis Kahn and others.

Redford’s entry grows somewhat repetitive after a point, an impression that carries through to the next installment, considering how similar Margreth Olin’s treatment of the Oslo Opera House seems to Wenders’ opening salvo. Narrating the segment herself, Olin muses about the visitors reflected in the building’s gleaming windows, contrasting these culture-seekers with the junkies and homeless persons that once populated the neighborhood. The voiceover sounds naive, and yet probes at how an institution can transform its surroundings in fascinating philosophical ways.

The project wraps with Brazilian director Karim Ainouz’s young, free-spirited look at Paris’ Centre Pompidou, asking playful questions about what designers Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers had in mind when designing this strange candy-colored power station of a building, which could pass for a Bond villain’s lair but actually houses galleries, screens and stages full of art and ideas. Ainouz’s entry feels the most personal, as if the director is remembering the building, rather than discovering it for the first time.

Wenders has hardly invented the idea of using 3D to interact with architectural spaces. In fact, the idea for this omnibus arose after the director contributed a short called “If Buildings Could Talk” to the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2010, and similar techniques have since been used in 3D Imax movies and by Peter Greenaway for his relatively inelegant segment in the “3x3D” portmanteau film. While there are no masterpieces among the six short films united here (each of which runs just shy of half an hour), the project does provide moments of beauty and brilliance along the way. If successful, the concept could be endlessly expanded to include other directors and the “cathedrals” of their choice.” – Variety

3.02GB | 2h 28m | 1021×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/5C1A850D6425AD9/Cathedrals_of_Culture.mkv

Language:English,German
Subtitles:English,German

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A handful of lackadaisical crooks are on a wild goose chase across Europe in this comedy. Carlos (Jeremy Strong) is an underworld kingpin who has lost a leather shoulder bag while traveling through Poland and wants it back, the sooner the better. Carlos orders one of his underlings, Harry (Detlev Buck), to find it, but Harry is too busy with his sexual fantasies about the good looking blonde that works at his car repair shop, so he calls up Schorsch (Georg Friedrich), a second-rate thief who resembles a down-market version of Edgar Winter, and hands the assignment over to him. Schorsch is ambivalent about the request, and tries to pass it along to Mao (Pia Hierzegger), who is the first person down this chain of criminal slackers who has a good reason for not looking for the bag — she’s busy looking after her daughter. The search for the bag finally falls to Max (Michael Ostrowski) and Hans (Raimund Wallisch), two guys who run a hot dog stand; Max also sells drugs on the side, while lightweight Hans gets high of the fumes from Max’s marijuana and eats a large percentage of their wares.

3.30GB | 1h 35m | 1280×544 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/03E1910DA81154A/Contact_High_-_2009_-_Michael_Glawogger.mkv

Language:German
Subtitles:English

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SYNOPSIS:
A film about news, life, love and death. Four days in Vienna, four days in world news.
At home children are born, the dead are washed, or people simply wait for the bus. At the same time television broadcasts very different images. A ferry sinks off the Philippines, Sadam Hussein decorates his soldiers with medals, and in Vienna a war breaks out that in reality never took place. With news reports from: Argentina, Austria, China, Cuba, Finland, France, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Irak, Italy, Japan, Libya, Luxemburg, Monaco, Poland, Senegal, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, West Germany, USA, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zambia.

1.76GB | 1h 22m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/62A28945CF25DC5/Krieg_in_Wien.mkv

Language(s):German, English
Subtitles:English for non english parts (muxed); German for non german parts (muxed)

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Three young pals plan to earn money by shooting an hardcore-porno movie. But is it really so easy to shoot some gang-banging with home-video equipment?

1.46GB | 1h 30m | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D1D9AE661209EA0/Michael_Glawogger_-_(2004)_Slugs.mkv

Language:German
Subtitles:English

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In the middle of Vienna stands an old tenement building, and time has left its mark both on the house and its inhabitants. Here, time passes at a strange pace. Floor by floor, the visitor can discover small self-contained worlds: grousers, collectors, the forgotten, people with obsessions, concealed and exposed passions. Behind securely locked doors, each prepares his own heady brew. Then, however, death makes its entrance for the first time, sweeping through the stairwell. The owner of the house, a resident himself, dies. His nephew, an entrepreneur, inherits the building and acts immediately. He moves out, takes up lodgings, hands out notice to quit, renovates and devastates. One goal hovers before his eyes; to get rid of the tenants and make money out of the property. Gradually, the closed doors begin to open, and with each outrage committed by the new owner, the residents are drawn closer together. What comes to light thereby is an anthill full of life, and once it opens up, a flood of comical individuals streams out of it, all fighting for their own living space. A minor official, plagued by persecution mania, fears a dreadful end to the matter. Though the signs he sees of this are all wrong, nevertheless, in a furious finale, the outside world descends upon the house and his inhabitants.

1.32GB | 1h 26m | 760×428 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/6E0387F04C26696/Michael_Glawogger_-_(1995)_Ant_Street.mkv

Language:German
Subtitles:English

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