Soviet melodrama based on a story by Alexander Pushkin.

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Vladimir is a young officer who settles in a small town. He falls for Maria, the pretty daughter of a widow from whom he rents a room. Neither are able to commit to each other until he is called away for active duty during the cold winter.

Metel (1964).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/2F5C93378829C37/metel.1964.ENG.04.srt
https://nitro.download/view/25681870B38110D/Metel_(1964).mkv

Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English

The post Vladimir Basov – Metel AKA The Blizzard (1965) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

684 MiB | 1 h 14 min | 720×544 | avi
https://nitro.download/view/9BC9F60D9EE6885/Ima_ljubavi_nema_ljubavi_(1968).avi

Language(s):Serbo-Croatian
Subtitles:none

The post Nikola Rajic – Ima ljubavi, nema ljubavi (1968) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Hagbard and Signe / The Red Mantle

By Roger Ebert / October 30, 1968
Prentoulis films presents an ASA Film Movie Art Europe co-production, directed by Gabriel Axel from a screenplay by himself and dialog by Frank Jaeger. Produced by Bent Christensen and Johan Bonnier. Photographer in color by Henning Bendtsen.

“Hagbard and Signe” is a beautiful, lean, spare film, which reaches back into the legends of the past to find its strength. I think it must be reckoned the sleeper of the year; I had not heard of it previously, either under the present title or as “The Red Mantle” (its title as the Danish entry at Cannes).

Director Gabriel Axel set his story in the year 1100 and shot entirely on location in Iceland to find the virgin landscapes of the middle ages. His experiment was a splendid success: From scenes of conflict, the camera often looks up to unbroken panoramas of mountains, ice, mist and tough green vegetation.

The plot has the simplicity of legend, as if it had been retold for many years until only the most important contours remained. The film involves three brothers who come to avenge their father’s death.

They fight the king’s three sons with sword and spear, but the match is a standoff, and at day’s end the king declares a truce. The brothers spend the night at his castle. One of them, Hagbard, falls in love with the king’s daughter, Signe, and she with him.

What follows has its roots in a dozen folk tales from as many lands; I would rather praise the marvelous craft of this film. There is a battle scene halfway through that is among the most perfect and brutal I have ever seen; it ranks with the battle in Orson Welles’ “Falstaff.”

In most battle scenes, we become aware that we are shown first one swordsman, then the other, but never both actually chopping at each other. Here, however, we are drawn right in to the heart of battle. Then there are the horses; enormous, muscular, slow, strong war-horses. Not since the short “Dreams of the Wild Horses” have horses been shown with such effect in film.

The actors are more than accomplished. The king and queen are played by Gunner Björnstrand and Eva Dahlbeck, two veteran members of Ingmar Bergman’s repertory company. The young lovers are physically and spiritually lovely: Gitte Hænning (Signe) is a greater beauty, in my eyes, than Pia Degermark of “Elvira Madigan.”

Two more things need to be said. The dialog is rare and sparse; for long passages, we hear nothing but natural sounds, and when the characters do speak they say only what is necessary. This helps to establish the film as legend; talking too much would only get us bogged down. The other thing that must be mentioned is the photography by Henning Bendtsen. He places us so firmly in the breathtaking lonely vastness of Iceland that we can believe only heroes could inhabit this land.

https://nitro.download/view/727F7ACD823BFEA/Den_rode_kappe_(1967,_Danish,_Gabriel_Axel).x264.TVrip.mkv
http://nitroflare.com/view/1866462341B9344/Den_r%C3%B8de_kappe_%281967%2C_Danish%2C_Gabriel_Axel%29.x264.TVrip.srt

Language(s):Danish
Subtitles:english

The post Gabriel Axel – Den røde kappe AKA Hagbard and Signe AKA The Red Mantle (1967) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A Japanese girl came to Moscow to learn the art of dance. The love of a Moscow sculptor, the victory in the final-year students competition brought a lot of happiness to Yuriko. However a sudden disease of blood, result of an atomic bombardment of her town, bursts into her life.

https://nitro.download/view/2DC460D8921F7BF/Moskva,_lyubov_moya_(1974).mkv

Language(s):Russian, Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Aleksandr Mitta & Kenji Yoshida – Moskva, lyubov moya AKA Moscow, My Love (1974) first appeared on Cinema of the World.