Synopsis from the Siskel Film Center:
“Circa 1920, a young Red Army officer with a keen enthusiasm to launch his native village into the modern age issues a decree that women are to abandon Islamic garb and drop their veils. A 14-year-old girl takes the first step with tragic and unforeseen consequences, and yet the officer continues to pressure his reluctant wife to lead the other women into compliance, a move that will throw the village into revolt. Co-written by Andrei Konchalovsy, WITHOUT FEAR sensitively portrays the dilemma of an ancient culture in conflict with an alien bureaucracy.”

Kent Jones wrote of the film:
“Anyone interested in the Brechtian idea of the social gestus should study Khamraev’s ferocious 1972 masterpiece Without Fear, which deals with the Soviet modernization of a Muslim village in 1927 and the shock waves caused by the sight of unveiled women. Khamraev’s bravura talent isolates just the right gestures, merging the physical, the visual, and the dramatic with perfect precision.”

Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Duration : 1h 29mn
Bit rate : 912 Kbps
Width : 684 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.425
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 59.940 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.046
Stream size : 585 MiB (86%)

https://nitro.download/view/3DDFA32BB606C6A/WITHOUT_FEAR_-_Directed_by_Ali_Khamraev.avi

Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:None

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A romance film directed by Elyer Ishmukhamedov, starring Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Rustam Sagdullayev, Gyuzal Apanayeva, and Karen Khachaturyan.

1.44GB | 1h 21mn | 775×436 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D7E62B8CD05FB25/Vlyublyonnye_-_E._Ishmukhamedov_(1970).mkv

Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English, Russian

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