Volodymyr Denysenko’s searing partisan drama is a neglected masterpiece of Soviet Ukrainian cinema. Recounting a partisan attack on a Nazi officer and the brutal recriminations that follow, Vasyl Zemliak’s quasi-autobiographical script draws on his own experiences in occupied rural Ukraine during World War Two. Denysenko renders Zemliak’s existentialist drama of conviction and sacrifice in starkly poetic visuals, accompanied by the discordant score of Krzysztof Penderecki. Conscience was shot as a diploma project in an effort to evade the censors, but was still denied a release and only screened in 1989. Reminiscent of Larisa Shepitko’s The Ascent, it is less celebrated than its contemporaries in the Ukrainian “poetic cinema” movement, but remains a clarion call of anti-war filmmaking.

Volodymyr Denysenko - Sovist [1968].mkv
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https://nitro.download/view/5DE0E718980FAD2/Volodymyr_Denysenko_-_Sovist__1968_.mkv

Language(s):Ukranian, German
Subtitles:English

Many thanks to Art for the this copy.

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A wartime melodrama shot through with the folkloric magic and vivid imagination that defined Ukraine’s so-called “poetic cinema” of the 1960s. In the dark days of Nazi occupation, a young girl native to the Carpathian mountains falls in love with a wounded Soviet partisan. Their affair sets in motion a tragic chain of events, as her family turns against her with shocking results. Borys Ivchenko’s roving camera and the striking performances of Lyubov Rumyantseva, Grigore Grigoriu, and Ukrainian screen icon Ivan Mykolaichuk make this an classic of Ukrainian cinema.

	
Annychka 1968 1080p WEB-DL AAC 2.0 x264-NDD.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/8C561B55C7899FB/Annychka_1968_1080p_WEB-DL_AAC_2.0_x264-NDD.mkv

Language(s):Ukranian
Subtitles:English, Russian

The post Boris Ivchenko – Annychka (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The story of a five year old little rebellious girl Vitka with her teenage cousin Larysa and her boyfriend, the young criminal Scar unfolds in a Ukrainian provincial setting. Larysa finds herself at a crossroads after the death of her father. Yearning to be self made, the village community ostracizes her for loving Scar. Larysa discovers her grandmother once sacrificed her love for a young gypsy abandoning him for traditional values and other people’s opinions. Larysa’s mother is too psychologically weak to support her daughter. Larysa and Scar plan to escape from a life of crime, misery and their relatives. But are they ready to pay the full price for freedom?

1.90GB | 1h 28mn | 1920×804 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7F9C7DCF8009788/When.the.trees.fall._Koly.padayut.dereva_.2018.Marysia.Nikitiuk.1080p.WEBRip.AAC.x264._opt.esp.sub_.RIYE.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/0A46487D3506FB0/When.the.trees.fall._Koly.padayut.dereva_.2018.Marysia.Nikitiuk.1080p.WEBRip.AAC.x264._opt.esp.sub_.RIYE.srt

Language:Ukranian
Subtitles:Spanish (muxed),English

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