Synopsis
Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other. The siblings Christine and Stefan grew up separated from each other due to their parents’ divorce and have no knowledge of each other. Later in life they meet and enters into a relationship.(imdb)

Review
The children of two separated parents (the father lives in Barcelona, the mother in Germany) Stefano and Cristina Handenberger meet again after fifteen years apart (the young woman also lives in Spain). Stefano, who discovers in his sister – a beautiful girl – for the first time the woman and her charm, falls in love with her. Soon, Cristina – who in Barcelona is the lover of the mature Don Jaime – leaves again. After some time, her brother joins her, officially to visit his father, actually to find her. Although not insensitive to his caresses, Cristina resists him for a while, but at a later meeting (Stefano comes and goes from Germany several times) they are sexually united. Having left Don Jaime, who took back the apartment that he had given her and furnished, Cristina, while not ceasing to love her brother, became engaged to a young Spaniard. While this relationship also ended, Monique, whom she wanted to marry. For a few days, the three of them live together, then Cristina, who does not want to share her brother with Monique, who is sneaking off to an unknown destination.other and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.
(translated from RcD cinematógrafo.it)

Deine Zärtlichkeiten (Peter Schamoni, 1969).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 26 min
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Language(s):German
Subtitles:None

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Fritz Haarmann, aka the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover, was a German serial killer responsible for the murders of two dozen boys and young men during the so-called ‘years of crisis’ between the wars. His case would partly inspire Fritz Lang’s M, and its central character portrayed by Peter Lorre, as well as this forgotten gem from 1973.

Tenderness of the Wolves treats the viewer to a few weeks in the company of a killer. Baby-faced and shaven-headed, in a manner that recalls both M and F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, Haarmann is a fascinating, repulsive figure. Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, he dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight. This isn’t an easy film to watch, but it certainly gets under the skin…

Produced by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (who also supplies a shifty cameo), Tenderness of the Wolves provided two of his regular actors with a means of expanding their careers. Ulli Lommel – later responsible for the infamous video nasty The Boogeyman – made his directorial debut, while Kurt Raab wrote the screenplay as well as delivering an astonishing performance as Haarmann.

Ulli Lommel - (1973) Tenderness of the Wolves.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 22mn
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https://nitro.download/view/BC631769D31D85D/Ulli_Lommel_-_(1973)_Tenderness_of_the_Wolves.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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The B.T.K. killer harasses a news reporter with threatening letters as he ponders about the murders he committed 30 years ago.

B.T.K.Killer.2005.x264.DVDRip.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 21mn
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https://nitro.download/view/0C54B75931052BE/B.T.K.Killer.2005.x264.DVDRip.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English,Spanish

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Genre guru Ulli Lommel (THE BOOGEYMAN, BTK KILLER) directs this horror film about the infamous Zodiac killer. Though decades have passed since the multiple murderer held the state of California hostage with fear, the mystery of his identity has never been solved.

+Commentary with Producer Nola Roeper, Actor Christian Behm and Director Uli Lommel

1.48GB | 1h 21mn | 849×478 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/417A5F4F20CC8A1/Curse.of.the.Zodiac.2007.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

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Inspired by the real-life serial killer, B.T.K is the gruesome story of Dennis L. Rader, a murderer who systematically tortured and killed his victims for over two decades while evading the police for over 30 years. Living a seemingly normal life as a husband, father, security officer and church president, Rader’s unquenchable thirst for blood ultimately led him to commit the most horrific crimes imaginable. Shocking and full of suspense, B.T.K is a grisly journey into the nightmarish world of a deranged killer

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1.31GB | 1h 21m | 720×404 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/31AA8C92059640B/BTK_KILLER.mkv
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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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A biochemist stumbles upon a well-preserved scientific manuscript from a past century. He and his girlfriend study the document and discover a formula to produce a drug that promises immortality. One vital component, however, is missing. But when an alien gets in touch with the scientist, the solution seems close at hand: The alien offers the biochemist and his girlfriend a trip into the past to meet the man who actually wrote the manuscript. Their first travel back in time fails, but on the second attempt the two indeed manage to meet the inventor…

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Ulli Lommel’s directorial debut is a weird little gem, boosting performances of Sixties icons Eddie Constantine, Uschi Obermaier, Rainer Langhans and even Rainer Werner Fassbinder himself.
The film is highly poetic and spiritual and the images are beautiful. The brilliant soundtrack ranges from Deep Purple’s “April”, Elton John and Gregorian chants to Vivaldi!
Shot mostly in Bavaria in the winter, it takes the viewer to breath taking locations. Surreal and convincing at the same time.
A wicked document of German film history from those days when it was still possible to make film with most simple and few resources – on a ridiculous budget of about 20,000 DM…

1.27GB | 1h 16mn | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/32C04C120A4CCE6/Haytabo.mkv

Language:German
Subtitles:English sub/idx muxed

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It’s a non-traditional black and white film based on the 1894 novel by Theodor Fontane. It’s for an audience that is more aware and welcomes something addressed to the intellect, rather than the way the average casual moviegoer sees a film expecting a story handed to him on a silver platter with a beginning, a middle and an end (usually a happy ending). This is not a film for the casual moviegoer or the critic chasing down blockbusters. Director-writer Rainer Werner Fassbinder has said “It’s a film that really only works in the German language.” What makes the film so difficult for an outsider, is that much of Fontane is nuanced only for the German and therefore someone unfamiliar with the finer cultural points or historical facts will have a tough time of it. Fassbinder based the film on the parts of the novel by Theodor Fontane he agreed with (discarding the parts of the book he disagreed with) and did not make it into a topic about a woman as the title would suggest (a debate grew between the film’s star Hanna Schygulla, who wanted to play it as a story about the titular character; thankfully she couldn’t budge Fassbinder off his intended aim to keep it as a societal moral play and as a result we have a film that is full of conviction and as faithful to a book as you can possibly be).

It’s a late 19th-century (sometime in the 1880s) drama set in a conformist and repressed Germany. The story is unimportant, as are the characters. What’s important is that Fassbinder confirms that Fontane critiques his society for its failings but still recognizes it as a society that is valid for him, and Fassbinder hopes to make his attitude toward the society he lives in clear by keeping the film about Fontane and not Effi Briest–whom he considers inconsequential. Fassbinder will also keep his feelings out of the film and let Fontane do the talking for him, which indicates he accepts the author’s words and his attitude. Fassbinder will maintain he has always challenged society but nevertheless hasn’t dropped out and accepts its conditions just by living in it.

If viewed in this light, one can see what Fassbinder is driving at and how the film can be appreciated as a brilliant mindfuck, uniquely filmed as only someone as gifted as Fassbinder can with such superb technical skill. It is much like reading a book and the reader (viewer) has to be always thinking or the story will never come into place. To make sure the viewer cranks up his brain cells, there is the use of the fade-in throughout that turns white rather than the usual black (a device that actually inhibits thought). The white glare of the screen is a jolting wake-up call to stay mentally alert–an alarm that thinking is required. Fassbinder uses the white in the same way one reads a book and turns a page to a new chapter, giving the reader a chance to catch his breath and visualize what he just read.

Effi Briest (Hanna Schygulla) is an inexperienced but ambitious 17-year-old from a bourgeois middle-class family in Berlin. Her folks welcome a marriage for her with a comfortable middle-aged Prussian baron from the country named Geert von Instetten (Wolfgang Schenck). Previously he sought the hand of Effi’s mother Luise (Lilo Pempeit), but was not that well-fixed financially at the time to seal the deal. Even though Effi’s the outdoor type and he’s an art effete and she’s somewhat afraid of him, she respects him as a man of culture, substance, reserve and good breeding, and agrees to the marriage after her mother says she will already have what a 40-year-old woman can only hope to attain. The couple live in the small town of Kessel (a population of 3,000, whose inhabitants are either pious or dull). Her hubby is a mid-level political careerist, holding an elective office as a Deputy Councillor. Effi gives birth to a daughter Annie and hires a lapsed Catholic, Ursula Strätz, to be her nanny and confidante. The Baron’s uppity housekeeper Johanna (Irm Hermann) is an icicle who resents Effi and treats her with scorn, especially resenting her lavish spending on clothes. Bored silly and left alone with her hubby working the campaign trail, the trophy wife of ease takes up with smooth womanizer Major Crampas (Ulli Lommel), stationed in the town, in what seems like an innocent relationship. Some six years after the couple moved back to Berlin, as hubby moved up the political ladder to a post in the ministry, he discovers a number of love letters the Major wrote to his wife and takes the appropriate action one expects a gentleman from that period to do to retain his honor in society–challenges the Major to a shooting duel. It leads to exposing how cruel Effi’s society can be for those who break its rules, as her daughter is taken away from her and she’s ostracized by society and forced to live alone in a boarding house.

It’s a highly stylized period piece with no room for emotion and many breaks throughout with Fontane’s exact words scrawled on the screen. The performances are all rigid and lifeless (but oddly effective), as the characters act with a certain reserve rather than raw emotion. It’s an outstanding film that tells in a literary way about a long gone society and while I’m not literate in German, it still is compelling viewing for the delicate way it unfolds and leaves a tingling feeling there’s a lot more going on than it seems.

http://nitroflare.com/view/0366E7307AB44F2/Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder_-_%281974%29_Effi_Briest.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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