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Ulrike Ottinger’s documentary Prater (Austria-Germany), a half-decade in the making, chronicles over the past century and more the attractions that contributed to the rise and fall of the world’s oldest amusement park.(..)

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Vienna’s Prater is an amusement park and a desire machine. No mechanical invention, no novel idea or sensational innovation could escape incorporation into the Prater. The diverse story-telling in Ulrike Ottinger’s film “Prater” transforms this place of sensations into a modern cinema of attractions. The Prater’s history from the beginning to the present is told by its protagonists and those who have documented it, including contemporary cinematic images of the Prater, interviews with carnies, commentary by Austrians and visitors from abroad, film quotes, and photographic and written documentary materials. The meaning of the Prater, its status as a place of technological innovation, and its role as a cultural medium are reflected in texts by Elfriede Jelinek, Josef von Sternberg, Erich Kästner and Elias Canetti, as well as in music devoted to this amusement venue throughout the course of its history.

Prater.2007.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 43mn
Size: 	1.95 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	718x572 ~> 1016x572
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 378 Kbps
BPP: 	0.232
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#1:  	German 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps
#2:  	German 2.0ch Vorbis @ 80.0 Kbps (Commentary track with director Ulrike Ottinger)

https://nitro.download/view/58F5C9B3D4059D6/Prater.2007.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis
Ulrike Ottinger, then a young painter, lived in Paris in the 1960s. Now a film-maker, she looks back on that time, weaving memories of the Parisian life and the upheavals of the time into a cinematic poem with the city at its center.

Paris.Calligrammes.2020.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-ZTR.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 10 min
Size: 	4.77 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	4 653 kb/s
BPP: 	0.090
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#1:  	German 2.0ch AAC LC @ 192 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 192 kb/s
#3:  	French 2.0ch AAC LC @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/3BA742528D272AC/Paris.Calligrammes.2020.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-KG.mkv

Language(s):English, French, German
Subtitles:English, German

The post Ulrike Ottinger – Paris Calligrammes (2020) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Ulrike Ottinger’s epic adventure traces a fantastic encounter between two different worlds. Seven western women travelers meet aboard the sumptuous, meticulously reconstructed Trans-Siberian Express, a rolling museum of European culture. Lady Windemere, an elegant ethnographer played by the incomparable Delphine Seyrig in her last screen role, regales a young companion with Mongol myths and lore while other passengers-a prim tourist (Irm Hermann), a brash Broadway chanteuse and an all-girl klezmer trio-revel in campy dining car cabaret. Suddenly ambushed by a band of Mongol horsewomen, the company is abducted to the plains of Inner Mongolia and embark on a fantastic camel ride across the magnificent countryside. Breathtaking vistas, the lavish costumes of Princess Ulun Iga and her retinue, and the rituals of Mongol life are stunningly rendered by Ottinger’s cinematography. Dubbed a female Lawrence of Arabia and just as sweepingly romantic, Johanna D’Arc of Mongolia is a grandly entertaining, unforgettable journey.

Joan.of.Arc.of.Mongolia.1989.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-MoBEE.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 47 min
Size: 	6.59 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	5 389 kb/s
BPP: 	0.108
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#1:  	Multiple languages 2.0ch AAC LC @ 253 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/2BD61CFDE910E66/Joan.of.Arc.of.Mongolia.1989.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-MoBEE.mkv

Language(s):German, French, Mongolian, English, Russian
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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The filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has made a name for herself with her unique feature films and documentaries, such as Madame X – Eine absolute Herrscherin (1978), Bildnis einer Trinkerin (1979), Freak Orlando (1981), Johanna D’Arc of Mongolia (1989), Prater (2007) and Unter Schnee (2011).
Her unusual ideas and approach are marked by subtle humour and an exalted style. Her subjects are always guided by intimate female perspectives of other worlds, whether they concern travel, history or unexpected situations. Until now there has been no film portrait of the artist. This film is about the life and work of an extraordinary woman and captures an era characterised by the emergence of women in the arts. More than any other female artist, Ulrike Ottinger enriched the film landscape of the time with surreal, original and extreme films. Director Brigitte Kramer shares Ulrike Ottinger’s hometown, Lake Constance, as well as her depiction of water as omnipresent and the desire to travel to distant places. What makes this portrait so special is this connection between the portrayer and the person portrayed. Brigitte Kramer works as a film dramaturge, director and producer of dance music and films.

Ulrike Ottinger - Die Nomadin vom See.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 25 min
Size: 	3.33 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
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BPP: 	0.102
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#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC @ 253 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/5FA6940F77D1CA8/Ulrike_Ottinger_-_Die_Nomadin_vom_See.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

The post Brigitte Kramer – Ulrike Ottinger – Die Nomadin vom See AKA Ulrike Ottinger – Nomad from the Lake (2012) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In THE BETRUCTION OF THE BLUE SAILORS, Tabea Blumenschein “plays four different roles in changing appearances and in fantastic costumes that structure the film: a mythical figure that permeates the film on desert sand with siren song; a bird that is killed; a Hawaiian girl and a Sailors. While the siren, accompanied by Asian music, strides along the desert, sailors and birds become the victims of perverted naturalness in the form of the wild Hawaiian girl.” (Claudia Hoff) In the collage principle, areas and quotations from commercialized everyday life and the music, which ranges from noises, sacred gongs, Hawaiian music, Schuricke melodies, musette waltzes to Burmese songs and cultic Ketchak rhythms, and the language – literary texts by Apollinaire, which already use the quotation method, phrases from the world of American show business (Hollywood veteran star), lamentations of a Russian silent film mother […], come satire, the grotesque, the caricature, the clown and the doll up; and it is the deep meaning of these forms of expression, through the demonstration of the marionette-ness, the mechanization of life, through the apparent and real torpor, to let us imagine a different life. (Raoul Hausman). (From the conversation between Ulrike Ottinger/ Tabea Blumenschein and Hanne Bergius)

1.83GB | 47m 00s | 1616×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/828232382E1820D/DIE_BETORUNG_DER_BLAUEN_MATROSEN.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:None

The post Tabea Blumenschein & Ulrike Ottinger – Die Betörung der blauen Matrosen AKA The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors (1975) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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It starts with “Peter Schlemihl’s Miraculous Story”, which tells of a man travelling the world in seven-league boots. Adelbert von Chamisso wrote the tale before setting off to Russia on scientific expedition in 1815. He analysed the flora of Alaska and then explored the Northwest Passage, just like Cook and voyager Bering had done previously, the latter with physician and naturalist Steller in tow.
A porthole reveals the view. Thus begins Ottinger’s journey from Alaska to Kamchatka via Chukotka, with her predecessors’ log books to accompany her on her way.While she describes Steller’s texts as “dramatic”, she considered Chamisso’s diaries lively and sympathetic. Ottinger also keeps a log book that bears the mark of her ethnographic and artistic interests which are also seen in images: water, fish, sea otters, stones, volcanoes, the tundra, houses, villages, photographs, objects, maps. The people she meets talk about their lives, about the past and present. She shows them working, singing and fishing, again and again. Time here doesn’t mean the film’s length but rather the centuries existing alongside one another, the time you gain in the cinema.

17.44GB | 11h 26m | 720×540 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/2839DEF5F84F556/Chamissos_Schatten_DVD1.mkv https://nitro.download/view/68237CC7CB420E3/Chamissos_Schatten_DVD2.mkv https://nitro.download/view/13DF4E4C7ACDAD1/Chamissos_Schatten_DVD3.mkv https://nitro.download/view/623DE344663F790/Chamissos_Schatten_DVD4.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English,German

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Fascinating and rich with wry humor, Exile Shanghai is an extraordinary cultural odyssey that affectionately conjures up the lost Jewish world of Shanghai. In the dark days of the 1930s, the Chinese metropolis was the last refuge for Europe’s persecuted Jews—a place that did not demand a visa. Those who managed to find refuge there brought with them the social and gastronomic delights of Vienna and Berlin. Ottinger’s four-and-a-half-hour mosaic features interviews with former members of the Shanghai expatriate Jewish community (many of whom relocated to Northern California), and her ever-curious camera cruises the city in search of its lost synagogues, schools, and salons.

7.91GB | 4h 40m | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/985106A08F75B74/Exile_Shanghai_1.mkv https://nitro.download/view/38357231720CB38/Exile_Shanghai_2.mkv

Language(s):English, German, Chinese
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

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