Synopsis:
Harald Berger and his Indian lover, the temple dancer Seetha, desperately flee from the shikaris (cavalry) of Eschanapur’s maharajah Chandra, who burn a whole village just for letting them pass invoking traditional hospitality. A spider weaves a web so the trackers won’t look for them in a Shiva temple, but she is caught outside, he left for dead after a steep fall into a crocodile-infested water. Meanwhile his sister Irene and brother-in-law Dr. Walter Rhode, the architect who refuses to build a tomb to bury Seetah alive for scorning the ruler’s love before the hospital he was asked for, guess the truth, and try to make their assigned Indian servant Asagara talk, who dreads incriminating his sovereign. She can’t believe Chandra’s claim Harald was killed on a tiger-hunt, and the architect finds the bloody shirt he produces doesn’t have the button she mended. Prince Ramigani plots seizing Chandra’s throne with rajah Padhu, courtiers and the corrupt General Dagh, as soon as Chandra gives offense by marrying the unworthy dancer, which would turn the Hindu priests and ordinary people against him. Seetah dances to charm a cobra in the temple by way of oracle of the goddess, but when she trips Chandra kills the beast, is accused of blasphemy but decides to wed her anyhow, intending to bury his unwilling queen as soon as the monumental tomb is ready. Irene overhears Ramigami forcing Seetah to accept the loveless marriage for the life of Harald, whom he has secretly incarcerated in the palace’s vast subterranean, and plans with her and Walter to find him and flee, using dynamite to create a diversion…

Das.Indische.Grabmal.AKA.The.Indian.Tomb.1959.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 41mn
Size: 	2.67 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	768x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 613 Kbps
BPP: 	0.341
Audio
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https://nitro.download/view/29CD0792B3975EC/Das.Indische.Grabmal.AKA.The.Indian.Tomb.1959.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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

The post Fritz Lang – Das Indische Grabmal AKA The Indian Tomb (1959) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
André Mercier, is a failed, embittered writer, working under the pen name Albin Mercier. On a journalism gig in Germany, his path crosses with that of Andreas Hartmann, another writer, who’s managed to make a living for himself. The successful Andreas is married to Hélène, a beautiful Frenchwoman, who quickly becomes the apple of Mercier’s eye. While Andreas is off on a business trip, Mercier tries to seduce Hélène to make her his lover and, eventually, take over Andreas’ life.

2.2GB | 1 h 20 min | 960×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/078A72227528D2B/Claude_Chabrol_-_(1962)_The_Third_Lover.mkv

Language:French+commentary
Subtitles:English

The post Claude Chabrol – L’oeil du malin AKA The Third Lover (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah’s favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah’s friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall in-love, triggering the Maharajah’s vengeful ire.

Film Society of Lincoln Center writes:
After his long and prolific Hollywood career, Fritz Lang (Metropolis) returned to Germany at the behest of producer Artur Brauner and embarked on an ambitious two-film project that would become known as his “Indian Epic.” The source material was the novel The Indian Tomb by Thea von Harbou (Lang’s ex-wife and former collaborator), a book Lang had initially been hired to direct as a silent film in 1921, before being fired and replaced by Joe May. In this, the first of the two films, Lang tells the story of a German architect (Paul Hubschmid) who arrives in India to build a temple for a Maharaja, whereupon he promptly falls in love with the Maharaja’s intended bride (Debra Paget), whom he narrowly saves from becoming the titular tiger’s latest meal. Impeccably directed on a modest budget, with a thrilling cliffhanger ending, Lang’s late-career triumph proves the old adage that the enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

2.40GB | 1 h 40 min | 764×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/47E25DD7013D701/Der.Tiger.von.Eschnapur.AKA.The.Tiger.of.Eschnapur.1959.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, German

The post Fritz Lang – Der Tiger von Eschnapur AKA The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959) first appeared on Cinema of the World.