The most incendiary of Nazi Germany’s anti-British films, and one of the most audaciously cynical movies ever made. Conceived by Joseph Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry as a propagandistic blockbuster, this lavish production leaves no stone unturned in its bitter indictment of Great Britain, which at the time (early 1941) stood alone as Germany’s wartime foe. In its historical re-enactment of the Second Boer War, Ohm Krüger depicts Britain as a relentlessly aggressive power, hell-bent on world domination; the film’s remarkable set pieces feature a scotch-swilling Queen Victoria, a cruelly conniving Cecil Rhodes and a Winston Churchill look-alike who presides over a murderous concentration camp. On the Boer side stands saintly “Uncle” Krüger, portrayed as a model of simple dignity and unerring moral right by one of the world cinema’s greatest actors, Emil Jannings. By far the most expensive film produced in Nazi Germany up to the time, Ohm Krüger offers plenty of “wild west” frontier grit alongside its vivid battle scenes, as though John Ford’s Monument Valley had been transposed onto South Africa’s Transvaal region. The shattering conclusion – a concentration camp massacre – provokes and disturbs even today, not only due to its undeniable artistry, but more because of how it invites comparison with the still greater horrors we associate with Nazi Germany – atrocities this movie was designed to rationalize and exonerate.

Ohm.Kruger.AKA.Uncle.Kruger.1941.DVDRip.x264.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	2h 9mn
Size:	1.55 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	718x480 ~> 718x538
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	29.970 fps
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Audio
German 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/135C8A7ADA1371D/Ohm.Kruger.AKA.Uncle.Kruger.1941.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English,Russian

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Thomas Bernhard’s “Die Jagdgesellschaft”
Directed by Claus Peymann
Recorded in 1974 at Burgtheater Vienna

The bark-beetle has invaded the big forest of the general, just as a fatal illness has into the body of its owner. The general is suffering from eye cataract, preventing him from seeing the symptoms of the trees’ decline, just as he is unable to see his own rottening. His wife and the writer discuss these circumstances for two scenes, until the general discovers the fact himself in the third one. Now he is going to take appropriate action.
“The actors this evening were of peerless mastery. It’s impossible to imagine a better realization of this piece!” Frankfurter Allgemeine Newspaper

1.68GB | 1h 54mn | 702×574 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/560FB5CC7BFFACF/Die_Jagdgesellschaft_AKA_The_Hunting_Party__Thomas_Bernhard_-_Claus_Peymann__(1).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/1A2AEF9D62DB7FB/The_Hunting_Party_v2.srt

Language:German
Subtitles:English

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