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While there is an element of science fiction to this political satire about Latin American dictatorships, that element is primarily used to promote the storyline and the message, and not as a value in itself. In a make-believe Spanish-speaking country of the Americas, a dictator (Zbigniew Cybulski) rules with the usual degree of corruption but as it turns out, his wife is the one who gives most of the orders. Two story strands are then woven together: a scientist has invented a way to replicate objects and, lo and behold, he discovers he can make a robotic duplicate of the dictator’s wife. Meanwhile, an ardent, left-leaning revolutionary who happens to be a dead ringer for the dictator ends up taking over the tyrant’s role when he is assassinated. So one has a robotic wife and a fake dictator now running a country which is none the wiser…

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A French science fiction film with strong political overtones, set in a Latin American country that is run by banker Gora and Col. Cybulski. A revolutionary, also played by Cybulski, has set out to overthrow the government and kill the colonel. The colonel is mysteriously assassinated.
Gora’s wife, Teal, becomes the new figurehead of the revolution. Unknown to all is the fact that she is more or less a robot, thanks to molecular multiplication. Her husband controls the “doll” and has her lead the rebels to their death.

1.11GB | 1 h 30 min | 1019×434 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/66A260F290B6C59/La.poupee.1962.DVDRip.x264-rdk.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

The post Jacques Baratier – La poupée AKA The Doll (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A drama about unfulfilled love (screenplay by Kazimierz Brandys based on his own short story). The film is for the most part the reminiscence of a radio actress named Felicja, who thinks back to the World War II occupation of Poland by Germany, when she hid a man (Wiktor) sought by the Gestapo in her apartment for a prolonged period. In order to remove suspicion from herself, she began to appear on stage, which rendered her a collaborator in the eyes of her peers from the acting community. Felicja made this sacrifice for Wiktor because she loved him and in spite of her love being unreturned. On the other hand, Wiktor perceives her sacrifice as a burden though Felicja does not notice this. He considers his own position humiliating and ultimately abandons Felicja. At the war’s end, he returns to her, but solely in order to commit suicide. After many years, the actress’s singular voice wins her the admiration of radio listeners and she regains her professional position. The wartime experience has made her a mature, strong woman. “These two people,” wrote K. Eberhardt, “fail in their attempts to rescue each other: she fails to save him from death, he does not succeed in alleviating her solitude. Their efforts prove fruitless. It has been a long time since a Polish film has offered us such a bitter moral.” Awards: 1962 – Golden Gate Awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival for the screenplay by Kazimierz Brandys and for Barbara Krafftowna’s performance as Felicja; 1963 – Edinburgh International Film Festival – honorable mention; Cork International Film Festival – honorable mention; 1964 – Beirut International Film Festival – FIPRESCI Award; Golden Duck – “Film” monthly award for best film of 1963.

2.58GB | 1 h 42 min | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0D2B55CD5D4B3B0/Wojciech_Has_-_(1963)_How_to_Be_Loved.mkv

Language:Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Wojciech Has – Jak byc kochana AKA How to Be Loved (1963) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In this routine story within a story from Poland, Jacek (Zbigniew Cybulski) is the head of a troupe of thespians and so he is responsible for getting together the material for them to act out on the stage. One day he meets Marguerite (Teresa Tuszynska), the charming and sophisticated daughter of a French diplomat, and his heart does flips. He longs to be with her but she herself is more sensible. What kind of a life would she have with an actor? His ultimate rejection leaves him ample time to mope around and be miserable. But then, Jacek the actor has to get another story ready for his troupe — and so was this sequence of love lost real — or another play for the troupe to perform?~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

1.79GB | 1 h 26 min | 922×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/154AA9544C74ADF/Janusz_Morgenstern_-_(1960)_Goodbye,_Till_Tomorrow.mkv

Language:Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Janusz Morgenstern – Do widzenia, do jutra aka See You Tomorrow; Good Bye, Till Tomorrow (1960) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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During the Napoleonic Wars a young French officer seeks shelter in an abandoned building in the town of Saragossa. In this building he discovers a rather odd book, and when an enemy officer attempts to arrest him, the the second officer is also drawn to narrate the book which seems to have been written by his own grandfather (Zbigniew Cybulski). Soon the officer’s grandfather finds himself immersed within a story of fleeing gypsy cannibals, married to Muslim sisters … in his dreams, and on the run from the Spanish Inquisition. But when he meets up with a Cabalist and his storytelling friends, that is when things start to get truly interesting.

http://nitroflare.com/view/CB4DDCEF4EDDC04/The_Saragossa_Manuscript_%281965%29.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/9B8D14204677DA6/The_Saragossa_Manuscript_%281965%29.part2.rar

Language(s):Polish
Subtitles:English,Spanish

The post Wojciech Has – Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie aka The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Tadeusz (Jan Kreczmar) is a Polish veteran of World War II who fled to London at the end of the war, leaving behind his wife Zofia (Irena Eichlerówna) and son, Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski), who disappeared when he was 12 years old. Tadeusz returns to Kraków to discover that Maciek is alive, his wife may have been a partisan and that his son may have turned in his own mother in to the authorities. During Maciek’s struggle to understand his parents’ history, questions of collaboration with the Gestapo and Home Army retribution arise. Has pictures the mystical lost boy in a dark fairy-tale forest, full of the ghosts of the war and wholesale executions. The hypnotic quality of these excursions foreshadows the mesmerizing passages of Has’s later film, The Hour-Glass Sanatorium.

Early on in his career, Has gained a reputation as an individualist who avoided political overtones in his art. In practically every film, Has sought to create hermetic environments, in which the problems and storylines of his protagonists were always of secondary importance to the particular world he had created, characterized by an accumulation of random objects that formed unique visual universe.

1.75GB | 1h 20m | 790×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/51197C3957ABB69/The.Codes.1966.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Wojciech Has – Szyfry AKA The Codes (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

As WWII and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Russian forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.

+Commentary from 2004 by film scholar Annette Insdorf

4.91GB | 1h 43m | 1200×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/45006B9714E2266/Popiol.i.diament.1958.720p.mkv

Language(s):Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Andrzej Wajda – Popiól i Diament AKA Ashes and Diamonds (1958) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A story about love and the life of the youth of the sixties. A film saturated with insightful psychological observations and the warm, affectionate relationship of the central character.

Storyline: A shy Warsaw university student is in love with a girl who pays no attention to him. Change comes after her intimate love letters are read publicly at a party.

https://nitro.download/view/20438B15A890F7F/Pingwin.1965.DVDRip.h264.mkv
Language(s):Polish
Subtitles:English

The post Jerzy Stefan Stawinski – Pingwin (1965) first appeared on Cinema of the World.