d. Mitchell Leisen
c. USA
y. 1938
description:
"In this musical sequel to the highly successful Artists and Models, Jack Benny plays Buck Boswell, the leader of a troupe of performers who end up broke and stranded in gay Paris. To rustle up a little cash, he decides to produce a musical fashion show. Boswell hires an American father and daughter to perform because he thinks they too are impoverished. Things happen, and Boswell nearly loses his show until his two Yanks reveal that they are loaded." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.0 (31)
_AMG... 2.0 / 5.0
size: 940MB
qlty: VHS
subs: n/a
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Artists and Models Abroad
Yoshiwara
d. Max Ophuls
c. France
y. 1937
description:
"This bit of elegant esoterica was Max Ophuls' only directorial effort for 1937. Japanese matinee idol Sessue Hayakawa made a long-overdue return to films as Yaamo, a humble Chinese coolie in love with the beautiful and aristocratic Kohana (Michiko Tanaka). Following her father's suicide, Kohana is reduced to working as a Geisha girl, and it is in this capacity that she meets Russian naval officer Serge Polinoff (Pierre-Richard Willm), who marries the girl and takes her back to his homeland. Now regarding Kohana as a traitor, Yaamo swears vengeance on both the girl and her Russian husband. At film's end, only Kohana is left alive, which in context is surprising indeed. The Japanese government issued a formal complaint about the content of Yoshiwara, but French moviegoers were not yet conditioned to take such things seriously, and the film was a hit." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.2 (27)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 1090MB
qlty: TV
subs: no
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Each Night I Dream
d. Mikio Naruse
c. Japan
y. 1933
description:
"This silent feature by the esteemed Japanese director Mikio Naruse takes the form of a domestic melodrama. Sumiko Kurishima stars as Omitsu, a barmaid and single parent long-estranged from her irresponsible, out-of-work husband (Tatsuo Saito). When he suddenly returns without advance warning, she does anything and everything in her power to pull the pieces of her shattered family back together. Naruse employs heavy stylization to tell his story, including the repeated use of montage, a fractured chronology, and metonymical close-ups of characters' moving legs. When combined, these elements imbue the motion picture with much tension and a lingering sense of unease." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.9 (28)
_AMG... n/a
size: 480MB
qlty: VHS
subs: yes
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Salt for Svanetia
d. Mikhail Kalatozov
c. USSR
y. 1930
description:
"This 1930 silent, black and white Soviet documentary explores the rigors of life in a community living high (approximately 2000 meters) in the Caucasus mountains of Georgia, in a valley by the name of Svanetia. One of the most important factors in the lives of the people living there is the complete absence of any salt, so that animals go to great lengths to obtain any. For instance, animals gladly come up to people in order to lick their sweat, and will try to obtain salt from human urine. Living conditions and beliefs in the region were quite primitive, according to the documentary. In one instance, a woman is left to endure labor unassisted, because she blasphemously began her labor during a man's funeral. However, modern values are on the horizon, as a paved road is being built into these mountains. Though this might otherwise seem a fairly straightforward example of early Soviet propaganda, the film is particularly notable for the stunning visual record it offers of a now-vanished way of life." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.7 (103)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 430MB
qlty: ?
subs: yes
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Aerograd
d. Aleksandr Dovzhenko
c. USSR
y. 1935
description:
"A Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese in this patriotic film from 1935. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government. Work on the new outpost is complicated when tensions develop between workers and a religious sect. The sect threatens to give their support to a band of marauding samurai warriors who battle for control of the region. Relations between the two countries are further strained in the days before World War II, dating back to the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. In this feature, the Russians are victorious as airplanes throughout the country come to the aid of the beleaguered new town. Director Alexander Dovzhenko, long considered a giant in Russian classic cinema, also wrote the screenplay for this feature." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.1 (81)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: TV
subs: yes
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Lullaby
d. Dziga Vertov
c. USSR
y. 1937
description:
"Originally titled Kolybelnaya, the 45-minute Lullaby was one of three films turned out in 1937 by legendary Soviet documentarist Dziga Vertov. It was also his last "personal" film. Under fire for not adhering to the Stalinst partyline of simplified, or "dumbed down" socialist realism, and for continuing to work in his old style of flashy, self-indulgent "formalism," Vertov had to content himself with straightforward documentaries and newsreels for the rest of his career. Curiously, when seen today Lullaby seems like pro-Soviet propaganda through and through, extoling the praises of Russian womanhood by detailing the progress made since the "equalizing" Revolution. Vertov offers glimpses of Soviet females of all ages gainfully employed in a variety of professions, from agrarian to industrial. The lyricism he brings to these images brings life to what otherwise might have been an exercise in pure tract; his genius, however, was not altogether appreciated by American film critics, who dismissed his artistic compositions and diffused lenses as 'poor camerawork.'" (AMG)
IMDB... 7.5 (10)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: VHS
subs: no
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Memories of Sergei Ordzhonikidze
d. Dziga Vertov
c. USSR
y. 1937
description:
n/a
IMDB... 7.5 (7)
_AMG... n/a
size: 400MB
qlty: ?
subs: ?
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Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Don Basin
A Daughter of Destiny
d. Henrik Galeen
c. Germany
y. 1928
description:
n/a
IMDB... 7.6 (46)
_AMG... n/a
size: 1370MB
qlty: ?
subs: no (Italian)
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Girl Searching for Love
d. Romuald Gantkowski
c. Poland
y. 1938
description:
n/a
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 580MB
qlty: Sat
subs: no
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Hearts On Fire
d. Romuald Gantkowski
c. Poland
y. 1937
description:
n/a
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Little Mother
d. Konrad Tom
c. Poland
y. 1938
description:
n/a
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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The Princeling
d. Konrad Tom
c. Poland
y. 1937
description:
n/a
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Ada! That's Not Polite!
d. Konrad Tom
c. Poland
y. 1936
description:
"Country gent sends his singing, dancing, tomboy daughter to stuffy finishing school, where she promptly sets about enlivening the dorm and makes friends with the city's 'Bohemian' crowd." (IMDB)
IMDB... 6.6 (14)
_AMG... n/a
size: 670MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Maneuvers in Love
d. Jan Nowina-Przbylski & Konrad Tom
c. Poland
y. 1935
description:
n/a
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Forgotten Melody
d. Jan Fethke & Konrad Tom
c. Poland
y. 1938
description:
"This movie is a nice little musical comedy for those that like the good old Golden years of Hollywood....in Poland! A great story about a girl in boarding school and her father that has a recipe for soap, but can only remember the recipe when it is sung to a certain tune. (Hence the title of the movie). I don't speak Polish that much, but I really enjoyed what I understood of the film. The opening song with the scene of the girls in the rowboats is very catchy!" (IMDB Comment)
IMDB... 6.8 (14)
_AMG... n/a
size: 750MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Three Hearts
d. Michal Waszynski
c. Poland
y. 1939
description:
n/a
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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A Mother's Heart
d. Michal Waszynski
c. Poland
y. 1938
description:
n/a
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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