d. Aleksandr Dovzhenko
c. USSR
y. 1949
description:
"Farewell, America is the last film Alexander Dovzhenko worked on as director. Production was stopped by the government half-way through (like many films under Stalin's regime) and the footage that had been shot was stored away somewhere in Moscow. Only recently (in the 1990s?) was it rediscovered. The version I saw (and probably the only version 'available' to the public) is a reconstruction in which the scenes that were shot have been interspersed with some Russian man, with the help of Dovzhenko's original script (including some sketches he'd drawn), describing the scenes that are missing. The basic plot concerns an American woman, Anna, who goes to work at the American embassy in Moscow just as World War Two is ending. There she finds that everyone has an extreme irrational hatred of the Russians, bordering on fascism, and they all want to start a new war against Russia. She and one man are more sympathetic towards the Russians, and even are friends with a Russian family, much to the disapproval of the embassy. She goes on an assignment to Ukraine to investigate collective farming and show how unhappy the masses are with it, but finds only kind and happy farmers. Not satisfied with this report, the embassy orders her to change it, before she is sent back to America. Here she finds the same bias and hatred, and when she returns to Russia she does not return to the embassy, but becomes a citizen of the Soviet nation. It must be noted that this for the large part, is a comedy, poking fun at Americans." (IMDB Comment)
IMDB... 6.8 (16)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 670MB
qlty: TV
subs: no
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Farewell, America
Michurin
d. Aleksandr Dovzhenko
c. USSR
y. 1948
description:
"The Russian Life in Bloom is the biography of famed horticultural expert Ivan Michurin. The story traces Michurin's life from its humble beginnings to his eventual development of over 300 new plant varieties. The film manages to rabbet in a little propaganda, suggesting that Michurin could never have achieved his cross-breeding miracles without the support and encouragement of the Bolshevik revolutionaries. Grigori Belov stars as Michurin, while Feodor Grigoriev portrays the hero's chief rival, Professor Kartashov. Life in Bloom is sumptuously produced in color, with a heroic musical score by no less than Dmitri Shostakovich. The film was co-directed by Alexander Dovshenko and his actress-wife Yula Solntseva, though Solnsteva receives sole directorial credit." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.8 (16)
_AMG... 1.5 / 5.0
size: 1020MB
qlty: ?
subs: ?
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Fiamma che non si spegne
d. Vittorio Cottafavi
c. Italy
y. 1949
description:
"Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself." (IMDB)
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 1200MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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This Is Poland
d. Eugeniusz Cekalski
c. UK
y. 1941
description:
n/a
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 200MB
qlty: TV
subs: n/a
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Unknown Men of San Marino
d. Michal Waszynski
c. Italy
y. 1946
description:
"Anna Magnani provides the box-office luster for this pedestrian wartime melodrama. Filmed on location in Milan, the story revolves around a jackbooted Nazi officer. A textbook study in sadism, the officer regains his humanity when he is nursed through a raging illness by peasant woman Magnani. The screenplay is by neorealism maven Cesar Zavattini, who'd certainly done better work than this. Filmed in 1946, Lo Sconosluto di San Marino (The Unknown of San Marino) was released in the U.S. in 1948, where it suffered in comparison to the onslaught of superior Italian productions of the era." (AMG)
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 720MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Great Road
d. Michal Waszynski
c. Poland
y. 1946
description:
n/a
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 800MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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An Athlete Despite My Wishes
d. Mieczyslaw Krawicz
c. Poland
y. 1940
description:
n/a
IMDB... 6.5 (11)
_AMG... n/a
size: 470MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Cuando lloran los valientes
d. Ismael Rodriguez
c. Mexico
y. 1947
description:
n/a
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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¡Vuelven los Garcia!
d. Ismael Rodriguez
c. Mexico
y. 1947
description:
n/a
IMDB... 7.6 (45)
_AMG... n/a
size: 610MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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La oveja negra
d. Ismael Rodriguez
c. Mexico
y. 1949
description:
n/a
IMDB... 8.5 (66)
_AMG... n/a
size: 980MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Bugambilia
d. Emilio Fernandez
c. Mexico
y. 1945
description:
n/a
IMDB... 7.6 (20)
_AMG... 1.5 / 5.0
size: 330MB
qlty: VHS
subs: no
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Salon Mexico
d. Emilio Fernandez
c. Mexico
y. 1949
description:
"Mercedes (Marga Lopez) dances for money with the clients of Salon Mexico, a famous cabaret in Mexico City. Her younger sister Beatriz (Derbez) studies in an expensive private school, paid by Mercedes. Obviously, young Beatriz doesn't know about her sister's job. Troubles begin when Mercedes wins a danzon contest with Paco (Acosta), her pimp. Paco refuses to share the prize with Mercedes, so she steals the money when he's sleeping." (IMDB)
IMDB... 7.9 (59)
_AMG... 1.5 / 5.0
size: 630MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Wild Flower
d. Emilio Fernandez
c. Mexico
y. 1943
description:
"Completed before his immensely successful Maria Candelaria, Emilio Fernandez' Flor Sylvestre was released second in the US-and not until two years after its initial Mexican release. Also known as Wildflower, the film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza (Dolores Del Rio), granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro (Pedro Armendariz), the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.4 (36)
_AMG... 1.5 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Brzozowa Street
d. Wojciech Has & Stanislaw Rozewicz
c. Poland
y. 1947
description:
n/a
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 75MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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The Man I Married
d. Irving Pichel
c. USA
y. 1940
description:
"This cautionary pre-World War II drama stars Joan Bennett as an American girl who falls in love and marries a German (Francis Lederer) in 1938. At first he seems charming, but Joan discovers that her husband is slowly being seduced by the Nazi Party. Determined to leave, Bennett is forced to battle Lederer for custody of their child, whom the husband plans to raise as a budding Fascist. The Nazi is foiled by his father(Otto Kruger), who crushes Lederer's "iron will" by informing his son that his own mother was Jewish. At 77 minutes, The Man I Married cuts out all slack, and the result is a taut, exciting melodrama." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.6 (40)
_AMG... 4.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: VHS
subs: n/a
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Misterio en la marisma
d. Claudio de la Torre
c. Spain
y. 1943
description:
n/a
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 700MB
qlty: Sat
subs: no
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We've Never Been Licked
d. John Rawlins
c. USA
y. 1943
description:
"This patriotic WW II-era bit of anti-Japanese propaganda centers on a white Texas college student who becomes such good friends with Japanese students on campus that he goes to their country after he is wrongfully accused of being a traitor. All this happened before the U.S. declared war on Japan. After the war begins, the fellow willingly makes pro-Japanese radio broadcasts. Fortunately, the fellow turns out to be a red-blooded American boy through and through and thanks to him, the Japanese are rendered helpless by the end of the film." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.0 (67)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 1360MB
qlty: TV
subs: n/a
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Sheng si hen
d. Mu Fei
c. China
y. 1948
description:
One of the first Chinese colour films.
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 580MB
qlty: ?
subs: ?
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