воскресенье, 27 декабря 2015 г.

Stickin' Together (1978)


Stickin' Together / Wonderland Cove

Director: Jerry Thorpe
Stars: Clu Gulager, Sean Roche, Lory Walsh, Sean Marshall, Randi Kiger, Keith Coogan, Richard Venture, Gwen Arner, Deborah White, Talia Balsam, Sean Tyler Hall

With their parents missing at sea, five children stay together as a family by lying to the authorities about having an uncle who looks after them. When the youngest is caught playing hooky from school, the fictitious relative is required to sign documents at the boy's school, which puts the kids on a search for a man willing to play the part. Eventually, a stoic sailor agrees to take on the role; might he get more than he bargained for once feelings for these children develop?

USA
In English
 

суббота, 26 декабря 2015 г.

Kleine Grosse Stimme (2015)


Director: Wolfgang Murnberger
Stars: Wainde Wane, Jakob Eder, Enzo Gaier, Philipp Hochmair, Aeneas Hollweg, Timotheus Hollweg, Tyron Ricketts

"KLEINE GROSSE STIMME" tells the story of musically highly gifted Benedikt Thaler, just under ten-years old, son of an Austrian mother and a US-soldier of African American background (of the occupying army). After the death of his mother Benedikt has to overcome various difficulties in search of his father, before he finally finds what he has been looking for: a family.

Austria
In German
 

среда, 23 декабря 2015 г.

Double Parked (2000)


Director: Stephen Kinsella
Stars: Callie Thorne, Bill Sage, Noah Fleiss, Rufus Read, Cassandra Morris, P.J. Brown, Michelle Hurd, Eileen Galindo

A resourceful and high-spirited woman deals with financial distress and her asthmatic thirteen-year-old son when his life is gravely complicated by a new friendship with the son of her former drunken and abusive husband.

USA
In English (second audio)
 

воскресенье, 20 декабря 2015 г.

Chac: Dios de la lluvia (1974)



Chac: Dios de la lluvia / Chac: The Rain God

Director & Writer: Rolando Klein
Stars: Pablo Canche Balam, Alonzo Mendez Ton, Sebastian Santis, Pedro Tiez, Antonio Osil, Antonio Ton, Alonso Puj, Antonio Castellanos

Chac is a straightforward tale about a group of modern-day Mayans who are suffering a drought, and seek the assistance of their ancient rain-deity "Chac" to bring rain. For most of the story, the villagers are on a long pilgrimage to find a shaman who can put them in touch with the deity. In the latter part of the film, the shaman's efforts, at first apparently unsuccessful, reach a shocking culmination.

Country: Mexico | Panama
Language: Tzotzil Maya | Spanish
English hardsubs

четверг, 17 декабря 2015 г.

Tabataba (1988)


Director: Raymond Rajaonarivelo
Stars: Philippe Nahoun, François Botozandry, Lucien Dadakisy, Soatody, Soavelo, Rasoa, Jacky Guégan, Tsimba Tsilavo, Philibert Wang

Tabataba tells the story of a small Malagasy village during the independence uprising which took place in 1947 in the south of the country. For several months, part of the Malagasy population revolted against the French colonial army in a bloody struggle. The repression in villages that followed was terrible, leading to fires, arrests and torture. Women, children and the elderly were the indirect victims of the conflict and suffered particularly from famine and illness. One leader of the MDRM Malagasy Party, which campaigns for the independence of the country, arrives in a village. Solo (François Botozandry), the main character, is still too young to fight but he sees his brother and most of the men in his clan join up. His grandmother, Bakanga (Soavelo), knows what will happen, but Solo still hopes his elder brother will return a hero. After months of rumours, he sees instead the French army arrive to crush the rebellion.

Country: France | Madagascar
Language: French | Malagasy
French and English subs in .mkv
 

среда, 16 декабря 2015 г.

A King in New York (1957)



Director & Writer: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Michael Chaplin, Oliver Johnston, Dawn Addams, Sidney James, Joan Ingram, Shani Wallis

A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist.

UK
In English (second audio)

понедельник, 14 декабря 2015 г.

Zai na he pan qing cao qing (1983)


Zai na he pan qing cao qing / The Green, Green Grass of Home

Director & Writer: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Stars: Kenny Bee, Jing-kuo Yen, Meifeng Chen, Chuan-wen Cheng, Ling Chiang, Pin-chun Chou, Tou Hu, Chun Ku, Tsung-Sheng Lee

Da-Nian is a young man from Taipei. He goes to a remote village and works as a substitute teacher. He and Su-Yun, another teacher at the school, fall in love. There are several students in his class who are like the naughty "three musketeers", and a sad, silent boy Xiang-Wang, who's parents are divorced. Besides, in order to support the family, Xian-Wang's father kills the fish in the river with electricity, which is against the law and causes a lot of damage to the natural resources. Because of this, Xian-Wang has been teased by other school children. At last, he becomes so upset and runs away from home...

Taiwan
In Chinese, with Russian & English subs (embed)
 

воскресенье, 13 декабря 2015 г.

Chicama (2013)


Director & Writer: Omar Forero
Stars: Fernando Bacilio, Pedro Castillo, Ana Paula Ganoza, José Sopan
 
Caesar left the teaching career and now dreams of leaving his hometown to the coast in Trujillo. But in the big city, the competition is tough and there are no job openings. Thus, he accepted the post of teacher in a small village in the mountains where he will live the lack of prospects, both for themselves and for their students. But you also fall in love and find its place, its people and a worthy destination as a rural teacher.

Peru
In Spanish
 

среда, 9 декабря 2015 г.

Farshe Baad / Kaze No Jutan (2003)


Farshe Baad / Kaze no jûtan / The Wind Carpet

Director: Kamal Tabrizi
Stars: Miyu Yagyu, Farbod Ahmadjoo, Rentarô Mikuni, Reza Kianian, Yûki Kudô, Takaaki Enoki

Ten-year-old Sakura travels with her father Makoto from Takayama City, Japan, to Isfahan, Iran, to pick up a Persian carpet designed by her late mother. Although warmly greeted by Makoto’s friend Akbar, it soon becomes clear that the carpet – needed in 20 days for a Japanese festival – has not yet been woven. Coming to the rescue is Ruzbeh, Akbar’s tenacious and streetwise 11-year-old nephew, who mobilises the locals into a sort of carpet-weaving task force in a bid to get the job done. This Iranian-Japanese co-production fittingly celebrates cross-cultural collaboration as a way of getting results and, perhaps more importantly, enriching each other’s traditional way of life.

Iran | Japan
Japanese + Persian, with Arabic, Farsi, French, Japanese and English subs (VobSubs contained in MKV)
 

вторник, 8 декабря 2015 г.

Kenner (1968)


Kenner / Year of the Cricket

Director: Steve Sekely
Stars: Jim Brown, Ricky Cordell, Madlyn Rhue, Robert Coote, Charles Horvath, Prem Nath, Kuljit Singh, Sulochana Latkar, Ursula Prince

An American travels to India to avenge the murder of his business partner. But on the path to vengeance he discovers both love and responsibility.

USA
In English
 

суббота, 5 декабря 2015 г.

Le silence de la forêt (2003)


Le silence de la forêt / The Forest

Directors: Bassek Ba Kobhio, Didier Ouenangare
Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Nadège Beausson-Diagne, Sonia Zembourou, Ernest Mongai, Philippe Maury

Gonaba, a school inspector in Bangui, suddenly decides to drop everything and go and live in the heart of the equatorial forest in the land of the Babinga pigmies. He wants to help them free themselves from the domination of the " tall men ", which is still a problem 40 years after the country's independence. True love awaits him there, and the voyage will also be a great initiation for him.

Central African Republic  | Cameroon | Gabon | France
In French, with English hardsubs
 

четверг, 3 декабря 2015 г.

Los niños abandonados (1975)


Los niños abandonados / The Abandoned Children

Director: Danny Lyon

This film quietly chronicles the aimless daily lives of abandoned children in Santa Marta, Colombia.

***
Danny Lyon is one of America's great photographers, best known for his series on Chicago bike gangs and his on-going series of death row inmates in the Texas prison system. Lyon was partners with Robert Frank in a company they formed to make documentaries and support their photographic work when he made this poetic cinema-verité portrait of homeless children on the streets of Santa Marta, Colombia. Lyon's remarkable trademark ability to be with the boys as if he were one of them allows him (and us) to experience their day-to-day lives. Punctuated by songs written and sung by one of the boys, the film has a transcendent objectivity tinged with heartbreaking beauty. Restored at 2K by Mark Rance from the original camera negative held at the George Eastman House, the audio has been restored from the original production tapes. This effort is part of an on-going collaboration between Watchmaker Films and Lyons' Bleak Beauty.

Colombia | USA
In Spanish, with English hardsubs
 

пятница, 27 ноября 2015 г.

Pepito y la lámpara maravillosa (1972)


Pepito y la lámpara maravillosa / Pepito & Aladdin's Lamp

Director: Alejandro Galindo
Stars: Javier López, Martín Ramos Arévalo, María Duval, Guillermo Orea, Raquel Olmedo, Maria Eugenia Da Silva

Pepito is punished in school for misbehaving, by his teacher. His punishment is writing an essay on a house utensil. On his way home from school, he buys a small saucer. Pepito lives with his mother and his not nice step father. When he gets home, he begins to clean his saucer, and it turns out to be Alladins Lamp. When Pepito sees the Genie, he asks him to write his essay for him, his work is fantastic. Pepito is questined by his teacher and the Principal of the school, he tells them the truth, but they don't belive him, and instead is assigned a more difficult homework. Pepito has the Genie once more write the composition for him. Everybody at school, thinks Pepito is a super intelligent child, and he is also outstanding in sports, winning a lot of gold medals, also thanks to the Genie. Pepito's step father who is not a nice person, wants to get hold of the lamp, but instead he jumps into the lake, and drowns, trying to retrieve the lamp that Pepito had thrown.

Mexico
In Spanish
 

среда, 25 ноября 2015 г.

L'enfant et le caïman (1991)


L'enfant et le caïman / The Child and the Cayman

Director: Moustapha Dao
Stars: Lamoussa Kabore

A cayman is lost in the bush, and asks a child for help; in exchange, he promises not to eat him. But once the child has helped him get back in the water, he refuses to keep his promise. This story, from African oral tradition, was written down by Moustapha Dao; it is a mixture of dream and Fiction. Some of the animals in the film are real (such as the cayman, the horse and the cow), but others (like the hares) are played by children wearing masks.

Short
Burkina Faso, in French, with Spanish & English subs (VobSub)

вторник, 24 ноября 2015 г.

Der kleine Muck (1944)



Der kleine Muck / Little Muck

Director: Franz Fiedler
Stars: Gustav Waldau, Willi Puhlmann, Ernst Martens, Christa Caporrici, Christa Berndl, Christian Fiedler, Franz Joseph Fiedler, Franz Fröhlich, Käthe Zeiler, Elise Aulinger

Based on a fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827).
This children's film is a little surprise from the Nazi period (1944). Though certainly not a good film, the adaptation of the fairy tale is fine (good story telling), the cast is charming (note Gustav Waldau as Mister Moon), pacing is good and there are some nice special effects and sets; I especially like the moon designed as a cottage with garden). This film makes one curious to an unknown aspect of the German cinema during the Nazi period: films aimed at children only. Jan Onderwater, IMDB

Germany
In German
 

воскресенье, 22 ноября 2015 г.

Estoy sentenciado a muerte (1983)


Director: Fernando Durán Rojas
Stars: Jaime Moreno, Paquito Cuevas, Antonio Espino, David Reynoso, Noé Murayama, María Cardinal, Hortensia Clavijo, Lucha Palacios

Juan Pablo - a young boy who leads a gang of teenagers that rob people. His father, once a singer, handed down his beautiful voice to Juan who occasionally sings in the streets in exchange for money. His luck seems to change when he meets an agent who promises to make him a star...
 
Mexico
In Spanish
 

суббота, 21 ноября 2015 г.

Postcards from the Desert Island (2011)

No imdb info

Director: Adelita Husni-Bey

Postcards from the Desert Island documents a 3-week workshop with students from the École Vitruve, an experimental, self-run elementary school in Paris. Inspired in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, the artist asked the pupils to turn the school hall into a desert island, and to relate themselves to such new territory. The video documents the children's organisational methods, their approaches to the problematics raised by self-governance and by the possibility of imagining institutions and social relations from scratch.

Short documentary 
France, in French + English hardsubs
 

пятница, 20 ноября 2015 г.

Tête d'horloge (1970)



Director: Jean-Paul Sassy
Stars: Pierre Fresnay, William Coryn, Claude Cerval, Christian Echelard, Gérard Guingne, Louis Laguerre, Didier Schwartz, Paul Le Person, Sophie Grimaldi

A Paris, au cours d'une époque indéterminée et chaotique. Toutes les horloges du monde ont brutalement cessé de fonctionner. Seule celle du petit professeur «Tête d'horloge», pour une raison qui échappe à tous, continue de fonctionner et de remplir fidèlement sa mission : donner l'heure...

***
Google translated from the wiki: An ordinary day in 1969, without an explanation first, all watches, clocks and clocks of the world stop at midnight. The time is gone and no longer allows to regulate human activities. Within days, the distress is spreading and governments are in a hurry calm the distraught people. Only the private course Octave Gildas in Paris, Mr. Drouin, old traditional and dreamy teacher, does not seem in the least affected by this event, continuing to meet as usual to the second its immutable timetable, which it earned the nickname "clock head." Apparently his watch - yet an old pocket watch - is the only one that continued to operate...

France
In French
 

среда, 18 ноября 2015 г.

Safari (1956)



Director: Terence Young
Stars: Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, John Justin, Juma, Roland Culver, Liam Redmond, Earl Cameron, Orlando Martins, Christopher Warbey

Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.

UK
In English
 

вторник, 17 ноября 2015 г.

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1917)


Directors: Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin (as Sidney A. Franklin)
Stars: Francis Carpenter, F.A. Turner, Virginia Lee Corbin, Alfred Paget, Violet Radcliffe, Buddy Messinger, Lewis Sargent, Elmo Lincoln, Raymond Lee, Lloyd Perl
 
In Bagdad, Princess Badr al-Budur, the daughter of the Sultan, falls in love with Aladdin, the son of a poor tailor, and rejects the suit of evil alchemist al-Talib, her father's choice. Al-Talib consults his Evil Spirit, who advises him to find the magic lamp hidden in an underground cave. Unable to get it himself, al-Talib hires Aladdin, who secures the lamp but keeps it when he realizes al-Talib's wickedness. With wealth obtained through wishes, Aladdin courts the princess. After the lamp changes hands between al-Talib and Aladdin, al-Talib steals it and abducts the princess to the desert. Aladdin follows with only a gourd of water. Suffering from thirst and exhaustion, Aladdin nearly succumbs, but the horsemen of the Sultan, who learned of his daughter's abduction, ride up and rescue Aladdin. Meanwhile, al-Talib, who with the lamp's power has erected a palace, threatens to throw the princess to the lions unless she marry him. Aladdin and the soldiers arrive just in time to rescue her and recover the lamp. Al-Talib dies in the lion's den.

USA, Fox Film Corporation
Silent, with French & German intertitles + Spanish subs (.srt)
 

воскресенье, 15 ноября 2015 г.

Tomorrow at Ten (1962)



Director: Lance Comfort
Stars: John Gregson, Robert Shaw, Piers Bishop, Alec Clunes, Alan Wheatley, Kenneth Cope, Ernest Clark, Helen Cherry, William Hartnell, Christopher Ellis

Police investigate the kidnapping of a boy imprisoned with a time bomb.

UK
In English
 

пятница, 13 ноября 2015 г.

Supersonic Saucer (1956)


Director: Guy Fergusson (as S.G. Fergusson)
Stars: Marcia Monolescue, Gillian Harrison, Fella Edmonds, Andrew Harrison, Tony Lyons, Hilda Fenemore, Donald Gray, Patrick Boxill, Raymond Rollett, Patrick Connor, Garth Adams

A group of schoolchildren come upon an alien from Venus, and help him against a gang of criminals who are trying to kidnap him.

UK, Children's Film Foundation (CFF)
In English
 

среда, 11 ноября 2015 г.

Scuola elementare (1954)


Scuola elementare / Primary School

Director: Alberto Lattuada
Stars: Riccardo Billi, Mario Riva, Lise Bourdin, Rolando Ranzani, Alberto Rabagliati, René Clermont, Marc Cassot, Diana Dei, Alain Quercy, Ugo Attanasio

The story of an elementary school-teacher from the South who is sent to teach in an industrial city in the North.

Italy
In Italian, with English subs (.srt)

вторник, 10 ноября 2015 г.

Children of the City (1944)


Director & Writer: Budge Cooper

Attitudes to and treatment of juvenile delinquency in Scotland.
Wartime conditions and poor homes are responsible for much juvenile delinquency in Scotland. The films tells the story of Alec, Duncan and Robbie, three Edinburgh boys who break into a pawnbroker's shop and take money from the till and are caught by the police. We see their environment: slums, warehouses, factories, tenements etc. Homes are poor and overcrowded. Alec, the ring leader, lives with his unemployed father and apathetic mother in a slum room. Duncan's home is pleasant, but his mother has to struggle alone to maintain it while her husband is away in the forces. After school and at the weekends, there is nowhere, except the streets, where children can play.

Documentary
UK, Ministry of Information 
In English 

воскресенье, 8 ноября 2015 г.

The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972)




Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Mark Dightam, Robert Eddison, Helen Weir, Lem Dobbs, Brian Worth, Esmond Knight, Laurence Carter, Patrick McAlinney

John turns yellow one day while travelling on the Underground, then meets a yellow man who travels via electricity and might just be able to help John rescue his lost mouse from the Tower of London.

UK, Children's Film Foundation (CFF)
In English
 

четверг, 5 ноября 2015 г.

Turumba (1981)


Director & Writer: Kidlat Tahimik
Stars: Homer Abiad, Iñigo Vito, Maria Pehipol, Patricio Abari, Bernarda Pacheco, Katrin Luise, Claudia Aderes, Johnny Ching, Riri Afuang

Set in a tiny Philippine village, the inimitable Kidlat Tahimik's film focuses on a family that makes papier-mache animals to sell during the traditional Turumba festivities. One year, a German department store buyer purchases all their stock. When she returns with an order for 500 more (this time with the word "Oktoberfest" painted on them), the family's seasonal occupation becomes year-round alienated labor.  Increased production, however creates inflated needs.  Soon, virtually the whole village has gone to work on a jungle assembly line, turning out papier-mache mascots for the Munich Olympics.  Long before the town band learns to play "Deutschland Uber Alles", the fabric of village life has been torn asunder.  The ironies of capitalism on the margin - Coca-Cola ads amid the shanties and ancient rituals - make easy targets for Tahimik's wit.  But his sharp eye never makes him seem bitter.  Here, as in Perfumed Nightmare, Tahimik demonstrates great affection for his subjects, without stooping to romanticism.

Philippines
Tagalog + English hardsubs

среда, 4 ноября 2015 г.

Schlafes Bruder (1995)


Schlafes Bruder / Brother of Sleep

Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Stars: André Eisermann, Dana Vávrová, Ben Becker, Conradin Blum, Daniel Lins, Jochen Nickel, Peter Franke
 
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love to music, especially to playing the organ at the local church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds. Elias falls in platonic love with Elsbeth, the sister of Peter, a neighbor's son, who has loving feelings towards Elias ever since. After Elsbeth marries someone else, Elias (aged 22) decides to end his life by not sleeping anymore.

Germany
In German (third audio) + English subs (.srt)
 

вторник, 3 ноября 2015 г.

Okhotnik (2004)



Okhotnik / The Hunter

Director: Serik Aprimov
Stars: Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev, Gulnazid Omarova, Alibek Zhuasbaev

In an isolated village in the Kazakhstan mountains, Erken, a boy of 12, lives with his mother, a beautiful and alluring single woman. One night, when the mother is visited by a hunter, Erken steals the latters horse and his gun to hold up a shop. Sought by the police, he is found by the hunter who gives him a choice: to go to prison or to go and live with him in the mountains. Thus begins a voyage of initiation, in the course of which the hunter tries to pass on his taste for and understanding of life.

Kazakhstan
In Kazakh, with English, French, Dutch subs (embed)
 

воскресенье, 1 ноября 2015 г.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1995)



Director: Marcus Cole
Stars: Lauren Bacall, Jean Marie Barnwell, Jesse Lee Soffer, Devon Gummersall, Miriam Flynn, Mark L. Taylor, M. Emmet Walsh, Del Hunter-White, Warren Munson, Everett Wong

Two runaway kids hide in a museum. Once they are locked inside overnight, they try to solve a mystery about a statue supposedly carved by Michaelangelo, known as "The Angel". Will they solve the mystery in time?

USA
In English
 

суббота, 31 октября 2015 г.

Mababangong bangungot (1977)


Mababangong bangungot / Perfumed Nightmare

Director & Writer: Kidlat Tahimik
Stars: Kidlat Tahimik, Mang Fely, Dolores Santamaria, Georgette Baudry, Katrin Muller, Hartmut Lerch
 
A Filipino jitney driver (Kidlat Tahimik) who idolizes America's space program comes to reject the rapid encroachment of technology. A kind of semi-autobiographical documentary.

Philippines
In English, with English subs (.srt)
 

вторник, 27 октября 2015 г.

Vstuplenie (1962)



Vstuplenie / Introduction / Introduction to Life

Director: Igor Talankin
Stars: Boris Tokarev, Nina Urgant, Yuri Volkov, Nikolay Burlyaev, Natalya Bogunova, Valeriy Nosik, Natalya Tseligorova, Arkadi Trusov, Vija Artmane
 
Introduction to Life is a 1962 Soviet film about World War II seen through the eyes of a young boy from Leningrad. It won a Special Jury Prize a Venice Film Festival.

Soviet Union
In Russian, with English subs (.srt)
 

воскресенье, 25 октября 2015 г.

Avaeté upgrade

German dubbed better quality version of Avaeté - Semente da Vingança (1985) has been added.


Beasts of No Nation (2015)


Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Stars: Abraham Attah, Idris Elba, Emmanuel Affadzi, Ricky Adelayitor, Andrew Adote, Vera Nyarkoah Antwi, Ama K. Abebrese

In West Africa, the life of young Agu (Abraham Attah) is disrupted when his father is slaughtered in a civil war and he is inscripted as a child soldier into a mercenary unit led by the sadistic Commandant (Idris Elba).

USA, Netflix
In English + Russian, English, Portuguese subs

четверг, 22 октября 2015 г.

The Tin Star (1957)




Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michel Ray, Neville Brand, John McIntire, Lee Van Cleef

A cynical former sheriff turned bounty hunter helps a young, recently appointed acting sheriff with his advice, his experience and his gun.

USA
In English, with English subs (SDH)
 

J'ai voulu rire comme les autres (1980)


J'ai voulu rire comme les autres / Im letzten Sommer des Krieges

Director & Writer: Bernard Dubois
Stars: Julien Dubois, Agathe Vannier, Alexandre Ulysse, Bernard Dubois, Jean Balsamo, Jean-Claude Boyer, Marc-Olivier Barthelemy

Summer vacation of six young boys and their friends 1917 in France.

***
Auch im letzten Jahr des Ersten Weltkrieges verbringen sechs französische Jungen im Pubertätsalter die Sommerferien am Meer. Da die Väter beim Militär und die Mütter in Lazaretten dienstverpflichtet sind, sind die Kinder sich allein überlassen und spielen Krieg, wobei sie ihre Stärken und Schwächen entdecken. Von einem Erzähler in väterlichem Ton kommentierte psychologische Studie, die die kindlichen Reaktionen auf Kriegsgrausamkeiten bisweilen zu mild-nachsichtig belächelt und sich damit der Gefahr distanzloser Romantisierung aussetzt.


France
German dubbed
 

среда, 21 октября 2015 г.

Elmer (1976)


Director & Writer: Christopher Cain
Stars: Lynn Perry, Dean Cain, Phillip Swanson, Frank Russell, Charlotte Dill, James McCall, Janice Chamberlin, Wallace M. Dill, Bernard Sell, Mike Hanks, James Reidy, David Griffiths
 
In this family-oriented wilderness adventure, a young boy survives a plane crash but is temporarily blinded, making it impossible for him to find his way through the woods. Fortunately, a friendly and lost hound dog shows up to help him survive.

USA
In English (second audio)
 

понедельник, 19 октября 2015 г.

Mondzirkus (1989)


Mondzirkus / Circus on the Moon

Directors: Imre Gyöngyössy, Barna Kabay, Katalin Petényi

Stars: Hannelore Elsner, Ishrat Ismail, Harshana Jayawardene, Johann Cooke, Neil Karunaratne, Daniel Reich

This West German / Sri Lankan political allegory directed by Imre Gyongyossy takes place in Sri Lanka. In the story, the Moslem-Buddhist civil war has driven a locally born boy to hide out in a traveling circus which his white mother helps run. The fantastic nature of this story is borne out by the condition of the boy's mother, who survived the Nazi death camps and yet, in the 1980s, looks like a young woman. Despite the fragile refuge offered by the circus, the civil war begins to affect the lives of the performers. One feature of this otherwise perplexing film is the appearance in it of such musicians as Ian Kojima (from Dire Straits) and Glen Morrow.

Hungary | West Germany
In German

MKV 2.32 Gb 1:39:13
AVC, 720x508 (3:2), 25.000 fps
AAC LC, 48.0 KHz, 2 ch

воскресенье, 18 октября 2015 г.

Hkhagoroloi Bohu Door (1995)



Hkhagoroloi Bohu Door / It's A Long Way To The Sea

Director & Writer: Jahnu Barua
Stars: Bishnu Kharghoria, Sushanta Barooah, Baruah, Jatin Bora, Mirel, Arun Nath, Kashmiri Saikia

The story revolves around a boatman who earns his living by sailing boat in the nearby ghats. Problem arises when the government decides to construct a bridge on it which will deprive his earnings. His son who lives in city wants his father only to take care of their property.

India
In Assamese, with English hardsubs
 

суббота, 17 октября 2015 г.

A Lang de gu shi (1989)



A Lang de gu shi / All About Ah-Long

Director: Johnnie To
Stars: Yun-Fat Chow, Sylvia Chang, Kun-Hsuan Huang, Man Tat Ng, Tian-Lin Wang, Galen Yu, Sin Hung Tam

Chow Yun-fat plays Ah-Long, a father living a low-class lifestyle, while trying to raise his son, Porky. The strong bond between father and son is tested when a chance encounter from Ah-Long's ex-girlfriend changes the course of their lives.

Hong Kong
In Cantonese, with English subs (.srt)
 

пятница, 16 октября 2015 г.

La mano dello straniero (1954)


La mano dello straniero / The Stranger's Hand

Director: Mario Soldati
Stars: Trevor Howard, Alida Valli, Richard O'Sullivan, Trevor Howard, Richard Basehart, Stephen Murray, Arnoldo Foà

Young Roger arrives in Venice to see his father, a British major serving in Trieste. When they did not manage to meet, a series of investigations reveals a murky affair involving kidnapped people. Roger manages to be the key in saving his father from his sure, tragic fate.

Story by Graham Greene, music by Nino Rota.

UK | Italy
In English
 

четверг, 15 октября 2015 г.

Kogda ya stanu velikanom (1978)


Kogda ya stanu velikanom / When I Will Become a Giant

Director: Inna Tumanyan
Stars: Mikhail Efremov, Liya Akhedzhakova, Inna Ulyanova, Marina Shimanskaya, Oleg Efremov, Vladimir Kachan, Natalya Sezeman, Aleksey Dmitriev

The hero of the film, school student Peter Kopeikin, argues that concepts such as courage, nobility and honor are not unique to the times of cloak and dagger, but today. Choosing a role model hero known play Edmond Rostand, in his actions, he tries to sound like Cyrano de Bergerac.

Soviet Union
In Russian

среда, 14 октября 2015 г.

Bibi chelchele (1986)


Director: Kiumars Poorahmad
Stars: Davoud Rashidi, Ali Reza Shoja-Nuri, Arash Mir Ahmadi, Habib Allahyari, Siamak Atlassi, Abbas Mokhtari, Masoomeh Taghipour

Based on the novel  "My Sweet Orange Tree" by José Mauro de Vasconcelos.
Majid lives with his mother in his bad-tempered stepfather's house. He gets on Javad's lorry secretly but the trucker scolds and beats him. Hating Javad, Majid promises to kill him. He goes to a trainer  to get ready and confides in a tree. Javad realises Majid's emotional needs and they form a deep friendship after a while.

Iran
In Persian, with English subs (in .mkv)
 

понедельник, 12 октября 2015 г.

Bergkristall (2004)


Bergkristall / Rock Crystal

Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Stars: Dana Vávrová, Daniel Morgenroth, François Goeske, Josefina Vilsmaier, Max Tidof, Christian Nickel, Jürgen Schornagel, Tom Wlaschiha, Lukas Nathrath, Theresa Vilsmaier,   Josefina Vilsmaier, Frederick Lau

Some stories are so beautiful, that you never forget them. In a modern winter sport resort, a pastor tells a family from the city about the Christmas legend of the magical "rock crystal": despite a centuries old feud between the villages Gschaid and Millsdorf, the shoemaker Sebastian and Susanne, the daughter of the local dyer, fall in love. However, the people of Gschaid consider Susanne to be an arrogant Millsdorfer and subject her to their prejudices and hate. Heartbroken and leaving behind her children, the 13-year-old Konrad and the II-year-old Sanna, she leaves Gschaid and returns to her parents. The siblings desperately hope that the magic of the rock crystal, which is said to reunite loved ones, will help bring their parents back together again. When the children get lost in the snowy mountains after visiting their mother on Christmas Eve, the two rival villages come together again.

Germany
In German
 

воскресенье, 11 октября 2015 г.

O (2006)




Director: Pieter-Jan De Pue
Cast: Sidndey Kenedy de Lima Ferreira, Antonio de Oliveira Pereira, Eran De Vlam, Celestes De Vlam, Jan Haegens, Claudio Graisman, Koedn Dejaeger

It is a creative documentary about a research for water in a society built on lines and line structures. Two people are standing in the middle of a desert, they are looking for water. Time is getting scarce. Speed. In what way can lines play a role in increasing speed?

Belgium
No dialogue
 

пятница, 9 октября 2015 г.

El verano de la señora Forbes (1988)


El verano de la señora Forbes / The Summer of Miss Forbes

Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Francisco Gattorno, Alexis Castanares, Víctor César Villalobos, Guadalupe Sandoval, Fernando Balzaretti, Yuriria Munguía, Roberto Perdomo, Alejandro Herrero

Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and repressive, so the children plan to murder her. But when they spy on her during the night, they discover Mrs. Forbes' secret.

Cuba | Mexico | Spain
In Spanish, with English hardsubs

Terrain vague (1960)


Terrain vague / Wasteland

Director: Marcel Carné
Stars: Danièle Gaubert, Roland Lesaffre, Maurice Caffarelli, Constantin Andrieu, Jean-Louis Bras, Dominique Dieudonné, Denise Vernac, Claudine Auger
 
For the rebellious youngsters on a deprived Parisian housing estate, home is not a tiny room in a cramped apartment but a place amongst the shattered ruins of a derelict factory on a barren wasteland nearby.  Their true family are not the dreary grown-ups who abuse and threaten them, but the other members of their gang, who are united in open rebellion against the adult world.  The leader of the gang is Dan, a strong-headed teenage girl, almost a woman, who has earned the respect of her rough male cohorts.   Babar is the gang’s latest eager recruit, although it is with trepidation that he faces the daunting initiation test.  All is well until a hot-headed juvenile, Marcel, pushes his way into the gang, having escaped from a youth rehabilitation centre.  Having alienated Dan, he persuades the other members of the gang to join him in holding up a petrol station.  The scheme falls through and Marcel runs off in disgust.  The rest of the gang find two easy scapegoats for this failure – Babar and Lucky, Dan’s boyfriend – and set about instigating their own idea of justice...

France
In French, with English subs (.srt)
 

среда, 7 октября 2015 г.

V moey smerti proshu vinit Klavu K. (1979)


V moey smerti proshu vinit Klavu K. / I Ask to Accuse Klava K. of My Death

Directors: Nikolay Lebedev, Ernest Yasan
Stars: Nadezhda Gorshkova, Vladimir Shevelkov, Natalya Zhuravlyova, Maksim Yasan, Andrei Musatov, Yelena Khopshonosova, Olga Ozeretskovskaya, Vladimir Sidorov, Anton Granat, Lyubov Polishchuk, Venyamin Smekhov, Viktor Kostetskiy, Lyubov Malinovskaya

Klava and Seryozha (Sergey) have been together since preschool. He, one of the smartest kids in school, has always been in love with her but considered her more of just a pretty face rather than an intelligent person. He let her copy his homework and gave her his parents' things as gifts. When they are teens, Klava rejects his love because she knows that he doesn't value her for her, and instead is attracted to Lavrik, another intelligent boy from school. Klava likes him because for the first time she feels like someone is really interested in her as a person. Seryoszha, being very dramatic and wanting Klava's/everyone else's sympathy, writes a suicide note, "Please blame Klava K. for my death," but can he really commit suicide? Eventually he realizes that he is being too shallow and that while he makes such a drama out of such small problems, the people around him have real problems, but never said a thing.

Soviet Union
In Russian, with English subs (.srt in the archives)
 

Baby Bible Bashers (2008)


Director: Amelia Hann
Stars: Steven Cree (narrator), Samuel Boutwell, Terry Durham, Ana Carolina Dias

Follows the stories of three young children who preach the word of the Lord.

UK, Channel 4
In English