воскресенье, 10 ноября 2024 г.

Kekec (1951)

 



Director: Joze Gale
Stars: Matija Barl, Frane Milcinski, Franc Presetnik, Zdenka Logar, Modest Sancin, Lojze Potokar, Vida Levstik, Alenka Lobnikar, Joze Mlakar, Luka Erzen

High in the mountains, Bedanec leads his solitary life as a widely feared and wicked man. The brave boy Kekec is not afraid of him. When he learns Bedanec victimizes Mojca and Kosobrin in his house, Kekec sets out to find them. With his courage and cunning, he sets them free and forces Bedanec to leave for good.

Yugoslavia
In Slovenian, with English subs (embed)
 

суббота, 9 ноября 2024 г.

Two Sundays (1975)

 


Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: Alan Bates, Dinsdale Landen, Georgina Hale, Rosemary Martin, Stephen Grover, Andrew Burleigh, Benjamin Whitrow, Simon Cadell, Victor Langley

Two boys at school in the 1950s. Two professional men in their dubious prime today. Two Sundays and two crises. What have they to do with each other and which child is father of the man?

Part of BBC's Play for Today, first aired Oct 21, 1975

UK
In English, with English subs (.srt in the archive)
 

Astrakan (2022)

 



Director: David Depesseville
Stars: Mirko Giannini, Jehnny Beth, Bastien Bouillon, Theo Costa-Marini, Lorine Delin, Nathael Bertrand, Cameron Bertrand, Olivier Nughues

Story of young Samuel, a traumatized orphan on the cusp of teenagehood trying to adjust to life with his new, rural foster family, headed by the overwhelmed but sympathetic Marie and the violent Clement.

France
In French, with English subs (embed)
 

пятница, 8 ноября 2024 г.

Paganini (1989)

 



Director & Writer: Klaus Kinski
Stars: Klaus Kinski, Debora Caprioglio (as Debora Kinski), Nikolai Kinski, Dalila Di Lazzaro, André Thorent, Eva Grimaldi, Marcel Marceau, Bernard Blier, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Tosca D'Aquino

A biography of Italian violinist Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840). Based on his life and career, it was Kinski's only film as director as well as his final acting appearance before his death in 1991; Kinski felt that he and Paganini had led similar lives, and both gave "demonic" performances in their own fields that often sparked great controversy.
 

воскресенье, 3 ноября 2024 г.

Girl Model (2011)

 



Directors: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin
Stars: Ashley Arbaugh, Rachel Blais, Olivia Arben, Tigran Khachatrian, Nadya Vall

British documentary about model industry through the eyes of a 13-year-old Siberian girl and the American scout who discovered her. It follows a complex global supply chain of young girls sent abroad to seek their fortunes in the unregulated and often murky world of the modeling industry.

UK
In English, Russian & Japanese
With English hardsubs for non English parts
 

суббота, 2 ноября 2024 г.

Samba Traoré (1992)

 



Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo
Stars: Bakary Sangaré, Mariam Kaba, Abdoulaye Komboudri, Irène Tassembedo, Moumouni Campaoré, Sibidou Ouédraogo, Krin Casimir Traoré, Firmine Coulebaly, Hyppolite Ouangrawa

Samba Traore returns to his village flush with funds. Soon enough he manages to charm the beautiful Saratou into marrying him and, along with another friend, builds the first bar their village has ever seen. But his conscience keeps nagging him and the police are on the lookout for the "gas station murderer."

Burkina Faso | France | Switzerland
In Mooré, with Russian & English subs (.srt in the archive)
 

воскресенье, 27 октября 2024 г.

Midori harukani (1955)

 



Midori harukani / 緑はるかに / The Green Music Box

Director: Umetsugu Inoue
Stars: Ruriko Asaoka, Sôichi Asanuma, Fumio Nagai, Noriko Watanabe, Ishii Hideaki, Minoru Takada, Kenjirô Uemura, Toshiyuki Ichimura, Furankî Sakai, Ichirô Arishima, Kyôko Akemi

A children's musical fantasy based on the novel by Makoto Hojo. A child's music box becomes the hiding place for a secret formula sought by spies, in a road movie adventure that launches when the girl Ruriko goes in search of her kidnapped parents, accompanied by three boys she meets along the way.

Japan
In Japanese, with English subs (embed)
 

четверг, 24 октября 2024 г.

Hndzan (1973)

 


Hndzan / Հնձան / Sour Grapes / Терпкий виноград

Director: Bagrat Oganesyan
Stars: Araik Isahakyan, Sos Sargsyan, H. Azizyan, Alla Tumanian, Vruyr Panoyan, Gurgen Janibekyan, Galya Novents, Azat Sherents, Ovanes Vanyan

During the Great Patriotic War, far behind the frontline young Vahe receives the news of his father's death. Small boy neither could accept it nor reconcile himself with the new family of his mother who married to another man. The boy prefers to live with his handicapped uncle and every day visits the railway station waiting the trains coming from the frontline.

Soviet Union | Armenia
In Armenian, with Spanish & English subs (embed)