вторник, 7 января 2020 г.

Qyteti më i ri në botë (1974)



Qyteti më i ri në botë / The Newest City in the World

Director: Xhanfize Keko (as Xhanfise Keko)
Stars: Roza Anagnosti, Ilia Shyti, Alket Mato, Saimir Koka, Genc Basha, Aurora Kati, Qiriako Faniko, Selma Sotillari, Mira Bedalli

Little Fatmir, whose parents have worked in a construction site, dreams of building himself a town. In his efforts to make his dream a reality, the kindergarten teacher and a workman who brings in working tools for all his friends, assist him. Within the courtyard of a kindergarten, the newest town in the world is thus erected, where children's dreams and characters are revealed.

Albania
In Albanian, with English subs (.srt)

воскресенье, 5 января 2020 г.

A che servono questi quattrini? (1942)




A che servono questi quattrini? / What is money for?

Director: Esodo Pratelli
Stars: Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino De Filippo, Clelia Matania, Paolo Stoppa, Nerio Bernardi, Augusto Di Giovanni, Edwige Maul, Italia Marchesini, Nino Vingelli

An elderly Marquis, having squandered all his fortune, begins a life as a vagabond philosopher and collects a small group of disciples to whom he teaches his thesis on the futility of work and of money.

Italy
In Italian, with Italian and English subs (embed)

суббота, 4 января 2020 г.

Siroko je lisce (1981)



Siroko je lisce / Široko Je Lišće / Broad Are the Leaves

Director: Petar Latinovic
Stars: Mira Banjac, Bekim Fehmiu, Ljubisa Samardzic, Jadranka Selec, Ksenija Martinov, Ivan Hajtl, Ljuba Kulikova, Tatjana Lukjanova

The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. A young journalist gets appointed to shoot a film report about the participants in the Liberation War from this area. In Srem village she meets common, simple people. She discovers that a free territory and a Partisan school was there. She also finds out that everybody acted as one. Deply going through all of those events, young reporter grows mature, identifying herself with the revolution participants.

Yugoslavia
In Serbo-Croatian, with Russian subs (.srt at opensubtitles)

четверг, 2 января 2020 г.

Astghayin amar / Starry Summer (1978)



Astghayin amar / Աստղային ամառ / Звёздное лето / Starry Summer

Director: Levon Grigoryan
Stars: Migran Kechoglyan, Husik Muradyan, Leonard Sarkisov, Levon Sharafyan, Azat Sherents, A. Vardanyan

Google translated: A French boy, the son of an astrophysicist, came to Armenia from Paris. His father came to work at the observatory, and identifies his son in a regular pioneer camp. But this does not quite suit the curious hero. He wants to get acquainted personally with the life of a new country for him. Friends at the pioneer camp undertake to show the guest the beauty of Armenia and its capital Yerevan. Children run away from the camp in the hope of independently reaching the city and experiencing a lot of adventures along the way. A physical training instructor and a pioneer leader are sent to search for them. Funny situations await children and adults ...

Soviet Union (Armenfilm)
In Russian, with quite a lot of dialogues in French

среда, 1 января 2020 г.

Robinson soll nicht sterben (1957)



Robinson soll nicht sterben / The Legend of Robinson Crusoe / The Girl and the Legend

Director: Josef von Báky
Stars: Romy Schneider, Horst Buchholz, Erich Ponto, Mathias Wieman, Roland Kaiser, Wolfgang Condrus, Urs Hess, Magda Schneider, Gustav Knuth, Rudolf Vogel, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Günther Lüders, Heinrich Gretler

London, in 1730. Charly, Jim and Ben work hard, with the brave Maud, in a cotton mill to earn a few shillings. They all dream of the wonderful island told by Daniel Defoe. The latter lives in a miserable room. He is disgraced and rejected by his son Tom, a scoundrel who blames his father for losing his position at the Court...

West Germany
In German, with Russian and English subs (.srt in the archive)

вторник, 17 декабря 2019 г.

George Washington (2000)



Director: David Gordon Green
Stars: Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden, Damian Jewan Lee, Curtis Cotton III, Rachael Handy, Paul Schneider, Eddie Rouse, Janet Taylor, Derricka Rolle, Ebony Jones

A group of children, in a depressed small town, band together to cover up a tragic mistake one summer.

USA
In English, with English subs (embed)

воскресенье, 15 декабря 2019 г.

Kevade (1969)



Kevade / Spring

Director: Arvo Kruusement
Stars: Arno Liiver, Riina Hein, Aare Laanemets, Margus Lepa, Leonhard Merzin, Ain Lutsepp, Rein Aedma, Kalle Eomois, Raul Haaristo, Heiki Koort, Endel Ani

Semi-autobiographical story by Oskar Luts about friendship, love and life in a small Estonian country boarding school in the turn of the the 20th century.

Soviet Union - Estonia
In Estonian
Subtitles: English, Estonian, German, Russian, Finnish, Swedish (embed)

четверг, 12 декабря 2019 г.

The Winslow Boy (1948)




Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Robert Donat, Neil North, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford, Margaret Leighton, Kathleen Harrison, Francis L. Sullivan, Marie Lohr, Jack Watling, Walter Fitzgerald, Frank Lawton, Nicholas Hannen

First adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play by the same name (1946). In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

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

понедельник, 9 декабря 2019 г.

Si Muero Antes de Despertar (1952)



Si Muero Antes de Despertar / If I Should Die Before I Wake

Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen
Stars: Néstor Zavarce, Blanca del Prado, Floren Delbene, Homero Cárpena, Enrique de Pedro, Virginia Romay, Marisa Núñez, Maria A. Troncoso, Marta Quintela

The plot centers on Lucio Santana, a lovable prankster and class clown whose dad happens to be a detective working on the serial killings of local children. When Lucho makes friends with a girl in his class, she divulges to him that a man who lives in the woods near the park has been giving her free lollipops, and plans to take her to his candy house. But she makes Lucho vow never to tell anyone. When the girl winds up murdered, Lucho is torn between honoring his word to his slain friend, or telling his father that he knows who the man is.

Argentina
In Spanish, with English hardsubs

суббота, 7 декабря 2019 г.

Genesi: La creazione e il diluvio (1994)




Genesi: La creazione e il diluvio / Genesis: The Creation and the Flood

Director & Writer: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Paul Scofield (voice), Annabi Abdelialil, Omero Antonutti, Sabir Aziz, B. Haddan Mohammed, Haddou Zoubida

Genesis: The Creation and the Flood is a 1994 television film shot in Morocco, directed by an Italian film director, renowned Ermanno Olmi. It is based on the Book of Genesis, first book of the Hebrew Bible, where creation of the world and Great Flood are described. This film utilizes a cast of native Bedouins. Text of Genesis is read by a narrator, who at times appears as an elderly desert nomad telling the story to his extended Bedouin family.

Italy
English dubbed, with English and Spanish subs (.sub/idx in the archive)