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Rare and forgotten films, children in cinema, films about the first love and growing up.


 

Monday, June 22, 2020

Som havets nakna vind / One Swedish Summer. 1968.

Som havets nakna vind / One Swedish Summer. 1968.Som havets nakna vind / One Swedish Summer. 1968.
 SE. …som havets nakna vind är en svensk komedi- och dramafilm från 1968 i regi av Ulf Palme och Gunnar Höglund. I rollerna ses bland andra Hans Gustafsson, Lillemor Ohlson och Barbro Hiort af Ornäs.
Den unge Leander är en lyckad student i Schweiz, men på det erotiska området går det desto sämre. Han reser tillbaka till Sverige och tillbringar sommaren på sin mors herrgård i en Östersjövik. Där vänder den erotiska lyckan och träffar han en rad kvinnor med vilka han har sexuellt umgänge.
EN. One Swedish Summer is a forgotten gem from the days when skilled directors were at the helm of exploitation films.
Story of only boy in home living with his mother and other female relatives In an early scene, he gets up from his bed completely naked and stands in front of his elder relatives in order to prove he is a grown man, and then his teenage sister comes dancing into the room with her transistor radio pressed to her ear, but upon seeing her brother’s nudity she forgets the music and develops a serious lust for him. He then has a sexual encounter with a female by the sea on the rocks as his also naked sister watches with obvious jealousy.
Days later, swimming nude again, he runs smack dab into the Nordic trio of cuties, all of whom, as we see through flashbacks, have developed odd sexual hangups, one of whom being raped by a priest which causes her to re-enact the scenario for pleasure again and again, and eventually does so with our hero, in a perverse scene that is quite out of place in this otherwise conservative yet butt-naked-flesh-everywhere film. Eventually, the sister’s lust boils over and the siblings are close to giving in to desire...
Director: Gunnar Höglund.
Cast: Hans Gustafsson, Lillemor Ohlsson, Barbro Hiort af Ornas, Gudrun Brost, Gio Petre, Birger Malmsten, Anne Kulle, Ingrid Swedin, Barbro Hedstrom, Charlie Elvegård.
Sweden, West Germany, 1968.
Language: Swedish.
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Som havets nakna vind / One Swedish Summer. 1968.
Som havets nakna vind / One Swedish Summer. 1968.

Le surdoue. 1997.

Le surdoue. 1997.
Vincent Leblanc, douze ans, n'est pas un enfant tout a fait comme les autres : il a un quotient intellectuel largement superieur a la moyenne. Solitaire, il passe beaucoup de temps a reflechir. Son exceptionnelle faculte d'analyse lui permet de comprendre instantanement ceux qui l'entourent. C'est ainsi qu'il devine le malaise qui croit entre ses parents. Son pere, artisan en faillite, vit tres mal la reussite de sa femme, veritable «wonder woman» a qui tout semble reussir. Il se sent depossede de son role de chef de famille. Vincent apprend, en outre, qu'il n'a pas paye le loyer depuis un an. Il decide de voler a son secours et de reunir la somme necessaire. Ses resultats scolaires commencent a baisser, ce qui aggrave la discorde entre ses parents...
Director: Alain Bonnot.
Cast: Charlotte de Turckheim, Yves Renier, Anthony Decadi, Christian Barbier, Sylvie Joly, Veronica Dimos, Lea Francois, Hervé Jouval, Maude Rayer, Laura Martel, Salem Zeramdini.
France, 1997.
Language: French.
Le surdoue. 1997.
Le surdoué. 1997.


La bouche de Jean-Pierre. 1996.


La bouche de Jean-Pierre. 1996.DESPITE its weighty mood, "La Bouche de Jean-Pierre" manages to avoid any notable insights into its serious subject matter. Mimi, a young French girl, is in the aftershock of her mother's attempted suicide. No father is in the picture. She suffers neglect when she goes to live with her Aunt Solange in a highrise ghetto, and sleazy advances from her Aunt's boyfriend, Jean-Pierre. Added to these themes of depression, physical and sexual abuse, are those of pornography, racism, and the perversity of a pill-pushing society. With weak dialogue and a lack of clear direction, none of these themes are developed, let alone given an interesting or sensitive spin. The dull quality of acting barely inspires the sympathy for Mimi that might have rendered the end poignant if predictable.
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic.
Cast: Sandra Sammartino, Denise Aron-Schropfer, Michel Trillot, Delphine Allange, Françoise Pironneau.
France, 1996.
Language French.
Subtitles: Russian, English.
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La bouche de Jean-Pierre. 1996.
La bouche de Jean-Pierre. 1996.

L'uomo che verrà / The Man Who Will Come. 2009.

L'uomo che verrà / The Man Who Will Come. 2009.
Winter 1943. Martina is small child, who stopped talking since the death of her infant brother some years before. She lives in a rural area of central Italy. Her mother is pregnant again and Martina lives for the arrival of her new brother. Meanwhile, the war is getting closer and closer, forcing the people of the village to tread a difficult path, torn between the partisan brigades and the Nazi Army. On practically the same day as the birth of Martina's brother, the SS start a massive roundup of civilians in the area, an infamous event that will come to be known as the Marzabotto massacre during which more than 1700 people were killed in houses, cemeteries and churches.
Director: Giorgio Diritti.
Italy, 2009.
Language: Italian, Russian.
Subtitles: Russian, English.
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L'uomo che verrà / The Man Who Will Come. 2009.
L'uomo che verrà / The Man Who Will Come. 2009.

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Pějme píseň dohola. 1990. DVD.


Воспеваем будни без прикрас / Pějme píseň dohola. 1990. DVD.
 K prvním citovým i sexuálním zážitkům lze přijít různě, docela spolehlivé bývaly zejména pionýrské tábory, hojně pořádané za minulého režimu. Zjišťuje i poněkud vykulený praktikant, jenž se jedné takové akce účastní. Vznikla nahořklá komedie, zajisté přesná v jednotlivých detailech a postihující obvyklé táborové stereotypy, avšak v celkovém vyznění tvůrci - scénář napsali Jan Hřebejk a Petr Jarchovský - zápolí s určitým výrazovým zmatněním. Snímek režiséra (a později hlavně producenta) Ondřeje Trojana provázel až nespravedlivě přehlíživý postoj publika.
Director: Ondřej Trojan.
Cast: Václav Chalupa, Ulrika Kotajná, Ladislav Brothánek, Jan Procházka, Radek Říha, Jiří Strach, Jitka Andělová, Aňa Geislerová, Martin Janouš, Andrea Sousedíková, Jan Semotán, Karel Huráb, Karel Sládek, Jiří Šašek, Jiří Remeš, Martin Chmátal, Tereza Hubená, Robert Hudecký.
Czechoslovakia, 1990.
Language: Czech, Russian.
Subtitles: Czech.
DVD9.
Bonuses: photos, interviews, trailers.
Menu animated, voiced.
3 audio tracks:
Audio 1: AC3, 2/0 ch, 192 Kbps, Russian.
Audio 2: AC3, 2/0 ch, 224 Kbps Czech.
Audio 3: AC3, 3/2+LFE ch, 448 Kbps, Czech.
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Воспеваем будни без прикрас / Pějme píseň dohola. 1990. DVD.
Pějme píseň dohola. 1990. DVD.

Kindergarten. 1989.

Kindergarten. 1989.
 Very weird and obscure Argentinian Film made in 1989 and it was banned from theaters one day short of its release and has remained unreleased in Argentina for over 20 years.
The movie focuses on the marriage of Graciela and Arturo, who operate a kindergarten in their mansion. They live with Graciela's widowed mother, Luisa. Graciela is particularly keen on one boy, Luciano, on whom she makes sexual advances.
As the movie progresses, the relationship between Graciela and Arturo tenses. Scenes show them celebrating kids' birthdays while having sex in hiding, practicing a ritualistic burning of a wrecked car, mistreating their comatose grandfather (victim of said car wreck) and generally torturing Luciano.
The end has Luciano imprisoning and gassing Graciela and Arturo, and then escaping with Luisa on a horse-drawn carriage.
Director: Jorge Polaco.
Cast: Graciela Borges, Arturo Puig, Luisa Vehil, Elvira Romei, Luciano Sanguineri, Cecilia Etchegaray, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Eithel Bianco, Margot Moreyra, Eleonora Berlante, Micaela Brandoni.
Argentina, 1989.
Language: Spanish.
Kindergarten. 1989.
 Kindergarten. 1989.

Impudicizia / Perversion A Un Menor / Games of Desire. 1990.

Impudicizia / Perversion A Un Menor / Games of Desire. 1990.
Florentine is a young, beautiful and passionate woman with a desire for love. Feeling abandoned by her husband's impotency, she searches for outside affection and seduction within brief, but often passionate encounters. During this web of desire she encounters Dorothy. Unknown to Florentine she is her husband's accomplice. In this twisted, frenzied fantasy her husband Jake becomes excited and aroused by the seduction of his wife. With his secret darkrooms and two-way mirrors he begins to desire his wife once more. Florentine, with the help of their adopted son, discovers his world of distorted fantasy. Amazed, but realising that Jake still loves her, she must act.
Director: Pasquale Fanetti.
Cast: Malu, Branki dj Uric, Lidija Zovkic, Negic Slobodan, Izudin Bajrovic.
Italy, 1990.
Language: Italian.
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Impudicizia / Perversion A Un Menor / Games of Desire. 1990.
Impudicizia / Perversion A Un Menor / Games of Desire. 1990.


Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Le tombeau des filles / The Girls' Grave. 2011.

Le tombeau des filles / The Girls' Grave. 2011.
 Sissi and Victoria are sisters. Whereas the younger is slowly emerging from the world of childhood, the elder tries in vain to be a grown up. In the room they share, Sissi is preparing for her gymnastic competition and Victoria has boys coming and going.
Director: Carmen Jaquier.
Cast: Sharon Oberson, Anissa Cadelli, Vincent Weber, Etienne Garachon, Paul Ferens.
Switzerland, Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne, 2011.
Awards:
Geneve, Cinema Tous Ecrans Festival, Reflet d'Or du meilleur court metrage suisse 2011.
Locarno, Festival del film Locarno, Pardino d'argento (Concorso nazionale) 2011.
Language: French.
Le tombeau des filles / The Girls' Grave. 2011.
Le tombeau des filles / The Girls' Grave. 2011.

Monday, June 15, 2020

Matana MiShamayim / Gift From Above. 2003.

 Matana MiShamayim / Gift From Above. 2003.

A film about women and diamonds which determine the fate of the men who desire them. A group of airport porters are planning on stealing 2 sacks of rough diamonds. The diamonds arrive on schedule on commercial flights to the airport. Being that the porters are the first to come in contact with the sacks from the moment they land in the airport, it goes without saying that they will be the first to be interrogated by the police. In order to escape the clutches of the police Bacho, the ring leader, must choose from among the porters two suckers who won't have a choice but to take the wrap and do time in jail. The gang of airport porters reside in a neighborhood adjacent to the airport. The film will take us to their neighborhood in search of these two porters. There in the midst of the love affairs, jealousies, sex and betrayals, Bacho takes advantage of the weaknesses of 2 porters: Punchika - the compulsive gambler, and Otary (Bacho's brother-in-law) - a wife beater, and forces them to... 
Director: Dover Koshashvili.
Cast: Yuval Segal, Rami Heuberger, Moni Moshonov, Ian Fisher, Becky Griffin, Irit Nathan Benedek, Lior Ashkenazi, Ania Bukstein, Orit Cher, Ian Fisher, Dover Koshashvili, Mickey Leon.
Israel, France, 2003.
Language: Hebrew.
Subtitles Russian.
Matana MiShamayim / Gift From Above. 2003.
 Matana MiShamayim / Gift From Above. 2003.

Saturday, June 13, 2020

Novemberkatzen. 1986.

Novemberkatzen. 1986.
 "Novemberkatzen" - so werden die jungen und schwachen Kätzchen genannt, die erst im Herbst zur Welt kommen und die es nach landläufiger Meinung sehr schwer haben. Auch die elfjährige Ilse, die Jüngste in der Familie, merkt schon früh, daß das Leben für sie mit besonderen Schwierigkeiten verbunden ist. Am Rande eines norddeutschen Dorfes, in dem vom Wirtschaftswunder noch wenig zu spüren ist, lebt Ilse mit ihrer Mutter und ihren beiden Brüdern im Gemeindehaus. Ilses Alltag bestimmen Erlebnisse zwischen Dorfschule und Holzschuppen, ihrem kleinen Fluchtort, sowie Tratsch beim Krämer und heimliches Rauchen auf der Müllkippe. Ilse erkennt bald, daß man den Erwachsenen nicht trauen kann und so "verreist" sie auf der Suche nach Geborgenheit ans andere Ende des Dorfes zu ihrer Oma. Doch Vertrauen faßt Ilse nur zur alten Lene, die durch ein Kriegserlebnis geistig verwirrt ist, und zu ihrem kleinen "Novemberkätzchen".
Director: Sigrun Koeppe.
Writers: Mirjam Pressler (novel), Sigrun Koeppe.
Cast: Angela Hunger, Ursela Monn, Katharina Brauren, Robert Zimmerling, Jürgen Vogel, Andreas Kastning, Katja Engelhard, Micaela Kreißler, Peter Heinrich, Andrea Bürgin, Dorothea Carrera, Ingeburg Kanstein.
West Germany, 1986.
Language: German.
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Novemberkatzen. 1986.
Novemberkatzen. 1986.

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Susanne und der Zauberring / Zsuzsi és a varázsgyűrű. 1974.

Susanne und der Zauberring / Zsuzsi és a varázsgyűrű. 1974.
DE. Die zwölfjährige Susanne ist ein bißchen verträumt und fühlt sich von ihren Mitschülern unverstanden. Sie schüttet dem alten Schleusenwärter, der viel Verständnis hat, ihr Herz aus. Er schenkt ihr einen Ring, der die Fähigkeit haben soll, seinem Besitzer zu helfen. Allerdings muß man ihn zu seinem Vertrauten machen. Susanne glaubt fest an seine Zauberkraft, und einige Wünsche erfüllen sich sogar. Sie bekommt eine Eins in Mathe, und ein richtiges Kamel taucht vor ihr auf. Manchmal versagt die Zauberkraft, aber Susanne hat längst begriffen, worin sie besteht. Man muß nur fest an sich glauben. Als eine Elster den Ring stiebitzt, hat sie bereits soviel Selbstvertrauen, daß sie ihn nicht mehr braucht.
EN. The twelve-year old Susanne is a dreamer and feels misunderstood by her classmates. She pours out her heart to an old lock keeper, who understands her well. He gives her a ring, which has the ability to help its owner. Susanne believes greatly in its magic power. Some wishes actually come true but others fail.
Director: Erwin Stranka.
Cast: Monika Wolf, Ronald Geißler, Thomas Kerrat, Olaf Piesker, Reno Tessin, Rolf Hoppe, Klaus-Peter Thiele, Stefan Lisewski, Gudrun Wendler, Angela Brunner.
DDR, DEFA, 1974.
Language: German, Russian.
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Susanne und der Zauberring / Zsuzsi és a varázsgyűrű. 1974.
Susanne und der Zauberring / Zsuzsi és a varázsgyűrű. 1974.