Jacob, the Liar - Jakob der Lügner - (1975)

Trapped in a Polish Ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. In order to be believed, he feigns access to a hidden, strictly forbidden radio. Quickly he becomes a one-man bulwark against despair, a reluctant hero, but a tragic figure still-a man ultimately powerless to see or change the fate of his people. 

Director: Frank Beyer. 

Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Erwin Geschonneck, Henry Hübchen, Blanche Kommerell, Manuela Simon, Dersö Garas, Zsuzsa Gordon, Friedrich Richter, Margit Bara, Armin Mueller-Stahl. 

1975 Berlin International Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Bear.

1977 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

MOVIE LINK WITH ENGLISH SUBS: https://ok.ru/video/2610668505766

Brainwashed - Schachnovelle - (1960)

In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.

Director: Gerd Oswald. AKA Brainwashed

Writers: Stefan Zweig (novel), Harold Medford, Gerd Oswald, Herbert Reinecker.

Stars: Curd Jürgens, Claire Bloom, Hansjörg Felmy, Mario Adorf, Albert Bessler, Rudolf Forster, Alan Gifford, Jan Hendriks, Albert Lieven, Harald Maresch, Dietmar Schönherr, Karel Stepanek, Wolfgang Wahl, Hans Söhnker.

1960 Venice Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Lion.

Curd Jurgens is one of my favorite German actors. Here is Werner von Basil. Later he would portrait Werner von Braun.

Another curious thing is that this movie is based on a novel by the celebrated writer Stefan Zweig.

MOVIE LINK WITH ENGLISH SUBS: https://ok.ru/video/3800131963558

Bástyasétány hetvennégy - Singing on the Treadmill (1974)

Singing on the Treadmill is a surreal operetta parody about the realities of day-to-day socialism. The film is set in a vast garbage dump where, in the depths of a quarry, next to a derelict factory building, two librettists are penning a frothy operetta about the paternalism of Kadarism, its lies, reality perceived through rose tinted glasses and squabbles over a housing allocation. However, their lacquered players are not prepared to bend to their will, they take offence and start demanding independence, rejecting ‘orders from above’ about partners and housing. Gyula Gazdag’s grotesque parody that works on several levels is amusing and dream-like, full of free-flowing associations and remarkable solutions. Citing its “disheartening existentialism”, the authorities banned the film for 10 years.

Director: Gyula Gazdag.

Writers: Gyula Gazdag, Miklós Györffy.

Stars: Evald Schorm, István Iglódi, Lili Monori, Róbert Koltai, Judit Pogány, Sándor Halmágyi, Mari Kiss, Zoltán Papp, Eszter Csákányi, László Helyey, Hédi Temessy, Lajos Öze, Hanna Honthy.

A movie from Hungary

Movie Link with English Subs: https://ok.ru/video/3837588605606

Marcel Proust's Time Regained - Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre - (1999)

A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved mother and grandmother. It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art. The memories parallel the final volume of Proust's novel.

Director

Raúl Ruiz

Stars

Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, Chiara Mastroianni and John Malkovich as Le Baron de Charlus.

Subs: English, Portuguese

LINK : https://youtu.be/FXx04uFCEts

Tokyo Heaven - Tôkyô jôkû irasshaimase- (1990)

A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death.

Director

Shinji Sômai

Writer

Yuhei Enoki

Stars

Kiichi Nakai, Riho Makise, Tsurube Shôfukutei

Subs: English.

LINK: https://youtu.be/_xOiKs116bM

MY CHANNEL REVISTA CINE TV DEVON IS OFFILINE AGAIN -BACK IN MARCH 2025.

 After a few days waiting the second strike to expi
re, the channel is on public mode again.

The library of movies is online.

I have just posted a French movie: Adieu Philippine (Jacques Rozier, 1962).

Crossing fingers for not receiving a new strike.  It is an unfair battle as you all know.

By the way, don´t forget to donate to help the work to continue.

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Happy 2025 !

The Ninth Heart - Deváté srdce - (1979) - MOVIE PUBLIC ON YOUTUBE AND LATER BLOCKED BY THE PLATFORM. SORRY.

Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine children's hearts.

Director

Juraj Herz

Stars

Ondrej Pavelka, Anna Malová, Julie Juristová

Country of origin :Czechoslovakia

The director, Juraj Herz, also directed The Cremator (1969)

Subs: English.

Link : https://youtu.be/xXjeEdwFSfo

Ae Fond Kiss (Ken Loach, 2004)

Sparks fly in Glasgow's south side when a young Asian man enters into a relationship with a Caucasian woman.

The title refers to the Robert Burns poem, "Ae Fond Kiss".

Director

Ken Loach

Stars

Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Ahmad Riaz

Subs: English.

Link: https://youtu.be/R9GlT-cs7Uw

The Mattei Affair - Il Caso Mattei (Francesco Rosi, 1972)

Portrait of Italian tycoon, Enrico Mattei, who headed a state-combined industrial concern for natural resources from the early post-war years and who died under mysterious circumstances in a plane crash at Milan airport in 1962.

Director: Francesco Rosi. 

Writers: Francesco Rosi, Tonino Guerra, Nerio Minuzzo, Tito Di Stefano.

Stars: Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina, Gianfranco Ombuen, Edda Ferronao, Accursio di Leo, Peter Baldwin, Renato Romano, Elio Jotta, Edda Ferronao, Luciano Colitti, Terenzio Cordova, Giuseppe Lo Presti, Camillo Milli, Aldo Barberito, Jean Rougeul.

Cinematographer: Pasqualino De Santis.

Composer: Piero Piccioni.

LINK with English Subs: https://ok.ru/video/5851727858342

Necropolis (1970)

Brocani conjures together all your favourite European cultural and historical myth figures in order to attack the centuries of ‘sublimation’ that have produced our cities and their inhabitants. The gang’s all here: Frankenstein’s monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignominy; the ultra-caustic Viva bemoans the frustrations of married life and drifts into the elegiac persona of the Bloody Countess Bathory; Louis Waldon is a hip American tourist searching for the (missing) Mona Lisa. The range is extraordinary, from stand-up Jewish comedy to a kind of flea-market expressionism. Brocani’s approach is contemplative rather than agitational, which confounds the impatient; Gavin Bryars’ lovely Terry Riley-esque score matches the ambience exactly.

Director: Franco Brocani.

Writer: Franco Brocani.

Stars: Nicoletta Machiavelli, Tina Aumont, Pierre Clémenti, Paul Jabara, Carmelo Bene, Bruno Corazzari, Paolo Graziosi, Louis Waldon, Viva.

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/7546309249702

The Fencing Master - El maestro de esgrima - (1992)

A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before, he is fascinated by her and agrees. She wishes to learn a particular thrust which he is famous for. When a local nobleman becomes involved with her the intrigue begins. 

It is set in 1868 Pre-revolution Spain , Madrid , about fall Queen Isabel II and return general Prim . There occurs a lot of anti-Borbon strikes and protests against Isabel II . On his return to Spain general Prim joined the opposition, heading revolts in Catalonia against generals Narvaez and O'Donnell. All his attempts failed until the death of Narvaez in April 1868, after which Queen Isabella fell more and more under the influence of the Jesuits, and became increasingly tyrannical, until at last even Serrano was exiled. In September 1868 General Serrano and General Prim returned, and Brigadier Topete, commanding the fleet, raised the standard of revolt at Cádiz 

A movie from Spain. Courtesy of Rarefilm

Subtitled in English.

Director: Pedro Olea. 

Stars: Assumpta Serna, Omero Antonutti, Joaquim de Almeida, José Luis López Vázquez, Miguel Rellán, Alberto Closas, Elisa Matilla, Ramón Goyanes, Juan Jesús Valverde, Francisco Vidal, Tomás Repila, Marcos Tizón, Miguel Ángel Salomón, Sonsoles Benedicto. 

LINK FOR THE MOVIE: https://ok.ru/video/7904302795430