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