Der Himmel uber Berlin / Wings of Desire (1987) 2 x DVD9 Criterion Collection

Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are two angels who have spent an eternity watching over the affairs of men and women. Their job is to observe, collect, preserve, and testify. No one can see them — except children — as they move through the apartments, streets, and subways of modern-day Berlin.

Damiel and Cassiel eavesdrop on the thoughts, dreams, fears, and fantasies of a wide assortment of Berlin's citizens — parents who are baffled by their children's behavior, a pregnant woman, an injured man, a fellow contemplating suicide. Cassiel is content to just observe. He takes a special interest in Homer (Curt Bois), an old man who wants to speak out about the city's terrible past.

Damiel is different. The more he comes into close contact with the human adventure, the more he yearns to savor the palpable pleasures of a worldly existence. Even something as simple as having a warm cup of coffee to hold appeals to him. This desire reaches its climax when he falls in love with Marion (Solveig Dommartin), a beautiful trapeze artist in a traveling circus. Then Peter Falk, an American actor who is in Berlin shooting a movie about the Nazis, senses Damiel's presence and talks to him about what it is like to be human. The angel decides that he is ready to take a leap of faith and shed his wings. This classic film celebrates the sensuous earthly delights of life and love with sympathy and sensitivity.

2 x DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 02:07:39 | 7.63 Gb + + 3% rec
Deutsch (Dolby AC3, 6 ch, 448Kbps) | Subtitle: English
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Romance

Director: Wim Wenders
Actors: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk, Hans Martin Stier,
Country: West Germany, France
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A zori zdes tikhie / The Dawns Here are Quiet / Ici les aubes sont calmes / А зори здесь тихие (1972) 2 x DVD9 RUSCICO

The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Russian Karelia, the autumn of 1941. Five anti-aircraft gunner girls, who are mostly under twenty years old, and their commander, Sergeant Vaskov, discover that a German subversive detachment has landed in this, still far-removed from the front line, locale. The information must be delivered to the headquarters. However, the saboteurs have broken communications, cutting off the small group from their own people and leaving them no hope of getting any help. The enemy endeavors to further penetrate into the rear of the Soviet army on a mission to destroy a number of essential facilities. Vaskov and the five girls accept battle, being outnumbered by sixteen Fascists, armed to the teeth...

2 x DVD9 | PAL 16:9 (720x576) VBR
01:16:36 + 01:21:10 | 7.03 Gb + 7.55 Gb + 3% rec
Russian, English, Francais (Dolby AC3, 6 ch, 448Kbps), Russian (Dolby AC3, 1 ch, 96Kbps), Russian (DTS, 5 ch, 768Kbps)
Subtitles: English, Francais, Deutsch, Nederlands, Espanol, Italiano, Portugues, Japanese, Hebrew, Svenska, Chinese, Arabic, Russian
Genre: Drama, History, War

Director: Stanislav Rostotsky
Actors: Yelena Drapeko, Yekaterina Markova, Olga Ostroumova, Irina Shevchuk, Irina Dolganova, Andrei Martynov
Country: Soviet Union
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Not a Love Story (2011) DVD9

Not A Love Story is a 2011 Indian crime-thriller film inspired by the gruesome murder of Neeraj Grover in 2008 that led to the arrest of Emile Jerome and Maria Susairaj. Ram Gopal Varma has announced that the film is not a biopic but is inspired by the case.
The grim story is not your usual crime thrillers where the viewers keeps guessing who the killer is till the last scene neither is it a social drama where the lead protagonist fights for justice. The story is from the killer's point of view. And it almost makes their crime look believable.

Dev D's Mahie Gill plays a starry-eyed hopeful from Chandigarh, so grateful to a friend for helping her land a film role that she takes him to her bed. When her obsessive boyfriend Deepak Dobriyal lands up unexpectedly at her doorstep the next morning to find a naked man in her home, a gruesome murder takes place. Mahie helps her boyfriend hack the body into pieces and dispose it in a faraway jungle. What follows next, is the consequence of this murder.

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 01:42:55 | 5.79 Gb + 3% rec
Hindi (Dolby AC3, 6 ch), Hindi (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | Subtitle: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Actors: Deepak Dobriyal, Ajay Gehi, Mahie Gill, Zakir Hussain, Neil Bhoopalam, Darshan Jariwala
Country: India
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Zavist bogov / The Envy of Gods / Зависть богов (2000) DVD9

The events of this film take place in Moscow in 1983. Two people meet and fall in love - Sonya and Andre. Sonya is a TV editor, she has a teenage son and a husband - quite a successful writer. Andre is a journalist from France, he has a family in Paris. Sonya has always been a faithful wife, but now she is overwhelmed by this sudden passion. They spend few truly happy days together.
The ancient Greeks believed that gods are envious of happy people. The Gods have not remained indifferent...

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 (720x576) VBR | 02:10:14 | 7.70 Gb + 3% rec
Russian (Dolby AC3, 6 ch), Russian (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: Russian, English, Francais
Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Vladimir Menshov
Actors: Vera Alentova, Anatoliy Lobotskiy, Aleksandr Feklistov, Gerard Depardieu, Irina Skobtseva, Vladlen Davydov, Larisa Udovichenko
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And in the Morning They Woke Up / A poutru oni prosnulis / А поутру они проснулись (2003) DVD9

And They Woke Up In the Morning, is a Russian comedy from director Sergei Nikoneko. The film based on the novel by Vasili Shukshin.
One morning, eight men wake up of a detox centre. The men wake up with hangovers in a communal-type ward, and there's the unspoken idea that for most of the men, this is a frequent event. Some of the men remember all too well what they did; some have a partial version of events, and some of them have no idea whatsoever what about what happened.
They begin to recall how they have ended up there and how they are linked with each other...

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | 01:30:08 | 5.16 Gb + 3% rec
Russian (Dolby AC3, 6 ch, 448Kbps)
Subtitle: English
Genre: Comedy

Director: Sergey Nikonenko
Actors: Aleksandr Abdulov, Sergey Garmash, Igor Bochkin, Sergey Nikonenko, Vasili Mishchenko, Evgeniy Stychkin, Vladimir Bolshov, Igor Khristenko, Boris Shcherbakov
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Different Fortunes / Many Roads / Raznye sudby / Разные судьбы (1956) DVD9 RUSCICO

The film's young heroes happened to be the participants of several love triangles at once. Sonya is in love with Stepan, but he loves to Tania, and Tania love Fedor. Infidelity and betrayal, love and faithfulness were closely interwoven in their relationships...

The film had made a truly indelible impression on the viewers of several generations. The formula for its overwhelming success: a perfect, unhackneyed plot (centered around a negative female character), a fine acting ensemble of all but screen stars, the highest professionalism of the director, Bogoslovsky's superb music, and the ever stirring theme of "unequal" love.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 (720x576) VBR | 01:40:21 | 5.87 Gb + 3% rec
Russian (Dolby AC3, 6 ch), Russian (Dolby AC3, 1 ch)
Subtitles: English, Russian
Genre: Romance

Director: Leonid Lukov
Actors: Tatyana Piletskaya, Yulian Panich, Georgi Yumatov, Lev Sverdlin, Olga Zhiznyeva, Bruno Frejndlikh, Vsevolod Sanayev
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Bill Douglas Trilogy: My Childhood (1972), My Ain Folk (1973), My Way Home (1978) DVD9 + DVD5

Bill Douglas was a Scottish filmmaker of high regard and low output; his brief career produced a trilogy of short films and one feature release. Facets' The Bill Douglas Trilogy contains his critically celebrated autobiographical films My Childhood, My Ain Folk and My Way Home.

The narrative is largely autobiographical, following Jamie (played with heart-breaking conviction by Stephen Archibald) as he grows up in a poverty-stricken mining village in post-war Scotland. In these brutal surroundings, and subject to hardship and rejection, Jamie learns to fend for himself. We see him grow from child to adolescent - angry and bewildered, but playful, creative and affectionate.

DVD9 + DVD5 | PAL 4:3 (720x576) VBR
00:44:34 + 00:52:56 + 01:08:46
7.47 Gb + 4.11 Gb + 3% rec
English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitle: English
Genre: Biography, Drama

Director: Bill Douglas
Actors: Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Paul Kermack, Gerald James
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