Fox Hunting / A Fox Hunt / Okhota na lis / Охота на лис (1980) DVD5

A provincial Soviet town. A factory worker Victor Belov is a man who has internalized all of the social norms, but insists on following his sense of what is correct. These two sets of moral criteria come into profound conflict with each other because of a single event. He is mugged by two teenagers, one of whom is sent to a juvenile prison for two years, while the other, from a middle-class family able to hire an advocate, receives a suspended sentence. His own sense of justice having been violated by the court and social services, the hero decides to strike out on his own and reform the jailed teenager. His efforts to visit, bring books, arrange days off, file appeals, are finally successful in freeing his erstwhile attacker, but only at the expense of estranging him from his wife, his coach, his co-workers.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:31:33 | 4.18 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Genre: Socio-psychological drama, Crime

Director: Vadim Abdrashitov
Cast: Vladimir Gostyukhin, Irina Muravyova, Igor Nefyodov
Country: Soviet Union
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Night and the City (1950) DVD9 Criterion Collection

Club tout Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) has yet another plan to make himself rich, but this scheme requires him to cheat, deceive or swindle everyone he knows in the East End underworld, including his girlfriend Mary (Gene Tierney). Harry's backer is nightclub owner Phil Nosseross (Francis L. Sullivan). Harry deals straight with him, but he also makes a secret partner of Phil's ambitious wife Helen (Googie Withers), a move that Nosseross understandably mistakes for a romantic betrayal. But that's nothing compared to Harry's overall scam: he's angling to gain a foothold in the London wrestling racket controlled by the murderous gangster kingpin Kristo (Herbert Lom). Harry's ace in the hole is Gregorious the Great (Stanislaus Zbyszko), a legendary Greco-Roman wrestler that he befriends for the sole purpose of keeping Kristo at bay ... he's the gangster's father.

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:35:40 | 7.94 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Herbert Lom, Mike Mazurki
Country: UK
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Father of a Soldier / Otets soldata / Отец солдата (1964) DVD9 RUSCICO

In this war drama, set towards the end of WW II, a Georgian farmer embarks upon a dangerous journey to find his son. His travails begin after he learns that his boy, a soldier recently wounded in battle, is recuperating in the hospital. The farmer sets off to see him. This man has an abiding love and respect for the beauty of the land. As he journeys he is appalled at the destruction that surrounds him. Once lush and beautiful, the bombed out land has become deeply scarred and barren. He arrives at the hospital to discover that his son has been sent back to his tank unit. The dogged farmer then sets off to find it. He soon finds himself in the midst of a battle. This leads him to join the Soviet army. He fights hard until his tank unit is assigned to attack German vineyards. The destruction of such fertile land appalls him and he stops them. When he finally does catch up with his son, the boy has again been shot and dies in his father's arms.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:26:45 | 7.06 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Russian, Francais
Subtitles: Russian, Francais, Espanol, Portugues, Japanese, Svenska, English, Deutsch, Nederlands, Italiano, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese
Genre: Drama, War

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Uramisten / The Philadelphia Attraction (1984) DVD9

Young artiste has an accident and gets a limp. He finds out that a superannuated artiste has a fantastic attraction.
The film tell about the strange relationship between a lonely, generous illusionist and a manic, lame acrobat.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:29:41 | 6.04 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Magyar
Subtitles: English, Magyar
Genre: Drama

Director: Peter Gardos
Cast: Kamill Feleki, Karoly Eperjes, Gyorgy Dorner
Country: Hungary
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War of the Wildcats / In Old Oklahoma (1943) DVD9 and Blu-Ray

War of the Wildcats shows Wayne off at his most charming, with a surprisingly deft light comedy edge running through quite a bit of his performance. Wayne portrays Dan Somers, a strapping cowboy who kind of stumbles into the oil business. We meet Dan when he kind of "crashes" a private train car owned by oil tycoon Jim Gardner (Albert Dekker), an impresario who just turned a perhaps lecherous eye toward Catherine Allen (Martha Scott), a would be writer who has just been more or less run out of town by a mob of outraged older women who can't quite believe a female could have written a "scandalous" romance novel.

Gardner convinces Catherine to tag along to Gardner's self built town of Sapulpa since Catherine, a burgeoning women's libber decades before that idea was ever officially formulated, is out to storm the "man's world" an experience something of life. Of course, Dan ends up tagging along, quickly becoming aware that many residents of Sapulpa are less than thrilled with Gardner's business tactics in monopolizing the oil reserves around the town. Dan of course is right there to pick up the slack and immediately become Gardner's rival in business and love...

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Du er ikke alene / You Are Not Alone (1978) DVD9

At a Danish boy's boarding school in the late 1970s, Bo and Kim are naive young classmates, whose friendship blossoms into a childlike love affair. When their friend is expelled for a prank involving lewd posters, the student body bands together to strike against the school and its authoritarian headmaster.

Unflinchingly honest and boundlessly lyrical, the exploration of sexual awakening in You Are Not Alone was a turning point in world cinema. Unafraid to depict teen boys in their swirling state of uncertainty, both physically and mentally, the picture aims its sights squarely upon the controlling adults who don't always offer what's best for these youngsters and often add to the angst and confusion. Through the ordeal, youngsters often are left to brood over the thought that theirs might be a solitary situation.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:29:56 | 7.32 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Dansk
Subtitles: English, Deutsch
Genre: Drama, Romance

Directors: Ernst Johansen, Lasse Nielsen
Cast: Anders Agenso, Peter Bjerg, Ove Sprogoe
Country: Denmark
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Du er ikke alene / You Are Not Alone (1978) DVD9

At a Danish boy's boarding school in the late 1970s, Bo and Kim are naive young classmates, whose friendship blossoms into a childlike love affair. When their friend is expelled for a prank involving lewd posters, the student body bands together to strike against the school and its authoritarian headmaster.

Unflinchingly honest and boundlessly lyrical, the exploration of sexual awakening in You Are Not Alone was a turning point in world cinema. Unafraid to depict teen boys in their swirling state of uncertainty, both physically and mentally, the picture aims its sights squarely upon the controlling adults who don't always offer what's best for these youngsters and often add to the angst and confusion. Through the ordeal, youngsters often are left to brood over the thought that theirs might be a solitary situation.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:29:56 | 7.32 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Dansk
Subtitles: English, Deutsch
Genre: Drama, Romance

Directors: Ernst Johansen, Lasse Nielsen
Cast: Anders Agenso, Peter Bjerg, Ove Sprogoe
Country: Denmark
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