La Strada / The Road (1954) DVD9 + DVD5 The Criterion Collection

La Strada is Federico Fellini's moving masterpiece that explores the soul's eternal conflict between the heart and mind. Zampano (Anthony Quinn) is a cruel, traveling carnival strongman who buys his assistant, a simple minded young woman named Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), from her poverty-stricken family. Gelsomina is innocent and childlike (Masina's exquisite performance is as comic as it is heartbreaking). She does Zampano's bidding without question or resistance, even though he is abusive to her. He abandons her in the street to spend the night with a woman. He lashes her with a tree branch when she misquotes her introductory lines. He forces her to steal from a convent. Yet, she remains faithful and uncomplaining. But soon, their fragile relationship is disrupted when Gelsomina meets The Fool (Richard Basehart), a witty circus clown. He mercilessly taunts the oafish Zampano, who can only react with violence. Nevertheless, he is kind and reassuring to the gentle, suffering Gelsomina, offering her a means to leave Zampano. It is the rivalry over her that precipitates the film's inevitable tragedy.

DVD9 + DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:48:30 | 7.24 Gb + 3.20 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Italiano (Dolby AC3, 1 ch)
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovena
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi / Рикки-Тикки-Тави (1975) DVD5 RUSCICO

Here is the thrilling story of Rikki Tikki Tavi, a fearless young mongoose who finds himself locked in a life-and-death struggle to protect a boy Teddy and his parents from Nag and Nagaina, the two enormous cobras who stalk the gardens outside the familys home in India.

Based on Rudyard Kipling's classic tale.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:13:13 | 3.80 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English, Russian
Genre: Family

Director: Aleksandr Zguridi
Cast: Igor Alekseyev, Vera Altayskaya, Aleksey Batalov, Andrey Mironov
Country: Soviet Union
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La nave bianca / The White Ship (1941) DVD5

Although released anonymously, as was the custom with all films produced by the Italian Navy, La Nave Bianca is the first feature-length effort directed by Roberto Rossellini; it is also very much the work of its co-writer and supervisor Francesco De Robertis. The film combines a documentary look at the Italian Navy during World War II with newsreel combat footage and a scripted love story performed by non-professional actors. A Fascist sailor, wounded in battle, is transferred to a hospital ship. While recuperating, he falls in love with the young Red Cross nurse who cares for him, not knowing that she is also his longtime pen pal. One of the film's (uncredited) camera operators, Mario Bava, who would later direct such classic horror films as Black Sunday and Lisa and the Devil.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:09:03 | 3.06 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italiano
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, War, Romance

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Country: Italy
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Kavsak / The Crossing (2010) DVD5

Guven works in an accounting company. He is well liked in the office. He is a hard-working man. He has a happy marriage and a daughter whom he loves more than his own life. At the end of an ordinary workday, Guven leaves the office and goes home. He enters his flat, undresses, washes his face, and sits on the couch in the living room. There is no one else in the flat. Guven's family life is a huge lie...
Guven has a secret, we soon learn: he has no daughter, no wife, no family at all. In the wake of tragedy, this bulky, quiet man in a buttoned-up cardigan has constructed an elaborate domestic fantasy to help him cope.

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:30:18 | 3.91 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Turkish (Dolby AC3, 6 ch), Turkish (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English, Deutsch, Francais, Italiano
Genre: Drama

Director: Selim Demirdelen
Actors: Guven Kirac, Pelin Acar, Sezin Akbasogullari, Cengiz Bozkurt
Country: Turkey
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Boko climax! / Rape Climax / Water’s High (1987) DVD5

Rape Climax follows a female artist who attends a meditation centre that advertises a relaxation session in a large tank filled with water. She is drugged by the clinic's doctor who rapes her in the tank and film's the act. She remains unaware. Through flashbacks, we are shown that she was violently penetrated by the handle of a knife in a junkyard by a masked, leather-clad biker. In conversation with a bubbly friend and through hints in the film's script, we also learn that our protagonist was discarded in a locker after her birth. She becomes obsessed with her faceless junkyard rapist and her obsession eventually turns to murder.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:04:44 | 4.16 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Hisayasu Sato
Cast: Yutaka Ikejima, Shoichiro Sakata
Country: Japan
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Lac aux dames / Ladies Lake (1934) DVD5

Eric Heller, an unemployed engineer, finds work as a swimming instructor at a popular Austrian resort beside the alluring Lac-aux-dames lake. All the girls around are crazy about him. he falls in love with a Dany, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist named Lyssenhop.
One evening, whilst attempting to swim across the lake, Eric comes close to drowning but is saved by a mysterious young woman in a rowing boat. The woman, who is almost a girl, introduces herself as Puck and takes Eric back to her home, situated on a small island at the centre of the lake, so that he can recover from his ordeal. Puck has spent all her life alone with her father, a well-known recluse, and so takes an immediate liking to the handsome young engineer. With Puck's help, Eric returns to the mainland and is soon pursuing a love affair with Dany. He regards Puck as no more than a friend, although she is infatuated with him...

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:30:17 | 3.91 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)
Subtitles: English, Francais
Genre: Drama

Director: Marc Allegret
Cast: Rosine Derean, Simone Simon, Illa Meery, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Odette Joyeux, Vladimir Sokoloff, Maroulka, Michel Simon
Country: France
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Elegy of the Land: Maria (1988), The Last Day of a Rainy Summer (1979) / Элегия земли: Мария (1988), Последний день ненастного лета (1979) DVD5

Elegy of the Land contains two shorts by Alexander Sokurov about the significance of the land to Russia, where it has an almost spiritual meaning. Both films are embued with the director's signature moody melancholy.
"Maria", made in memory of Russian peasant Maria Semionovna Voinova, serves as not only a requiem for a hard-working woman but also for a way of life. Maria grew flax, and after her death, her secrets and methods of working in the fields were lost.
"The Last Day of a Rainy Summer" was shot in 1978 on a Russian collective farm called a kolkhoze, which was responsible for supplying agricultural products for other parts of the country. "Last Day" captures the daily routines of this farming community, a lifestyle fading even as it was being chronicled.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 00:37:57 + 00:27:55 | 3.58 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol, Italiano
Genre: Documentary, Short

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Country: Soviet Union
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