#eastern european cinema

[honeygleam]

trzecia część nocy (1971) dir. andrzej żuławski

[lalalaugenbrot]

Musst keine Angst haben. Jeder hat mal so angefangen.

Coming Out (1989), dir. Heiner Carow

[neverendingcatalogoflove]

Inside the second edition

I first watched Lilya-4-ever about a year ago, after seeing clips on YouTube and occasionally Instagram edits. There's an extremely harrowing aspect to it, and the inevitable heartbreak of the story unfolds over and over, with Lilya facing one tragedy after another. Perhaps the saddest part is that it is loosely based on true occurrences. The cinematography, imagery, and performances of this movie are stunning, and make the watch a bit more bearable considering the material. I still did cry through the last ten minutes or so. 🪽🪽

[iwannapushthebutton]

Golem (1980) dir: Piotr Szulkin dop: Zygmunt Samosiuk

[koenji]

Main theme of Tri orísky pro Popelku / Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel (1973; Three Wishes For Cinderella), dir. Václav Vorlícek.

Undoubtedly the most famous of the Czechoslovakian / East German fairy tale film cooperations, it is often hailed as a European fairy tale classic and a feminist iteration of the age old story of Cinderella. Though most of the cast were Czech, the film also became a cult classic in the GDR and later reunified Germany.

Libuše Šafránková (1953-2021) plays the part of the abused orphaned stepdaughter who goes on to marry the prince after setting him a riddle.

Karel Svoboda (1938-2007) was a beloved Czech composer who created the famous soundtrack for this film as well as other children's classics.

[gregor-samsung]

Ilegitim [Illegitimate] (Adrian Sitaru, 2016)

[dearinglovebot]

my unpopular opinion is claire dearing wouldn’t be a swiftie. not because she wouldn’t like it but because she’s pretentious and would be one of those people who’s like “modern pop has no real meaning unlike old music”. she would listen to etta james and nina simone and tina turner and she would think it means her music palette is more sophisticated than someone who likes katy perry and maroon 5

[mumintroll]

when i was the only person in my film lecture who'd seen a david lynch film. specialest girl in da world

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Larisa Shepitko

Larisa Shepitko was born in 1938 in what is now Bakhmut, Ukraine. Though this director is largely unknown today, she was an iconic figure of 60s and 70s Soviet film. Shepitko was 22 years old and still a student when she directed her first feature film, Heat. Her work was at times controversial, and her short film Beginning of an Unknown Era was censored for its unflattering depiction of the Bolsheviks and not screened for twenty years. Shepitko's film The Ascent, regarded as her masterpiece, told the story of two partisans in Belarus during the Nazi occupation. The Ascent won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival.

Larisa Shepikto died in 1979 at the age of 41.

[euro222]

[honeygleam]

ivana karbanová and jitka cerhová as marie #1 and marie #2 in daisies (1966) dir. věra chytilová

[variousqueerthings]

finished the sad war movie from 1959

will watch the full-length “don’t be a sucker” anti-nationalism PSA from 1947

and tomorrow we get to see the 2 hour finale of the anti-war show about the 1950s Korean war, which started airing at the tail-end of the Vietnam war in 1972

[unhonestlymirror]

I like how Lithuanians&Ukrainians look either like they're different races or separated in childhood twins👆

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"BLOOD-RED KISSES! -- WHITE-HOT THRILLS! -- MICKEY SPILLANE'S LASTEST H-BOMB... BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN!

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a Yugoslav B2 movie poster for American noir/mystery/crime film "Kiss Me Deadly," directed by Robert Aldrich. Distributed by United Artists/Vesna Film.

Source: https://posteritati.com/poster/15712/kiss-me-deadly-original-1955-yugoslav-b2-movie-poster.

[prokopetz]

People keep trying to construct analogies for the cultural dominance of Dungeons & Dragons in tabletop roleplaying spaces like "imagine you met a guy who considers himself a cinema buff but exclusively watches Marvel Cinematic Universe films released within the past 12 months, explaining that he doesn't branch out because he just doesn't have the time to learn the lore of a second cinematic universe; when you suggest avoiding that problem by watching a standalone film that isn't part of any cinematic universe, he reacts like you're a huge weirdo, and after a bit of questioning it turns out he genuinely believes that films which are part of massive cinematic universes and black and white Eastern European art films about depression are the only kinds of movies which exist", and I know this is intended as hyperbole to illustrate the absurdity of the situation at hand, but, like, I have literally met the guy they are describing.

[gregor-samsung]

Šavovi [Stitches - Un legame privato] (Miroslav Terzić, 2019)