Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo Detstvo, 1962) Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
This debut feature-length wartime drama by noted Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky was a remarkable introduction to a remarkable career. The poetic touch of Tarkovsky's hand and his measured pace is already evident as the tale of the young, twelve-year-old Ivan (Nikolai Burlyayev) evolves. Ivan is orphaned after his village is wiped out by an invading Nazi army and as a consequence, he ends up in a prison camp. The inventive lad escapes and is adopted by Captain Kholin (Valentin Zubkov), whose intention is to send the boy away to school. But Ivan is determined to help the Russian army and so he starts spying on the German forces. Because of his tender years he manages to pass freely back and forth behind enemy lines -- at least for awhile. This exemplary film won the top prize, the Golden Lion award at the 1962 Venice Film Festival and also won the Grand Prize at the 1962 San Francisco Film Festival. Eleanor Mannikka
Title : Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Original title :   Ivanovo Detstvo
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Duration : 97 min.
Subtitles : English, Portuguese, Spanish
Audio in Russian
Genres : Drama, War
Countries : No rated
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Utamaro And His Five Women (Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna, 1946) Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
The central character in this Kenji Mizoguchi film is Utamaro, the famed 18th-century Edo artist. Somewhat inarticulate, Utamaro expresses his love for five women through his paintings. The director uses this plot contrivance to articulate his plea for fairer and more equitable treatment of women. And, as in such earlier Mizoguchi films as Sisters of Gion, prostitutes figure prominently into the scheme of things. Mizoguchi's second postwar effort, Utamaro and His Five Women was originally titled Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna. Hal Erickson
Title :  Five Women Around Utamaro (1946)
Original title :  Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Duration : 106 min.
Subtitles : English, Portuguese
Audio in Japanese
Genres : Drama
Countries : Japan 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05hzK6KL2nQ

A Lesson in Love (En lektion i kärlek, 1953) Directed by Ingmar Bergman | DVD (ISO)

Synopsis :
En Lektion i Kärlek constitutes one of Ingmar Bergman's more overtly entertaining films. In this highly engaging comedy, Bergman reunites Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva Dahlbeck, who had already teamed to great effect in the final, comic episode of Secrets of Women (1952), and he once again casts them as an amusingly antagonistic husband and wife. Bjornstrand's character, David Erneman, is a successful gynecologist who has jeopardized his sixteen-year marriage by entering into an affair with one of his patients. In retaliation, his wife, Marianne, departs for Copenhagen to revive relations with a former fiancé. David initially seems only slightly disturbed by his wife's action, but when his affair ends and he enjoys an afternoon with his inscrutable daughter (Harriet Andersson, in an especially plucky turn), he determines to embark for Copenhagen and win back his wife. But his initial efforts at a reunion hardly bring him success, and only after a barroom altercation with his brutish rival does David seem to rekindle his wife's affection for him. En Lektion i Kärlek is a pivotal film in the Bergman canon, reviving his fortunes after the critics' rejection of Gycklarnas Afton (Sawdust and Tinsel) (1953) and spurring him toward his comic masterpiece, Sommarnattens Leende (Smiles of a Summer Night) (1955). Bergman came to regard En Lektion i Kärlek as a divertissement, but the film is of a greater magnitude than usual comedies of domestic life, and Bergman concludes it with the endearing image of Cupid strolling past the hotel room of the reunited couple. Les Stone
Title : A Lesson in Love (1953)  
Original Title : En lektion i kärlek
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Duration : 95 min.
Subtitles : Portuguese
Audio in Swedish
Genres : Drama,  Comedy, Romance
Countries : Seweden

Summer Interlude (Sommarlek, 1950) Directed by Ingmar Bergman | VIDEO (MKV)

Synopsis :
In this melancholy romance, a not-so-young ballerina recalls an earlier, tragic love affair. The heroine, Marie (Maj-Britt Nilsson), spends a summer with her possessive Uncle Erland (Georg Funkquist), who lives with his cancerous wife on an island near Stockholm. While staying with her uncle, who may have intimidated her into a sexual relationship, Marie befriends an innocent youth, Henrik (Birger Malmsten), with whom she soon falls in love. As the glorious summer comes to an end and autumn approaches, harkening Marie's return to the mainland and her dancing career, the lovers express their love to each other. But a fatal swimming mishap brings an end to the affair. Marie continues with her life, but she fails to come to terms with the tragic past. Later, Marie receives the diary that she kept during that memorable summer. She thereupon returns to the island, where she again meets her ghoulish Uncle Erland. Repulsed by his cynicism, Marie determines to recover her joy of living. She returns to Stockholm and shares the diary with her lover, a smarmy journalist (Alf Kjellin). In the concluding scene, she expresses her regained exuberance while dancing. A pivotal film in Ingmar Bergman's oeuvre, Sommarlek marked his maturation as a master filmmaker capable of evocative imagery and poignant expression. Of particular note are the unsettling scenes between Marie and her ominous uncle, framed and lit to emphasize the disturbing nature of their relationship. Maj-Britt Nilsson's performance as Marie is also remarkable, enhanced by Bergman's increasing mastery of the close-up. The splendid achievement of Sommarlek signalled a long succession of masterworks that ensued until Bergman's withdrawal from filmmaking in the 1980s. Les Stone
Title : Sommarlek (1950)   
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Duration : 95 min.
Subtitles : Portuguese
Audio Original in Swedish
Genres : Drama, Romance, Teather
Countries : Sweden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTtCCWzjADE

O Amuleto de Ogum (1974) Directed by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos | VIDEO | VHS (ISO)

Synopsis :
To entertain some thieves, a blind guitar player tells them the story of a man from the Northeast of Brazil, involved with criminals living in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, who allegedly had a "closed body", meaning that his body couldn't be hit by bullets or other weapons, by the wish of Ogum, one of the gods of Candomblé, a religion common in Brazil and Africa.

Para entreter alguns ladrões, um violonista cego conta a história de um homem do Nordeste do Brasil, envolvido com criminosos que moravam no subúrbio do Rio de Janeiro, que supostamente tinha um "corpo fechado", ou seja, seu corpo não poderia ser atingido por balas ou outras armas, por vontade de Ogum, um dos deuses do Candomblé, religião comum no Brasil e na África.
Title :  O Amuleto de Ogum (1974)
Directed by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
Duration : 112 min.
Audio in português
Genres : Drama
Countries : Brazil