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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 29, 2021 21:33:33 GMT
An excellent Romanian Red Western trilogy began with.... Profetul, aurul şi ardelenii , The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians (1979) Dir. Dan Pița followed by The Artiste, the Dollars and the Transylvanians and mentioned already The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians. Dramatising the struggles of Romanian and Hungarian settlers in a new land, the American frontier, and using an American bad-lands setting, the films were however shot entirely in Romania
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 29, 2021 21:51:06 GMT
Το χώμα βάφτηκε κόκκινο, The Soil was Painted Red aka Blood on the Land (1966) Greek western drama directed by Vasilis Georgiadis. Set in the rugged hinterland and on the vast plains of Thessaly in the early twentieth century, Blood on the Land tells a tale of feuding siblings within a noble farming family. Using an important historical backdrop, the epic drama incorporates elements of socialist realism with an underlying focus on the actual rural workers’ mobilizations at the time against the rich Thessalian landlords. Director Georgiadis paints a vivid wild west portrait of rural Greece at the turn of the century. A solitary railway line is the only connection to the modern era and the outside world. The film opens as Odysseas, son of the largest landowner of the plain returns home, having fled after an earlier failed rural uprising. Odysseus from the first moments takes the sympathetic side of the farm workers conflicting sharply with his brother Rigas, who is brutal, predatory, and dictatorial. Rigas detests Odysseas for wanting to distribute their ancestral lands among the peasants… What starts off as ideological warfare between Father and two brothers turns into bitter rivalry culminating in a guns-blazing finale over beautiful Eirini, strong and articulate she leads as spokesperson for the peasant workers. Drawing on themes from Mexican Westerns and Greek classical literature the ambitious project was funded with a massive budget and cast with major stars. Critically acclaimed Blood on the Land became the cinematic landmark of its time, a pinnacle of classic Greek film. Highlighted throughout are the magnificent rock formations of Meteora now included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The formations in central Greece, located on the north-western edge of the Plain of Thessaly are host to incredible precipitously built complexes. The Eastern Orthodox monasteries were built atop as a refuge from Turkish raiders by Hermit monks in the fourteenth century.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Jun 30, 2021 4:47:15 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 2, 2021 1:57:28 GMT
Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov , A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (1987) Soviet Union Dir. Alla Surikova. An excellent Red Western is a highly entertaining satire deconstructing the mythology of the wild west. Shot in Crimea the story tells of Johnny (Andrei Mironov) a Parisian cinematographer who arrives in the fictional Wild West town of Santa Carolina to promote the latest sensation from Paris, cinema, and its morally "uplifting qualities". Johnny's saloon bar screenings completely upends the normality of life in this typical wild frontier town and its wayward residents. Featuring throughout are films of the late 1890s directed by Louis Lumière, celebrating silent film, slapstick and the transforming power of celluloid, A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines is highly recommended ... Andrei Mironov as Johnny First and Aleksandra Yakovleva as Ms. Diana Little
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 2, 2021 7:02:57 GMT
Всадник без головы , The Headless Horseman (1972) Cuban/Soviet co-production directed by Vladimir Vajnshtok. Adapted from the famous novel from Irish American author Thomas Mayne Reid. A veteran the American-Mexican War (1846–1848) Reid drew upon his own adventures and experience. Many of his works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour and the lives of American Indians, his novels were much read in the Eastern Bloc countries. Filmed on location with stunning "western" landscapes in Crimea; Yalta and Bilohirsk. The entertaining adventure yarn tells of a poor Irish cowboy and the drama that follows him after he has become involved with the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner. Cuban actors played the Hispanic characters and the coloured slaves, Soviet actors played the Caucasians and Native Americans... Great classic 70s Soviet cinema... Oleg Vidov as Maurice Gerald
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 3, 2021 7:33:45 GMT
Talpuk alatt fütyül a szél , The Wind Whistles Under Their Feet (1976) Hungary Dir. György Szomjas This is the first Hungarian "Eastern" film a “goulash” western. The fables history is based on the ethnographic work of Györffy István Nagykun Museum director Sándor Szűcs. Set in the wild outlaw world of the 1830s on the vast Hungarian plains, Farkos Csapó Gyurka (Djoko Rosic) has escaped from prison and returns to the wilderness to take revenge on those that did him wrong. A backdrop drama is a canal project that threatens prime land and traditional ways of life A cult classic in its homeland The Wind Whistles is a truly unique film, a blend of Western and Hungarian outlaw folklore, slowly paced, violent, with striking cinematography and a plaintive folk score... Bulgarian actor Djoko Rosic
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 3, 2021 23:24:39 GMT
Arie prerie , Song of the Prairie (1949) Czechoslovakia. Directed by Jirí Trnka , Written by Jirí Brdecka, 23 min puppet animation short film. Singing cowboy Lemonade Joe appears on screen for the first time, along with his theme song "Sou Fár Tu Jú Aj Mej". Hero Joe bounds to the rescue of a sweet damsel in distress after she is kidnapped from a stagecoach by a ruthless band of gun toting villains… Jiří Trnka (1912–1969) was a Czech puppet-maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director. Trnka is best known for his work in animation with puppets, which began in 1946. Most of his films were intended for adults and many were adaptations of literary works. At the end of World War II, he founded with Eduard Hofman and Jiří Brdecka the animation studio Bratři v triku. Jiří Brdečka, was a prolific Czech screenwriter and satirist, he was also a fan of the American Western. Brdečka, created the Lemonade Joe character in a 1940 serial, recalling Stagecoach, Wells Fargo (1937), and Frontier Marshal (1939) as the films that inspired his interest in the genre. Using a stop-motion process “Puppet films are truly unlimited in their possibilities…” observed the creative artist. Trnka’s carved puppet characters here are animated within complex sets, emotion and atmosphere are magically brought to life through an expressive use of lighting, sound effect and music. Classic animated entertainment for us big kids, possibly the first Euro “Western” ? Publicity still... The villain, the Damsel, Joe and his horse
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