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Ashes and Diamonds/Cenusa si Diamant-1958-Wajda-Cybulski-subtitrat

(alb-negru, format 4:3, la descarcare 615 MB, flv CALITATE EXCELENTA, poate fi convertit usor pentru vizionare de pe stick la Smart-TV sau Receiver care nu accepta flv, in H-264 M4 sau si mai bine, AVI, dar se mareste cantitatea de iNFO.)..




Alb-negru, noaptea 8-9 Mai 1945 (Sfarsitul Razboiului)

Norwid: Cenusa si Diamant

"Scântei şi flăcări, o, torţă aprinsă/
Arzi intre zari necontenit/
Dar cine ştie, libertate nestinsă/
Câştigi sau pierzi ce-ai cucerit?/
Cenuşa doar, pierdută-i în neant/
Îţi va fi urma,sau va mai rămâne/
Să ardă-n spuză viu un diamant/
Stea vestitoare-a zorilor de mâine".


Ashes and Diamonds (Popiól i diament, Poland, 1958) « The Case for Global Film
Posted by nicklacey on 1 March 2012

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extraordinary cinema

Jonathan Rosenbaum makes the point that while this film is about the forties, it’s set on the day of the Nazi surrender, it’s overlayed by a fifties’ sensibility. This is evident through the James Dean-like Zbigniew Cybulski (though Rosenbaum cites Brando) but also in the European Art cinema style in which its shot. The ‘heavy’ symbolism of the still above is a good example. Add to that the melodrama of the young man, who’s fighting against the Communists and wrestling with his conscience whilst falling in love with the beautiful, and melancholic, barmaid, you have cinema made for me.

This blu-ray edition looks terrific and so emphasises the wonderful cinematography with stunning Expressionist lighting. Director Andrezj Wadja was clearly influenced by Bergman, I love the horse that simply walks into the mise en scene, but also Welles, particularly his use of deep focus.

The film brilliantly dissects a moment in history when everything for Poland was going to change (except in a way it didn’t as they, once again, became dominated by a foreign power). The possiblities of the time, those grabbing power, the splintering of families due to the war, are all portrayed in an affecting human story. Cybulski plays Maciek who’s been sent to assassinate a Communist Party official; he fails but has the night to fulfill his task except that’s when he meets the barmaid.

The official’s son is part of the reactionary forces that are opposing the Russian takeover, however the bourgeoisie’s grab for power is in full swing anyway, shown by the small town major’s celebration at being appointed a minister. The climax of the party, where they are all drunkenly dancing to a bastardised version of a Polish national song, is truly surreal. As is the denouement for Maciek, in a setting worthy of Bunuel.

I’m not sure if Wajda’s in or out of fashion at the moment, very few of his recent films have been distributed in UK; he’s still making them and is 86 next Tuesday. Ashes and Diamonds forms the third in his ‘War Trilogy’, A Generation (Pokolenie, 1955) and Kanal (1957); there are all must-see films. The first two, the narratives are unconnected, have a pronounced debt to neo-realism; Ashes and Diamonds is a triumph of expressionist cinema.
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Roy Stafford said
1 March 2012 at 8:43

It’s a great film. You prompted me to look for any material I’d got on the film. I found something I’d written which also referred to expressionist camerawork – but then I discovered a statement by Wajda himself (Double Vision: My Life in Film, faber & faber 1989) in which he tells us that Kanal and Ashes and Diamonds appeared in the context of Rossellini’s Rome, Open City and René Clément’s The Battle of the Rails. These are both realist films, deep-focus being a possible function of neo-realist cinematography on location (as long as there is sufficient light). In the Wallflower 24 Frames series, Janina Falkowska admits that the film has been seen as “surrealist, neo-realist or baroque” but also as a “realistic and accurate portrayal of the post-war realities of Poland”. And it’s apparently the best example of the “Polish school’s romantic-expressionist paradigm” (as noted by Ewa Mazierska). Falkowska also points out that the opening scene begins with a reference to a famous Polish painting and she reminds us that Wajda has an art background. Later on she refers to Wajda’s background in learning about filmmaking in the context of the ‘socialist realist’ tradition.

I suppose I’m just suggesting caution in your certainty about the references to Bergman and Welles.
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Zbigniew Cybulski, de fapt, mult mai important decât James Dean cu care este comparat

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Va aprinde votca in mai multe pahare-candele pentru camarazii morti (auziti si melodia cu Monte Cassino)

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Ashes and Diamonds/Cenusa si Diamant-1958-Wajda-Cybulski-subtitrat


aici am putin de lucru, trebuie sa dau LINKs functionabile, cat mai directe, altfel va prindeti urechile in sistemul acesta de reclame, atenti trebuie sa fiti unde scrie pe colt dreapta sus skip...si nimeriti pe un player care da cica secvente comice, Filmuletul Zilei, il TOTinchideti, se revine la server-ul superweb.ro, care, dupa mai multe fitze deschide filmul dorit...Incerc sa vad daca merge direct...deci sar peste PRIMUL LINK:

Acesta este PRIMUL LINK, cuprinzand si oarece INFO; va da niste servere de descarcare, eu am ales la intamplare web.ro

Ashes and Diamonds [1958] online gratis

http://www.990.ro/filme-9611-Ashes-and-Diamonds-Cenusa-si-diamant-online-download.html

din care am ajuns la acest LINK

Ashes and Diamonds [1958] online gratis

http://www.990.ro/player-film-9611-sfast.html

si, sa vedem daca deschide direct, tot apare Filmuletul Zilei, il tot inchideti pana se deschide ecranul pe server-ul superweb.ro pe mana stanga, dupa 1-2 incercari, merge,apare BUFFERING, apoi apare o RECLAMA temporara in frame, dar dispare imediat:

Superweb.ro.Ashes and Diamonds/Cenusa si Diamant

http://superweb.rol.ro/video/39783970036d1c588101ef6ccbdd9648.html

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Repet: (alb-negru, format 4:3, la descarcare 615 MB, flv CALITATE EXCELENTA, poate fi convertit usor pentru vizionare de pe stick la Smart-TV sau Receiver care nu accepta flv, in H-264 M4 sau si mai bine, AVI, dar se mareste cantitatea de iNFO.)..


Aici trebuie vazut, in acelasi context, filmul din 2007 al aceluiasi Andrzej Wajda

Katyn-(2007)-Wajda-1part/2part-720p-subtitrat

http://www.sibiul.ro/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=28557



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