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Zdenek Podskalský – Bílá paní AKA The White Lady (1965)

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Synopsis:
This castle has its own ghost – a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is a good ghost, she can make someone’s wishes true. Even if it is a new duct. But a miracle is not the thing that Communist leaders want in the town.

1.49GB | 1h 35mn | 768×576 | mkv

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http://nitroflare.com/view/44231CDDE90C1CB/Bila_pani_%28The_White_Lady%29_%281965%29_–_Zdenek_Podskalsky.part2.rar

Language:Czech
Subtitles:English (muxed)


Vera Chytilová, Jaromil Jires, Jiri Menzel, Jan Nemec & Evald Schorm – Perlicky na dne aka Pearls Of The Deep (1966)

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One of the defining works of the Czech New Wave was the portmanteau film Pearls from the Deep (Perlicky na dne, 1965). Not only did it bring five key directors of the Wave (Chytilova, Jires, Menzel, Nemec and Schorm) together in one film, making it the Wave’s official “coming out” as a group, but it tied them to a writer, Bohumil Hrabal, whose ability to capture the rhythms and refrains of everyday spoken Czech was highly influential on the Wave’s direction

1.79GB | 1 h 47 min | 712×534 | mkv

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Language:Czech, Romany
Subtitles:English

Evald Schorm – Návrat ztraceného syna AKA The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967)

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Though he was very much a member of the community of filmmakers who graduated from FAMU and went on to shake things up during the sixties, Evald Schorm also stood apart from the rest. Like his fellow directors, he was using the medium to get at the absurdity of life in Communist Czechoslovakia, but Schorm was dedicated to a more direct, realistic type of filmmaking than his friends Věra Chytilová, Jan Němec, and Jiří Menzel, who readily turned to whimsy, fantasy, and comedy. Referred to as both the philosopher and the conscience of the New Wave, Schorm, whose relatively sober style has been called documentary-like (his focus at FAMU was nonfiction filmmaking) and received comparisons to that of Antonioni, explored themes of morality and the malaise of the socialist middle class (such income-based social strata did exist in Czechoslovakia), and preferred psychological portraiture.

Such individualist, existential works were anathema to the Communist Party, and Schorm’s first feature following his graduation in 1962, Everyday Courage (1964), about the crumbling life of an overzealously political young factory worker, was blacklisted by President Antonín Novotný. His next feature, after completing his more visually exploratory Pearls of the Deep short, “The House of Joy,” was Return of the Prodigal Son (1967), an exhilarating, angry film about an engineer, Jan (Jan Kacer), trying to find his way back into the world of the living after attempting suicide. Taking place both inside the mental hospital where he’s recuperating and outside in “normal” society, to which he routinely escapes, the film is a devastating articulation of depression brought on by vague, free-floating social anxieties and disappointments. In trying to readjust – to work, to friends, and most importantly to life with his similarly neurotic wife, Jana (Jana Brejchová), and very young daughter – Jan finds that to live happily in this world one has to negotiate daily with one’s morality; late in the film, when he visits his office during an extended leave from the hospital, his boss even lectures him on the importance of compromise.

There’s a humane core to Return of the Prodigal Son that saves it from despair. Rather than making everyone other than Jan a fool, Schorm extends enormous sympathy to a fascinating cast of supporting characters, all of them outcasts in their own way, including Jana, who combats her loneliness in Jan’s absence by taking a lover, Jiří (played by director Jiří Menzel); Olga (Dana Medrická), the sexually frustrated wife of the head doctor, who takes a liking to Jan; and Jan’s hospital roommate, Zdenek (Jiří Kilián), an effeminate ballet dancer with whom Jan feels an artistic and spiritual kinship.

Schorm never compromised his beliefs after the 1968 Soviet invasion; he refused to make films that acceded to the aesthetic and ideological demands of the cultural police who reinstituted the socialist realism of the Stalinist era (one script he rejected, for example, was a simplistic glorification of the life of a Communist activist). Because of this, he was not allowed to work in Czechoslovakian cinema for nearly twenty years, focusing instead on theater. In 1988, he died shortly before the premiere of his comeback film, Killing with Kindness, a story about a mother-daughter relationship that features Return of the Prodigal Son’s Kacer and Brejchová in prominent roles. – Michael Koresky, Criterion.com

1.33GB | 1 h 43 min | 714×535 | mkv

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http://nitroflare.com/view/BAB7C54D857270D/Evald_Schorm_-_%281967%29_The_Return_of_the_Prodigal_Son.part2.rar

Language:Czech
Subtitles:English

Evald Schorm – Kazdy den odvahu AKA Courage for Every Day (1964)

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Synopsis:
“Everyday Courage” or “Courage for Every Day” is a beautifully made fllm of great poetic restraint about a young man living in Prague before the collapse of communism. It is best described as belonging to the school of realism which marked the Czech films of the sixties, and its director, Evald Schorm, was noted for his refusal to compromise the subject matter or style of his films with the regime which controlled the film studios. An admirer of the films of the British director Lindsay Anderson, “Everyday Courage” has similarities with”This Sporting Life”, its hero striving to escape the repressive forces of a society against which he rebels, but which ultimately demoralizes him and undermines his personal relationships. The winner of the International Film Festival in 1965 it has been notably neglected, and was one of the most moving and lyrical films to emerge from the Czech school.

1.61GB | 1h 29mn | 757×568 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/B390EA67B661458/Courage_for_Every_Day_%281964%29_–_Evald_Schorm.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/5CB5DBAB75897CD/Courage_for_Every_Day_%281964%29_–_Evald_Schorm.part2.rar

Language:Czech
Subtitles:English, Czech (muxed)

Jan Nemec – O slavnosti a hostech AKA The Party and the Guests (1966)

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Distinguished as being ‘banned forever’ in its native Czechoslovakia, Nemec’s film is a masterpiece of barbed, darkly sinister wit. As a biting satire of governmental and institutional power and with its astute observations of human nature and conformity, it is a film whose relevance continues to this day.
Considered the most politically dangerous film made during the short flowering of the Czech New Wave in the 1960s, this is its first-ever release on DVD.

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This experimental Czechoslovakian film seems disturbingly akin to the works of Spain’s Luis Bunuel. A group of happy picnickers runs afoul of Jan Klusak, a bullying sadist who has some sort of unbreakable hold over his followers. Klusak subjects the picnickers to a cruel psychological game, wherein he plays interrogator. The ordeal comes to a brief end when a stranger (Ivan Vyskocil) arrives, apologizes for Klusak, and invites everyone to an elegant, formal outdoor banquet. But the bizarre “fun and games” continue, ending with the group embarking on a fully armed hunting party in search of a missing guest. Built on the premise of unquestioning conformity, Report on the Party and the Guests (O Slavnosti a Hostech) was a typically iconoclastic effort from the husband-and-wife director-screenwriter team of Jan Nemec and Ester Krumbachova.
Hal Erickson, allmovie.com

1.29GB | 1 h 10 min | 714×535 | mkv

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http://nitroflare.com/view/0C8A5B531CCD25B/Jan_Nemec_-_%281966%29_A_Report_on_the_Party_and_Guests.part2.rar

Language:Czech
Subtitles:None

Václav Vorlícek – Konec agenta W4C prostrednictvím psa pana Foustky AKA The End of Agent W4C (1967)

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Synopsis:
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C (Jan Kacer) has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice (Kveta Fialová). He will have to compete for the saltcellar with other agents working for the world’s various greater and smaller powers. The head of the Prague counter-intelligence unit gets news of agent W4C’s mission. Deficient in personnel, he nominates accountant Foustka (Jirí Sovák) as agent 13B. Mr Foustka takes his dog Pajda with him and the two head for the airport. Pajda helps him track down agent W4C in a classy hotel that becomes the battleground for the interests and plans of the secret agents from different countries, each trying to get hold of the precious saltcellar.

1.66GB | 1h 29mn | 1019×434 | mkv

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http://nitroflare.com/view/36D21E9A8415B15/The_End_of_Agent_W4C_%281967%29_–_Vaclav_Vorlicek.part2.rar

Language:Czech
Subtitles:English (muxed)

Karel Vachek – Nový Hyperion aneb Volnost, rovnost, bratrství AKA New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood (1992)

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About the film
Following his promising debut in the 1960s with the documentaries Moravian Hellas (1963) and Elective Affinities (1968), director Karel Vachek spent the majority of the 1970s and 1980s as a political persona non grata, at times working various blue-collar jobs and at times in emigration, without completing a single film project. He was rehabilitated only following the events of 1989, which permitted him to return to Prague’s Krátký Film studio. The societal events surrounding Vachek’s return to filmmaking in 1990 have much in common with those over twenty years earlier, in 1968, that allowed him to make Elective Affinities. In 1990, Czech and Slovak society was facing its first democratic parliamentary elections since 1945.

Vachek thus began to shoot the provisionally-titled “Elective Affinities II,” expanding upon and developing his existing filmic techniques. With this new film, as was the case with Elective Affinities, Vachek called the temporal boundaries of his work “thoroughly banal”—the film spans the period from the parliamentary elections of May 1990, through Pope Jan Paul II’s visit to Czechoslovakia, the campaigns, and election day, to the moment when the newly-established parliament voted Václav Havel president of the Republic (a clear reference to Elective Affinities). We follow state representatives, politicians, dissidents, artists, philosophers and various activists who moved within public circles in this period of heightened political activity, and we are witnesses to the way in which new social positions begin to be formed.

From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and many-layered film-argument about Czechoslovak democracy in the period of its rebirth, all administered with the director’s ini¬mitable point of view. In this unique historical moment, as part of the “pre-election comedy,” everyday citizens “play noblemen,” becoming actors in a universal “carnival” that culminates in a symbolic closing scene depicting crowds marching towards Prague Castle to the accompaniment of a chorus from Bedřich Smetana’s opera Brandenburgers in Bohemia. In the collage-panorama of Prague with the Charles Bridge that closes the film, however, we also see New York’s Statue of Liberty, the Parisian Bastille, and St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow….

New Hyperion works from several fundamental scenes and motifs that, divided into multiple parts, enter and exit according to context and create, through the course of the film, an expansive dialogue. Within this complex braid of numerous lines of thought, sound and image function as relatively independent elements, to the point at which the authentic spoken word is frequently conferred with meaning that exceeds that of the image, thus fulfilling a function that might be termed illustrative or contrapuntal.

The connections between individual episodes and events also operate primarily on the basis of the spoken word and elements of words. With this elevation of the word (through which Vachek creates a unique form of meaning-collage), among other things, Vachek’s films demonstrate their kinship to literature. And indeed, Vachek titled his film after Freidrich Hölderlin’s (1770 – 1843) novel Hyperion or, the Hermit in Greece (1799). New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood had its premiere on the 6th of April, 1992, shortly before a second set of parliamentary elections that ultimately led to the dissolution OF Czechoslovakia into the independent Czech and Slovak states.

2.05GB | 3h 16mn | 720×544 | mkv

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http://nitroflare.com/view/A82E8FF4B5A7605/Novy_Hyperion_-_Karel_Vachek._1992.part3.rar

Language:Czech
Subtitles:English; French; Polish

Jirí Weiss – Zbabelec AKA The Coward (1962)

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In a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with anti-Nazi partisans, the schoolteacher collaborates with the Germans in fear.

938MB | 1 h 38 min | 576×432 | avi

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http://nitroflare.com/view/431EB327A820E3C/1962_Zbabelec_-_Weiss.srt

Language:Czech
Subtitles:English


Vladimír Cech – Divá Bára AKA Wild Barbara (1949)

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Bára, the daughter of a communal herdsman, is pursued by all the young men from the village. The parents of the village boys are not pleased with this at all, because they believe the superstitious old women who claim that Bára is a daughter of a noonday-witch. The beautiful girl has one friend, Eliška, foster-daughter of the parish priest. The priest also likes Bára and always takes her side. The manorial administrator Sláma is trying to win Eliška, but Eliška loves a student from Prague. Bára decides to frighten Sláma away from his courtship. She disguises herself as a ghost, scares Sláma to death near the graveyard and makes him promise to leave Eliška in peace. But Sláma’s coachman alarms the entire village and they recognize Bára in the ghost. They lock her in the morgue to punish her. The village boys Josífek and Vojta want to help Bára. Josífek goes on his horse to get the huntsman who has liked Bára already for a long time, and Vojta is running to the morgue. Here, in a nasty quarrel with his father, he drops a lantern and the morgue starts burning instantly. Fortunately, the huntsman arrives in time, and takes Bára with him, away from the superstitious village folks.

1.34GB | 1h 15mn | 768×576 | mkv

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Language:Czech
Subtitles:English, Czech, Russian (muxed)

Pavel Jurácek – Prípad pro zacínajícího kata AKA Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)

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The Lemuel Gulliver of Dlouhá Street takes an unexpected journey to the flying island of Laputa, in the realm of Balnibarbi, and back again. The parable about a totalitarian system, where bizarre laws are in force and unwritten rules are adhered to, mixes with a fantastical spectacle in which “dreams touch the world and the world touches dreams”. In twelve chapters, the Kafkaesque motion picture, Case for the New Hangman, tells the timeless tale of a foreigner who brings hope and excitement to the stagnant waters of Balnibarbi whereupon, instead of being received as a guest, he is treated with suspicion.

1.96GB | 1 h 46 min | 788×576 | mkv

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http://nitroflare.com/view/7B4A324A3F68C99/Case.for.a.Rookie.Hangman.1970.part2.rar

Language:Czech, English commentary
Subtitles:English

Vojtech Jasný – Az prijde kocour AKA The Cassandra Cat (1963)

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Some people with a strange cat arrive in a small village. The cat wears glasses, and when someone takes them off, she can colour people, according to their nature and mood. The grown-ups of the village consider the cat to be dangerous, but the kids just love her…

1.53GB | 1h 39mn | 1029×438 | mkv

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https://nitroflare.com/view/A92B762405D0294/Az.Prijde.Kocour.x264.AC3.AdagioZ.part2.rar

Language(s):Czech
Subtitles:Czech, English

Stanislav Látal – Dobrodruzství Robinsona Crusoe, námorníka z Yorku aka Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor from York (1982)

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IMDB:
A full-length picture based on the famous novel by Daniel Defoe. The picture, unlike the other film adaptations of the story, focuses much more on Crusoe’s life before and after his stay on the island. Following the principle of setting the novel right, it describes Crusoe’s experiences with delicate irony and understanding.
—KrátkýFilm

829MB | 1h 8mn | 720×544 | avi

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Language:Czech
Subtitles:English

Juraj Jakubisko – Nevera po slovensky AKA Infidelity the Slovak Way (1981)

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Jakubisko’s comedy about infidelity inside the community of lumberjacks in three chapters. First, Group of men gets to know that there comes a group of female brigadiers to a near village and tries to seduce them, which won’t come out as precisely as they wanted. In the next chapter, one girl got pregnant and lumberjacks tries to solve this by a wedding to a man called Domino. In the final phase, they’re struggling for the succesful wedding and are affraid of possible punishment from their wives.

2.55GB | 2h 22mn | 967×576 | mkv

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https://nitroflare.com/view/FE2F788BAA762D8/Nevera_po_slovensky_%281981%29_–_Juraj_Jakubisko.part3.rar

Language:Slovak
Subtitles:English, Slovak (muxed)

Hynek Bocan – Pasták AKA Reform School AKA Borstal (1968)

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Pasták is a Czech drama film. It was made by director Hynek Bočan in 1968 but only released in 1990.
A young teacher is sent to a rural reform school, where he is faced with brutality of the inmates. The story, based on the novel of the same name by Karel Misafi, was banned during the final editing of the film and was only finished and released after the Velvet Revolution.

The director Hynek Boãan (b. 1938) avoided persecution during “normalization” by shooting harmless comedies and fairy tales. After the Velvet Revolution he became one of the most productive directors of television series. He was responsible for the continuation of the popular television series “Nemocnice na kraji mûsta po dvaceti letech” [Hospital on the Edge of Town After 20 Years] dealing with the fates of doctors and their patients. At the present, he is making a series about the lives of famous ice hockey players on the decline.

2.01GB | 1h 31mn | 757×568 | mkv

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Language(s):Czech
Subtitles:Czech,English

Adolf Born & Jaroslav Doubrava & Milos Macourek – O chlapeckovi, který se stal kredencí AKA The Boy who became a Cupboard (1989)

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Parents of all children around the world held a congress to discuss how to deal with their misbehaving. All parents came together, only one was missing, parents of Silvester, the best boy in the world. The congress decided to go see him so he could lead the other children by example. Silvester was truly an exceptional child, but his “being good at all times and under all circumstances” somewhat got out of hand …

105MB | 10mn 58s | 768×576 | avi

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Language(s):Czech
Subtitles:English


Adolf Born & Jaroslav Doubrava & Milos Macourek – O vodovodu ktery zpival v opere AKA About the tap who sang at the opera (1990)

Adolf Born & Jaroslav Doubrava & Milos Macourek – Mindrák AKA Inferiority Complex (1981)

Stefan Uher – Slnko v sieti AKA The Sun in a Net (1962) (HD)

Václav Marhoul – Tobruk (2008) (HD)

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Nominated for eight Crystal Lions (the Czech Republic’s equivalent of the Oscars), and a substantial domestic hit, war film “Tobruk” reps a solid work of craftsmanship in every department. Story of a bunch of grunts who get shipped out during WWII to the North African frontline in Tobruk, Libya, doesn’t score many points for originality, but the pic tells its tale well, without sentimentality, and features vigorous, intense action sequences. In a healthier economic climate, writer-helmer Vaclav Marhoul’s sophomore feature might have flown the Czech flag in cinemas offshore, but these days its best shot is in ancillary pickups.At a training camp in Egypt, two wet-behind-the-ears recruits, baby-faced Pospichal (Jan Meduna) and gangly Jew Lieberman (Adrien Brody lookalike Petr Vanek), are assigned to an army unit led by Sergeant Borny (Martin Nahalka), and drilled by mean-tempered hard nut Corporal Kohak (Robert Nebrensky).
Pic spends a good half-hour or so introducing the rest of the characters (the usual mix of braggarts, jokers, and sensitive, doomed wallflowers) while the men get in shape and enjoy the local brothels before being sent to the front.
Once in Libya, supplies start to run thin and minds begin to frazzle as the Germans pound the line with heavy ammo. Soldiers start to fall one by one. Thinking everyone’s been killed in one engagement, Pospichal gets lost in the desert trying to make his way back to his comrades, but he’s eventually reunited with the unit and survives to participate in the pic’s climactic final scene, a tautly edited, highly suspenseful sequence that ends the story on a tragic high.
Although Marhoul (who’s helmed one previous feature, “Smart Philip,” but is better known for his thesp work) can’t resist utilizing a few war-pic cliches — like turning down the sound to mimic a character’s temporary deafness during a barrage — he deserves praise for his excellent rendering of spatial relationships. Throughout, it’s always clear where our heroes are, where the Nazis are and who’s going where or shooting in which direction. Helping auds understand such cinematic geography is an increasingly neglected art, so it’s refreshing to see such ace work here.
Tech credits are pro, especially use of old-school special effects for the fighting scenes. Cast is uniformly fine, with Vanek and Meduna repping particular standouts.

3.23GB | 1 h 42 min | 1280×546 | mkv

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Language(s):Czech
Subtitles:English,Turkish

Karel Kachyna – Ucho AKA The Ear (1970)

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Karel Kachyna’s 1970 The Ear is a harrowing tale that interweaves marital discord and surveillance paranoia. With its portrait of a government functionary who spends a sleepless night wondering if he’ll be arrested before daybreak, it’s no wonder that The Ear had to wait until 1989 for its Czech premiere; the wonder is that it was made at all. The latter, at least, can be explained by the fact that Kachyna’s long-time collaborator, scenarist Jan Procházka, was a government official of some standing – which accounts, no doubt, for The Ear’s insider perspective, playing as it does with the couple’s knowledge of which rooms in their comfortable house are likely bugged and which aren’t. As they discuss the arrest of his superior, the couple moves from room to room, opening and closing doors depending on which conversations they want heard and which they don’t. (After a long night of drinking and recriminations about their infrequent sex life, he pulls a bear rug from a kitchen cabinet and lays it on the floor, their bedroom assumed to be bugged.) With its escalating marital tensions, The Ear is as much Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as 1984, with a helping of Seconds for the flashbacks to the official party they’ve just come from, replaying idle chat that seems menacing in retrospect. (Based only on this film, Kachyna might also pass as Czechoslovakia’s answer to Polanski.) With its pitch-perfect ending, The Ear is a surprisingly commercial thriller that tangles with dark undercurrents – a movie ripe for rediscovery.

4.37GB | 1 h 35 min | 992×720 | mkv

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https://nitroflare.com/view/482B1DAD711C2C1/the.ear.1970.720p.bluray.x264-ghouls.part2.rar
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Language(s):Czech, some Russian
Subtitles:English

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