Pavel Chukhrai - Vor (The Thief, 1997)

Vor (The Thief, 1997) (Rip #9) ---=imdb=-------------------------------------- link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124207/ User rating: 7.5/10 ---=Movie Info (Wikipedia)=-------------------- The Thief (Russian: Vor) is a 1997 film written and directed by Pavel Chukhrai. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won the Nika Award for Best Picture and Best Directing. Also winner of the International Youth Jury's prize, the President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal, and the UNICEF Award at the 1997 Venice Film Festival. The film is about a young woman, Katya (Yekaterina Rednikova) and her son Sanya (Misha Philipchuk) who in 1946 meet a veteran Soviet soldier named Tolyan (Vladimir Mashkov). Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a thief, but who also becomes a father figure to Sanya. ---=Info (Wikipedia)=-------------------------- A boy and his mother try to get by in the Soviet Union of the 1950s. The boy's father is a soldier who died in the war before his birth. Jump to 1952: Katya and her son Sanya are poor and desperate. On a train, they meet a handsome, rakish soldier, Tolyan, who makes a play for Katya. She accepts. Tolyan pretends to be Katya's husband and uses his credentials as a war veteran to get an apartment without paying money in advance and becomes everyone's favorite through his good looks and generosity. He turns out to be a brutal and abusive man. He teaches Sanya his ruthless code of manhood while rolling razor blades in his mouth with his tongue. Tolyan also brags to the boy that he is a secret son of Stalin. After several weeks of mooching off and seducing the other tenants, Tolyan buys them all dinner and tickets to a circus. During the performance he sneaks back to the building and robs everyone. Katya is suspicious that he is carrying on with a female tenant he has been flirting with, and she returns to catch him in his burglary. He tells her she can escape with him or stay behind, but she has no skills and no prospect of work, so she takes Sanya and follows him. Katya becomes a part of his con game as they move from city to city, working the same schemes. ---=Audio=------------------------------------- 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3 48000Hz 192 kb/s tot , stereo (2/0) Interleave: 96 ms ---=Video=------------------------------------- 720 x 416 @ 23.976 fps (CD1) 51:50.541, 74,579 frames Qf 0.234/1683 kbps (CD2) 41:54.492, 60,288 frames Qf 0.298/2139 kbps ---=Size=-------------------------------------- 731,940,864 (74,579 frames) (CD1) 734,562,304 (60,288 frames) (CD2) ---=Subtitles=--------------------------------- Multisubs in IDX/SUB in English, Espanol, French ---=Notes=------------------------------------- This is one of those films which never became famous. It deserves to be famous. What Wikipedia doesn't say - the things which happen towards the end of the movie - are quite heart-rending. The master thief is finally apprehended, in quite an unlikely fashion, and the life of the boy, who is narrating the story, will never be the same again... It is a moving film which deserves to be better known. For your information, Pavel Chukhrai is the son of the celebrated Soviet filmmaker Grigory Chukhrai (The Ballad of a Soldier). Seed and enjoy! *********************************** FREAKYFLICKS ************************************ Freakyflicks is a free and open community dedicated to preserving and sharing cinematic art in the digital era. Our goal is to disseminate such works of art to the widest audience possible through the channels provided by P2P technology. The Freakyflicks collection is limited to those films that have played an exceptional role in the history of cinema and its progression in becoming a great art. Films that are usually described as classic, cult, arthouse and avant-garde. If you have films that fit this description feel free to share them and participate in our community. All you need do is include this tag in your upload and join us at the forum to announce your release. 'If we all seed just 1:1, give at least what we take, this torrent will NEVER DIE'

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zeinabqureshi (2008-05-10)

Nice to hear a comment...I took a big risk by uploading this as a 2-CD version, not compromising on the quality...such a film, which is not well known, could not be seeded for ever, and the torrent will die any day now (a similar fate awaits one of my other torrents, Moolaade) . Good to know you've got it and watched it. If possible seed it for a few days.

 pastafari (2008-05-18)

many thanks! great upload, great film!
muchas gracias!

zeinabqureshi (2008-05-18)

@pastafari:
Thanks for the thanks...happy to share. If possible seed a few days, if you can share the bandwidth...

zeinabqureshi (2009-01-04)

@nyx90:
Not quite sure if I'm king (Queen?)... but nice yo know you've found what you wanted. Thanks for downloading, lol

faisalkidwai (2009-03-21)

Zeinab, I always thought I was crazy about films but you are in a different league all together. The depth and breadth of movies you have seen is simply amazing. You would do great as a film critic.
P.S. I am posting this message on other movie boards because I do not know which one you would read.

johnxj (2009-07-16)

I keep getting an error message that the torrent has been deleted. Yet the page in Firefox shows 1 seeder and 2 leechers. I am using Transmission on Ubuntu. Can some kind soul tell me if the torrent is still here?

johnxj (2009-07-18)

OK, I finally got 100%. I have seeded five times that. But every time I see someone get to 99% and then disappear from the leecher list, the number of seeders does not increment. Y'all are just taking and not giving back. I try to do the right thing, but screw it. I'm outta here.

zeinabqureshi (2009-08-03)

@johnxj: ~
I'm sorry you found downloading this torrent a bit difficult...was never easy from the start, though this is a first-class movie. (It was nominated for Palme d'Or sometime back). Great you could get 100%. Try adjusting your client's preferences to stop seeding when share ratio reaches 100%... I shouldn't really be telling you this, but you did seem a hell of a lot worried. Thanks for downloading...and in case you stick around with the bay, i'm sure you'd find a few hard-to-get classics.

anoob.v (2012-01-07)

Don't stop seed it

insomniacdr (2012-04-12)

Plz seed!

bismarket (2012-09-17)

Thanx

jaycam22 (2013-04-19)

Thanks!