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Vedreba (1967)
Directed by
Tengiz Abuladze

Writing credits
Tengiz Abuladze
Rezo Kveselava

Credited cast:
Spartak Bagashvili
Rusudan Kiknadze
Ramaz Chkhikvadze .... Matsili
Otar Megvinetukhutsesi .... Jokola
Zura Qapianidze .... Zviadauri
Nana Kavtaradze .... Gaza
Irakli Uchaneishvili .... Musa
Tengiz Archvadze .... Aluda
Geidar Palavandishvili .... Mutsali

User Comments:

Bad quality Recording can't hide quality film:
I have seen Mol'ba (this movie's russian title) only on a tape that was of incredibly poor quality and I think was missing the ending (although I guess I can't really be too sure) but I've seen enough to know this is one of the greatest films to have ever been made.

The movie is based on what I think are fragments from epic poems of a medieval Georgian (that's Georgia the country, do I really need to say that?) poet. In fact, all the lines of dialogue in this film are word-for word from the poems themselves. You may already be developing an idea that this movie is like a filmed play, which normally doesn't make movies which are any good. But no, this movie is nothing like a play, and in fact, could not have been made into one.

Why? Because throughout the movie, none of the actors on screen open their mouths. This is not to say that they don't talk to each other or there are no lines of dialogue. No, simply the dialogue is voiced by the actors themselves, but while the sound of their voice is played, the camera zooms in to the face of whomever is supposed to be speaking. I find it hard to explain, but it creates a sense of people communicating in thoughts as they talk in different with their mouths closed while still giving the full range of facial expressions.

I admit, at first that sounds like a gimmick. And maybe, if 100 movies were made in this way 99 of them would turn out to be just that - gimmick movies. But for some reason, Mol'ba transcends that. It must be a testament to the actors that real emotion can be sensed and felt along without the use of speech and that the voices appear so inseparably attached to the faces.

The main story itself is also a powerful one, and for that noone is to thank but the medieval poet. It centres around two settlements who are steeped in an agelong enmity against each other. The 'main character' is a fearsome fighter for one side, who, after a long fight against his adversary from the other, refuses to cut off the dying man's hands as a sign of respect for the opponent. The main character then is no longer welcome in either settlement - his own people despise him for what they see as weakness and lack of understanding of the suffering the other side has caused them. The others hate him for the numerous fighters of theirs that he has killed and families he left orphaned. Yet, because the story is centuries old, it can be both very powerful and not at all hard to understand, in the way Shakespeare sometimes is, if you don't mind all the metaphors and such.

Another thing that works in Mol'ba's favour is that it's black&white. I can't imagine such a movie being in colour. Although I'd really like to see a better recording, and I don't think there's any available to buy in North America.

Oh well, the movie is still a masterpiece.

All this from the Imdb page.

Vedreba (The Plea) Heph Rip XviD cd1.avi

Vedreba (The Plea) Heph Rip XviD cd1.srt

Vedreba (The Plea) Heph Rip XviD cd2.avi

Vedreba (The Plea) Heph Rip XviD cd2.srt

Vedreba (The Plea) (Tengiz Abuladze, 1967) 2 CDS ru,en,es,fr,it,de subs.rar

serdar002 escribió:Dual rip of the Ruscico DVD, Russian/Georgian audio, igorert for KG. Not a new rip, but the 2 CD rip which I don't have seems to have only the Russian dubbed audio, not the original Georgian audio.

Enlace:
Vedreba (Abuladze 1967) dual.Rus.&Georg.avi

Subtítulos: Spanish subs / English subs.

Datos técnicos

Código: Seleccionar todo

File size                        : 753 MiB
Duration                         : 1h 12mn
Overall bit rate                 : 1 456 Kbps

Video Codec ID/Hint                    : DivX 5.2.1
Bit rate                         : 1 220 Kbps
Width                            : 640 pixels
Height                           : 352 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate                       : 25.000 fps
Resolution                       : 24 bits
Colorimetry                      : 4:2:0
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.217

Audio #1 (Russian dub)
Codec ID/Hint                    : MP3
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 108 Kbps
Nominal bit rate                 : 128 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz

Audio #2 (Georgian)
Codec ID/Hint                    : MP3
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 107 Kbps
Nominal bit rate                 : 128 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Resolution                       : 16 bits

Capturas:

auess escribió:BTW, do you have any chance to get the second part "Wish Tree"?

MalachihcalaM escribió:It's cool, I think i can get Wish Tree for you all. Someone I know has it burnt, I just need to favor him and maybe he'll give it to me.

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OBSERVE:
No subs for that one I believe.

Faeton escribió:I've got "The wishing tree" DVD edition, with subs. In fact you got the hand with the release of Vedreba Expect it for mid-week

Faeton escribió:Si algún alma caritativa se encarga de comprobar si están sincronizados y cortarlos...