Meeuwen sterven in de haven (1955)
aka Seagulls Die in the Harbour
Writed and Directed by
Rik Kuypers, Ivo Michiels and Roland Verhavert
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 94 min
Country: Belgium
Language: Dutch
Color: Black and White
Subspack: English, French and Dutch
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222186/
A lost treasure of belgian cinema.
it's a nice quality dvdrip, but not mine, just got it by an accident, and i dont know exactly who made it. this film among one of the best i ever seen, stunning cinematography, moving story, excellent jazz soundtrack...the best belgian movies absolutely.
A movie made by a film critic ( Roland Verhavert), a writer ( Ivo Michiels) and an amateur film-maker ( Rik Kuypers). The film introduced aesthetics into Flemish film and heralded the beginning of a serious fully-formed cinema.
A pessimistic urban drama, with a musical score by Jack Sels and Max Damasse, charts in strongly expressionistically lit black-and-white images the wanderings of a tormented man through the cosmopolitan port city of Antwerp. The only people to show him understanding are an orphan and two disillusioned women.
A purest expression of utter loneliness...
I saw this film 45 years ago in Leningrad, my home town back in the Soviet Union. I was 17 at the time and belonged to a generation which produced rich crop of Russian dissidents later on. The film instantly became a cult movie among ambitious high school graduates and university students and I was one of them. We would go in groups to any movie theater within 50 miles radius from the city where the movie was playing to watch it over and over again.
The movie was striking in its sharp black and white cinematographic form, its penetrating and yet charming sound track and most of all in its mood which conveyed a sense of something gone hopelessly wrong, of unrecoverable loss, and piercing, unbearable feeling of loneliness.
Given what we knew, or thought we knew, of our own history and our own destiny, the film crystallized our feelings in purest artistic form. But the film also mesmerized us artistically and made us to want to watch it again and again if only to confirm that one did not make it all up in one's strangest dream.
My age, the period, and the place where I discovered the film, all must have colored my perception and I would be the last person to insist on objectivity (but then who would?). But I wish I could watch it again now, 45 years later in the USA. I would rent or buy the film at the first opportunity.
[Belgian.Cinema)_Meeuwen.sterven.in.de.haven_(Seagulls.Die.in.the.Harbour)_(XVID+MP3+512X384)_(1955).avi 
[Belgian.Cinema)_Meeuwen.sterven.in.de.haven_(Seagulls.Die.in.the.Harbour)_(EN+FR+DUTCH)_(subs).rar some pics:
Otras copias
- DVDRip VOSE [900 MB; 512x384]
Lástima que no tenga fuentes, parecía interante.
