Movies: Como Film

  • 1964
    Istanbul

    Istanbul (1964)

    Istanbul

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    All of Pialat's Turkish films are uniquely interested in the country — especially Istanbul — as it was, not just as it is at the precise moment that Pialat is filming it. History informs these films in a big way, with the voiceover narration (which i...

    Istanbul
  • 1953
    The Crimson Curtain

    The Crimson Curtain (1953)

    The Crimson Curtain

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    A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars. Newly promoted, the officer (Jean-Claude Pascal) is quartered by a dull bourgeois couple who treat him with a c...

    The Crimson Curtain
  • 1964
    Maître Galip

    Maître Galip (1964)

    Maître Galip

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    Maître Galip is the most poetic and powerful of Pialat's Turkish Chronicles, using the poems of Nazim Hikmet to accompany a series of evocative images of ordinary working class people in Istanbul. This was the film that Pialat himself claimed was the...

    Maître Galip
  • 1964
    Byzance

    Byzance (1964)

    Byzance

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    Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453. Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked Childhood, Pialat worked on a series of short films, many of them financed by French television. Byzan...

    Byzance
  • 1953
    Mina de Vanghel

    Mina de Vanghel (1953)

    Mina de Vanghel

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    A romantic German girl is brought to France. After an interlude with an old roue, she falls in love with a simple, but married, man. She goes to work for him as a servant, but after a night of love with him, she commits suicide....

    Mina de Vanghel
  • 1964
    Bosphore

    Bosphore (1964)

    Bosphore

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    Short doc by Maurice Pialat. The first film in the series set at Turkey, Bosphore, is also the only one that was shot in color....

    Bosphore
  • 1953
    Les Crimes de l'amour

    Les Crimes de l'amour (1953)

    Les Crimes de l'amour

    3.31953HD

    Two adaptations. First, "Le Rideau cramoisi" by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly is about a young second lieutenant of hussars, garrisoned in the provinces, who evokes a strange adventure. Staying with an old couple, he acts as acquaintance with Alber...

    Les Crimes de l'amour
  • 1964
    Pehlivan

    Pehlivan (1964)

    Pehlivan

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    Pehlivan focuses on a three-day wrestling competition, an ancient tradition that dates back over a thousand years to the time of the Ottoman Empire, originating in the games the soldiers would play to entertain themselves in between battles. Maybe th...

    Pehlivan