So a friend has managed to get a Karagara account, for those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s basically the holy grail of art cinema, where you can get the weirdest and obscurest of films you could ever imagine. So basically, if you know of any film that is Marxist, communist, socialist, or political in some left leaning form that you’d like to get and which can’t be gotten through public trackers, I can get them and share them with you all on a different place so we can have a back up. I don’t want this post to be here for too long because this actually goes against the tracker rules, so once you have gave me a list I will delete the post.
Some soviet films I’ve wanted for a while in good quality (can find in lousy quality but I want something decent).
-Earth (Zemlya) (1930)
-The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
-October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) (Note on this one. It is in the public domain, it can be found on internet archive but only a really shitty 720p rip that does not look good and has been floating around forever. Looking for something better quality)
Minimum quality desired:
Also highly appreciate english subtitles being included if available with the release as I’m unsure if they can be sourced elsewhere and as these are Russian pictures I need them.
I’ve turned every stone looking for these in public trackers and even some private ones and nothing.
To be honest anything in the soviet sci-fi space that’s a quality rip (high bitrate 480p dvd rip that hasn’t been re-encoded 5 times, bluray, or even 1080p webrip off some Russian streaming service from a good film print) would be deeply loved and valuable.
Lower priority bonuses I also wouldn’t mind:
-Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972) (Not even objectively a great film but an important one. First film screened from outside China after cultural revolution, somewhat famous there. I have a shitty copy with hard-subs but I’m looking for a quality transfer, 1080p webrip or bluray)
-Anything by Chantal Akerman, especially any kind of collected works bluray but right now the only stuff you can easily find by her is Jeanne Dielman.
Hey, I’ll ask him today and see if they are available in good resolutions, also if they are not freelech we may have wait a bit since he doesn’t have a massive ratio. The only thing I’d ask in return is for you to help me seed some sort of “Lemmygrad film archive” so that we can share it with our comrades.
Understood. The Soviet ones at the top are priority, if ratio is a concern forget about the others.
And no problem. I have a remote server dedicated for such things and a 1Gb unmetered connection.