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.
Since this is still up and I didn’t get many mentions in I’ll add that any Soviet war films such as:
Battle for Moscow (1985) or
The Fall of Berlin (1949/50) as bluray rips or 1080p webrips would be great.
Caveat: Only if available as bluray rips or webrips with 4500kbps or greater bitrate. They’re both available on Youtube in the mosfilm channel (along with a ton of others) but 1) Youtube quality is garbage, bitrate is maybe 2-3000 at best 2) Youtube is not friendly and with Ukraine stuff on-going I wouldn’t be shocked if they banned the account and purged Russian culture stuff from it belatedly, to say nothing of them probably having no direct desire to host pro-communist films and those being at risk at any moment of removal.
Caveat2: No dvdrips for the above films as the youtube uploads are in 1080p quality which even at 2000kbps is at least equal if not better than 4500kbps 480/570p video. Also dvdrips do exist in public trackers last I checked.
So if they’re not free-leach no big pressure as it is accessible at least for now and maybe it can be ripped with YT-DL if nothing better crops up.
I’ll also mention as an idea, any cinema from DPRK (North Korea) could be interesting as most films there exemplify the Juche idea and thus are Marxist-Leninist in politics. I don’t have specific titles but you could look that up yourself or maybe your friend could look to see if any exist there. I’m not even sure this is possible as I’m not aware of if these have ever gotten any kind of home-media release like bluray dvd and it strikes me as likely they wouldn’t have English subtitles available as they’d be for Chinese/Russian market which would cut down massively on the ability to comprehend and really enjoy them. THOUGH if they come with pre-existing Chinese or Russian or Korean subtitles we could machine translate the subtitles easily enough.
Hey, sorry, I wanted to let some time pass to ask him since I recently requested him a film called “We The Workers” and it wasn’t freelech, which damaged his ratio a bit. I’ll ask him about these hopefully today since I think I’ll see him.
Don’t worry about it. I’m just spitting ideas here in case you really don’t have much to go on. All of these would be nice but obviously depending on how hard ratio is to get I get this could take some time.