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November 11: origami for

Ceremonial , known as girei or can be seen hanging from the altar in this scene from 's 儀式 [Gishiki / The Ceremony] (1971).

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A man kneeled in front of a Shinto altar.
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November 12: on

In 's Mahler (1974), the sickly composer and his wife Alma () dwell on their shared lives while travelling to by train. Storylines – circular like a journey, rondo like 's compositions – drift from the ordinary to the grotesque ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/ma

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Gustav (Robert Powell) and Alma (Georgina Hale), both in a three piece suit with top hats. She's in a shadows, wearing a tight, black veil that completely conceals her features.
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November 13: someone becomes orphaned on

Les enfants terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1950), based on a novel by Jean Cocteau.

With their mother bedridden, Elisabeth () nurtures her snowball-fight-injured brother Paul () back to health. Withdrawn in their family home, they form a strong manipulative bond, drawing others into their games ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/le

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The siblings – children on the cusp of adulthood, played by adults – sharing a bed. Elisabeth points up towards the ceiling with one arm wrapped around her brother Paul's neck. Both wear dressing gowns.
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November 14: a child reading on

explores L'enfant sauvage (1970) right when the idea of the noble savage seemed to lock on with counterculture. With as Victor's tutor Itard in front of the camera, directly guiding amateur child actor (and “gipsy”) Cargol, the film not only reimagines Victor's fate, but reenacts Western presumed enlightenment over The Other ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/le

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Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron (Jean-Pierre Cargol), reads letters from a board under supervision of Dr. Jean Itard (Truffaut).
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November 16: an Andy for

Everything is noise. Everything is light. Everything is dark. Everything is motion. Everything is static. Everything is energy. Everything is lethargy. Everything is rhythm. Everything is chaos. Everything is silent.

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Andy Guhl of experimental Swiss music/art group Voice Crack performing surrounded by contact mics, a bullhorn, and various electronics.
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November 17: someone sets a world record on

's (1964) tells about a small, arid town in that one day finds itself on the world's stage. Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, a local salt lake that hasn't seen a drop of rain in nine years, is the perfect spot for a landspeed record attempt by British daredevil and his ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/mu

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The Bluebird doing a testdrive on the salt lake.
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November 18: an adoption on

Tätowierung [Tattoo aka The Delinquent] (1967)

16 year old Benno () lives in reformatory until the Lohmanns, a rich altruistic business couple decides to adopt him. For the teenager, this neatly regulated new bourgeois life feels all wrong. With his ne'er-do-well mate Sigi, Benno traverses ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/ta

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Benno (Christof Wackernagel), a pensive young man with dark hair and dark eyes.
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– Get the .
– It's got the Bible on top of it, keeping it quiet.

November 19: play a on

Two neat little ladies playing that quirky 1891 novelty game in 's The Bat Whispers (1930) summon the aforementioned bat, black-clad fiend and predecessor. Who is he? What does he want? And how can he be stopped? Do you know the answer?

YES                 NO
      GOOD B Y E

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Board and planchette at the ready for a little game of #Ouija.
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November 20: a

Two hopeless lonely hearts meet each other at , spending the most wonderful day in each other's company.

' joyful Lonesome (1928) was made just when motion pictures became talkies, and new and more modern novelties were expected by the audience. Fejős delivers, with sound and musical inserts, and the occasional – almost shocking – burst of colour ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/lo

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November 21: an entrepreneur for

In my book, entrepreneur is just a fancy talk for conman. A famous one, the one who may've tried to sell you the , was George C. Parker. 's Peaches O'Day bamboozles it her way in 's Every Day's a Holiday (1937). And boy, does she have a bridge to sell you!

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Lobbycard. Peaches O'Day (Mae West) hands her business card to another sucker. They're on the Brooklyn Bridge, which can be seen in the background.
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November 22: a party for !

Happy birthday, @bales1181!

Screenshot from satirical allegory 's O slavnosti a hostech [A Report on the Party and Guests] (1966)

The birthday party toasting during a sumptuous banquet in a forest.
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November 23: family dinner for

While mother Scorsese's famous meatballs in gravy is working its way to perfection, son Martin interviews his parents Catherine and Charles. For those unsure what to cook, and for those who don't celebrate Thanksgiving at al, mama's recipe is included in 's (1974) end credits. And here ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/it

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Catherine Scorsese cooking family dinner with subtitles reading “Take a few spoonfuls of tomato and throw them in there,”. She'd cook another mean meal in her son's Goodfellas (1990).
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November 24: holiday shopping on

A little boy takes in the magic of pre-Christmas, while the adults rush and worry about all that must to be bought in 's Weihnacht (1963) > write.underworld.fr/settima/we

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The miracle of Christmas, as seen ina fancy shop window. A dress shirt is on display among Sputnik-style decorations and a toddler is reflected in a gilded mirror. From across the street, Woolworth in neon text is reflected in the window pane.
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And yes, it's Bales time once again. Look, it's 's mom from my November 23 post!

Catherine Scorsese in Goodfellas (1990). There's a bottle of Heinz on the dinner table.
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November 25: protecting a woman on

In 's 隠し砦の三悪人 [The Hidden Fortress] (1958), a couple of greedy peasants escort a man and woman across enemy lines after the man has promised them a share of the gold they're carrying. Unknowingly, the fools not only protect their bounty, but a general and princess trying to escape an enemy clan so they can rebuild their kingdom ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/yi

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General Makabe (Toshirō Mifune) facing us with Princess Yuki (Misa Uehara) seemingly standing high above him on the fortress' wall, facing away.
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November 26: a koala for

It's not possible to be in , one can only be absorbed by it. This is Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).

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A koala up in a tree.
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November 27: online shopping on

- What year is it now? I forgot.

In the soul crushing future of 1999, one heroic nuclear family bravely fulfils their gender-specific duties. While Father Mike works in his computer-aided office, Son Jamie fails at computer homeschool and Mother Karen slavishly shops, cooks, and cleans the cyber way. Thankfully, the future turned out to be even bleaker than could've imagined in his 1999 A.D. (1967).

Mother Karen (Marj Dusay) taking a break from online food planning by shopping for a new wardrobe for everyone but herself.
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November 28: someone is given something special for

& 's La Belle et la Bête (1946)

Just before leaving home, a father asks his three daughters what he can bring them as a return gift. The eldest two ask for silly, extravagant things, but the youngest simply wishes the most beautiful flower. The father finds it in an enchanted garden, guarded by a terrible beast… ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/la

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The youngest daughter seated at a lavishly set table with the Beast standing behind her. As magical as the story are the production and set design by Christian Bérard, Lucien Carré, and René Moulaert. They breathed a soul into almost everything, including the candelabras.
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Peace is at hand.
— Henry ,1972

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Over an 11 day period, the 1972 bombings resulted in 20000 tons of American shells being dropped on & , killing at least 1624 civilians. During this unmentionable carnage, directed The Little Girl of Hanoi (1974), which gave the people of North not only a face, but a voice ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/em @film@a.gup.pe

The titular girl passing a bullet-strewn wall.
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December 1: lights for

It took experimental filmmaker three years to shoot Lights (1966). From midnight until 1 AM, she filmed New York's window displays during the holiday season, using her camera, motion, colour, and available light sources as her paintbrush ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/li @film@a.gup.pe @art_film@a.gup.pe

A display of what appear to be red, yellow, green and blue bell-shaped Christmas decorations among silhouetted tree branches.
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If you have a account, you can watch 's Lights (1966) on The -Makers' Coop channel here vimeo.com/230187590

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December 2: shaving on

Accompanied by the sweet tunes of I Can't Get Started, a young man shaves. The Big Shave (1967) is short but contains many of the hallmarks of 's later work. 's theme here is the carnage laid upon so many young men sent off to the smouldering battlefields of the East. There'd be another 6 years of that. And meanwhile, some young men came back. And became cabbies ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/th

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A young man (Peter Bernuth) shaving in front of a mirror. The bathroom is clean, white, with chrome fixtures.
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December 3: hugged on

Nanon () is mortally afraid of men. Of their grabbing, grasping, groping hands. She only trust knife thrower Alonzo the Armless () but he and accomplice () use the to hide from the long arm of the law. Who'd suspect an armless man? The Unknown (1927) is arguably and Chaney Sr's pinnacle of silent . 14 minutes are still missing. Check your attic!

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Target girl Nanon (Joan Crawford) hugging knife thrower Alonzo (Lon Chaney), her circus partner. Her tight embrace may reveal his secret.
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December 4: a letter to Santa on

3615 code Père Noël (, 1989)

France's proto-Internet used codes, not URLs. Dial 3615ULLA to text with a sexy lady – some telecom employee pretending to be one – and 3615PERENOEL for Claus. The real one, of course. 9 yr old Thomas is dead set on proving that Santa is real and not some weirdo looking for a gullible kid to play with. A trap is set, and the boy waits ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/36

A scruffy man seen from the back at a public Minitel terminal. The screen displays a crude 8-bit graphic of Santa carrying a Minitel on his back. Text reads 3615 PERE NOEL.
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December 5: digging in soil on

Mr. Hayashi (Bruce Baillie, 1963)

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A hand digging into the ground.
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December 7: a Judith/Judy for

, , & 's The Savage Eye (US, 1959/60) follows divorcée Judith X's lonely exploration of a gritty, hopeless LA. Filmed over 4 years by , , and in style, Eye feels naked and raw, and broke ground for the American New Wave that came crashing in a decade later ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/th

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Judith X (Barbara Baxley) relaxing on a sun lounger.
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December 8: a for

Fireworks' (1947) Dreamer, , is still asleep. The violence is harrowing, filmed with such exquisite eye that it's impossible to look away. Blood finds its way out, pulsating and spurting. Ambiguous glances. A hand, no finger. A young man awakes, is born. The dreamer is still asleep ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/fi

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The Dreamer holding a sumptuously endowed Christmas tree that covers his naked upper body. The scene prophesies Yvonne Marquis' tinsel dress in Puce Moment (1949).
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December 9: something's lost and found on

A white , lost over , is shot down by a boy and found by an artist in 's directed and 's wonderfuly photographed Holubice [The White Dove] (1960).

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Michal (Karel Smyczek) and the dove, perched on a faceless sculpture.
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December 10: a candle is lit for

Candles lit in prayer, longing, and in 's Nostalghia [Nostalgia] (1983).

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Hands shielding something on stone steps.
The same shot. Now with the hands withdrawn we see a small, lit candle.
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December 11: mountains travelled on

In 's highly stylised 楢山節考 [The Ballad of Narayama] (1958), a starving community has come to the agreement that the elders approaching the age of seventy are to be carried up the mountain Narayama to die. The day prior to the mountain's festival, sixty-nine year old Orin prepares to leave, carried by her son Tatsuhei ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/yo

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Orin (Kinuyo Tanaka) carried by her son Tatsuhei (Teiji Takahashi). She combs his hair while they travel the mountain range.
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December 12: bad breath on

explores the taste, smell, history, and myth of that stinky rose, in Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980). And manages to sneak in a little workers' rights agitprop along the way. It truly is a wonder spice!

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Three youngsters wearing pro-garlic tee-shirts. LtR: THE GARLIC TO SHARE WITH A FRIEND, MINE DOESN'T STINK, and WE LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS.
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December 13: the shows up for their

American dissidents are given the choice to spend decades in federal prison, or 3 days in the desert, chased by National Guardsmen et al. If they manage capture the American flag, they're free to go. While the washed-out 16mm footage and references may tell you otherwise, ' (1971) remains a gut-punching portrait of a timeless America.

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Military men arresting one of the dissidents. A man in black uniform and white helmet interacts directly with the camera c.q. the viewer.
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Dec 14: filmed in Alabama on

George Wallace, governor, refused to allow Black students into the University. In Crisis (1963), et al followed Pres. Kennedy and AG R.F. Kennedy. They filmed everything; from tense phone calls, private moments (one of 's daughters on the phone with a perplexed Dept. Katzenbach), and many, many shots in which nothing – which is everything – is said ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/cr

Bobby on the phone, seen from the back.
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December 15: pearls worn on

No one said those pearls were to be worn in an obvious place. From Henri d'Ursel surrealist-ish folly La perle [The Pearl] (1929).

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December 16: an underdog movie for

Underdog Ánimas Trujano is dead set on becoming his town's next mayordomio. It may take a moment to get comfortable with casting Japanese movie legend as the titular important man, but from that moment on, 's Ánimas Trujano (El hombre importante) (1961) feels as universal as any great cinematic experience should be ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/an

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Now very important Ánimas Trujano [Toshirô Mifune] holding his Juana (Columba Domínguez).
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December 18: Arabic spoken on

's ever-relevant La battaglia di Algeri [The Battle of ] (1966) ✊🏼

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Women in حايك (haik or al-hayek, a Maghreb garment worn over day clothes) and a small boy in the streets of Algiers.
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December 19: hard candy for

's haunting tales of childhood lost leaped from Ireland to in 's Si muero antes de despertar (1952). With similarities to Lang's M (1931), this fairy-tale feels more oppressive; due to the helplessness of a boy's power in an adult world and his understanding of grown-up responsibilities ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/si

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Lucio (excellent child actor #NéstorZavarce) and his new friend sharing one of her fancy 10 ct #lollipop​s.
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– I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

December 21: a short girl for

The great Gloria Swanson (4'11” – 5ft 2 / 1,49 m) – fabulously dressed by Edith Head (5'1” / 1,55 m) with an endless parade of platform shoes – in Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. (1950). Also starring, Buster Keaton, who was 5'5” / 1,65 m.

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Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) descending an ornate staircase. The size of the set gives you an approximate idea of her height. Even when several steps above him, Swanson's dwarfed by the photographer in the dark suit and glasses.
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December 22: on in India

Mahagonny (1980) is maker, artist, musicologist, & alchemist 's mathematical analysis of 's masterpiece The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, aka The Large Glass (1923), set to and 's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, from 1930 ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/ma

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A kaleidoscopic New York street scene. Mahagonny requires two projectionists to screen it in its intended form.
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December 23: farmers for in India

El-Fallâh el-fasîh [The Eloquent Peasant] (, 1970) takes place 4000 years ago, in 's Middle Kingdom. A peasant (), leading his mules past a stream of water, is tricked. With his animals gone, he pleads to the Pharaoh to restore Maʽat, harmony 𓀀 write.underworld.fr/settima/el

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The peasant (Ahmed Marei) in a stone temple, flanked by scribes.
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Dec 24: the night before Christmas on

Told in format, we follow the pitiful account of Monique, who as a young girl learns that her mother is not who she thinks she is. Even in the short comically melodramatic breathe that is 's Colloque de chiens (1977), the map has been laid out for Ruiz's later, much more complex narrative ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/co

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Monique (Silke Humel, R) spending Christmas Eve in a bar, looking for a way out. She's speaking to an elderly man in an expensive tuxedo. Is this it?
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December 25: a Santa for

means “a bestowing of life“. Like his ancestor in the arts Bernard Palissy and the ancient winter solstice celebration of the return of light that long ago spawned Christmas, 's The Insects' Christmas (1912) breathes life into real but inanimate beetles, dragonflies, and frogs. From me to you, here's a little Christmas treat ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D

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December 27: a zoo on

's narrated and 's directed fable of life and decay, A Zed & Two Noughts [aka Z+00 or ZOO] (1985).

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A zebra and a zookeeper in a cage with the word ZOO in large blue lit capitals in the background.
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December 29: a clock face on

Both 's story and 's 1964 adaptation Ken [Sword] (1964) follow arrogant student Jiro, who also appears in an earlier Mishima adaptation, Enjô (1958). The clock not only helps us understand the cruel punishment, but also embodies the characters' . ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/ji

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One of the kendōka kneeled on the floor in gruelling punishment, facing the clock on the wall, while the other students continue their training. The gorgeous cinematography is by Chikashi Makiura.
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December 30: discussing an elaborate plan on

Destitute phaeton driver Cabbar () his friend Hasan () and imam Hodja () have a wondrous plan to go out into the Kurdish wastelands to dig up an illusive treasure that may be Cabbar's only escape. Yılmaz Güney and 's Umut [Hope] (1970) is 's early venture into ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/um

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Hasan (Tuncel Kurtiz) and Cabbar (Yılmaz Güney) planning their next step sitting atop of the pit.
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Umut is available in its original language with auto-generated Turkish subtitles on director Yılmaz Güney's official YT channel: yewtu.be/watch?v=eQvVmF08Cbg

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Dec 31: !

A mousy bank clerk finds himself hiding in a shady cabaret on New Year's Eve instead of spending a quiet evening alone. During his stay he comes to identify more and more with his newfound persona and assumes the role of the notorious “Drago”.

An initial box office dud, O Drakos (1956) is now considered 1 of the top 10 all-time best Greek films.

and to many more discoveries in 2024!

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Drunk Greek dancing at the cabaret.
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