Ali Khamraev – Bez strakha aka Without Fear (1971)
Synopsis from the Siskel Film Center:
“Circa 1920, a young Red Army officer with a keen enthusiasm to launch his native village into the modern age issues a decree that women are to abandon Islamic garb and drop their veils. A 14-year-old girl takes the first step with tragic and unforeseen consequences, and yet the officer continues to pressure his reluctant wife to lead the other women into compliance, a move that will throw the village into revolt. Co-written by Andrei Konchalovsy, WITHOUT FEAR sensitively portrays the dilemma of an ancient culture in conflict with an alien bureaucracy.”
Kent Jones wrote of the film:
“Anyone interested in the Brechtian idea of the social gestus should study Khamraev’s ferocious 1972 masterpiece Without Fear, which deals with the Soviet modernization of a Muslim village in 1927 and the shock waves caused by the sight of unveiled women. Khamraev’s bravura talent isolates just the right gestures, merging the physical, the visual, and the dramatic with perfect precision.”
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Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:None
The file is invalid, only sound and a few still images while scrolling. Could you please check and post the file again? As always, appreciating all your great efforts for bringing us these rare gems !
could you please try this file.
https://nitroflare.com/view/F2BDFAFF5B4FF09/WITHOUT_FEAR_-_Directed_by_Ali_Khamraev.avi
Completely black, except for a few stills once in a while. Sound is perfect though.
an apology for not resisting my personal comment, I can’t believe that such an interesting cinema is not subtitled in English, French or Spanish at least and instead, in the Criterion list, for example, there is so much garbage and crap even restored. Anyway. Thanks for posting it although for me it is useless