Jean Epstein – Mor vran AKA Sea of the Ravens (1931)
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MOR-VRAN starts with a shot of the sea, followed by one of the map of the Breton coastline. Next, we see images of the various islands off the coast: harbours, a mill, sheep, a lighthouse, cemeteries. The women are dressed in black. In the port of Brest there is a great hustle and bustle. A sailor pays a visit to the fair and wins a chain. He returns to the island of Sein by boat. As the result of a storm he will never get there. After a few weeks, his body, with the chain, washes ashore. On Sein, people start repairing the damage caused by the storm. A young couple talks about the future, about buying a house and a boat. A widow visits a graveyard. With MOR-VRAN, Jean Epstein continued his series of films about the Breton coast. This documentary was obviously conceived as a silent movie: inserted titles explain the action, while music accentuates the atmosphere. Epstein creates a gloomy atmosphere by using pregnant images: the sea leaves serious scars on the islands off the Breton coast. Nevertheless, life goes on.
Mor.vran.1931.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-KG.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 25 min 20 s
Size: 759 MiB
Video
Codec: h264
Resolution: 1920x1080
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Frame rate: 24.000 fps
Bit rate: 3 998 kb/s
BPP: 0.080
Audio
#1: zxx 2.0ch AAC @ 192 kb/s
https://nitro.download/view/AEE1AA58CDB1F4F/Mor.vran.1931.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-KG.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/B409900DDDAD3D0/Mor_vran_(1931).srt
Language(s):French intertitles
Subtitles:English