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Originally Posted by Johanna
:rose: :angel: Rockzmom you are amazing! :angel: :rose:
I have wanted to see some of these films with subs, but I don't know how to find subs other than the standard subtitle sites, and they don't have a lot of Russian subs.
This is amazing.
Johanna....
Make certain that if you have not yet done so... you watch "Irony of Fate" between now and New Years! I plan on watching this one again!! :D
"Irony of Fate", (Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром) 1975
(Romantic Comedy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_of_Fate
(This film is traditionally broadcast in Russia and some other former Soviet republics every New Year's Eve)
You can download this video (avi-file with English subtitles, DivX or XViD, 25 fps) from Russian Yandex-server. It's very easy.
How to download a movie:
1. Enter the following link:
Part 1: http://narod.ru/disk/13720593000/The_Ir ... 1.avi.html
Part 2: http://narod.ru/disk/13717599000/The_Ir ... 2.avi.html
2. Enter the numbers placed in the window over the green button.
3. Press the green button "СКАЧАТЬ".
4. A page will open with the link starting with http//. Press the link.
Notes: If you don't want to install Yandex Bar, please remove the sign from the control box (into the yellow background). Yandex Bar performs a function for downloading without using control numbers, i.e. next time, if you want to download any file from Yandex-server, you’ll get the download link without entering control numbers.
5 A window will open. Choose "Save".
6. Download the movie.
7. Enjoy. Part 1 file size 1.35 gb, Part 2 file size 1.14 gb
OR WATCH ONLINE AT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rg3OC6XJY0 Part 1/2 (1/10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRgLerlnjmo Part 2/2 (1/8)
Re: Films & TV: Russian & Non - Q&As/Reviews/Links all in here!
Re: Films & TV: Russian & Non - Q&As/Reviews/Links all in here!
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Originally Posted by rockzmom
watch "Irony of Fate" between now and New Years! I plan on watching this one again!! :D
Wow, thank you soooo much! Last time I saw that film was probably in the early 90s or something like that. I will watch it, for sure. I am going to find some Russian subtitles too, if I can, and expand my vocabulary a bit.
For learners: I have come to the conclusion that you can learn a lot by first watching the films with English subs, and then with Russian subs... Guaranteed to teach you at least a few new words. I recently watched an old Russian film in this way called "Gentlemen of Fortune". Class film and incidentally several characters speak quite slowly most of the time, and use very basic vocabulary. With Russian subtitles I was able to understand a lot of what was said.
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I think, maybe, well yes.. I am finally getting around to watching "The Meeting Place Cannot/Should Not Be Changed" ... I know, me with the memory issues picks these hard things to watch. Well, I get to stop and start and watch it over and over until I figure it out and as I can watch them whenever I want and in bed and then ... I can ask you all for help if I still don't understand... it all works out ...right??? :wink:
Anyway, rightaway because I still have not learned anything besides what, Спасибо and пока, I am having some problems... will someone help me?
The opening song, in "general" what it is about?
What does the sign at :21 seconds say?
What does the big sign at 1:12 seconds say?
Room 13, they zoom in yet don't translate what the room is for at 3:07... so what is that Office?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImeK_EUu314
thanks! or Спасибо!
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Originally Posted by rockzmom
I think, maybe, well yes.. I am finally getting around to watching "The Meeting Place Cannot/Should Not Be Changed"
Great. It's a rare case when the movie is much better than the book.
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The opening song, in "general" what it is about?
We stormed the city of Orel and marched through the city and we read the name of the last street. It has the name of Bryansk. Thus our next destination is Bryansk. Then we stormed Bryansk and marched through the city and read the name of the last street it was named after Minsk... then we stormed to Minsk and the last street was named after the city of Brest... then we stormed Brest and the last street was named after Lublin, then Warsaw, then Berlin.
http://9may.ru/songs/m1597
http://9may.ru/songs_store/naberlin.mp3
What does the sign at :21 seconds say?
http://i035.radikal.ru/0904/93/adbc0247e810.jpg
Glory to the victorious warrior.
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What does the big sign at 1:12 seconds say?
It reads: We have won.
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Room 13, they zoom in yet don't translate what the room is for at 3:07... so what is that Office?
Gangsters fighting department. G. Zheglov
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Thank you! Ramil! :good:
I am just amazed by the ice cream sandwich maker thingy at 8:50.... has anyone actually seen one in person? Is it still in use today?
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Originally Posted by rockzmom
Thank you! Ramil! :good:
I am just amazed by the ice cream sandwich maker thingy at 8:50.... has anyone actually seen one in person? Is it still in use today?
At first I thought you were asking about the icecream itself. It's been very popular in Soviet times although I keep seeing it even novadays occasionally. It's not really a sandwich, just two thin wafers and a brick of icecream between them.
http://novaya.com.ua/images/o-00010948-a-00002165.jpg
Of course those ones in my childhood vere tastier. :D
What concerns the 'maker thingy' - I don't think it is used now. There are sanitary regulations for one thing and besides, it's cheaper to do such 'sandwiches' at the factory.
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Originally Posted by Ramil
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Originally Posted by rockzmom
Thank you! Ramil! :good:
I am just amazed by the ice cream sandwich maker thingy at 8:50.... has anyone actually seen one in person? Is it still in use today?
At first I thought you were asking about the icecream itself. It's been very popular in Soviet times although I keep seeing it even novadays occasionally. It's not really a sandwich, just two thin wafers and a brick of icecream between them.
Ahhh... we call them "ice cream sandwiches" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_sandwich
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Ice cream sandwiches are frozen desserts composed of a layer of ice cream of any variety "sandwiched" between two cookies or slices of cake
They now come with cookies too, but they just never seem to be as good as the old fashioned ones!
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hehehe...as it is Christmas Eve here in the States... take a break from the traditional "It's A Wonderful Life" and enjoy "The Worst Noel" with Al Bundy and his family! http://www.megavideo.com/?v=928VTNYX
Here is the script if you need it or want it: http://www.albundy.net/marriedaniac/...ipt/0813t.html
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Originally Posted by rockzmom
The opening song, in "general" what it is about?
That's not an opening song, Rockzmom. It's just a background song, it plays from a street radio loudspeaker.
BTW, Merry Gregorian Christmas to everyone! http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/user/BMK_01.gif
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Originally Posted by rockzmom
The opening song, in "general" what it is about?
That's not an opening song, Rokzmom. It's just a background song, it plays from a street radio loudspeaker.
BTW, Merry Gregorian Christmas to everyone!
http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/user/BMK_01.gif
Basil, thanks for clarifying....
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Okay folks there is one major advantage to not being able to sleep at nights... watching the shows on TV! And this one goes hand-in-hand with Married with Children!
We've talked about 3rd Rock From the Sun before, so if any of you newbies don't know about this show, please go back in this thread and learn about it first before watching this episode, trust me it will help!
The Solomons experience their first Christmas. Merry Watching! :beer:
part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gsNNcCpUws
part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CgHUO8ANk4
part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ffLNyBJ2W0
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okay, next question about "The Meeting Place Cannot/Should Not Be Changed" ...
what is the book at 3:33? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbkT1TUcRIk
Note to anyone who might want to make subtitles... please include these little types of details!
Also, I know I have asked questions before about the habit of cigarette smokers when I was watching "Seventeen Moments of Spring"... I see that detective Gleb Zheglov (who I am really liking BTW) has a habit of blowing into the ends of his cigarettes. Why does he do this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6WIkIkMlZc start watching at 5:08 and then he takes out another cigarette and does it again. He has a habit of this throughout the episode so far that I have watched. And once again, as I have never smoked, I don't understand why one would do this.
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He's reading "Криминалистика" ("Criminalistics") - a textbook on forensic science, investigation and interrogation techniques, etc.
As I'm not a smoker myself, I'm not sure about cigarettes (BTW, I think he smokes "papirosy" - cigarettes without filter). But I've heard that it has something to do with the quality of tobacco filling in Soviet cigarettes. It was either too dense, or maybe vice versa. You had to knead it a little, and to blow into it.
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ADDED: Aha! I've found an explanation on the other forum. They do it to blow away the fractions of tobacco, that happen to be in the "filter end" of the cigarette (and since there's no actual filter in 'papirosy', just a holllow paper tube, they can be unpleasant)
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Originally Posted by rockzmom
I see that detective Gleb Zheglov (who I am really liking BTW)
If you haven't like him for some reasons, you should imideatily stop watching these series. IMHO if there wasn't Vysоtsky it would be an ordinary crime fiction movie.
About blowing into papyrosses... Sorry, I can't help you with any helpful hints, although beeing a rather heavy cigarette smoker I can't imagine why they were blowing into... Although I had seen this many times in my childhood, and even was wondering, like "why adults are blowing into the paryroses?", I still don't know for what purpose that is done for?
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The book is "Криминалистика"="Criminalistics ". I'm agree with birubirFilms that it's not important.
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Originally Posted by rockzmom
Also, I know I have asked questions before about the habit of cigarette smokers when I was watching "Seventeen Moments of Spring"... I see that detective Gleb Zheglov (who I am really liking BTW) has a habit of blowing into the ends of his cigarettes. Why does he do this?
Gleb was smoking papirosa (cigarette with a cardboard holder). Tobacco crumbs can get to a smoker's mouth. To avoid that smokers blow or knock them out and deform cardboard holder http://i002.radikal.ru/0912/ec/e5f0c4ab9795.jpg
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Originally Posted by rockzmom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6WIkIkMlZc start watching at 5:08 and then he takes out another cigarette and does it again. He has a habit of this throughout the episode so far that I have watched. And once again, as I have never smoked, I don't understand why one would do this.
He was so distressed, angry, irritated that he just blown tobacco off from his cigarette. You can see it at 5:28
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Merry Christmas everyone!
С Рождеством!
Rockzmom, now I want to watch Al Bundy and 3rd Rock from the Sun! Too bad I'm at work (and hardly... uhm hard at work...) so I'll have to have some patience. Thanks for the links!
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Originally Posted by devochka
Merry Christmas everyone!
С Рождеством!
From me too!
Wow it's so hard to imagine Christmas being a regular day in Russia! In my country we celebrate for 3 days in a row.... But on the other hand, that saves you the super commercialistic and rather tacky build-up to Christmas..
Yesterday when I was at the Swedish Church here in London, I ran into some Finnish people I know. I mentioned that i had partly used my break from work to study Russian, and we started to talk about Russian TV.
Somebody mentioned a series she had watched a bit of, called «Колдовская любовь». I thought sounded good, so when I got home, I found it online and watched a couple of episodes.
From my perspective it was interesting to see the Russian countryside as it looks today, just as much as the plot.
Unfortunately I simply couldn't understand enough to really appreciate the plot --- I was only able to understand the very basics.
Has anyone seen this series?
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Originally Posted by Johanna
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Merry Christmas everyone!
С Рождеством!
From me too!
Somebody mentioned a series she had watched a bit of, called
«Колдовская любовь». I thought sounded good, so when I got home, I found it online and watched a couple of episodes.
From my perspective it was interesting to see the Russian countryside as it looks today, just as much as the plot.
Unfortunately I simply couldn't understand enough to really appreciate the plot --- I was only able to understand the very basics.
Has anyone seen this series?
Merry Christmas (to those who celebrate it)!
I loved "Колдовская любовь". viewtopic.php?f=23&t=16126
I haven't watched the second season of it yet. I'll try to find it on-line.