<story><title>Eastern European Movies</title><url>https://easterneuropeanmovies.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jagrsw</author><text>My favorite is &amp;#x27;The Saragossa Manuscript&amp;#x27; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;comedy&amp;#x2F;the-saragossa-manuscript&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;comedy&amp;#x2F;the-saragossa-manus...&lt;/a&gt; - a word of warning: it&amp;#x27;s ~3h long (but well worth it) - a masterpiece of scenography and camera handling.&lt;p&gt;The second would be probably The Pharaoh - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;drama&amp;#x2F;pharaoh&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;drama&amp;#x2F;pharaoh&lt;/a&gt; - for its scenography + for the script which focuses on a quite interesting problem (politics + well.. astronomy;)&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of those movies will most likely seem quite atypical for a person who is mostly familiar with modern Hollywood&amp;#x2F;world cinema, as they&amp;#x27;re in most cases slow-paced, melancholic, and in many cases focusing on intellectually-interesting problems (e.g. The Pharaoh&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;dilemma&amp;#x27;)&lt;p&gt;I can maybe compare them to video games from 80&amp;#x27;s and 90&amp;#x27;s. Today&amp;#x27;s games are visually beautiful and movie-like, but it&amp;#x27;s those games from 80&amp;#x27;s&amp;#x2F;90&amp;#x27;s which have &amp;#x27;soul&amp;#x27; and ability to captivate players through well thought-out stories and hand-drawn art.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>virgilp</author><text>I think mine is still Black Cat, White Cat (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;comedy&amp;#x2F;black-cat-white-cat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;comedy&amp;#x2F;black-cat-white-cat&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;From the Romanian movies present there, I liked Aferim - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;comedy&amp;#x2F;aferim&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;comedy&amp;#x2F;aferim&lt;/a&gt; - but only because it&amp;#x27;s a sobering look at our history; for non-romanians, it might not be so good.  Filantropica (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.imdb.com&amp;#x2F;title&amp;#x2F;tt0314067&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.imdb.com&amp;#x2F;title&amp;#x2F;tt0314067&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) is also a great movie that illustrates well the post-revolution atmosphere in the country (and it&amp;#x27;s more likely to be universally-enjoyed than Aferim), but they don&amp;#x27;t have it on this site.</text></comment>
<story><title>Eastern European Movies</title><url>https://easterneuropeanmovies.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jagrsw</author><text>My favorite is &amp;#x27;The Saragossa Manuscript&amp;#x27; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;comedy&amp;#x2F;the-saragossa-manuscript&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;comedy&amp;#x2F;the-saragossa-manus...&lt;/a&gt; - a word of warning: it&amp;#x27;s ~3h long (but well worth it) - a masterpiece of scenography and camera handling.&lt;p&gt;The second would be probably The Pharaoh - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;drama&amp;#x2F;pharaoh&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;easterneuropeanmovies.com&amp;#x2F;drama&amp;#x2F;pharaoh&lt;/a&gt; - for its scenography + for the script which focuses on a quite interesting problem (politics + well.. astronomy;)&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of those movies will most likely seem quite atypical for a person who is mostly familiar with modern Hollywood&amp;#x2F;world cinema, as they&amp;#x27;re in most cases slow-paced, melancholic, and in many cases focusing on intellectually-interesting problems (e.g. The Pharaoh&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;dilemma&amp;#x27;)&lt;p&gt;I can maybe compare them to video games from 80&amp;#x27;s and 90&amp;#x27;s. Today&amp;#x27;s games are visually beautiful and movie-like, but it&amp;#x27;s those games from 80&amp;#x27;s&amp;#x2F;90&amp;#x27;s which have &amp;#x27;soul&amp;#x27; and ability to captivate players through well thought-out stories and hand-drawn art.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jhbadger</author><text>&amp;quot;The Pharaoh&amp;quot; is interesting in that it is based on the Polish novel by Prus which besides being (I&amp;#x27;m sure) important to Polish literature, is also important to Esperanto culture, as Kabe&amp;#x27;s 1907&amp;#x27;s translation of it (&amp;quot;La Faraono&amp;quot;) is still considered a model of clean, non-idiomatic prose in Esperanto.</text></comment>