[REL] Cilveka Berns AKA Child of Man (1991) [Latvia]
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 4:48 pm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103971/The unforgettable world of childhood in the pre-war independent Latvia seen trough the eyes of Janis Klidzejs, the author of the novel THE CHILD OF MAN, now living in emigration. This world is also close to Janis Streics, the film director who has adapted the novel for screen. He also comes from the same region as the author of the novel, from Latgale, one of Latvia's national districts with its ethnographic peculiarities reflecting in its language, traditions, songs and strong catholic background.
The film tells about a little boy's growth into a man. This process has been looked on from an unusual angle - through the boy's love for an almost grown up young woman that jokingly calls him "her little fiance". She swears an eternal faith in him and even does not suspect that the boy might take it very seriously. It calls forth both comic and amusing as well as dramatic and tragic situations. The girl has her real fiance and she gets married...
A special discovery for the film is its leading character Bonifacijs who does not act but really lives through all the passion of love. It happened so that the little actor Andris Rudzinskis really fell in love with his partner.
The film is joyful, sonorous, light, full of human love and vitality, like Latgale itself up to 1940. It can interest children as well as those who have been kids once and have retained the light of christian love, light in early childhood, in their hearts until old age.
Like this post to see ed2k links [634.51 MiB]Video: 512x384 DivX 3.11 890Kbps 25.000fps
Audio: Latvian, MPEG Layer 3 (MP3) 44100khz 1.0ch 64Kbps
English Subs:
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I started this subtitle project in March last year, I used an old VHS rip I made years ago after it had been shown on TV. Using AVISubDetector I had to manually type all the subs, took me a week or so. The subs were in perfect sync with the rip I made, unfortunately not in sync with the target file linked above
Perhaps I should have made a new rip from my VHS copy before starting but my video capture card did not work with Windows 2000 
it was far too tedious trying to sync them, and it was not a simple case of just adjusting the subs, they were all over the place, they had to be manually adjusted So I put the project aside for a while until this week when I found a great program called "Sabbu" Finished the job in about 2 days 
Here are the subs...Cilveka.Berns.512x384.srt
Like this post to see ed2k links [69.1 KiB]I'm glad that job is finished
But in spite of being a polyglote Baltic languages are for me still terra incognita.