CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1977 1h 51m RUS

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME

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Like The Ascent, it turns the Eastern Front into an ordeal of conscience and survival, using harrowing, immersive imagery and a young protagonist’s psychological devastation.

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Its war is a spiritual and moral landscape rather than an action spectacle, pairing brutal combat with hushed contemplation of fear, grace, nature, and mortality.

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Why this pick

A grave, morally uncompromising war film about an idealistic man pressed toward impossible choices, with the same severe sense of suffering, conviction, and spiritual testing.

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Son of Saul

Why this pick

Its tightly restricted viewpoint and relentless soundscape create an intimate moral crucible, echoing The Ascent’s physical hardship and desperate search for human dignity.

Ashes and Diamonds poster 05

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Ashes and Diamonds

Why this pick

Set amid the moral wreckage of war’s end, it follows a partisan caught between duty and conscience, rendered with stark imagery and tragic fatalism.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

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