A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
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Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 96 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 5760 Kbps | 104 min | 4,34 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 96 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Stars: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote
After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) encounters the American radio operator (Kim Hunter) to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes, and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the hereafter arrives to correct the bureaucratic error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth—painted by production designer Alfred Junge and cinematographer Jack Cardiff as a rich Technicolor Eden—climbing a wide staircase to stand trial in a starkly beautiful, black-and-white modernist afterlife. Intended to smooth tensions between the wartime allies Britain and America, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s richly humanistic A Matter of Life and Death traverses time and space to make a case for the transcendent value of love.
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Audio commentary from 2009 featuring film scholar Ian Christie
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