A film composed by Ennio Morricone area-002 |
Una pura formalità / A pure formality |
Chinese subtitle provided by a volunteer Wangmin |
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001-Basic info |
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
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Writers: Giuseppe Tornatore
Pascal Quignard |
| Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Roman Polanski and Sergio Rubini |
| Country: Italy | France |
| Language:French |
| Color:Color |
| Sound Mix:Stereo |
| Runtime:108 min |
| Genres: Crime | Thriller |
Produced by Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica
DD Productions
Film Par Film
Orly Films
Sidonie
TF1 Films Production
Original Music by Ennio Morricone
Cinematography by Blasco Giurato
Set Decoration by Vincenzo De Camillis, Mauro Passi
Costume Design by Beatrice Bordone
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Stefania Girolami Goodwin .... first assistant director
Giovanni Morricone .... assistant director
Massimo Sagramola .... assistant director |
Release Date:
Italy 15 May 1994
France 18 May 1994
Hungary 13 October 1994
Germany 12 January 1995
Spain 30 March 1995
Australia 13 April 1995
USA 26 May 1995
Portugal 1 September 1995
Finland 1996 (video premiere)
Japan 19 November 1996
Argentina 16 April 2003 (video premiere)
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Cast
Gérard Depardieu ... Onoff
Roman Polanski ... Inspector
Sergio Rubini ... Andre, the Young Policeman
Nicola Di Pinto ... Captain
Tano Cimarosa ... Servant
Paolo Lombardi ... Marshall
Maria Rosa Spagnolo ... Paula
Alberto Sironi
Giovanni Morricone
Mahdi Kraiem
Massimo Vanni
Sebastiano Filocamo |
Also Known As (AKA)
A Pure Formality International (English title) / USA
Uma Simples Formalidade Brazil (imdb display title) / Portugal
Простая формальность Russia
A Simple Formality Sweden (video title)
Apli diatyposi Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
Czysta formalnosc Poland (imdb display title)
Eine reine Formalit?t Germany
Keskiy?n totuus Finland (TV title)
Pura formalidad Spain
Puszta formalitás Hungary
Una pura formalidad Argentina (video title)
Une pure formalité France |
| Storyline: Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without clear memory of recent events, the Inspector is suspicious. Through interrogatory dialectic, the head of this lonely, isolated, broken-down police station tries to establish what has happened, by delving into the mind of his writer-hero, and clearing up a mysterious killing. . (Here) |
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002-More overview and comment |
| 001-Depardieu's character is Onoff (Gérard Depardieu), a famous writer who is now a recluse. The Inspector (Roman Polanski) is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. As the head of an isolated, rural police station the Inspector tries to establish events through careful interrogation and deduction. By painstaking inquiry, he clears up a mysterious killing and brings the writer a new and strange realisation..(here) |
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| 002-The sweet sentimental gauze of director Giuseppe_Tornatore's international hit Cinema_Paradiso (1988) is nowhere to be found in this dark, Kafkaesque crime thriller that takes place, stage play-style, mostly in the confines of one room. Gerard_Depardieu stars as Onoff, a famed author who has become a recluse in recent years, publishing nothing. Late one night he is picked up by police officers, who find him running across the French countryside in the rain, breathless and apparently suffering from short-term memory loss. A murder has been committed in the nearby woods, and suspecting Onoff's involvement, the authorities detain him at a leaky, dark command post to await the arrival of an inspector (Roman_Polanski), ironically a fan of Onoff's work, who will interrogate his subject and try to arrive at the truth. Una Pura Formalita (1994) was produced simultaneously with Polanski's Death and the Maiden (1994), another film with a stage-bound quality featuring a long, stormy night's interrogation in a single room..(here) |
003-A Pure Formality (1994)
May 26, 1995
FILM REVIEW; Murder and Existentialism
By CARYN JAMES
Published: May 26, 1995
If Agatha Christie and Jean-Paul Sartre had ever collaborated on a play (and why in the world would they?), the result might have been as misguided and mind-bogglingly dreadful as "A Pure Formality," which combines a creaky murder mystery with a pretentious existential theme. Giuseppe Tornatore, the director of the fine "Cinema Paradiso" and the laborious "Everybody's Fine," has been blessed with two extraordinary actors, Gerard Depardieu and Roman Polanski. They are always worth watching, and they are the only reason to see this film.
At the start, a gun points directly at the camera and goes off. Soon Mr. Depardieu is running through the dark woods in the rain. He is picked up by the police and taken to their creepy, isolated station, where he is interrogated all night by Mr. Polanski as a preternaturally knowledgeable inspector.
The bulky, disheveled Mr. Depardieu claims to be a famous writer. "My name is Onoff," he says. "And mine is Leonardo da Vinci," answers the impeccable Mr. Polanski, in a conservative suit and slicked-back hair. (That is the film's best exchange.) The inspector seems to know Onoff's novels better than Onoff himself. What no one knows, especially the movie audience, is the identity of the murder victim.
At first, given all the talent involved, it is tempting to give the movie a break. Maybe Mr. Tornatore is playing off older genres, sending up stage-bound plays and B movies? It is, after all, a dark and stormy night, and when Onoff is first brought in he even says to one of the policemen: "It's like a Hollywoood B movie. When do you read me my rights?"
But as "A Pure Formality" goes on, the hope that Mr. Tornatore must be joking vanishes. The interrogation forces Onoff to examine his life and his identity. Maybe he is guilty; maybe he is crazy; maybe he is not really Onoff; maybe we need a few more clues to stay interested. The film means to be a clever cat-and-mouse game. Instead, it resembles a mouse rattling through a maze, frustrated and without direction. Because we do not share either man's thoughts until very near the end, the interminable questioning is made watchable only by Mr. Polanski's calm intensity and Mr. Depardieu's barely concealed hysteria.
The film is set almost entirely in the police station, and Mr. Tornatore's desperate camera shots become the biggest unintentional joke of all. When Onoff flushes a piece of bloody clothing down a toilet, the camera looks up from within the toilet. When a policeman types a report, the camera is underneath the typewriter keys. Buckets are set on the floor to catch rain from the leaky roof, and there are so many close-ups of rain plunking in a pail that it becomes a cinematic form of water torture.
And the worst is still to come. "A Pure Formality" solves its mystery with an annoying trick ending that is likely to make viewers feel cheated. Onoff does have one good question. Looking around the station he wonders, "How can a place as absurd as this exist?"
"A Pure Formality" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes a discreet flashback to a murder and some other mild violence. A PURE FORMALITY
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore; written (in French, with English subtitles) by Mr. Tornatore and Pascale Quignard; director of photography, Blasco Giurato; edited by Mr. Tornatore; music by Ennio Morricone; produced by Mario and Vittorio Cecchi Gori; released by Sony Pictures Classics. Running time: 107 minutes. This film is rated PG-13. WITH: Gerard Depardieu (Onoff) and Roman Polanski (the Inspector).(here) |
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004-Una Pura Formalita (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1993)
I have now seen two of Giuseppe Tornatore's films (the other being the brilliant The Legend of 1900), and have decided that I will be hunting the man's work down wherever I can find it. A Pure Formality doesn't have the same mastery of pace that 1900 does, but the good points of the film overwhelm the bad ones to the extent that the viewer is likely not to care if the first half of the movie goes a tad slow.
The film centers around an author named Onoff (Gerard Deaprdieu), who is found wandering in the rain, senseless, in the vicinity of a rural murder. He is taken to the strangest police station this side of Pirandello. The head of the station is out for the moment, and Onoff is able to size up the rest of the oddballs working there before the top dog, played by Roman Polanski, gets back. Then the fun really begins; Onoff has lost pieces of his memory, and while the Inspector tries to figure out if Onoff committed murder, Onoff is busy trying to figure out if he did, too. As a catch, to throw everything off just a tad more: the Inspector is also Onoff's biggest fan, and can quote large passages of his books from memory, something of which Onoff himself is incapable, leading to doubts on the part of everyone involved whether Onoff is really who he thinks he is.
Part mystery, part farce, part existential manifesto, A Pure Formality could easily be relegated to that wasteland of films in this genre summed up by a recent commercial featuring a pardocial art-house classic called Look At My Potato. And for the first forty-five or so minutes of the movie, it teeters on the brink of that sort of senselessness. The staff are alternately obsequious and violent, as is the Inspector, while Onoff is by turns helpful, obstructive, and downright abusive. No one seems to have any motivation or consistency. You'll have to trust me when I say it all works out in the end. And it does, to an amazing degree. The last twenty minutes had me sitting, agape, in utter amazement. Suddenly the whole thing made perfect sense...
Aside from the absolute beauty of the plot's construction, a good deal of praise must be given to Tornatore's use of light, or in this case, the lack of it. The station, never well-lit, plunges into a power outage halfway through the film, and most of the rest (it concludes just after dawn the next morning) is lit by candlelight, leading to an even more claustrophobic feeling. Perfectly appropriate for the subject matter, as the police and Onoff both narrow their searches for the various things they hope to find.
A stunning achievement, and one that most mystery fans will find well worth the effort. (here) |
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| 005-'A Pure Formality' was, to my surprise, one of the very best films I've seen in a long time. I'd seen snippets of the Italian version on Italian TV and the English-language one on US cable, neither encouraging me to delve further, but in its original French, with both Polanski and Depardieu voicing themselves, it manages to turn a potentially hoary old psychodrama into something much more life affirming.
Depardieu is the confused great writer arrested in the middle of a rainstorm and taken to a dark, leaking Italian police station where he is interrogated by Roman Polanski's inspector, who also happens to be an ardent fan, over the identity of a murder victim. Naturally, layers of self-deception are gradually pulled away on this long dark night of the soul before it reaches a not entirely unexpected but still remarkably satisfying conclusion. Despite the claustrophobic setting, Giuseppe Tornatore's excellent composition keeps it vividly cinematic, with several memorable moments (the most impressive a beautiful sequence following a song as it floats through the room). The flashbacks are sometimes awkward and I could definitely have done without Depardieu's nudity, but this is still one of the most remarkable films I've seen in recent years. Two-thirds through the movie a power cut hit for two-and-a-half hours, and it was excruciating waiting to get the chance to finish the film. Very highly recommended indeed.(here) |
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003-About "Existentialism" and its film |
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| 001-Existentialism is a term applied to the work of a number of philosophers since the 19th century who, despite large differences in their positions, generally focused on the condition of human existence, and an individual's emotions, actions, responsibilities, and thoughts, or the meaning or purpose of life. Existential philosophers often focused more on what they believed was subjective, such as beliefs and religion, or human states, feelings, and emotions, such as freedom, pain, guilt, and regret, as opposed to analyzing objective knowledge, language, or science.
The early 19th century philosopher S?ren Kierkegaard is regarded as the father of existentialism. He maintained that the individual is solely responsible for giving her or his own life meaning and for living that life passionately and sincerely, in spite of many existential obstacles and distractions including despair, angst, absurdity, alienation, and boredom.
Subsequent existentialist philosophers retain the emphasis on the individual, but differ, in varying degrees, on how one achieves and what constitutes a fulfilling life, what obstacles must be overcome, and what external and internal factors are involved, including the potential consequences of the existence or non-existence of God. Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophy, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience. Existentialism became fashionable in the post-World War years as a way to reassert the importance of human individuality and freedom. |
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Existentialism is sometimes referred to as a continental philosophy, referring to the continental part of Europe, as opposed to that practiced in Britain at that time, which was called analytic philosophy, and mostly dealt with analyzing language.(Here) |
| 002-Existentialism is a primarily 20th century school of thought. Existentialists define life as meaningless outside of our own personal choices. Most existentialists are athesists, and believe that there is no after-life. They define reality as absurd.
Existentialism is just as popular now as it was during its prime in the mid-twentieth century. Its influence is highly visible in art, literature, music, and especially in film.
Many well known films have existentialist themes like individuality, alienation, and the power of nothingness.
"The thing which was waiting was on alert, it pounced on me, it flows through me. I'm filled with it. It's nothing: I am the Thing. Existence, liberated, detached, floods over me. I exist." -Jean-Paul Sartre (Here) |
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003-Existentialism, French New Wave Cinema, and Surrealist Films
While we are on the subject of existentialism, I thought I would introduce a topic I enjoy greatly: the cinematic medium. Existentialist films are very confusing, intriguing, inventive, and stimulating. Film is the best way to relate existentialism to your own life. The most existentialist films not only explore the philosophy but employ the use of the philosophy in the making of the film itself.
Take any French New Wave film. All of them (some more than others) were heavily influenced by existentialism. By minimalizing plot and reason, and getting rid of focus entirely, these films were truly existentialist. The complete iconoclasm utilized in the making of the film challenged the rules of film, just as an existentialist challenges the systems of his world. See any Truffaut or Godard film. It made existentialism make more sense to me. I would recommend Pierrot Le Fou (at the extreme) or Bande à Part.
Surrealism, on the other hand, is not very directly linked with existentialism. Surrealism is more of an art movement, but I believe it implies existentialist modes of thought in its manifesto. Surrealist film embraces a dream-state reality. This results in negligible or incoherent plots, much like French New Wave films. While both are confusing, they can be better appreciated if one realises the existentialist roots. In having no plot, these films only contain random, sometimes unrelated occurrences. The existentialist likewise believes the world contains no plot, but is itself only a series of random, unrelated occurrences. Check out the very short film Un Chien Andalou by Luis Bu?uel and Salvador Dalí , probably a more famous Surrealist film. It is totally incoherent, but somehow it draws you in... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJCdvh53lpY
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004-About the director Giuseppe Tornatore |
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Giuseppe Tornatore
Born 27 May 1956 (1956-05-27) (age 55)
Bagheria, Sicily, Italy
Occupation Film director and screenwriter
Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Life and careerBorn in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.
He worked initially as a freelance photographer. Then, switching to cinema, he made his debut with Le minoranze etniche in Sicilia (The Ethnic Minorities in Sicily), a collaborative documentary which won a Salerno Festival prize. He then worked for RAI before releasing his first full-length film, Il Camorrista, in 1985. This evoked a positive response from audience and critics alike and Tornatore was awarded the Silver Ribbon for best new director.
Tornatore's best known screen work was released in 1988: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, a film narrating the life of a successful film director who has returned to his native town in Sicily for the funeral of an old friend. This obtained worldwide success and won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Subsequently Tornatore released several other films cementing his place in film history.(Here) (More) |
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005-The main actor on this film |
001-Gerard Depardieu |
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu ; born 27 December 1948) is a French actor and film-maker. He has won a number of honours including a nomination for an Academy Award for the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac and the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in Green Card. In addition to a number of American awards, Depardieu is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor.
At the age of 16, Depardieu left Chateauroux for Paris. There he began acting in the new comedy theatre Café de la Gare, along with Patrick Dewaere, Romain Bouteille, Sotha, Coluche, and Miou-Miou. His breakout film role came in 1974 playing Jean-Claude in Bertrand Blier's comedy Going Places. He studied dancing under Jean-Laurent Cochet, and went on to become one of France's most renowned actors. In 1986, his international fame grew as a result of his performance as a doomed, hunchbacked farmer in the film Jean de Florette. Five years later he won a César for his starring role in Cyrano de Bergerac. More recently, he has played Obélix in the three Astérix movies.
In 2010 Depardieu signed a contract with Bank Zachodni WBK, a Polish bank, to appear in its commercials.(More) |
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Awards
Depardieu has been nominated for the Best Actor in a Leading Role César 15 times during his career and won it twice, in 1981 and 1991. He was also nominated for an Oscar in 1990 for his role in Cyrano de Bergerac.
1981: César Award for Best Actor for his role in The Last Metro (Le dernier métro)
1985: Venice Film Festival Award for best actor for his role in Police
1985: Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite
1990: Cannes Film Festival: Best actor award for his role in Cyrano de Bergerac
1991: César Award for Best Actor for his role in Cyrano de Bergerac
1991: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in Green Card
1996: Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur.
2006: Moscow International Film Festival: Stanislavsky Award for the outstanding achievement in the career of acting.(More)
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002-Roman Raymond Polański |
| Roman Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, America and France he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."
Born in Paris to Polish parents, he moved with his family back to Poland in 1937, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Holocaust and was educated in Poland and became a director of both art house and commercial films. Polanski's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water (1962), made in Poland, was nominated for a United States Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film but was beaten by Federico Fellini's 8?. He has since received five more Oscar nominations, along with two Baftas, four Césars, a Golden Globe Award and the Palme d'Or of the Cannes Film Festival in France. In the United Kingdom he directed three films, beginning with Repulsion (1965). In 1968 he moved to the United States, and cemented his status by directing the Oscar winning horror film Rosemary's Baby (1968). |
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| In 1969, Polanski's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered while staying at Polanski's Benedict Canyon home above Los Angeles by members of the Manson Family. Following Tate's death, Polanski returned to Europe and spent much of his time in Paris and Gstaad, but did not direct another film until Macbeth (1971) in England. The following year he went to Italy to make What? (1973) and subsequently spent the next five years living near Rome. However, he traveled to Hollywood to direct Chinatown (1974). The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, and was a critical and box-office success. Polanski's next film, The Tenant (1976), was shot in France, and completed the "Apartment Trilogy", following Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby.
In 1977, after a photo shoot in Los Angeles, Polanski was arrested for the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl and pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful sex with a minor. To avoid sentencing, Polanski fled to his home in London, and then moved on to France the following day. In September 2009, Polanski was arrested by Swiss police at the request of U.S. authorities who asked for his extradition. In July 2010, the Swiss rejected that request and instead released him from custody and declared him a "free man." Lech Walesa, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of Poland, argued that the director "should be forgiven this one sin."
Polanski continued to make films such as The Pianist (2002), a World War II true story drama about a Jewish-Polish musician. The film won three Academy Awards including Best Director, along with numerous international awards. He also directed other films, including Oliver Twist (2005), a story which parallels his own life as a "young boy attempting to triumph over adversity. His most recent film is The Ghost Writer (2010) (AKA The Ghost in the UK), adapted from the novel by Robert Harris, a thriller focusing on a ghostwriter working with a former British Prime Minister (loosely based on Tony Blair). It won six European Film Awards in 2010, including best movie, director, actor and screenplay. |
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- Trzy opowiesci (aka Three Stories) as Genek 'The Little' (segment "Jacek", 1953)
- Zaczarowany rower (aka Magical Bicycle) as Adas (1955)
- Rower (aka Bicycle) as the Boy who wants to buy a bicycle (1955)
- Pokolenie (aka A Generation) as Mundek (1955)
- Nikodem Dyzma as the Boy at Hotel (1956)
- Wraki (aka The Wrecks, 1957)
- Koniec nocy (aka End of the Night) as the Little One (1957)
- Dwaj ludzie z szafa (aka Two Men and a Wardrobe) as the Bad boy (1958)
- Zadzwoncie do mojej zony? (aka Call My Wife) as a Dancer (1958)
- Gdy spadaja anioly (aka When Angels Fall Down) as an Old woman (1959)
- Lotna as a Musician (1959)
- Zezowate szczescie (aka Bad Luck) as Jola's Tutor (1960)
- Do widzenia, do jutra (aka Good Bye, Till Tomorrow) as Romek (1960)
- Niewinni czarodzieje (aka Innocent Sorcerers) as Dudzio (1960)
- Ostroznie, Yeti! (aka Beware of Yeti!, 1961)
- Gros et le maigre, Le (aka The Fat and the Lean) as The Lean (1961)
- Samson (1961)
- Noz w wodzie (aka Knife in the Water) voice of Young Boy (1962)
- Repulsion as Spoon Player (1965)
- The Fearless Vampire Killers as Alfred, Abronsius' Assistant (1967)
- The Magic Christian as Solitary drinker (1969)
- What? as Mosquito (1972)
- Chinatown as Man with Knife (1974)
- Blood for Dracula (Andy Warhol) as Man in Tavern (1976)
- Locataire, Le (aka The Tenant) as Trelkovsky (1976)
- Chasse-croise (1982)
- En attendant Godot (TV) as Lucky (1989)
- Back in the USSR as Kurilov (1992)
- Una pura formalita (aka A Pure Formality) as Inspector (1994)
- Grosse fatigue (aka Dead Tired) as Roman Polanski (1994)
- Hommage a Alfred (aka Tribute to Alfred Lepetit, 2000)
- Zemsta (aka The Revenge) as Papkin (2002)
- Rush Hour 3 as Detective Revi (2007)
- Caos Calmo as Steiner (2007)
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003-Giovanni Morricone |
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Giovanni Morricone A son of Ennio Morricone |
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006-Soundtrack |
Una pura formalità / A pure formality （ See here) |
| Andrea & Ennio Morricone/G. Tornatore/Pascal Quignard; sung by: Gerard Depardieu |
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Breathlessly/A perdifiato (02:59) |
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Remembering/Ricordare (04:09) |
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The palace of nine frontiers/Il palazzo delle nove frontiere (03:25) |
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The bum/Il barbone (03:38) |
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A troublesome clue/Ingombrante indizio (02:10) |
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Waiting for the police inspector/Aspettando il Commissario (01:07) |
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In search of onoff/Alla ricera di Onoff (02:42) |
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An odd diary (timing mismatch)/Diario bizzarro(02:51) |
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Photos/Fotografie (01:17) |
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Mosaic/Mosaico (01:06) |
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Leonardo da vinci (03:09) |
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Contradictions/Contraddizioni (02:17) |
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The trap and the mouse/La trappola e il topo (01:24) |
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Escape from onoff/Fuga da Onoff (01:33) |
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Bloodstains/Macchie di sangue (02:36) |
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After the nightmare/Dopo l'incubo (01:02) |
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A mere memory lapse/Un banale vuoto di memoria (01:58) |
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Repressed memories/Rimozioni (01:55) |
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Revelation/Rivelazione (01:42) |
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A night in february/Notte in febbraio (02:11) |
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To obliterate the past/Effacer le passe (04:10) |
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Sony Classical SK 52504
Original Release Title
Pure Formality, A
Country Austria
Format CD
Release Date 1994
UPN 5-099705-250426 |
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Sony Classical SK 67166
Country United States
Format CD
Release Date 1994
UPN 0-7464-67166-2-5 |
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Chinese translation |
Remember, to remember...
It's so easy to look back,
old memories trapped in amber,
pain and sorrow tingled with black,
everything in amber,
everything in amber.
We must learn how to forget,
A much harder thing to do,
we must go on without regret,
Wipe clean the slate
and start anew.
Erase the past and look ahead...
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人们通常很容易追忆，
古老的记忆储存在琥珀中
记得，要记得...
痛苦和悲伤被黑暗刺痛
所有的事情存在琥珀里
所有的事情存在琥珀里
我们必须学会怎么去忘记
去作一件更难的事
我们必须无悔的活下去
擦除旧事
然后重新开始
擦除往事向前看...
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Chinese translation |
The wind brings the news that the new one arrives
The night she'd a tear driven to despair
The fate does not belong to him anymore
He must take part in spectacle the nature prepared
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风说斯人将临
那夜她流下失望的泪
命运将不再属于他
他必须展示天性
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Life, it is nothing but a clean
Blotted out and patient sheet
What a great responsibility
For this who holds the pen
Reminiscences of youth
Closed in the old photographs
Testimony of reality
Writing it down is a pure formality
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生命,空虚而清白
被玷污而染病
一个崇高的职责
对于持笔的人
回顾青春
定格在老照片上的
真实的记录
写在幽国车站里
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I can see him sitting at the table
In manners and gestures he behaved so exquisite
I'll never forget the words he said
"The world you brought to life I often visit" |
我看到坐在桌旁的他
举止如此高雅
我永远不会忘记他说的话
"我常拜访你所生活的世界" |
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The darkness came
Scenes before my eyes
Now I know
Where the truth lies. |
黑暗来到
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现在我知道
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I close my eyes I can feel no pain
The sound of blast echoes in my head
His face with a worried frown
I can see myself lying on the ground |
闭上眼睛我不再痛苦
爆炸声在我的头上回响
他的脸愁眉不展
我看到我自己躺在地上 |
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Life, it is nothing but a clean
Blotted out and patient sheet
What a great responsibility
For this who holds the pen
Reminiscences of youth
Closed in the old photographs
Testimony of reality
Writing it down is a pure formality |
生命,空虚而清白
被玷污而染病
一个崇高的职责
对于持笔的人
回顾青春
定格在老照片上的
真实的记录
写在幽国车站里
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007-Play and download of the film |
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Download are provided for VIP member period 2011.6.18-7.18 |
"A pure formality" file (Embedded CN-EN subtitle) 700 Kbps WMV format 591M 105' 03" |
The download address in the E-mail sent by us to all VIP member on June 18,2011 |
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June 18, 2011 |
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