1920s

A story about a family torn apart by a worker’s strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.Read More »

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Arnold Fanck’s Der Berg des Schicksals (Mountain of Destiny) from 1924, It was the first full-length feature film in the mountain film genre pioneered by Fanck, and marked lead actor Luis Trenker’s on-screen debut. The film was shot on original locations in Trenker’s homeland, the Dolomites, and premiered in 1924 at the UFA Pavilion on Nollendorfplatz in Berlin. Restored by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, with a new composition by Florian C. Reithner. The Metropolis Orchestra Berlin performed under the direction of Burkhard Götze, with composer Reithner himself playing the organ.Read More »

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Alice has a fight with her boyfriend, Frank, a detective, and decides to go out with another man. When they get to his flat, he attacks her and she defends herself and kills him. Frank investigates the case and realizes Alice is the culprit, but so has someone else, and blackmail is threatened.Read More »

Thrown in prison for a hundred years, Little Goofy and Big Goofy finally break free, posing as an anarchic duo of undercover painters. Soon, the boys wind up in a private party as visiting French dignitaries; however, who are they kidding?Read More »

SalineLibations wrote:
It definitely should be slowed down to 18fps to have it play at the correct speed. However, that really alters the feeling of the score, and makes the commentary kind of awkwardly slow. Seeing as the blu-ray is much more complete than the DVD and better quality, I’ll consider them upgrades. Just make sure in the descriptions to very visibly recommend people to slow them down to 0.75 speed in their player to see it at the correct speed of 18fps.Read More »

Pegg, Eva, Baby and Emmy — four self-supporting female office workers — share a flat and try to make their way in the rapidly modernizing but still very patriarchal Stockholm of the early 1900s.Read More »

Set in Brussels, where Suzanne Beulemans, the daughter of a rich brewer is promised to marry Séraphin Meulemeester, the son of a rival brewer. The young man and his father both seem particularly motivated by the dowry of the young fiancée. But Séraphin has a rival in Albert Delpierre, a young Frenchman who is learning brewery from Ferdinand Beulemans and who is discreetly enamoured with the young woman. Albert learns Séraphin’s secret that he is having an affair with a worker and that they have had a child. He promises Séraphin that he will never reveal any of it to Suzanne, but she is told by Isabelle, her maid.Read More »

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Marquise Berthe de Brabant got married to a French nobleman just before the beginning of World War I. Her husband gets severely injured in an attack against the Germans and hands over the bouquet of Berthe to a German officer, before dying without revealing his name. In turn, the German soldier gets injured and is sent to a military hospital, where Berthe is taking care of war victims. Unexpectedly he tells her everything. Will Berthe take revenge, or will she fulfill her duty as a nurse? (EFG)Read More »

The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small-town church.Read More »