Dokumentarfilm über den italienischen Schriftsteller und Literaturwissenschaftler Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, der 1957 mittellos starb und so den Welterfolg seines einzigen und erst posthum veröff...
Nachdem der Familienvater Michael seinen Job als Bauingenieur verloren hat, zieht er mit seiner Frau Friederike und der achtjährigen Tochter Selma in eine heruntergekommene Wohnung in Hamburg-St. Pau...
Der junge Türke Yusuf lebt mit seiner Mutter Zehra am Rande einer anatolischen Kleinstadt. Mit dem Verkauf selbst hergestellter Milchprodukte halten die beiden sich mehr schlecht als recht über Wass...
Ein so genannter "Omnibusfilm", in dem elf namhafte deutsche Regisseure versuchen, die Stimmung in der krisengeschüttelten Bundesrepublik nach der Entführung und Ermordung Hans Martin Schleyers sowi...
Dokumentarischer Film-Essay, bei dem der französische Filmemacher Robert Bober auf das Wien zur Zeit zwischen dem Ersten Weltkrieg und dem Erstarken des Nationalsozialismus in den 1930er Jahren zurü...
Verfilmung des gleichnamigen Kinderbuchs von Michael Ende. Auf der kleinen Insel Lummerland regiert König Alfons der Viertel-vor-Zwölfte über exakt drei Untertanen: den Lokomotivführer Lukas, die ...
On board of a German battleship.
The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
The workforce is mainly women working at benches or on production lines. They test rubber mouthpieces for leaks with a probe. They test the expiratory valves in the same manner. The corrugated tubes a...
On the staging and filming of a party on the allied armies in the WWI.
Le service d'hygiène du comité américain a attiré l'attention des autorités médicales et des milieux parlementaires sur l'état d'hygiène sociale de l'enfance du département sinistré de l'Ais...
The young hothead Billy is drifting into a life of crime and has a violent quarrel with his girlfriend Nelly. The lay preacher John Redmond tells Billy his life's story. Many years before, he was a we...
Spanish writers and personalities devoted to their hobbies: reading, walking, painting or visiting a museum.
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
Between 28-30 December 1917, Padua suffered three air raids by Austrian aircraft. After the first, The Times of London reported:"December 29. : Yesterday evening at 9 p.m. enemy airmen, true to their...
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
From private wedding festivities at a wooden villa in the city of Fredikstad.
A commercial for Rex Margarine with the Greek philosopher Diogenes as the main character.
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...