Der bayerische Ministerpräsident Reitmayer ahnt nicht, was für eine hitzige Debatte er auslöst, als er auf einer Pressekonferenz etwas unüberlegt von einem möglichen Austritt Bayerns aus der Bund...
In einer Winternacht kreuzen sich die Wege zweier Männer, deren Leben unterschiedlicher kaum sein könnte. Der Pakistani Haroon lebt seit drei Jahren illegal in Deutschland und versucht, sich mit kle...
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...
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.
Documentary about gold extraction methods in the Aruwimi River area. All the various stages are illustrated. Rivers and rocks are first explored and then drilled. Once raw materials are sorted accordi...
An unidentified (and unfortunately incomplete) exotic melodrama, tends towards De Mille's The Cheat. Considered by specialists as a German film.
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...
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the city and cathedral at Amiens after the German failure to capture the city, 5th-7th April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on ...
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...
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
Film used against itself, in an essay on the entanglement of mistery and religious merchandising where the kino-spirit rules instead of the kino-eye.
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.