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...
Napoleon is called up to the army, and says goodbye to Sally, and to the people in the film studio. He leaves. But Sally quickly chases after him, and together they arrive at "Fort Skiddoo". The chaot...
Romantic film in which a couple who have been together for fifty years reminisce about the time they first met. Jack Stevens informs the couple Philippe and Maud Perkins, who are celebrating their f...
Various news items about the First World War, compiled for home projection. Optimism and emphasis on international collaboration, remains preserved and the more gruesome or embarrassing war images wer...
International newsreel. Most of the content is news about the war, and especially about the serbs. We also see American nurses on their way to the front. There are also some sportscasts.
The past recaptured by Aldo Palazzeschi. The moody and sardonic spirit of his early youth, ironic comments about experiences with "crepuscolarism" and "futurism". His poetry carefully captures w...
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 film is constructed on a contemporary requirement tied to the wartime situation, seeing as Italy had gone to war with Austria in May 1915. At the end of the wedding ceremony the procession o...
Willy Birgel, Marianne Hoppe, René Deltgen (v.l.n.r.)
Kriegsdrama (deutsch) nach dem Roman
The video shows the first five minutes of the film.
Die Verfilmung von Uwe Timms gleichnamiger Novelle erzählt die Geschichte von Lena, die 1945 in einer Kantine arbeitet. Lebensmittel sind rar geworden gegen Kriegsende und deshalb muss die junge Frau...
Ausstattungsdrama (Ton- und Geräuschfilm mit [englischen] Dialogstellen) nach dem Roman von
I. Budapest. A Hungarian-Bulgarian celebration. // II. Panorama of the village of Kozichino, near Pomorie. Demonstration of the folk custom "lazaruvane". // III. Sofia railway station. Trade ministe...
Semi-fictional touristic film on Belgium.
Dans ce film tourné en 1942 pour un public américain, le réalisateur trace un portrait de la modernisation en cours du Congo belge et de son rôle - et celui de tous ses habitants - dans l'effort d...