"L'Chaim" ist ein jüdischer Trinkspruch, ein Lebensmotto und der Name des Protagonisten dieses Dokumentarfilms. Der jüdische Lebenskünstler Chaim Lubelski hat ein ziemlich wildes Leben geführt: Al...
Dokudrama über Leben und Karriere von Florence Foster Jenkins, die als "schlechteste Sängerin aller Zeiten" zu zweifelhaftem Ruhm kann. Unabhängig von ihrem begrenzten Musiktalent zeigt sie der Fil...
Hamlet Free adaptation of Shakespeare′s drama: The Danish queen masquerades her daughter as a boy. Thus, the girl lives her whole life as Prince Hamlet. When the King is killed in an assault by ...
Als der Schriftsteller Tomas in einen Unfall verwickelt wird, bei dem ein Kind stirbt, traumatisiert ihn dieses Erlebnis. Obwohl ihn keine direkte Schuld trifft, leidet er über Jahre hinweg an tiefen...
Lebenskünstler Jakob, Ende 30, schlägt sich hauptsächlich mit Auftritten als Elvis-Imitator in Seniorenheimen durch. Ausgerechnet, als er eines Tages einen Job als Fahrer in einem internationalen T...
Schweden, Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Maria Larsson, eine einfache Arbeiterfrau, nimmt an einer Lotterie teil und gewinnt überraschend eine Fotokamera. Maria kann mit dem neuartigen Apparat zunächs...
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 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...
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...
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...
French language version of a newsreel item on British troops sitting and eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness", Western Front, May 1918.
"King And President - The King of the Belgians and President Poincaré leaving Furnes after an inspection of the French Cavalry in the market square".
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...
Newsreel item showing British soldiers eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness," Western Front, May 1918.
Reportage about a demonstration flight by aviator Clement van Maasdijk On July 31 and August 1, 1910, the Dutch aviator Clement van Maasdijk gave two flight demonstrations during Heerenveen’s ‘air...
British soldiers are engaged in a fire-fight at close range with Boers on high ground above them. One of the Boers gets close enough to a British soldier to touch him before falling hit. The Boer asks...
Colonel Samson is not clearly visible in the film. The DH4, fitted with floats and no wheels, taxies through the water behind a Felixstowe flying boat, which takes off ahead of it. The DH4 then thrott...
An interesting review of the Savoy Cavalry at practice and drill is herein presented. They are seen descending high embankments and fording streams and ends with field drill. The film is somewha...
Reel 1. 1. Intertitle: The harvest. The flax stalks are not cut, but picked. Image: Russians POWs pick flax stalks under the supervision of a German soldier; children gather bundles of flax, which are...
The R36 is nose-forward in its shed. Workers turn a large capstan to wind back the doors of the shed and the airship is towed out. It is clearly marked as R36 and as G-FAAF. It takes off from its laun...
The divisional commander, Brigadier-General F S Meighan, shows the journalists around the training area. (Very broken film, extremely hard to follow.) The men are engaged in various kinds of training:...
Three Australian officers stand with a Belgian officer as escort on the balcony of the prison where Nurse Cavell was held. Next, they stand by the plaque in the prison yard marking the place where she...