Hans-Jürgen Buchner hat in seinem Leben bereits 15 Alben volkstümlicher Musik veröffentlicht und ist dafür sogar in China bekannt. Toni Schmids Porträt des Musikers, das zu dessen 70. Geburtstag ...
Der vermögende Selfmade-Man Chris Decker hat sich nach dem Verkauf seiner Firma fast vollständig von der Außenwelt abgeschottet. Er lebt alleine in einem von ihm selbst entworfenen Hightech-Haus in...
Nach dem Tod seiner geliebten Frau ist aus dem Ostfriesen Uwe Hinrichs ein mürrischer Eigenbrötler geworden. Die Tage verbringt er hinter dem Tresen seines kleinen Tankstellenkiosks und abends sitzt...
Aufzeichnung einer Solo-Vorführung von Ben Becker im Berliner Dom. Er trägt dabei eine Rede vor, die der Autor und Literaturhistoriker Walter Jens dem historischen Judas in den Mund legte: eine Vert...
Der Filmemacher Thomas Riedelsheimer beobachtet und begleitet die gehörlose Perkussionistin Evelyn Glennie bei den Aufnahmen für ihre neue CD. Während man Glennie als "klassische" Musikerin bezeich...
Kinofilm nach der gleichnamigen britischen Serie von 1970/71: Im Jahr 1020 muss der Hexenmeister Catweazle vor den Normannen fliehen. Mit einem Zauberspruch will er seinen Verfolgern entkommen – und...
Der junge Lehrer Petr verlässt die Großstadt, um eine Stelle als Dorflehrer anzutreten. Auf dem Land angekommen, lernt er die Witwe Marie kennen, die mit ihrem 18-jährigen Sohn einen Bauernhof...
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.
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
This documentary puts together different moments of Pier Antonio Quarantotto Gambini’s poetic journey, pausing on the only work in verse by this writer from Trieste, “Racconto d'amore” (Lo...
I. Newsreel item on a long mule train, with Indian Army drivers, in the deserts of Palestine, late 1917.II. Brief newsreel item on a long line of limbers and GS wagons making their way forward down a ...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on the funeral of Baron Manfred von Richthofen ('the Red Baron') at Bertangles, Western Front, 22nd April 1918. II. French language version of a newsreel ...
I. Newsreel item showing the remains of the Cloth Hall and water tower at Ypres, Western Front, March-April 1918. II. French language version of a newsreel item on the Earl of Scarborough inspecting 1...
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on King George V and Queen Mary visiting wounded survivors of the Zeebrugge raid, probably at Chatham, April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a news...
War drama about a woman hero, in love with a military engineer and coveted by his odious collaborationist "krauts" . She does not give in to the blackmail of a German who is lying to her about her fia...
War drama about a woman hero, in love with a military engineer and coveted by his odious collaborationist "krauts" . She does not give in to the blackmail of a German who is lying to her about her fia...