Edeltraut Hertel bringt Kinder auf die Welt. Seit fast 20 Jahren arbeitet die Hebamme in ihrem Geburtsort Meerane, einer verschlafenen Kleinstadt in der Nähe von Chemnitz. In dieser dem Fokus der Wel...
Die Freunde Rico und Oskar sind überglücklich, dass sie inzwischen im gleichen Haus fast Tür an Tür wohnen. Auch Ricos Mutter Tanja geht es bestens, denn in Bühl hat sie einen neuen Partner gefun...
Griechenland, Sommer 1984. Der 20 Jahre alte britische Musiker Kenneth und die gleichaltrige Deutsche Theres haben sich um Urlaub kennen gelernt und ineinander verliebt. Sie finanzieren sich ihre Feri...
Ein schwarzhumoriger bayerischer Krimi: Einstmals der beste Kommissar Niederbayerns verbringt Kreuzeder inzwischen seine Zeit am liebsten im Wirtshaus, wo er nebenbei auch das Herz der Kellnerin Gerda...
Eine junge Frau adressiert das weibliche Publikum in direkter Ansprache, preist sehr diskret Tampax-Produkte an und endet mit einer Entschuldigung für die "Störung".
Verfilmung des gleichnamigen Jugendromans der norwegischen Autorin Vigdis Hjort. Im Mittelpunkt steht die zehnjährige Anne, ein temperamentvolles, abenteuerlustiges Mädchen, mit dem man die sprichwÃ...
Dokumentarfilm über die Wirtschaftsinteressen und die damit einhergehende Korruption hinter den Kulissen des modernen Profisports. Der Journalist und Filmemacher Benjamin Best konzentriert sich dabei...
Videobotschaft zu "Secrets & Lies" ("Lügen und Geheimnisse", Großbritannien/Frankreich 1996) anlässlich der "Carte Blanche"-Reihe von Ulrich Matthes im DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Fr...
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. 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 ...
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...
Newsreel item on snow conditions in Flanders, showing the cameraman's car stuck in a snowdrift, and soldiers having a snowball fight, Western Front, January 1918.
Short newsreel item on Venice during the First World War, focusing in particular on Venice's canal network, used to transport men and munitions.
First lead role for the gentle giant Maciste (original name Bartolomeo Pagano), who stole the scene to the leaders and the princesses in "Cabiria". The period and the location are different, but not t...
The making of patriotic films was not rare among FAI productions, and "Il bacio della gloria" is one example, together with "Armi e amori" (1913) and "Per la Patria!" (1915). “In the Speech fr...
Claire is the beautiful daughter of the director of the steelworks. Revolutionaries storm the director's estate during a strike, and the director is killed. Worker Albert Fjeld remembers that Claire h...
Young Espen has been wrongfully accused of a theft at school. Worried that no one will believe him, he runs away from home, boards a ship and experiences many adventures. When he later escapes the clu...
Young hairdresser Elisabeth Borg wins the lottery and treats herself to an Easter holiday at a mountain resort. Here she is subjected to the advances of a sly deadbeat, but is rescued by-and becomes e...
An uproarious comic, in which a novel duel by shrapnel is seen, the shells being strapped on the back of each combatant and hammers provided. The two have a most exciting time. Some clever trick...
The film shows a beautiful Winter's day in Nordmarka outside Oslo where people take the tram to the forest to go skiing and sledging.
From the centennial of the Norwegian constitution at Eidsvoll in 1914. King Haakon, Queen Maud and Crown Prince Olav are present.