Berlin, Anfang der 1980er Jahre: Der Staatssicherheitsdienst der DDR wirbt den jungen, systemtreuen Ostberliner Ludger an, um ihn in die Künstlerszene des Prenzlauer Berg einzuschleusen. Dort sammelt...
Vor Jahren hatte die 22-jährige Studentin Lena ihr Elternhaus im Streit verlassen und den Kontakt zu ihrer Mutter abgebrochen. Nun erhält sie von ihrem Vater überraschend die Nachricht von deren Un...
Lose Fortsetzung des Sozialdramas "Mediterranea" (DE/US/IT/FR) aus dem Jahr 2015. Im Mittelpunkt steht der 14-jährige Roma Pio, der mit seiner großen Familiengemeinschaft in einer italienischen Stad...
Das Tonbild zeigt die Arie "La donna è mobile" (deutsch: "Ach, wie so trügerisch") aus dem dritten Akt von Guiseppe Verdis Oper "Rigoletto". Tonbild ist eine Bezeichnung für frühe Kinofilme mit Sy...
Ambitious spanish-french co-production (costed one million pesetas in those years) based on the life of Christopher Columbus.
Baron Felix and Madame Vera Wadjevska, a pair of con artists, have gotten their hands on a manor in Oslo, after stealing the deceased owner's identity papers while abroad. The dead man's nephew, Helge...
In preparion for war, German and French ships and hydroplanes are launched in Wilhelmshaven and Lorient. The war technology is depicted in an objective and proud manner, which today seems in stark con...
Based on an English fairy tale in which poverty forces Jack to sell their cow, but in exchange gets beans instead of money. Eventually he uses the magic beans to wind up in the castle of the giant.
Spendid shots of the famous waterfalls filmed on the Canadian side and distributed at the time by the Belgian Cingraphique University, founded in 1926 and specialised in the distribution of documentar...
Melodrama, about a father and son sharing the love for the same charming girl. A dramatic night storm leads to jealousy and loss of honor.
Melodrama about presumed adultery, jealousy and honour.
The film shows images from Rjukan and the surrounding area. We see narrow roads and sharp curves, the famous waterfall and the power plant, construction and industry, mountain dairy farming and reinde...
An unidentified (and unfortunately incomplete) exotic melodrama, tends towards De Mille's The Cheat. Considered by specialists as a German film.
Short item about the Van Berkel seaplane The Rotterdam engineering factory Van Berkel was well known for its meat-slicers and scales. But between 1918 and 1921, Van Berkel, commissioned by the Departm...
Newsreel with international and Norwegian content, among others shipbuilding, sailing, Pickford and Fairbanks' wedding, and winter sport activities.
The curtain goes up on the cartoon to introduce the two characters. They set out on patrol from a police station. The dog sees a cat and chases it over rough ground and through a sewer pipe. The handl...
The film has no plot or continuity. Almost all the first reel comes directly from IWM 236 A BOMBING TRIP OVER THE ENEMY LINES, showing Australian aircraft, and IWM 28 WITH THE AUSTRALIAN FORCES IN PAL...
From the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in 1918. We see the Holmenkollen ski jump arena, the ski jumpers and the audience. The royal family arrives, King Haakon VII, Queen Maud and Crown prince Olav.
Newsreel showing the breakdown of the relation between USA and Germany in 1917, in addition to pictures from the American Navy, female train conductors and polar bears in a Paris zoo.
Short war film. Being imprisoned, chained and shaven half bold, dragged through the snow. A man stayes behind and is saved by passengers. Yet later on, when he is recognised, he is shot down.