This commissioned film shows us some of the multitude of activities that occur within the national railway company. We travel by rail through beautiful Belgian landscapes and are given an often surpri...
French newsreel, released by the army and showing activities on the Western Front, including images of the captured fort of Kawak of Constantinople (Istanbul) and the French troops parading for the fi...
It is not rare to hear in Naples that the time of the guappi, members of the Camorra, is over forever. But who were they? What was the Camorra? What was the reality of the Neapolitan criminal wo...
A working-class neighborhood in Piraeus is the setting for the story of a hard-working young man (Giorgos Fountas) who finds himself entangled in illegal dealings with a fraudster (Stefanos Stratigos)...
In the Hellenistic period, around 200 B.C., a group of shepherds led by Molossos (Zanninos) move from the mountain to the plain, in search of new pastures for their flocks. The shepherds lose their wa...
It is an articulated film comprised of three free-standing stories with a common theme: the attitude of the Greeks under the yoke of a foreign power. The Clock, the first story, is a comedy set on the...
Ten years after the first emigration wave of Greek laborers to Belgium coalmines, the director takes a personal view of the problems confronting these laborers in a European country which provides the...
One day, on the island of Lesbos, a shepherd by the name of Lamonas finds an abandoned little boy sucking milk from the teats of a goat. The shepherd calls the boy Dafnis and takes him as his own chil...
2. Episode: A Staircase - About Time 2
Czechoslovak soldiers arriving at that time Masaryk Railway Station
Evelyn Hamann with her long-time partner Vicco von Bülow aka Loriot
A drama about a famous actor who, while studying the role of Hamlet, begins to think that Yorick's skull is that of his one-time friend and rival in love; this suggestion excites him so much so that h...
The story is an adaptation of a Prague legend about Petr Parléř, architect to Charles IV who was entrusted with the task of building a Gothic cathedral in Prague, a magnificent example of the archit...
Young Frantík, living with his guardian, befriends Martička, the daughter of factory owner Simon. Frantík's mother, however, comes to take her son back with her and puts him in a children's home wh...
While a group of children is playing by the railroad station, a tragic accident occurs during which Vašíček's legs are crushed by a train. After a complicated operation Vašíček is moved to Jedli...
"The plot is set sometime during the 14th or 15th century and is based on the old chivalrous legends which are now gone forever. It tells of a beautiful girl whose father, a prince, forces her to marr...