Nach einem Banküberfall suchen die fünf Räuber auf der Flucht vor der Polizei Zuflucht in einem abgelegenen Waldhotel. Sie ahnen nicht, dass es sich bei dem Betreiber um den berühmt-berüchtigten ...
Videobotschaft anlässlich der "Carte Blanche"-Reihe von Ulrich Tukur im Deutschen Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main im Mai 2016
Verfilmung des gleichnamige Romans von Ilija Trojanow: Bei einem Autounfall kommen die Eltern des jungen, in Deutschland aufgewachsenen Bulgaren Alexander ums Leben. Er selbst verliert jede Erinnerung...
15 Jahre sind vergangen, seit die Profikillerin Scarlet untertauchen und ihre 12-jährige Tochter Sam zurücklassen musste. Inzwischen arbeitet Sam selbst als Killerin für ein mächtiges Verbrechersy...
Der Dokumentarfilm beleuchtet die Naturgeschichte der Erde am Beispiel von Deutschland, dessen Gebiet vor Millionen von Jahren noch auf dem Breitengrad des Äquators lag. Urwälder, Vulkane und hohe F...
Im streng islamischen Königreich Saudi-Arabien war es Frauen bis 2013 respektive 2018 verboten Fahrrad oder Auto zu fahren. Der Film entstand noch bevor Fahrradfahren für Frauen legalisiert wurde: A...
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...
News of the exhibition in Lisbon of a group of “war films” in a tribute to the allied nations.
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...
Cesarina Rupert, a modern day Messalina, is Claudio’s wife, a patriot and a brilliant inventor of war vehicles for France. Between personal drama and spy intrigues, this mismatched couple is d...
Guazzoni, in putting on this sensational work must have encountered many difficulties. However, he overcame them brilliantly. He presents the episodes and vicissitudes which characterise the liv...
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...