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...
Im letzten Teil der "Intrigo"-Trilogie trauert eine junge Frau um ihren gerade verstorbenen, deutlich älteren Ehemann und gerät mit dessen erwachsenen Kindern in Streit um das Haus. Bei der Bestattu...
Der junge Wirtschaftsstudent Johan Westlund - genannt JW - liebt den luxuriösen Lifestyle und gibt sich trotz einfacher Herkunft als Diplomatensohn aus, hat jedoch ständig mit Geldproblemen zu kämp...
Das Musikstück "You’ll Never Walk Alone" von Richard Rodgers und Oscar Hammerstein II wurde ursprünglich für das Finale des 1945 uraufgeführten Broadway-Musicals "Carousel" komponiert. Ab 1960 w...
Basierend auf den Kinderbüchern von Isabel Abedi erzählt der Film von der kleinen Lola, einem Mädchen mit einer unbändigen Fantasie. In ihrer Traumwelt hat sie einen Vater aus dem fernen Brasilien...
In der Reihe WAS TUT SICH – IM DEUTSCHEN FILM? präsentiert das Kino des DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum in Zusammenarbeit mit epd film einmal im Monat ein aktuelles Werk. Am 13. Oktober 2...
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.
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...
Melodrama about presumed adultery, jealousy and honour.
The past recaptured by Aldo Palazzeschi. The moody and sardonic spirit of his early youth, ironic comments about experiences with "crepuscolarism" and "futurism". His poetry carefully captures w...
The young hothead Billy is drifting into a life of crime and has a violent quarrel with his girlfriend Nelly. The lay preacher John Redmond tells Billy his life's story. Many years before, he was a we...
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
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.
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 ...