Der Filmemacher Thomas Riedelsheimer beobachtet und begleitet die gehörlose Perkussionistin Evelyn Glennie bei den Aufnahmen für ihre neue CD. Während man Glennie als "klassische" Musikerin bezeich...
Kinofilm nach der gleichnamigen britischen Serie von 1970/71: Im Jahr 1020 muss der Hexenmeister Catweazle vor den Normannen fliehen. Mit einem Zauberspruch will er seinen Verfolgern entkommen – und...
Der junge Lehrer Petr verlässt die Großstadt, um eine Stelle als Dorflehrer anzutreten. Auf dem Land angekommen, lernt er die Witwe Marie kennen, die mit ihrem 18-jährigen Sohn einen Bauernhof...
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...
Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
Panoramic shot over Santiago de Compostela. A crowd in the streets attends a procession followed by a parade of men with hats, women with veils, people with masks and music bands.
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
VICTORY - GOD BLESS THE BRITISH ARMY THAT HAS SAVED OUR HOMES AND OUR ALL!: Stock footage of mortar launcher, bi-plane, and tanks. AND OUR INDOMITABLE SONS OF THE SEA WHO HAVE SAVED US AND OUR ALLIES ...
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...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
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...