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Author Archives: rarefilm
Schatten der Vergangenheit (1936) Werner Hochbaum, Luise Ullrich, Gustav Diessl, Lucie Höflich

The story was an obvious forerunner to A Stolen Life with Bette Davis with Luise Ullrich playing a double role of two twins Read More »
The Woman in the Painting / Amici per la pelle (1955) Franco Rossi, Geronimo Meynier, Andrea Sciré, Vera Carmi

Mario and the new kid Franco gradually become the best of friends Read More »
Raid in St. Pauli / Razzia in St. Pauli (1932) Werner Hochbaum, Gina Falckenberg, Friedrich Gnaß, Wolfgang Zilzer

Illustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait Read More »
Issa Valley / Dolina Issy (1982) Tadeusz Konwicki, Anna Dymna, Maria Pakulnis, Danuta Szaflarska

The film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. Read More »
The Mexican suitcase / La maleta mexicana (2011) Trisha Ziff, Ernest Alós, Juan Diego Botto, Antonio de la Fuente Ferraz

Mexican Suitcase tells the story of the recovery of 4,500 negatives by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro Read More »
Corridors of Blood (1958) Robert Day, Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Christopher Lee

In an effort to relieve the suffering of surgery patients, Dr. Thomas Bolton painstakingly develops an opium-based anesthetic Read More »
Ninja, a Band of Assassins / Shinobi no mono (1962) Satsuo Yamamoto, Raizô Ichikawa, Shiho Fujimura, Yûnosuke Itô

Ishikawa Goemon (Ichikawa Raizo), a talented young ninja, becomes ensnared in a twisted scheme to assassinate Oda Nobunaga Read More »
There’s a Noose Waiting for You Trinity! / Il ritorno di Clint il solitario (1972) Alfonso Balcázar, George Martin, Marina Malfatti, Klaus Kinski

Trinity is an ex-gunslinger desperately wanting to be forgiven and accepted by his family that he abandoned years earlier. Read More »
A Stranger in Town / Un dollaro tra i denti (1967) Luigi Vanzi, Tony Anthony, Frank Wolff, Jolanda Modio

Unknown to anybody else but himself The Stranger arrives in an abandoned town where he witnesses the slaughter Read More »