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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Punch Bowl / Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944) Helmut Weiss, Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt, Hilde Sessak
Hans Pfeiffer and some of his friends are drinking “Feuerzangenbowle”. Talking about their school-time they discover that Hans Read More »
Wide Open Faces (1938) Kurt Neumann, Joe E. Brown, Jane Wyman, Alison Skipworth
Criminal from all over the country converge on the Lakeside Inn in Willow Springs where bank robber Read More »
The Day and the Hour / Le jour et l’heure (1963) René Clément, Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Geneviève Page
It’s the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. Read More »
Distance / Dooratwa (1979) Buddhadev Dasgupta, Mamata Shankar, Pradip Mukherjee, Ajoy Banerjee
Mandar (Pradip Mukherjee) is an ex-revolutionary turned college lecturer. Read More »
Alvarez Kelly (1966) Edward Dmytryk, William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule
Suave former Texan cattleman Alvarez Kelly now living in Mexico Read More »
Epilogue / Epilog: Das Geheimnis der Orplid (1950) Helmut Käutner, Horst Caspar, Bettina Moissi, O.E. Hasse
The journalist Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. Read More »
Man from Shimizu / Shimizu Minato no meibutso otoko: Enshûmori no Ishimatsu (1958) Masahiro Makino, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Hitomi Nakahara, Yumiko Hasegawa
Adventures of Mori no Ishimatsu, a famous member of Jirocho gang. Read More »
Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland / Nureta koya o hashire (1973) Yukihiro Sawada, Yuri Yamashina, Takeo Chii, Maki Kawamura
A group of burglars in black tights breaks into a church to commit robbery Read More »
Imago mortis (2009) Stefano Bessoni, Alberto Amarilla, Oona Chaplin, Leticia Dolera
In the 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Girolamo Fumagalli Read More »