February, 1917. Returning to the German front after a sybaritic leave in Moscow, Russian officer Nikita Krasnoff Read More »
History
The House on 56th Street (1933) Robert Florey, Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond
This movie opens in 1905, when showgirl and daughter of a deceased gambler Peggy Martin Read More »
Is This Fate? / Von wegen ‘Schicksal’ (1979) Helga Reidemeister
This documentary chronicles the ups and downs of a German family in the 1970s Read More »
Battleship Potemkin / Bronenosets Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein, Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. Read More »
Germany Year Zero / Germania anno zero (1948) Roberto Rossellini, Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze
Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the Second World War Read More »
The Opium War / Ya pian zhan zheng (1997) Jin Xie, Guoan Bao, Liankun Lin, Sihung Lung
Historical Drama starting in 1839 in Guangzhou where British merchants dealing with opium Read More »
The Trojan Horse / La guerra di Troia (1961) Giorgio Ferroni, Steve Reeves, Juliette Mayniel, John Drew Barrymore
In the final year of the 10 year long Trojan War, Ulysses devises his infamous scheme to get into Troy. Read More »
Samson and Delilah (1996) Nicolas Roeg, Dennis Hopper, Elizabeth Hurley, Eric Thal
Mara and her husband Manoa are both upstanding and religious Israelites living Read More »
Mother / Mat (1990) Gleb Panfilov, Inna Churikova, Viktor Rakov, Liubomiras Laucevicius
Based on Maxim Gorky’s novel about a woman torn between her loyalties to husband and son in the years of the Revolution. Read More »
The Destruction of Herculaneum / Anno 79: La distruzione di Ercolano (1962) Gianfranco Parolini, Susan Paget, Brad Harris, Mara Lane
In 79 AD the Roman city of Herculaneum was destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius. Read More »