A study of human anxieties about beauty, youth and objectification. Read More »
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The Governor’s Daughter (1912) Guvernørens datter
Governor Krakow has promised his daughter, Sonja, in marriage to the wealthy prince and general Sabinsky. Read More »
The Devious Path (1928) Abwege
Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin’s nightlife, drugs and flirtations included. Read More »
Wild and Woolly (1917) John Emerson
The civilized inhabitants of a formerly wild western town scramble to recreate the town’s rough Read More »
The Doll (1919) Ernst Lubitsch
Because the Baron of Chanterelle wants to preserve his family line, he forces his timid nephew Lancelot to choose one of the village maidens to wed. Read More »
Peter the Great (1922) Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy
Peter the Great, on becoming czar of Russia, using his knowledge of shipbuilding gained in a foreign country Read More »
The Merry Jail (1917) Das fidele Gefängnis
Based on Johann Strauss’s operetta Die Fledermaus, the actions of ‘The Merry Jail’ occur over the course of a single eventful day and night. Read More »
Taras Shevchenko (1926) Pyotr Chardynin
The film adaptation of Taras Shevchenko’s biography of 1925 is the first Ukrainian biopic. Read More »
The White Desert (1922) Ernst Wendt, Karl Balta, Maria Bauer, Dita Borissowa
About the violent captain Gaustad on a ship of rape, mutiny and shipwreck, in the icy waters of Sweden. Read More »
Die Republik der Backfische (1928) Constantin J. David, Käthe von Nagy, Raimondo Van Riel, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
The ridin’, ropin’ and shootin’ Billie is shipped from the Argentinian pampas to Europe to be polished girls’ boarding school. Read More »