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Tag Archives: 1920s
The House on Trubnaya / Dom na Trubnoy (1928) Boris Barnet, Vera Maretskaya, Anel Sudakevich, Ada Vojtsik
A girl Paranya Pitunova comes to Moscow from a deep province, eventually she arrives at a house. Read More »
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans / Sunrise (1927) F.W. Murnau, George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city Read More »
Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness / Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück (1929) Phil Jutzi, Alexandra Schmitt, Holmes Zimmermann, Ilse Trautschold
Mutter Krause and her children live in the poorer section of Berlin’s Wedding district. Read More »
The White Rose (1923) D.W. Griffith, Mae Marsh, Carol Dempster, Ivor Novello
A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and Read More »
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) / Oktyabr (1927) Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov
In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 Read More »
One Arabian Night / Sumurun (1920) Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Paul Wegener
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant Read More »
Say It with Songs (1929) Lloyd Bacon, Al Jolson, Davey Lee, Marian Nixon
Joe Lane kills another man in a fistfight after learning that the man has made improper advances towards his wife. Read More »
Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) Benjamin Christensen, Thelma Todd, Creighton Hale, Sheldon Lewis
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help Read More »
High Treason (1929) Maurice Elvey, Benita Hume, Basil Gill, Humberston Wright
Women unite to prevent financiers from engineering a second world war. Read More »