
Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered Read More »
Tag Archives: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Queen of Atlantis / L’Atlantide (1932) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Brigitte Helm, Pierre Blanchar, Tela Tchaï

Antinea. the Queen of Atlantis, rules her secret kingdom hidden beneath the Sahara Desert. Read More »
Secrets of a Soul / Geheimnisse einer Seele (1926) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher, Ilka Grüning

A scientist is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Read More »
The Shanghai Drama / Le drame de Shanghaï (1938) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Christl Mardayn, Louis Jouvet, Raymond Rouleau

A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. Read More »
Girls in Distress AKA Jeunes filles en détresse (1939) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Marcelle Chantal, Jacqueline Delubac, André Luguet

Jacqueline is sixteen. Her parents are kept very busy by their mutual careers (Dad is a renowned attorney and Mum is a doctor running her own clinic). Read More »
Loves of Jeanne Nye AKA Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Édith Jéhanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp

In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren’t done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Read More »
The Threepenny Opera AKA Die 3 Groschen-Oper (1931) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher

In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the ‘king of the beggars’. Read More »
Westfront 1918 (1930) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Möbis

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. Read More »
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1955) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Albin Skoda, Oskar Werner, Lotte Tobisch

This war drama film is a German-Austrian project in black-and-white and released in 1955. Read More »
A Modern Hero (1934) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Richard Barthelmess, Jean Muir, Marjorie Rambeau

Pierre is a young and handsome circus rider whose mother has long tolerated his amorous adventures Read More »