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Tag Archives: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Secrets of a Soul AKA 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 AKA 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 »
Paracelsus (1943) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Werner Krauss, Harry Langewisch, Annelies Reinhold
A 1943 German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst based on the life of Philippus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). Read More »
Das Bekenntnis der Ina Kahr (1954) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Curd Jürgens, Elisabeth Müller, Albert Lieven
Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Read More »
The Comedians (1941) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Käthe Dorsch, Hilde Krahl, Henny Porten
Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. Read More »
It Happened on July 20th (1955) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Bernhard Wicki, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Carl Wery, Drama, History, Thriller, War
A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed. Read More »
Joyless Street (1925) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Ágnes Eszterházy, Drama
Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid’s clients is arrested. Read More »
Pandoras Box (1929) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Crime, Drama, Romance
Lulu is a beautiful young woman who can seemingly work her charms on all of the men around her. Read More »