Set around the central figure of an Armenian trying to forge a life in the West the film offers a series of impressions of Armenian history. Read More »
Tag Archives: Germany
Operette (1940) Willi Forst, Maria Holst, Dora Komar
The first film of Willi Forst’s legendary Viennese trilogy is essentially a condensed history of the golden age of Viennese operetta mirrored in the fictive love story Read More »
For A Few Dollars More (1965) Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè
Monco is a bounty killer chasing El Indio and his gang. During his hunting, he meets Col. Douglas Mortimer, another bounty killer Read More »
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988) Claude Lelouch, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Richard Anconina, Lio
A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. 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 »
Genghis Khan (1965) Henry Levin, Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif, James Mason
Mostly fictionalized account of the life of Ghenghis Khan, the Mongol warlord whose 13th century armies conquered much of the known world. Read More »
The Tunnel (1933) Curtis Bernhardt, Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Robert Le Vigan
An engineer is hired to plan the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. Read More »
Deep in the Woods (2010) Benoît Jacquot, Isild Le Besco, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Jérôme Kircher
In 1865, Timothee, a wanderer, arrives in a village in southern France pretending he is deaf and mute. Read More »
Mission to Hell (1964) Gianfranco Parolini, Paul Hubschmid, Marianne Hold, Brad Harris
Some guys try to locate a evil guy’s secret diamond mine somewhere in Thailand. Read More »
Pour le Mérite (1938) Karl Ritter, Paul Hartmann, Herbert A.E. Böhme, Albert Hehn
This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force (“Luftwaffe”) from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. Read More »