Using footage from filmmaker Maya Deren’s avant-garde films of the 1940s Read More »
Tag Archives: Germany
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 »
Tartuffe (1925) F.W. Murnau, Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, André Mattoni, Drama
Young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière’s Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man’s hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance. Read More »
The Look of Silence (2014) Joshua Oppenheimer, Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Documentary, Biography, History
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »
Freak Orlando (1981) Ulrike Ottinger, Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, Albert Heins, Comedy, Fantasy
In the form of a “small theater of the world”, a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors Read More »
Dirty Heroes (1967) Alberto De Martino, Frederick Stafford, Daniela Bianchi, John Ireland, Drama, War
Holland. Spring 1945. Two armies face each other in the final confrontation of World War II. Read More »
Mr. Kaplan (2014) Álvaro Brechner, Héctor Noguera, Néstor Guzzini, Rolf Becker, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
After fleeing Europe for Uruguay during WWII, Jacob Kaplan built a quiet life. Now 76, he begins to question his worth. Read More »
Two Undercover Angels (1969) Jesús Franco, Janine Reynaud, Rosanna Yanni, Chris Howland, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
“Red Lips” are just two female detectives seeking to discover missing models and amateurs. Read More »
The Ogre (1996) Volker Schlöndorff, John Malkovich, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gottfried John, Drama
Frenchman Abel Tiffauges loves kids, and would like to protect them against the grown-ups. Read More »
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950) Robert J. Flaherty, Fredric March, Documentary
The life and works of this excellent artist Michelangelo Buonarroti are displayed against the historical backdrop of the time. Read More »