Knut Hamsun is Norway’s most famous and respected writer. Ever since he was young he’s despised the English because of the starvation that they caused Norway through WWI. Read More »
Tag Archives: Germany
The Fight for Rome II (1969) Robert Siodmak, Andrew Marton, Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Adventure, Drama
Cethegus succeeds in beginning a war involving the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, as well as the Portuguese Empire Read More »
The Fight for Rome I (1968) Robert Siodmak, Andrew Marton, Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Adventure, Drama
A Roman noble, Cethegus, attempts to begin a war, putting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, contrary to the Byzantine Emperor Justinian Read More »
Knight Moves (1992) Carl Schenkel, Christopher Lambert, Tom Skerritt, Diane Lane, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A chess grandmaster is at a huge tournament, and if his lover has been found painted and the blood drained from her body he becomes a main suspect. Read More »
That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) Andrzej Zulawski, Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc, Drama, Romance
Servais Mont, a photographer, matches Nadine Chevalier who makes her cash starring in economical soft-core films. Read More »
The Bridesmaid (2004) Claude Chabrol, Benoît Magimel, Laura Smet, Aurore Clément, Thriller, Drama, Romance
A middle class household in Loire, in which matters look only a bit off kilter. Read More »
Hitlers Hollywood (2017) Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann, Zarah Leander, Documentary
Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed. Read More »
The Cannibals (1988) Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória, Musical, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. Read More »
Forbidden (1984) Anthony Page, Jacqueline Bisset, Jürgen Prochnow, Irene Worth, Drama, Romance, War
In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. Read More »
The Dragon of Evil Against the Warrior Saint (1969) Glauber Rocha, Maurício do Valle, Odete Lara, Othon Bastos, Action, Crime, Drama, Western
This movie is the sequel to “God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun” (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol), and takes place 29 years after Antonio das Mortes killed Corisco (the “Blond Devil”), last of the Cangaceiros. Read More »