The commander of a failed 1928 Arctic airship expedition is remembering the events of the “Italia” airship flight, crash and subsequent rescue efforts. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mario Adorf
The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) Robert Siodmak, Claus Holm, Annemarie Düringer, Mario Adorf
A serial killer terrorizes Hamburg, Germany, during World War II. When the local police can’t seem to catch him, the SS is brought into the case. Read More »
A cavallo della tigre / On the Tigers Back (1961) Luigi Comencini, Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Valeria Moriconi, Comedy, Drama
This well-acted though conventional comedy-drama by director Luigi Comencini features comic Nino Manfredi Read More »
Io Ho Paura / I Am Afraid (1977) Damiano Damiani, Gian Maria Volontè, Erland Josephson, Mario Adorf, Crime, Drama, Thriller
During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who’s already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally upright judge. Read More »
La corta notte delle bambole di vetro / Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971) Aldo Lado, Ingrid Thulin, Jean Sorel, Mario Adorf, Horror, Mystery
Greg Moore, an American journalist visiting Prague with his girlfriend Mira is found dead. Read More »
Die Blechtrommel / The Tin Drum (1979) Volker Schlöndorff, David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Drama, War
Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on…
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