World War One

Darling Lili is a 1970 American musical film.

Set during World War I, it centers on Lili Smith, a popular British music hall performer who is regarded as a femme fatale. She’s actually a German spy, and the uncle she dotes upon is really Col. Kurt Von Ruger, a fellow espionage agent and her contact for the Huns. In hopes of gaining valuable information, Lili begins using her feminine wiles on Maj. William Larrabee, a top American pilot. However, Lili soon discovers that she’s falling in love with Larrabee and can’t find the courage to betray him, and when Larrabee discovers Lili’s secret, he refuses to turn her in.Read More »

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During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing ;a young soldier ,Paul,takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to see his parents .His sergeant has given him one hour.He meets his mother in the church and learns that his fiancee does not live with her anymore.She’s working in a tavern for soldiers where the owner,Auguste ,woos her.The former love does not want to see Paul anymore because he never wrote to her since he left for war.In fact,it’s Paul mother who has concealed the messages:she has turned her out of the house because she does not want a girl in state custody to be her daughter-in-law .Auguste is jealous and wants the Gendarmes to arrest Paul as a deserter.After another bombing ,Auguste is buried beneath the ruins of his cafe.Paul gets on the moving train in the nick of time.Marie will wait for him.Read More »

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Die Rebellion (The Rebellion). 1993. Austria. Directed by Michael Haneke. With its silent-era aesthetic of sepia tones and muted color tints, and its interweaving of realism and fantasy, Haneke’s haunting adaptation of Joseph Roth’s expressionistic 1924 novel is an homage to the great Weimar cinema of G. W. Pabst and F. W. Murnau. In a heartbreaking performance, Branko Samarovski plays Andreas Pum, a soldier who loses his leg during the Great War and becomes an organ-grinder to earn a few coins a day. To this loyal citizen of the State, the veterans and firebrands who march in protest against society’s neglect are lazy, insubordinate “heathens.” But when an ugly tram incident condemns Pum to a life of penury and loneliness, his soul is awakened to the bitter waste of a life spent in duty to God and Empire. In German; 90 minRead More »

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Wooden Crosses (1932) – Hailed by the New York Times on its Paris release as “one of the great films in motion picture history,” Raymond Bernard’s Wooden Crosses, France’s answer to All Quiet on the Western Front, still stuns with its depiction of the travails of one French regiment during World War I. Using a masterful arsenal of film techniques, from haunting matte paintings to jarring documentary-like camerawork in the film’s battle sequences, Bernard created a pacifist work of enormous empathy and chilling despair. No one who has ever seen this technical and emotional powerhouse has been able to forget it.Read More »

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Wooden Crosses (1932) – Hailed by the New York Times on its Paris release as “one of the great films in motion picture history,” Raymond Bernard’s Wooden Crosses, France’s answer to All Quiet on the Western Front, still stuns with its depiction of the travails of one French regiment during World War I. Using a masterful arsenal of film techniques, from haunting matte paintings to jarring documentary-like camerawork in the film’s battle sequences, Bernard created a pacifist work of enormous empathy and chilling despair. No one who has ever seen this technical and emotional powerhouse has been able to forget it.Read More »

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Marquise Berthe de Brabant got married to a French nobleman just before the beginning of World War I. Her husband gets severely injured in an attack against the Germans and hands over the bouquet of Berthe to a German officer, before dying without revealing his name. In turn, the German soldier gets injured and is sent to a military hospital, where Berthe is taking care of war victims. Unexpectedly he tells her everything. Will Berthe take revenge, or will she fulfill her duty as a nurse? (EFG)Read More »

Adaptation of Tolstoi’s “The Devil”, featuring Krystyna Janda.

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This drama is an expressive portrayal of sexual obsession, which eventually breaks down the personality of a wise and hard-working man and leads to tragedy. The film is based on Leo Tolstoy’s short story “The Devil”. The plot is set in Greater Poland (Wielkopolska), just before the outbreak of World War I. The protagonist is a man who is troubled by his own feelings. The protagonist is a man torn by passions, full of energy and plans for the future. He wants to use the knowledge he gained during his studies in Switzerland for economic purposes. He is a patriot who promotes poetry, infecting others with patriotic feelings. Paweł is a model of a positivist. His meeting with Dorota triggers an avalanche of passion, shattering reason and logic and leading to a tragic finale.Read More »

Richard Girard is part of a New Orleans family working closely with the English Warburtons. When Richard meets Mary Warburton she is engaged to Erik von Gerardt. He does wed Mary but their time in America is financially difficult.Read More »

Returning from his imprisonment in Russia during the First World War, Franz Ferdinand Trotta, a young KuK officer, discovers how much the defeat has transformed Vienna and his people. He is stunned by the new order of things. Having lost his entire fortune and his wife, who is having a sapphic relationship with a Hungarian artist, he tries to regain his place in a world that appears devastated.Read More »