1930s

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In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is pregnant and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko.Read More »

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Toyomi, a rich young woman is in love with Shintaro, a rich young man. Unfortunately, Shintaro’s father is in the process of arranging a marriage for him with Yurie, the scion of an even wealthier family. In order to avoid this, the two young lovers flee to Tokyo to live together.Read More »

Five poor musicians make up the worst traveling brass band in Japan. For a few days they hook up with an awful circus whose male performers are on strike.Read More »

Musical numbers highlight this story of a wealthy widow who disowns her daughter after a new man enters her life.Read More »

Jewish life in Poland before World War II. The Vladimir Medem Sanatorium stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty.Read More »

Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn’t commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.Read More »

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The film is characterised by atypical landscape shots, with views of nature being distorted without technical effects. Close-ups, details and overhead shots without a horizon create an impression of flatness. Flora and fauna are transformed into graphic elements through symmetrical reflections.

‘Fischfang in der Rhön’ is reminiscent of Ella Bergmann-Michel’s experimental landscape photographs on the one hand and her collages on the other, in which she layered coloured transparent papers on top of each other.Read More »

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians.Read More »

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Ella Bergmann-Michels’ second film, ‘Erwerbslose kochen für Erwerbslose’ (The Unemployed Cook for the Unemployed), was commissioned by the Frankfurt Association of Soup Kitchens, which had run out of funds to provide thousands of unemployed people with hot meals as the economic crisis worsened. The film was shown as a supporting feature in many Frankfurt cinemas and in street screenings at the Frankfurt Hauptwache.Read More »