Synopsis
Sister Béatrix, a young novice, left the veil to follow a childhood friend, Count Jehan de Gormond.
A happy life awaits her upon the birth of a child. But the count abandons her for the beautiful Nilidor, and her child dies.
Desperate, she then leads a life of debauchery, and one day, aged and exhausted, she returns to the convent where the Virgin, by a marvelous miracle, has taken her place in her cell.Read More »
Holk, an unemployed mans wife is taken ill. He must find food for her. He goes out poaching on the manors hunting grounds, succeeds in shooting a grouse, but the shot is heard by the forester. During his flight Holk is caught by the forester. During their fight Holk’s rifle accidentally goes off and kills the forester. Terrified, Holk leaves the place leaving his rifle behind.Read More »
A story about a family torn apart by a worker’s strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.Read More »
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Countess von Würzen is of a certain age, but she still captivates the men she meets on her way. When her daughter Elsa announces her engagement to the young, handsome Leopold von Raven, the countess suddenly feels the years creeping up on her. So she cannot help herself when, at the engagement party, she finds Leopold suddenly leaning in towards her.
The film’s screenplay was written by Karin Michaëlis based on her own novel, published in 1910.Read More »
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Arnold Fanck’s Der Berg des Schicksals (Mountain of Destiny) from 1924, It was the first full-length feature film in the mountain film genre pioneered by Fanck, and marked lead actor Luis Trenker’s on-screen debut. The film was shot on original locations in Trenker’s homeland, the Dolomites, and premiered in 1924 at the UFA Pavilion on Nollendorfplatz in Berlin. Restored by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, with a new composition by Florian C. Reithner. The Metropolis Orchestra Berlin performed under the direction of Burkhard Götze, with composer Reithner himself playing the organ.Read More »
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“The film is set in Lodz, under Prussian rule, and abounds in strong topical moments against the background of life in the occupied city.” Other sources reported that the film’s plot was “set against the background of the occupation and destruction of Kalisz by the Germans in 1914. “.Read More »
Pegg, Eva, Baby and Emmy — four self-supporting female office workers — share a flat and try to make their way in the rapidly modernizing but still very patriarchal Stockholm of the early 1900s.Read More »
Set in Brussels, where Suzanne Beulemans, the daughter of a rich brewer is promised to marry Séraphin Meulemeester, the son of a rival brewer. The young man and his father both seem particularly motivated by the dowry of the young fiancée. But Séraphin has a rival in Albert Delpierre, a young Frenchman who is learning brewery from Ferdinand Beulemans and who is discreetly enamoured with the young woman. Albert learns Séraphin’s secret that he is having an affair with a worker and that they have had a child. He promises Séraphin that he will never reveal any of it to Suzanne, but she is told by Isabelle, her maid.Read More »
“The poor parish went to the priest Pankrat. This caused him constant grief. And Pankrat decides on a trick: he buys an old icon at the bazaar and buries it in the ground, and then spreads rumors about the prophetic dream of Domna’s aunt. In the presence of parishioners, the icon is removed from the ground. The icon is credited with healing properties. As a result, the influx of believers is sharply increasing at the expense of neighboring parishes. The income of Pankrat’s father is also growing. Concerned about this, a priest from a nearby church filed a complaint with his superiors. Having learned about the “miraculous” icon, the authorities take it for themselves.
The film has not been completely preserved.”
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