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Pran and Gopal are traveling in the Indian countryside when their car breaks down. Near Satpur, they come across a village and rest there for a few days. While there, Gopal meets Neela, while Pran meets Reshma, and the couples fall in love with each other. Gopal, who fancies himself a Casanova of sorts, has no qualms whatsoever about leaving Neela and going out with other women; while Pran is unable to get Reshma out of his mind. The two leave, promising to return during the monsoon season. While in the city, Pran is unable to make up his mind about returning to Reshma, and Gopal prefers the company of two dancing girls, Lily and Ruby, not knowing that Reshma is shortly to be married to Bholu, while Neela, on the verge of killing herself, is anxiously awaiting Gopal's return.
Sie lebt in einem gl sernen Turm, umgeben von Reichtum und Luxus. Die ehemalige Schauspielerin Katja hat ihren Beruf aufgegeben und den Unternehmer Robert Fleming geheiratet, einen machtbesessenen Mann, der alles bekommt, was er will. Auch Katja geh rt nun zu seinem Besitz. Die K lte, die sie umgibt, macht sie einsam. Da begegnet sie dem Autor John Lawrence, der sie berreden will, wieder zu spielen. Er greift ihre Gedanken auf, macht ihr klar, dass sie ihr Leben in die eigene Hand nehmen muss. Sie willigt ein und beginnt sofort mit den Proben. Doch es ist nicht nur die neue Freiheit, die sie genie t, es ist die Liebe zu Lawrence, die sie gl cklich macht. Fleming aber ist nicht bereit, zu verzichten.
Injured by a Jewish child named Elijah, Brutus has his soldiers arrest him, and ignoring the father, Ezra's pleas, he has Elijah thrown to the lions. Ezra's servant, Emmanuel, breaks into Brutus' mansion and abducts his daughter, Lydia, and takes her to Ezra, so that he may kill her. But a grieving Ezra decides to adopt her and re-names her Hannah. Years later, the father and daughter are financially well off, but people continue to be oppressed by the Romans. Hannah comes to the assistance of Julius Caesar's heir, Marcus, due to an accident with his chariot, and he is smitten by her, despite of his forthcoming marriage to Octavia. Unable to get her out of his mind, he dons a Jewish guise, calls himself Moshe, and befriends her and Ezra. He turns all his affections on Hannah, much to Octavia's displeasure. Caesar wants him to wed, but Marcus refuses, and an enraged Caesar gives him time to reconsider. Hoping that Moshe will marry her, Hannah is shocked when she witnesses him refusing Holy offerings and confronts him. It is this confrontation that will involve Ezra, who, after some opposition, decides to permit him to marry Hannah - provided Marcus becomes a Jew.
THE SNOWBIRD (1916): John Wheeler gets himself into financial hot water and needs to prove that he is the half-owner of some land in Canada. But the only person with a copy of the deed is Jean Corteau, and Corteau has gone up to the property to claim all of it for himself.
REGENERATION (1915): At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. The Conways, who are next door neighbors, take Owen in, but the constant drinking by Jim soon puts Owen back on the street. By 17, Owen learns that might is right. By 25, Owen is the leader of his own gang which spends most of its time gambling and drinking. But Marie comes into the gangster area of town and everything changes for Owen as he falls for Marie.
TWO FILM DVD: THE ITALIAN (1915) + THE CHEAT (1915) . THE ITALIAN (1915): An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York. They are eventually reunited and marry. But life in New York is hard and tragedy tarnishes their dream of a better life in the new world.
THE CHEAT (1915): Edith Hardy uses charity funds for Wall Street investments in hopes of buying some new gowns. She loses all the money and borrows from wealthy Oriental, Tori. When her husband gives her the amount she borrowed, Tori won't take it back, branding her shoulder with a Japanese sign of his ownership. She shoots him. Her husband takes the blame. In court Edith reveals all to an angry mob.
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THE DIVINE COMEDY (1911): Dante is barred from climbing the Hill of Salvation by three beasts that block his path (Avarice, Pride, and Lust). Beatrice descends from above and asks the poet Virgil to guide Dante through the Ten Circles of Hell. Virgil leads Dante to a cave where they find the river Acheron, over which Charon ferries the souls of the dead into Hell. They also see the three-headed Cerberus and Geryon, a flying serpent with a man's face. They see the Devil eating human beings whole, harpies eating the corpses of suicides, an evil man forced to carry his own severed head for eternity, people half-buried in flaming lava, etc. There follows a series of encounters in which the two meet up with a number of formerly famous historical figures, whose souls were denied by both Heaven and Hell, and they listen to some of their tales told in flashback. These characters include Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucanus, Cleopatra, Dido, the traitor Caiphus, Count Ugolino, Peter of Vigna, Francesca Da Rimini and her lover Paulo, Brutus and Cassius, Mohammed, and Helen of Troy. The film's main attraction is the fantastic set designs depicting the horrors of Hell, with excessive violence and gore, designed to frighten the audience into becoming pious or God-fearing.
THE DIVINE COMEDY (1911) (COLORIZED): Colorized version of the first film.
RICHARD III (1911): Although several others are ahead of him in the line of succession, Richard of Gloucester is determined to gain the throne. Through deceit, manipulation, and murder, he becomes King Richard III of England. But once he becomes king, he soon finds out that the many enemies he has made will make it very difficult for him to remain on the throne for long.
HASSAN WA HASSAN (1945): Hassan is a taxi driver. He has a cousin whose name is also Hassan; but that Hassan is simply a con man. Hassan "The Con" marries his cousin, Hassan the driver's sister. He then finds an opportunity to blackmail taxi-driver Hassan and urges him to invest his money in a phony company. They travel to Alexandria, where they meet beautiful Houria, and both promptly fall in love with her.
MAN AL GANI (1944): Wealthy Mansour Pasha bequeaths all his wealth to his two sons, evil Omar and kind-hearted Othman Bey. Othman Bey and his son drown and both die, leaving his wife, Faika Hanem, and his daughter without a source of income. Faika Hanem is forced to buy a child, in order to keep her share of the inheritance with her daughter. When the child grows up, he befriends Omar's son, Rashad, and takes the path of corruption. Faika Hanem resorts to threatening him, by reminding him of his origins and depriving him of the inheritance, which prompts him to threaten to kill her, and the unexpected happens.
Catina Minola is one of the two daughters of the tailor Battista. As much as her sister Bianca, engaged to Luciano, is meek and submissive, she is rebellious and hostile to any man. Battista receives a letter in which Petruccio Belli, who as a young man had left years before for America where he made his fortune, informs him that he wants to return and asks Catina to marry him. But Catina has no intention of marrying someone she doesn't know and with the excuse of a bad fall she skips the party that Battista is giving in Petruccio's honor.
UN DIA CON EL DIABLO (1945) * with switchable English subtitles * Two thugs murder a man as he leaves a club. To escape the police, the man who pulled the trigger must enlist in the Army. Shortly after, war is declared, and unable to bear it any longer, the thug finds a newspaper boy drunk, beats him up, and dresses him in his military uniform. The police find the newspaper boy unconscious and, mistaking him for a defector, force him back into the army.
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Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school. His first night, he sees Yano in action, a master of judo, and begs to be Yano's student. As the youth learns technique, he must also learn "satori," the calm acceptance of Nature's law. If he can balance strength and control, then judo may lead to him joining the city's police. Sanshiro can also gain respect from an old teacher in a jujitsu school, and he can win the hand of Sayo, his daughter, who is also sought by jujitsu's finest master, the implacable Higaki, who vows to kill Sanshiro in a midnight fight on a windswept mountainside.
IN OLD ARIZONA (1928): In Arizona, a bandit known as the Cisco Kid robs a stagecoach. Word of this deed reaches Sergeant Micky Dunn, who is tasked by his superior to bring in Cisco Kid dead or alive, with a $5,000 reward promised once he succeeds. They meet in a barber shop, though Dunn is unaware of the Cisco Kid's true identity and passes him off as a friendly civilian. When he leaves, the local blacksmith tells him that was the Cisco Kid, much to Dunn's chagrin.
ACROSS TO SINGAPORE (1928): It's the mid-nineteenth century. The neighboring Shore and Crowninshield families of the American east coast have a long tradition of seafaring. Of Jeremiah Shore's four sons, the only one not at sea is the youngest, Joel Shore, solely because of his age. Joel has had a long friendship with the Crowninshield's daughter, Priscilla Crowninshield, now on the brink of romantic love as they become of age. Joel hopes that when his eldest brother, Mark Shore, captain of the Nathan Ross, returns home from his latest voyage, he will allow Joel to sail with him. Although Mark still sees Joel as the "youngin'" of the family, Joel, through slightly underhanded means, is able to convince Mark that he is man enough to become a sailor.
Saladin, ruler of the kingdoms surrounding the Latin state of Jerusalem, is brought to attack the Christians in the Holy Land by the sacking of a convoy of Muslim pilgrims, a group which included his sister. In a short campaign against all odds, Jerusalem is taken and almost the entire Middle East is in Muslim hands. Crusade is called again in Europe, and the combined forces of the French king, German emperor, and English king form the 3rd Crusade, under the leadership of Richard the Lionheart of England. Although Acre is taken by the Crusaders, Saladin succeeds in preventing the recapture of Jerusalem, and in the end negotiations between himself and Richard (who Saladin admires as the only honorable leader) leave the Holy Land in Moslem hands.
It is the 1790s, and the French Revolution has swept away France's aristocracy. But not all of them: Alaine de l'Estelle and her lady-in-waiting Leontine are trying to escape from Paris. Alaine's fiancee, Ernest de Tresailles, is waiting for her near the castle of Trionville. The lady and her maid receive unexpected help from Marc Aron, a lieutenant colonel in the new revolutionary army. The officer leads a troop of Jacobins who occupy Trionville. His help, however, will come with an unacceptable price.
THIS WAS MY FATHER S CRIME (Haza Ganahu Abi) (1945) A big lawyer is involved with a girl demanding marriage, but he refuses because his social status does not allow him to be associated with her. The girl has a child, calls her Samiha, and then dies before the girl grows up to know who her father is.
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CUMBRES BORRASCOSAS (1939): The story of unfortunate lovers Cathy and Heathcliff who, despite a deep affection for one another, are forced by circumstance and prejudice to live their lives apart. Heathcliff and Cathy first meet as children when her father, Mr. Earnshaw brings the abandoned boy to live with them. When the old man dies several years later, Cathy's brother, Hindley, now the master of the estate, turns Heathcliff out, forcing him to live with the servants and working as a stable boy. The barrier of class comes between them, and she eventually marries a rich neighbor, Edgar Linton, at which point, Heathcliff disappears. He returns several years later, now a rich man, but little can be done.
BALAS DE PAPEL (1941): Afterseeking revenge for her boyfriend, a woman finds herself in jail on a hit-and-run charge.
AELITA - THE QUEEN OF MARS (1924): A mysterious radio message is beamed around the world, and among the engineers who receive it are Los, the hero, and his colleague Spiridonov. Los is an individualist dreamer. Aelita is the daughter of Tuskub, the ruler of a totalitarian state on Mars in which the working class are put into cold storage when they are not needed. With a telescope, Aelita is able to watch Los. As if by telepathy, Los obsesses about being watched by her. After some hugger-mugger involving the murder of his wife and a pursuing detective, Los takes the identity of Spiridonov and builds a spaceship. With the revolutionary Gusev, he travels to Mars, but the Earthlings and Aelita are thrown into prison by the dictator. Gusev and Los begin a proletarian uprising, and Aelita offers to lead the revolution, but she then establishes her own totalitarian regime. Los is shocked by this development and attempts to stop Aelita, and then reality and fantasy become confused, and Los discovers what has really happened.
A MESSAGE FROM MARS (1913): Horace Parker is an exceedingly self-centered, wealthy man. Not only is he a miser, but he also expects everyone else to conduct their lives according to his personal convenience. Parker is engaged to Minnie Templer, but Minnie has discovered Parker's selfishness and she is on the brink of calling off the engagement. On Christmas Eve, however, a messenger from Mars comes to Earth to show Parker the error of his ways. The two of them become invisible and eavesdrop on all the terrible and true things Parker's friends and family are saying about him.
BLOOD AND SAND (1922): Juan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother's wishes he pursues a career as toreador. He rapidly gains national prominence, and takes his childhood sweetheart Carmen as his bride. He meets the Marquis' daughter Dona Sol, and finds himself in the awkward position of being in love with two women, which threatens the stability of his family and his position in society. He finds interesting parallels in the life of the infamous bandit Plumitas when they eventually meet by chance.
A WOMAN OF PARIS (1923): Believing that she has been jilted by her artist fiance' Jean when he fails to meet her at the railway station, Marie St. Clair goes off to Paris alone. A year later, mistress of wealthy Pierre Revel, she meets Jean again. Misinterpreting events, she bounces back and forth between apparent security and true love.
Careless Fritzi, the wife of a much older professor, has secretly been meeting with the unmarried Baron von Burghammer. Fritzi's husband finds out about the affair. Leoni, Fritzi's sister, pretends to be Burghammer's lover to spare her sister. Burghammer then falls head over heels for the brave woman. Nostalgic romance film.
Die leichtsinnige Fritzi, Frau eines viel lteren Professors, verabredet sich heimlich mit dem unverheirateten Baron von Burghammer. Fritzis Mann erf hrt von der Aff re. Doch Leoni, Fritzis Schwester, gibt sich kurzerhand als Burghammers Geliebte aus. Dieser verliebt sich Hals ber Kopf in die mutige Frau. - Nostalgisches Liebesdrama. .
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DER REBELL (1932) * with or without switchable English subtitles * Adventure film with Luis Trenker as a freedom fighter, who battles the Bavarian-French occupation of South Tyrol at the beginning of the 19th Century. When the student Severin Anderlan returns to his home in South Tyrol, he learns that invading French soldiers have murdered his mother and sister and set the family farm on fire. Outraged, Severin shoots two soldiers and flees from his pursuers into the mountains.
Abenteuerfilm mit Luis Trenker als Freiheitsk mpfer, der sich zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts gegen die bayrisch-franz sische Besatzung S dtirols auflehnt. Als der Student Severin Anderlan in seine Heimat S dtirol zur ckkehrt, muss er erfahren, dass franz sische Soldaten, die in sein Heimatdorf eingefallen waren, seine Mutter und Schwester get tet und den Hof der Familie niedergebrannt haben. Au er sich vor Wut erschie t Severin zwei Soldaten und flieht daraufhin vor seinen Verfolgern in die Berge. .
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SONG OF VIRGINS (1973): A young man travels in a carriage and stops to rest in a remote castle. The castle is considered by locals to be haunted. The coachman doesn't want to carry on, so the man continues his journey by foot. A young boy passing by tells Ivan about the castle, but the next minute, the carriage kills him. Sibylle, a beautiful but strange woman, comes out of the carriage and helps the man to carry the child into the castle. Upon his arrival, strange music can be heard coming from an unknown place. The young man and Sibylle fall in love with each other, but the mystery of the music is yet to be solved.
OCTOBER MOTH (1960): A violent, mentally unbalanced man in a remote farm imagines an accident victim is his long dead mother, and his sister tries to get help for the unconscious woman without her brother's knowledge.
The seamy Jewish underworld of Odessa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik ("Mike the Jap") Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya Krik and his gang. They profit from their criminal activities until the Russian Revolution, when the local commissar sets them up as a "revolutionary" regiment, complete with tattooed Red stars. Complete with gritty details of life in Jewish Odessa, it is not only a fascinating look into a past, the remnants of which can still be seen in the city today, but a rather disturbing one, at times. Had the Germans shown this film in their movie houses instead of Der Ewige Jude to demonstrate the dangers of Ostjuden and Bolshevism, Bennie the Howl would probably had been just as effective as a propaganda piece! The stereotypical Jewish looks, the offensive behaviors, the poverty, and the slickness and sly overtones assigned to many of the characters would make any assimilating, westernized Jew squirm uncomfortably.
THE WINGS OF A SERF (1926): In the latter half of the 16th Century, during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, a jack-of-all-trades, Nikita, who is the serf of the nobleman Kurlyatev, makes a pair of wings, by which he is able to fly. Unfortunately, he is captured by the Oprichnina for alleged pact dealing with Satan. He is shackled and sent off to their dungeons. However, from time to time, he's remembered as a man whose crafts amazed everyone and is frequently invited to the Tsar's court to fix broken machinery and amuse the boyars. Afterwards, however, he is always sent back to prison.
FOREST STORY (1926): It is 1920, and Poland's forces have invaded Belarus to take advantage of the civil war in Russia to expand and establish the kresy's borders. In the story, they are encamped on the estate of Drabowski, a member of the landed gentry. Under the command of Colonel Yazstremski, the troops are ordered to arrest all suspicious looking characters. In the field, the old shepherd, Grishki, calls on his 20-something year old son, Grishka, to help conduct the Bolshevik, Stepan, to the blacksmith, Andrei. Stepan hopes to organize local resistance to harass the Poles while waiting for an attack by Red Army forces. The movie --- though far from being in good condition and missing parts of it --- is nonetheless of great interest to those interested in the history and culture of the region not only for covering a topic rarely seen on the screen, but for providing shots of Minsk, which, thanks to German racial and economic policies, and the battles to reclaim the city in 1944, are forever lost to the world.
THE BROKEN BUTTERFLY (1919): While strolling through the forests of Canada, Marc ne Elliot, a naive young woman, meets Daniel Thorn, a composer looking for inspiration. They are fascinated by each other and she abandons herself into his arms. Daniel then writes a symphony and calls it Marc ne after her. He then asks her to accompany him to "the old continent" for the first time, but she refuses, fearing the anger of her Aunt Julie Elliot. Marc ne gives birth to a little girl and then her aunt rejects her.
BROKEN BLOSSOMS (1919): The spiritual and peace-loving Chen resides in London's Limehouse district, where he teaches and promotes peaceful Buddhist concepts. He is attracted to the beleaguered Lucy Burrows, whose prizefighter father beats her persistently. When Chen rescues Lucy from one of her father's attacks, the boxer sets out to avenge himself on the foreigner.
BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY (1919): After her father is killed by an outlaw, Dolores marries Peter. While they're at sea in the Arctic, Dolores meets the ship's captain, the man who killed her father. The captain causes an 'accident' to happen to Peter, so Dolores is all alone and defenseless as they drop anchor in a remote harbor.
BLIND HUSBANDS (1919): An Austrian military officer and roue' attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surprisingly.
THE STOLEN PLAY (1917): Sylvia Smalley is the secretary of Charles Edmay, a distinguished, blind playwright. Leroux, a producer, is eager to buy the play that Edmay has just completed; but the playwright is reluctant to sell. Leroux sends Alice Morgan to steal the script, while he abducts Edmay and Sylvia. While Edmay is detained in the wine cellar, Leroux exercises his hypnotic powers over Sylvia, extracting a dictation of the entire play from her. Discovering that in a hypnotic state Sylvia has great dramatic powers, Leroux successfully casts her in the play's lead.
SHOES (1916): Eva Meyer works in a five-and-dime store for $5 a week. At home, her mother takes in washing to help support three smaller children and a lazy, beer-drinking, novel-reading, good-for-nothing husband and father. For months, Eva has needed a pair of shoes. As the weeks pass, the necessity for shoes increases, until finally heavy rains set in and rot what little there is left of her bedraggled and worthless shoes. Eva brings her unopened pay envelope home to her mother every Saturday night; each time she's promised that "next week" she should have enough money for shoes. She has set her heart upon a pair that are displayed in a shop window she passes going to and from her work, but each week there is a new and valid reason for postponement: the rent must be paid; the merchants will no longer trust them for food; the worthless father is still out of work. All this time she sees the money she has earned go for beer, dime novels, and food to satisfy her shiftless father's desires. Finally, one Saturday night, she demands that he provide her with a pair of shoes. Her only solace is the retort from the man, who is her natural protector and supporter, that he needs shoes for himself.
DER HUND VON BASKERVILLE (1914): The scheming Stapleton covets the Baskervilles estate and seeks the life of its new heir, Sir Henry. A hound is seen ferociously licking the face of his first victim. When Sir Henry writes to Sherlock Holmes to ask his help in solving the mysterious goings on, Stapleton tries to hide behind the small mailbox and grab the letter when the loyal butler Barrymore comes to mail it.
FURCHT (1917): Count Greven returns to his old castle after spending several years touring the world. The servants note how the count has changed: he is now withdrawn and fearful. He orders that the doors to the castle be kept locked and no one admitted. When he is left alone in his room, Greven opens a chest he brought from his travels, inside it, there is a strange statue that he adds to his vast collection of rare works of art. Several days pass and a worried servant informs the town's minister about his master's melancholia.
Lena, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust, returns to Krakow only to encounter a continuation of the prewar prejudice, violence, and hatred against Jews, but now, in a postwar Poland being torn apart in an unofficial "civil war". Searching for her sister, a former partisan in the Sokolow region, she encounters orphans at Krakow's Jewish community center who are malnourished and left to their impending, terrible fate. Lena must confront a nation disinterested in the survival of its formerly large minority, and a religous community overwhelmed with providing for the remnants, for which they have almost no aid and no real rights in reborn Poland. Against all chances of success in saving them, Lena "adopts" the children and prepares them for their new lives.
Young William Tenson MacPhab s stock portfolio has crashed like the housing market in 21st Century Nevada and he s lost a whole Seven Pounds (now valued at about $ 11). And like many an investor, who left his investment decisions in the hands of others, Tenson holds Astor Terbanks, a steel magnate, responsible for Tenson s stupid investment decisions. Through a trick, he manages to get an appointment with the steel magnate, but when the latter hears he s only lost Seven Pounds, he has his stupid ass thrown out. Now Tenson is bent on revenge. Apparently having nothing to do with his life and suffering from some psychological problems as well as being stupid, he takes an ad out in the paper (costing another four Pounds) threatening to give the old steel king seven slaps in the coming week to teach him a lesson in respect (thank God he didn t lose twenty-one Pounds, huh?). Terbank s daughter Daisy is horrified by this threat from the loon and does everything to protect her father (except call the police). It s all in vain: Her father gets slapped every day, and every day, it makes headlines. Moral of the story: when lunatics threaten you, because they lose pennies investing in your stock, sometimes, it s best to buy them a Happy Meal and make them happy while they re waiting for their medication to arrive in the mail.
Ein Kursverfall seiner Aktien ruiniert den jungen William Tenson MacPhab: Sein gesamtes Verm gen von sage und schreibe sieben Pfund hat er verloren! Tensons Meinung nach ist der Stahlmagnat Astor Terbanks f r das Ungl ck verantwortlich. Durch einen Trick verschafft er sich einen Termin bei dem Unternehmer, doch als Terbanks h rt, dass Tensons gerade mal sieben Pfund verloren hat, l sst er den armen Tropf hinauswerfen. Jetzt sinnt Tenson auf Rache: Am n chsten Tag ist in der Zeitung zu lesen, Tenson wolle dem alten Herrn im Lauf der kommenden Woche sieben Ohrfeigen verpassen, auf dass er ein wenig mehr Respekt vor der Zahl Sieben bekommt. Terbanks Tochter Daisy ist entsetzt ber diese Drohung, sie tut alles, um ihren Vater zu sch tzen vergeblich. T glich bekommt ihr Vater eine Backpfeife von dem gewitzten Tenson, und t glich macht die Presse eine Schlagzeile daraus.
Warsaw, 1831: The young music student Friedrich Chopin is in love with the singer Constantia. When his professor discovers, that Polish revolutionaries wish to embroil Chopin in their plots to rise up against their occupiers, he and Constantia work out a plan to keep Chopin far away from the revolution: Constantia pretends that she doesn't leave Friedrich anymore, so that he'll accept an offer to perform a concert in Paris. While there, however, he gets to know the famous author George Sand and falls in love with her.
Warschau 1831: Der junge Musikstudent Friedrich Chopin liebt die S ngerin Constantia. Als sein Professor erf hrt, dass polnische Revolution re Chopin dazu bewegen wollen, an ihrem Aufstand teilzunehmen, heckt er gemeinsam mit Constantia einen Plan aus, Chopin von der Revolution fernzuhalten: Constantia spielt ihm vor, ihn nicht mehr zu lieben, sodass Chopin ein Angebot annimmt, zu einem Konzert nach Paris zu fahren. Dort allerdings lernt er die ber hmte Schriftstellerin George Sand kennen und verliebt sich in sie.
A stranger who calls himself K ri comes to a farm in the north country. He is hired as a laborer, and the widowed farm owner Halla becomes infatuated with him. The local bailiff, who wants to marry Halla, becomes jealous of K ri. Another man tells the bailiff that K ri is in fact a thief and fugitive named Eyvind. K ri at first denies being Eyvind and then defeats the bailiff in a wrestling contest as a measure of his sincerity. However, when Halla proposes marriage, he confesses the truth of what happened in his earlier impoverished life as Eyvind. A tragic masterpiece which shows all too painfully the price social renegades have to pay for not playing by the puritanical rules imposed by society. In the end, while love may persevere, it does not mean it always comes with a happy ending.
The Bavarian king's adjutant disguises himself and represents his drunken sovereign in a discreet tryst with a beautiful, widowed countess. After the usual confusion and complications to be found in such romantic comedies, it will be this same adjutant who will win the countess' hand and heart for himself.
Der Adjutant eines bayrischen K nigs vertritt maskiert seinen betrunkenen Souver n bei einem diskreten Sch ferst ndchen mit einer sch nen, verwitweten Gr fin und kann nach einigen Verwirrungen und Verwicklungen deren Herz und Hand f r sich gewinnen.
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. Carmela arrives from a village to work in the house of the hypocritical and ambiguous notary Don Domenico and is seduced by him. The girl runs away from the house and falls into the clutches of a hag who, flattering her with promises, wants to sell her beauty. A young man, Salvatore the Black, who works in the sulphur mines, takes her from the shameful house and forces the notary to repair the wrong done by marrying her. The girl spends the various events as if in a state of daze. On the wedding day, she faints before entering a church and becomes seriously ill.
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Magdalena Percht, daughter of a mayor, returns to her hometown in the mountains as a teacher. To avenge a lashing, Andreas, a rich sawmill owner, but a pugnacious good-for-nothing, rapes her. When it turns out she's pregnant with his child, her hardhearted and bigoted mother rejects her. She thus decides to kill herself.
UND EWIG KNALLEN DIE RAUBER (1962): Tailor Tschinderle is constantly mocked because of his profession. To prove that he can be a tough guy, he goes into the woods and becomes a robber chief. But no matter how hard he tries to spread fear and terror, he becomes a "good robber", a second Robin Hood. Schneider Tschinderle wird wegen seines Berufes st ndig verspottet. Um zu beweisen, dass er ein harter Kerl sein kann, geht er in die W lder und wird R uberhauptmann. Doch so sehr er sich auch bem ht, Angst und Schrecken zu verbreiten, wird er als zweiter Robin Hood ein "guter R uber".
JETZT SCHLAGT'S 13 (1950): Newly-married, successful author Dr. Mario Jaconis and his wife Hedy live in the secluded villa, "Haus Sonnenschein". Dr. Jaconis' loyal servant Max, a confidant during the author's previous "love research", is a thorn in the young bride's side. After heated marital disputes, she forces him to be fired. But the misunderstandings only begin with the arrival of his successor.
Frisch verheiratet bewohnen der erfolgreiche Schriftsteller Dr. Mario Jaconis und seine Frau Hedy die abgeschiedene Villa "Haus Sonnenschein". Dr. Jaconis' treuer Diener Max, Vertrauter bei fr heren "Liebesrecherchen" des Autors, ist der jungen Braut ein Dorn im Auge. Nach heftigen ehelichen Auseinandersetzungen setzt sie dessen Entlassung durch. Doch mit der Ankunft seines Nachfolgers beginnen erst die Missverst ndnisse.
Operetta about a French waitress, German style, who works at a inn singing to the customers. A lot of people know her. The waitress' boyfriend is in the army and has come back from war and expects her to sleep with him. Little does she know that he's a marquis and has a girlfriend. The waitress, however, wants to marry him.
Unter den galanten Adeligen am Hofe Ludwigs XIV. gilt die bezaubernde S ngerin Nanon als "uneinnehmbare Festung". Hector, ein junger Charmeur, will sie nun bezwingen, doch auch der Marquis Charles d′Aubign hat sich vorgenommen, mit einem Trick als erster Mann Nanons Lippen zu k ssen. Er gibt sich als einfacher Tambour aus, um nicht ihr Misstrauen zu wecken, und gewinnt tats chlich ihr Herz.
The sculptor Peter Brake, an early supporter of the National Socialists, is an enemy of modern art, which he considers decedent. To set an example, he sculpts a statue of Venus in the style of the Greek antiquity and buries it in a forest. When it's dug up in 1930, it's considered to be a 2 000 year old, antique statue. Peter tells the court, that he is the creator of the statue, but no one believes him and he is threatened with a charge of perjury.
Der Bildhauer Peter Brake, ein fr her Anh nger des Nationalsozialismus, ist ein Gegner der modernen Kunst, die er f r entartet h lt. Um ein Zeichen zu setzen, schafft er eine Venus-Statue im Stil der griechischen Antike und vergr bt sie im Wald. Als sie im Jahr 1930 ausgegraben wird, h lt man sie f r eine zweitausend Jahre alte, antike Statue. Peter erkl rt vor Gericht, dass er der Sch pfer der Statue sei, aber man glaubt ihm nicht und will ihn des Meineids berf hren.
Prussia, during the War of Liberation from 1813 to 1815. Count Schranden, who is pro-Napoleon, forces his servant Regina to guide French troops over "The Catwalk", so they can attack the Prussian Freikorps in the rear. His son Werner turns away from him and only returns to his homeland years later, after the death of his father. His loyalty to Regina causes the populace to turn against him. He breaks his engagement with Helene, the pastor's daughter and more and more becomes an outsider. Preu en, w hrend der Befreiungskriege 1813 1815. Der Napoleon-freundliche Graf Schranden zwingt seine Dienstmagd Regine, die franz sischen Truppen ber den Katzensteg in den R cken des preu ischen Freikorps zu f hren. Sein Sohn Werner wendet sich von ihm ab und kehrt erst Jahre sp ter, nach dem Tod des Vaters, in die Heimat zur ck. Mit seinem Eintreten f r Regine bringt er die Bev lkerung gegen sich auf, seine Verlobung mit der Pfarrerstocher Helene zerbricht, auch Werner wird mehr und mehr zum Au enseiter.
Tony's mother has big plans for the boy: when he's mature enough, he's to take over the running of the family-owned watermill. Tony, however, has another career path in mind: he wants to become a singer. He already croons in his hometown, which brings him no money, but does win points with pretty Elsie. It takes a while, but mom finally realizes that her son is serious about throwing his life away, so she gives him her blessings. Now Tony decides to try his luck on the stage with his friend Eddy, who writes the lyrics to the duo's songs. The girls aren't rushing to see him perform, but, luckily, his landlady has found a job for him ... as a stage hand. Attempting to save face, the two boys lie to their families, telling them they've become successful performers. But when Tony's mom shows up with hopes of seeing him on the stage, the bratwurst hits the fan!
Der junge Toni, dessen Mutter ihn zur bernahme der familieneigenen Wasserm hle berreden will, hat anderes im Sinn: Er will S nger werden. Immerhin tritt er schon in seinem Heimatdorf im Altm hltal auf, was ihm zwar kein Geld einbringt, daf r aber die Zuneigung der h bschen Elsie. Als Tonis Mutter schlie lich erkennt, dass ihr Sohn es ernst meint mit seinem Berufswunsch, gibt sie ihm ihren Segen. Gemeinsam mit seinem Freund Edi, der ihm auch die Liedtexte schreibt, will Toni sein Gl ck am Theater versuchen. Der Erfolg l sst jedoch auf sich warten, aber Tonis Hauswirtin verschafft ihnen einen Job am Theater - als B hnenarbeiter. Ihren Familien dagegen spielen Edi und Toni vor, sie seien erfolgreiche Musiker geworden. Als Tonis Mutter in die Stadt kommt, um ihren Sohn einmal auf der B hne zu erleben, fliegt der ganze Schwindel auf.
Up until his tenth birthday, Emmerich Kalman led a troublefree life on his father's estate on Lake Balaton. Then his father lost the family fortune and dropped dead. Emmerich's mother moved the family to Budapest, where she took in sewing work to support the family. Emmerich entered a conservatory to study music and earned his tuition by plaing the piano in a nightclub. It was there that he met the tenor Janos Hegedush, who, along with the librettist Laszlo Szegedy, became a lifelong friend of Emmerich's. Janos and Szegedy went with Emmeric to Vienna, where he became a much celebrated composer. This came after an initial setback, but after writing the music for Zigeunerprima, his music became known far beyond the borders of Austria and Hungary. Janos remains loyal to Emmerich when the latter's great love deserts him; but both men will eventually find happiness in love.
Auf dem Gut seines Vaters am Plattensee verlebt der junge Emmerich K lm n bis zu seinem zehnten Lebensjahr eine unbeschwerte Jugend. Dann verliert der Vater sein Verm gen, und nach dessen Tod muss die Mutter die Familie in Budapest mit N harbeiten durchbringen. Sein Musikstudium am Konservatorium verdient sich Emmerich mit Klavierspielen in einem Nachtlokal. Hier macht er auch die Bekanntschaft von Tenor Janos Heged sh, der wie der Librettist Laszlo Szegedy zu einem Freund f rs Leben wird. Janos und Szegedy folgen K lm n auch nach Wien, wo der Komponist seine gr ten Triumphe feiert, nachdem ihn, nach einem ersten R ckschlag, seine Melodien mit dem Erfolg des "Zigeunerprimas" weit ber die Grenzen Ungarns hinaus bekannt gemacht haben. Janos steht K lm n auch treu zur Seite, als ihn seine Jugendliebe, Helene von Tabory, endg ltig verl sst. Doch nach ihren rauschenden B hnen-erfolgen finden schlie lich beide M nner auch Gl ck in der Liebe.
Monica Lohmeyer is a gardener who has dedicated her entire being to the rose-growing business her father left her. Unfortunately, dedication doesn't pay the bills and she's close to bankrupt. She's gotten an offer from gas station owner Zapke to buy the property. She'd rather slit her own throat first. So the gas station owner, not content with destroying the Earth with fossil-fuels, sends a gigolo wannabe architect to flirt with the girl and convince her to sell. Unfortunately, Fred (the gigolo) falls in love instead. A triumph for traffic-blocking climate activists everywhere!
Die junge G rtnerin Monika Lohmeyer h ngt mit ganzem Herzen an der von ihrem Vater geerbten Rosenz chtung. Obwohl sie kurz vor der Pleite steht, will sie das Grundst ck keinesfalls an den Tankstellenbesitzer Zapke verkaufen. Nach vergeblichen berredungsk nsten schickt dieser den jungen Architekten Fred u Monika. Ein vorget uschter Flirt soll sie umstimmen. Doch Fred verliebt sich in die junge Rosenz chterin.
DER SCHONSTE TAG MEINES LEBENS (1957) . In 1956 Hungary, revolution breaks out against the country's communist regime. Toni arrives in Vienna with other Hungarian refugees fleeing Soviet tanks. A retired river boat captain takes him under his wing. The boy has an incredible voice and ends up singing in the Vienna Boys' Choir.
1956 kommt der kleine Toni mit einer Gruppe ungarischer Fl chtlinge nach Wien. Ein pensionierter Donaukapit n nimmt ihn unter seine Fittiche. Toni hat ein glockenhelles Stimmchen und schafft den Sprung in die Reihen der Wiener S ngerknaben.
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In the 1950s, it was highly unusual to find a lady-mayor anywhere in Germany. Dr. Fanny Becker, however, is an experienced attorney and it was for that reason that she was elected to the office in Rosenburg. After taking up the post, however, she's quickly faced with a very controversial matter, namely, a castle which the town has inherited. The opposition wants to sell off the building to an industrial firm and see a profit out of it; but Fanny and her supporters are intent on turning the edifice into a venue for a music festival.
Eine Frau als B rgermeisterin ist schon recht ungew hnlich im Deutschland der 1950er Jahre: Aber Dr. Fanny Becker ist eine kommunalpolitisch erfahrene Juristin, weshalb sie zur Oberb rgermeisterin von Rosenburg gew hlt wird. Direkt nach Amtsantritt hat sie sich mit einer u erst umstrittenen Angelegenheit zu befassen, n mlich einem Schloss, das die Stadt erbte. Die Opposition will das Bauwerk gewinnbringend an ein Industrieunternehmen verkaufen, Fanny und ihre Partei hingegen m chten das Gem uer als Schauplatz f r Musikfestspiele herrichten lassen.
Nine-year old Claudia witnesses her mother being strangled to death. While the police are looking for the murderer who used a silk scarf to carry out the deed, Claudia, too, is in great danger. You see, the killer wants no witnesses to the murder and will do everything he can to find and eliminate the little witness.
Die neunj hrige Claudia muss mit ansehen, wie ihre Mutter erdrosselt wird. W hrend die Polizei den M rder mit dem Seidenschal jagt, ist auch Claudia in gro er Gefahr. Denn der Verbrecher will die kleine Zeugin um jeden Preis beseitigen.
Lawyer Maria Rohn has taken over a tricky case: truckdriver Martin Siebeck ran over a man. Siebeck, however, claims he didn't do it and says the dead man threw himself in front of his truck while it was driving at full speed. The police don't believe him, of course, but Maria decides to fight for her client. And the more intensively she digs into the case, the more complicated it seems. In fact, it's starting to look like a staged crime. It gets even worse when all the clues start suggesting her husband Gunther is somehow involved in the whole thing.
Die Anw ltin Maria Rohn bernimmt einen verzwickten Fall: Der Fernfahrer Martin Siebeck soll einen Mann berfahren haben. Siebeck bestreitet jedoch die Tat und beteuert, dass der Get tete bei voller Fahrt vor seinen LKW geworfen wurde. Auch wenn ihm die Polizei keinen Glauben schenkt, setzt sich Maria f r ihren Klienten ein und je intensiver sich die Anw ltin mit dem Fall besch ftigt, umso kompletter wird das Bild eines perfide geplanten Verbrechens. Doch die Spur f hrt auch zu ihrem Mann G nther, der in den Vorfall verwickelt zu sein scheint.
The Luisin Works is divided not only by a river, but also by the zone boundaries. CEO H gler still lives in the West; the eastern part of the factory has been expropriated and is managed by chief engineer Dr. Tellen. He is working on a new steel production process that H gler absolutely needs. H gler s means to achieve his goal are bribery, espionage and slander. Trade union member Maria Steinitz almost becomes a victim of slander. However, the intrigue is exposed and Hogler s criminal intentions are thwarted. At a large production meeting, the old people s controller Hufland exposes the true culprits.
Die Luisenh tte ist nicht nur durch einen Fluss geteilt, sondern auch durch die Zonengrenze. Im Westen residiert noch der alte Generaldirektor H gler, der Ostteil ist enteignet und wird vom Chefingenieur Dr. Thelen geleitet. Er arbeitet an einem neuen Verfahren der Stahlherstellung, das H gler unbedingt haben will. Seine Mittel sind Bestechung, Spionage und Verleumdung. Letzterem f llt die Gewerkschaftsfunktion rin Maria Steinitz beinahe zum Opfer. Die Intrige wird aber aufgedeckt und die kriminelle Absicht H glers vereitelt. Auf einer gro en Produktionsversammlung entlarvt der alte Volkskontrolleur Hufland die wahren Schuldigen.
Marianne inherits a motorized barge from her parents called "Eintracht" and goes to a lot of pain to be able to drive it with her uncle. But on the very first evening, taking the barge out for a spin, there's a fallout with the new engineer, Michael. He leaves (out of jealousy). In his place, Marianne takes three jolly, itinerant musicians on board who are looking for work (yeah, a barge needs a mechanic, not an organ grinder!). Their journey to Hamburg on the Elbe comes to an abrupt end, when they get stranded on a sandbank. Luckily, another barge, the "Sturmvogel", frees them from their predicament. And whaddya know: Michael was hired to work on that barge! After some complications and nonsensical fights, Marianne realizes she's been in love with Michael all this time. Women! Can't live with them ... that's all.
Das M dchen Marianne hat von ihren Eltern einen Motorkahn namens "Eintracht" geerbt und mit M he durchgesetzt, dass sie ihn zusammen mit ihrem Onkel f hren darf. Mit dem neuen Maschinisten Michel gibt es gleich am Abend nach der ersten Fahrt Krach. Er geht - aus Eifersucht. Statt seiner nimmt Marianne drei lustige Musiker mit, die auf Arbeitssuche sind. Die Elbfahrt nach Hamburg endet zun chst auf einer Sandbank, von der sie ein anderer Frachtkahn, der "Sturmvogel", befreit. Dort hat Michel inzwischen angeheuert. Nach einigen Verwicklungen und grundlosen Schl gereien, denn Marianne ist l ngst in Michel verliebt, gibt es das verdiente Happy-End.
The spice merchant Zangler is traveling to the city for a few days, where he intends to pick up his bride, fashion retailer Madame Knorr, so as to marry her soon. He also wants to take his nieece Marie along, whose guardian he is, so he can drop her off at his sister-in-law, Fraulein von Blumenblatt, because he wants to prevent the girl from marrying her admirer, August. While he's away, his employee Weinberl and his apprentice Christoph are to run the shop. But Weinberl, recently promoted to partner in the shop, has other plans: instead of sitting in the store day in and day out, he wants to have an adventure and sets off for the city with Christoph in tow.
Der Gew rzh ndler Zangler f hrt f r ein paar Tage in die gro e Stadt, wo er seine Braut, die Modeh ndlerin Madame Knorr, abholen will, um sie alsbald zu heiraten. Zudem will er seine Nichte Marie, deren Vormund er ist, bei seiner Schw gerin Fr ulein von Blumenblatt in Sicherheit bringen, denn er ist strikt gegen eine Heirat Maries mit ihrem Verehrer August. Sein Angestellter Weinberl und der Lehrjunge Christoph sollen so lange den Laden f hren. Doch Weinberl, gerade zum Teilhaber des Ladens bef rdert, hat andere Pl ne: Statt tagein, tagaus im Laden zu hocken, will er endlich etwas erleben und macht sich mit Christoph ebenfalls auf in die Stadt.
Brain surgeon is criticized by his colleagues after a rather dangerous operation. Disappointed and thin-skinned, he retreats to a village in the Bavarian Mountains. There, he earns his bread as a simple country doctor. But then, an old colleague needs his help.
Gehirnchirurg Karl Solm steht nach einer gef hrlichen Operation in der Kritik seiner Kollegen. Entt uscht zieht er sich in ein bayerisches Gebirgsdorf zur ck. Als einfacher Landarzt verdient er fortan sein Brot. Da braucht ein alter Kollege seine Hilfe.
For the fifth time already, the millionaire Ambrosius Brown from Chicago was attacked and shortly after being rescued, he s once again reported as missing. In reality, however, he s with his friend Buddy Drops and his servant Washington on a tour through Europe. After spending twenty turbulent years in America, he no wishes to spend the twilight years of his life on his estate in Mecklenburg. Then the press reports the discovery of a piece of the yacht, the Star of Chicago . The report of the sad end of the millionaire launches a wild hunt for the money he s left behind. At the same time, Brown and Buddy arrive in Bremen with the damaged yacht. When Brown finds out, what his dear relatives have been doing after they think he s passed on, he decides to thoroughly ruin their day.
Schon das f nfte Mal ist der Million r Ambrosius Brown in Chicago berfallen worden und wird kurz nach seiner Rettung schon wieder als vermi t gemeldet. In Wirklichkeit jedoch ist er mit seinem Freund Buddy Drops und seinem Diener Washington unterwegs nach Europa. Nach zwanzig Jahren Amerika will er nun seinen Lebensabend auf seinem Besitz in Mecklenburg verbringen. Da meldet die Presse den Fund einer Planke der Yacht Star of Chicago . Die Nachricht vom traurigen Ende des Million rs l st eine wilde Jagd nach dem Erbe aus. Gleichzeitig treffen Brown und Buddy Drops mit ihrer besch digten Yacht in Bremen ein. Als er erf hrt, was die lieben Verwandten vorhaben, beschlie t er, ihnen den Spa gr ndlich zu verderben.
DIE LIEBE UND DIE ERSTE EISENBAHN (1934) .
The first rail connecting between Berlin and Potsdam has not only caused much jubilation among the public, but also created many opponents. The leader of those who want no change is the postmaster Friedrich Eichmann, whose wife Gelene has a much different opinion about the situation than her husband. Behind his back, she buys stocks in the railroad. The banker Fechner, who is financing the railway's construction, runs out of funds. The workers on the rail line haven't received their wages in quite a while and the completion of the line seems doubtful. Brigitte, the daughter of the postmaster, is secretly bringing food to the railway men's shack every day on behalf of her mother.
Die erste Eisenbahn von Berlin nach Potsdam erregt in der ffentlichkeit nicht nur Jubel, sondern hat auch viele Gegner. Der Anf hrer der r ckschrittlichen Zehlendorfer ist Posthalter Friedrich Eichmann, dessen Frau Gelene jedoch anderer Ansicht ist. Sie kauft hinter seinem R cken Aktien der Bahn. Bankier Fechner, der den Bau finanziert, sind die Mittel ausgegangen. Schon lange haben die Arbeiter keinen Lohn mehr bekommen und die Fertigstellung der Strecke steht auf dem Spiel. Brigitte, die Tochter des Posthalters, bringt im Auftrag ihrer Mutter, die die Arbeit unterst tzen will, t glich heimlich Essen in die Baubude der Eisenbahner.
Marianne von Soden already has doubts about her marriage, although it s just recently taken place. For her sake, her husband Fritz left his former lover; but will he maybe do the same thing to her one day? One day, she s witness to Fritz getting the news that his ex-lover committed suicide, which he dismisses with a laugh. Marianne is shocked. After a heated argument, she leaves him and now wants a divorce.
Marianne von Soden zweifelt bereits an ihrer Ehe, obwohl diese gerade erst geschlossen ist. Nur ihretwegen hat ihr zuk nftiger Mann Fritz seine ehemalige Geliebte verlassen, aber wird er vielleicht eines Tages mit ihr selbst genauso verfahren? Als sie Zeugin wird, wie Fritz die Nachricht vom Selbstmordversuch seiner Ex-Geliebten mit ein paar Geldscheinen und einem Lachen quittiert, ist Marianne ersch ttert. Nach einem heftigen Streit ber sein herzloses Gebaren verl sst sie ihn. Marianne will sich scheiden lassen.
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