Annelie (1941)
Género : Romance, Comedia, Drama, Historia
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 32M
Director : Josef von Báky
Escritor : Thea von Harbou
Sinopsis
On New Year′s Eve 1871 Annelie is born – 15 minutes too late, since her parents had calculated her birth to be exactly at midnight. These 15 minutes will again and again become the girl′s fate.
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Jette and Johannes have been living together for two years when Johannes suggests that they "legalize" their relationship. Jette loves him, but the proposal of marriage terrifies her.
Un cirujano que ha perdido a su novia en el quirófano enloquece y decide asesinar a todos los estudiantes de medicina que pretenden especializarse en cirugía. No contento con ello, amputará igualmente las manos de sus víctimas, para que así no puedan dañar a su amada, a quien, en su delirio, cree con vida.
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Mother stands in for a runaway bride and marries the groom by proxy, then both set out to convince her daughter to reconsider. Later they mistake the missing bride and her companion for two escaped convicts and pursue them with a sex obsessed teenage boy in tow. All paths cross at a remote motel run by a jilted church deacon.
¿Por qué todos buscan a Castro? No lo sabemos, pero tras él van Samuel, Willie, Rebeca Thompson y a cierta distancia, Acuña. Lo cierto es que Castro se fue de la Capital con Celia, y sólo huye, y cree que si consigue trabajo eso dañará el amor. Castro (el personaje) tiene algo arltiano, aunque sea más rápido para las fugas que para los inventos y piense en cómo sobrevivir sin que lo ahoguen.
Abel Hradscheck, the owner of an inn in the Oderbruch country, faces financial ruin. For this state of affairs, Ursula, his wife and former actress, is by no means free of blame. She is a "newcomer" to the area and even after eleven years in the area, still a "stranger". A Cracow company announces that a money-collector is on his way to the innkeeper. Mr. Szulski arrives and the debts are settled - with money supposedly stemming from an inheritance. The next day, Szulski departs but according to the maid and the stable-boy, behaves in a very strange manner. Soon afterwards, his carriage is discovered in the Oder River, but there is no trace of the drowned man. Hradscheck's neighbor starts casting suspicion on the innkeeper. The Counselor of Justice, who heads the investigations has the spot under the pear tree dug out. A dead body is exhumed...
A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, her daughter cautiously approaches the man she considers to be the blame for the state of her mother in order to gain her revenge.
The story of the Dassau family, a family of artists: Frau Dassau is a composer, her husband is a writer, and their children are equally gifted as painters, poets and musicians. But unfortunately, no one wants to invest money in their art. The family is about to starve when Nicole comes up with a marvelous idea: She is going to write the "most scandalous book", the sex memoirs of a teenager. For this, she hides under the pseudonym of Eva. The book becomes an enormous success indeed, but Nicole's parents are decent people, and the public interest in their sluttish daughter begins to bother them. Things begin to get even more unpleasant when Nicole falls in love with an American publisher who'd prefer a virgin…
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