Hanns Eisler

Hanns Eisler

Nacimiento : 1898-07-06, Leipzig, Germany

Muerte : 1962-09-06

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Hanns Eisler

Películas

Communists
Music
Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature. (Arnaud Dommerc)
Chaplin Today: 'Monsieur Verdoux'
Self (archive footage)
A short documentary in the Chaplin Today series about Chaplin's "Monsieur Verdoux." Includes an interview with Claude Chabrol, whose 1963 film "Landru" concerns the same serial killer that inspired Chaplin's film.
Galileo Galilei
Music
Puesta en escena de La Vida de Galileo por parte de la Comedia Francesa y dirigida por Antoine Vitez.
Komm! Ins Offene, Freund! oder Gegen die Dummheit in der Musik
Music
Walter Ballhause - Einer von Millionen
Music
Låt er inte förföras
Music
"Don't Be Seduced" - Gothenburg's Brecht-ensemble performs songs and texts of Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler.
La vida de Galileo
Original Music Composer
Galileo Galilei, un brillante matemático y astrónomo que nació en Pisa en el siglo XVI, contribuyó de manera decisiva al desarrollo científico. Sus teorías sobre el sistema solar le granjearon el rechazo de las poderosas autoridades eclesiásticas. Basada en una obra de Bertol Brecht, "Galileo" analiza el enfrentamiento de la Iglesia contra un hombre que cuestionó abiertamente el principio de autoridad sobre el que se había basado durante siglos el conocimiento humano.
Les arrivistes
Original Music Composer
Geschwader Fledermaus
Music
The Witches of Salem
Original Music Composer
Salem, 1692. El agricultor John Proctor ha hecho el amor dos veces con Abigail, una joven de 17 años que él y su esposa han acogido. Su esposa Elisabeth lo ha estado rechazando durante siete meses, por su puritanismo y frialdad. Cuando Elisabeth encuentra a John abrazando a Abigail, echa a la muchacha de su casa y John, sintiéndose condenado, está de acuerdo. Abigail jura venganza. Su oportunidad llega cuando acusa a Elisabeth de brujería y manipula a las niñas más jóvenes para apoyar sus afirmaciones de ver espíritus. El ministro de la ciudad y los políticos quieren una causa: liberar al pueblo de la brujería. John también es acusado; Abigail le ofrece una manera de evitar la horca. Elisabeth tiene su propia confesión.
Fidelio
Music
Noche y niebla
Original Music Composer
Doce años después de la Liberación y del descubrimiento de los campos de concentración nazis, Alain Resnais entra en el desierto y siniestro campo de Auschwitz. Lentos travellings en color sobre la arquitectura despoblada, donde la hierba crece de nuevo, alternan con imágenes de archivo (en blanco y negro, rodadas en 1944) que reconstruyen la inimaginable tragedia que sufrieron los prisioneros así como las causas y las consecuencias de esa tragedia: desde el advenimiento del nazismo y la deportación de los judíos hasta el juicio de Nuremberg.
Gasparone
Screenplay
Bel Ami
Music
In the 1880s, Georges Duroy, back from the Colonies, arrives in Paris with the firm intention of conquering the capital through his power of seduction, his selfishness and cynicism. Entering into journalism through the back door he will soon rise to the top with the support of several women: Madeleine Forestier, the wife of his journalist friend Charles; Clothilde de Marelle, his first mistress; Virginie Walter, the wife of a newspaper owner; Suzanne Walter, her daughter who eventually marries Duroy.
Schicksal am Lenkrad
Music
Destinies of Women
Music
Berlin 1952, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for a good man and happiness in the divided city. Their destinies are loosely connected through one person: the West Berlin dandy and womanizer, Conny.
Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten
Music
Basing his work on documentary material, Andrew Thorndike tells the life story of Wilhelm Pieck: from young worker to fighter for the German working class, and from enemy of national-socialism to the first president of the German Democratic Republic.
Council of the Gods
Music
Based on the records of the Nuremberg trial of the chemical giant IG Farben; a story about the collaboration between international corporations and Nazi scientists, whose research contributed to the death of millions. The chemist Dr. Hans Scholz lives through a tortuous political transformation and maturation process. Eventually, he adopts political neutrality and closes his eyes to the fact that the poison being produced in his factory is being used in the extermination camps. Standing before the judges at the Nuremberg trials, he must face the fact that he is implicated in the deaths of millions in the gas chambers of the concentration camps.
Our Daily Bread
Original Music Composer
A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst participates in the building of a new socialist society. Karl does not understand Ernst's visions, instead he confides in his other son Harry. However, Harry becomes involved in illicit business and Karl quickly realizes that it would be best to join his son Ernst in the citizen-owned factory.
Křížová trojka
Original Music Composer
Leben des Galilei
Music
Galileo, an eminent professor and scientist in the 17th century Venetian Republic, is short of money. A prospective student tells him about a novel invention, the telescope, that is being sold in Amsterdam.
So Well Remembered
Music
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
Una mujer en la playa
Music
El teniente Scott Burnett, del servicio de guardacostas, sufre todavía de pesadillas en su estado convaleciente, pero está decidido a casarse con su novia Eve y comenzar una nueva vida. Un día, paseando por la playa, se encuentra con una mujer, Peggy, casada con un famoso pintor, Tod Butler, que quedó ciego tras una acalorada discusión con su esposa. Scott y Peggy enseguida se enamoran, pero ella se siente culpable por lo que hizo y no quiere abandonar a su marido. Sin embargo, Scott cree que Tod finge su ceguera para mantener a su esposa a su lado.
Escándalo en París
Original Music Composer
Autobiografía de François Eugène Vidocq, legendario ladrón del siglo XVIII. Vidocq nació en una cárcel francesa en 1775 y llegó incluso a ser nombrado jefe de la policía de París, pero durante todo ese tiempo no dejó de ser un singular y elegante delincuente.
Muerte al amanecer
Original Music Composer
Un marinero que debe coger un autocar para volver con su compañía se ve implicado en el asesinato de una mujer que disfruta chantajeando a varias personas. Una muchacha y un taxista se unirán para demostrar la inocencia del joven en unas horas.
Los piratas del mar Caribe
Music
Siglo XVII. Un barco holandés que se dirige a las islas Carolinas, al llegar al Caribe, embarranca frente a la costa de Cartagena de Indias. El virrey, don Juan Alvarado de Soto hace prisioneros al capitán Van Horn y a la tripulación, pero poco después consiguen fugarse. Cinco años más tarde, Van Horn se ha convertido en el temible pirata Barracuda, que manda el navío del mismo nombre. Para apagar su sed de venganza rapta a la bella Francisca de Guzmán, la prometida del virrey, y la lleva consigo a la isla Tortuga, el refugio de los piratas.
Jealousy
Original Music Composer
A female cabbie is suspected of killing her drunken husband.
Un corazón en peligro
Music
Ernie Mott, un joven de clase baja, desatiende a su madre y siempre que puede se aprovecha de sus amigos. Cuando conoce al ladrón Jim Mordinoy, se enamora de su novia Ada. En una discusión con su madre, Ernie descubre que la mujer padece cáncer y, entonces, decide ayudarla en la tienda. Ada le recomienda que se vaya, porque Jim está muy celoso, pero Ernie le hace frente. La enfermedad de su madre se complica cuando la encarcelan, después de descubrir que ocultaba objetos robados en la tienda. (FILMAFFINITY)
Los verdugos también mueren
Music
El 27 de mayo de 1942 murió víctima de un atentado Reinhard Heydrich, jefe del gobierno nazi de Praga. El doctor Franz Svoboda, miembro de la Resistencia y autor material del atentado, se esconde en casa del profesor Novotny.
Pete-Roleum and His Cousins
Music
Esta película fue realizada para ser mostrada en representación de la empresa Standar Oil y exhibida en la New York World's Fair de 1939. Las proyecciones fueron acompañadas por la narración de un locutor "en vivo" que alternaría con la narración pre-grabada de la película, de modo que el narrador del escenario haría una pregunta que al momento sería contestada por el narrador de la pantalla, y viceversa. Vista hoy, sin la original narración en vivo, la película tiene menor sentido. Su título original era 'Pete-Roleum and His Cousins'.
The 400 Million
Music
The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest. But they are under attack from the Japanese. Civilian refugees walk, stumble, crawl to escape the destruction of their cities... While in the China of tradition, water buffalo still work the paddies and camels cross the desert, modern China is now a republic founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with modern schools, heavy industry, large engineering projects... The government of Chiang Kai-shek resists the Japanese invasion from the coast. Madame Chiang receives a cheque from the U.S.A. for war relief. War production continues in distant villages safe from the grasp of the Japanese. With modern weapons the Chinese are pursuing their struggle behind enemy lines. And still their opponent persists in his reprisal bombings of civilian targets. "Will these people win?"
Abdul the Damned
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In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
New Earth
Original Music Composer
The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding and for purposes of land reclamation, the people of the Netherlands struggle and succeed in building a breaker, thereby eliminating the wild inland body of water once known as the Zuider Zee (now called Ijsselmeer).
Song of the Streets
Music
A gang of poverty-ridden juvenile delinquents progress from petty theft to hard crime, but a kindly judge manages to set most of them on the right path after they are finally apprehended.
Song of Heroes
Music
The building of blast furnaces Magnitogorsk and the Kubas Basin by Komsomol, the Communist Union of youth, as part of Stalin’s first five-year plan.
To Whom Does the World Belong?
Original Music Composer
Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the unpaid back rent. The young man, brother of the protagonist Anni, removes his wristwatch and throws himself from a window out of despair. Shortly thereafter his family is evicted from their apartment. Now homeless, the family moves into a garden colony of sorts with the name “Kuhle Wampe.”
Hell on Earth
Original Music Composer
Hell on Earth (German: Niemandsland) is a 1931 German film directed by Victor Trivas. The film is also known as No Man's Land in France.
Opus III
Music
An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.