Léo Lania

Nacimiento : , Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire

Películas

Melody of Hate
Screenplay
Crazy things
Screenplay
Confundiéndola con una enferma mental, Carla Del Poggio, es ingresada en una clínica psiquiátrica en la que un rico paciente, Aldo Fabrizzi, se hace pasar por médico. La pobre chica, tratando de hacer entender a los médicos que no está loca, termina provocando una rebelión entre el resto de pacientes.
Corsican Brothers
Adaptation
Siamese twins, separated at birth, maintain a psychic knowledge of each other's dire fates.
Pasha's Wives
Screenplay
Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a dream life in an Arabian Nights setting, follows him back to his native country, only to discover that, in a staunchly traditional society, she will not be a free woman there any longer.
Ultimatum
Screenplay
About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
The Shanghai Drama
Writer
A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is only a pipe dream as she has been forced by her former lover Ivan to work for a secret criminal organization, "The Black Dragon". Vera, who studies in a Hong Kong boarding-school, knows nothing about her mother's past. When Ivan, who is also Vera's father, resurfaces and blackmails Kay, the young woman is determined to fight back...
A Woman Alone
Writer
An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.
Las maletas del señor O. F.
Writer
Trece maletas caras, marcadas sólo con las iniciales O.F., y un telegrama con una reserva llegan al hotel del aburrido pueblucho de Ostend. Todos los habitantes especulan sobre el misterioso visitante. El editor del periódico local aprovecha la ocasión y asegura que las maletas pertenecen a un millonario que está de vuelta a su hogar, y enseguida el pueblo rebosa de actividad. Se ensaya una fiesta y comienzan a construir un cine, una ópera, un ayuntamiento. En medio de una época en crisis Ostend vive el auge de la ciudad y se convierte en un símbolo para la economía mundial.
The Threepenny Opera
Writer
The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.
The 3 Penny Opera
Writer
In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
Hunger in Waldenburg
Writer
Powerful semi-documentarian depiction of the miserable working and living conditions in the Silesian city of Waldenburg.
In the Shadow of the Machine
Director
The film was produced as a compilation film. Blum reported in “Film-Kurier“ (5.11.1928): "It will be assembled from excerpts of partly unpublished Ukrainian films. […] Some American footage has also been used. To get material as impressive as possible, a number of films, 0-60, have been viewed." Based on ideas by Dziga Vertov, and largely assembled from the last reel of his film 'The Eleventh Year', this compilation presents an explicit critique of the very technology that Vertov sought to praise, stressing the dark side of industrialization—hands mangled in workplace accidents, train wrecks, coffins—and connects to a particularly German concern with the negative effects of technology stretching from the Romantics to Heidegger, Horkheimer, and Adorno in the twentieth century.