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Production Design
Newlyweds Käthe and Max met while studying law. Trouble ensues when Max takes on his first case without telling his wife.
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At the center of this social satire is the wealthy and bored couple Irene and Erik. When Erik meets Hilde, who comes from a humble background, one evening in a chic club, he sees an opportunity for the couple to sexually spice up.
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DANGEROUS PATHS marked the beginning of Henrik Galeen’s collaboration with Piel, which by 1931 had comprised a total of five films. The present film offers the opportunity to see screenwriter Galeen in front of the camera as the super-rich American Francis. The journeyman carpenter Harry is bewitched by Francis’s daughter Dorothy, whom he has to rescue from the clutches of dangerous hoodlums. The gang is also trying to steal the crown of a prince. Thus Harry finds himself in a sophisticated adventure that features spectacular nature shots (filmed in the Alps).
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Art Direction
The proprietors of a small inn on the Italian coast suddenly have to cater for a company of conscripts on their way to a nearby port. One of the sergeants recognizes Resa as a former "camp-follower". When her husband hears of this he becomes insanely jealous and decides to join the company.
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Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. Her former boyfriend, Platen, warns Helen against Rupp's intentions - he and Rupp are enemies, Rupp having caused his being fired for protecting a chorus girl against Rupp's unwanted advances. Meanwhile, Graf, a shyster, arranges purchase of a near bankrupt auto manufacturing firm, Phoenix, to Rupp's great advantage with practically no monetary recognition to Graf, who swears revenge. Rupp comes upon his son begging Helen not to marry his father but to return to Platen.
Set Decoration
En el siglo XIX, una mujer hedonista se casa con un aristócrata, pero le cuesta mantenerse fiel a él.
"Die Flamme" fue la última película de Lubitsch en Alemania, antes de su partida a Estados Unidos. Desafortunadamente, sólo queda una bobina de este melodrama con Pola Negri. La reconstrucción realizada para el Museo de Cine de Munich se compone, por tanto, de numerosas fotografías del rodaje y dibujos del guion que complementan los 22 minutos restantes de película. Pola interpreta con garra a su personaje de mujer perdida. Se advierte el toque de Lubitsch en detalles muy concretos, como el pequeño gesto de la mano de Yvette hacia su compañera de cuarto para mantener alejado al peligroso Gaston. Es difícil tener una opinión verdadera sobre esta película porque sólo queda un fragmento muy pequeño. Es obligado remarcar, no obstante, el cuidado con la decoración y el vestuario para reconstituir el París del Segundo Imperio. Alfred Abel es un excelente villano.
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Art Direction
A millionaire daughter is to be married to a man unknown to her. To get to know him, she slips into men's clothes, sticks on a mustache and is hired as a chauffeur.
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Based on the novella Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte by Adelbert von Chamisso.
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Suntuosa recreación histórica que fue calificada como 'la película más grande de todos los tiempos'. El Enrique VIII robusto, brutal y cruel de Emil Jannings contrasta con la inocencia de la Ana Bolena de Henny Porten. Dos arquitectos dirigieron la construcción de las réplicas de la Torre de Londres, el Castillo de Windsor y la Abadía de Westminster.
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Clásico del cine mudo alemán que cuenta la leyenda de una estatua: el Golem. En el siglo XVI, en el gueto de Praga, vivía el Rabino Löw, mago y maestro en el arte de la nigromancia. Para evitar la expulsión de los judíos, ordenada por el Emperador Rodolfo II, modeló la figura de arcilla del Golem e invocó al espíritu de Astaharot para que le otorgará la vida. Sin embargo, cuando los judíos consiguen quedarse en la ciudad, y el Golem salva la vida del Emperador, el rabino trata de invalidar su conjuro y quitarle la vida porque ya ha realizado su cometido. Pero cuando un sirviente, cegado de amor, se la devuelve, la figura de arcilla escapa de la influencia humana y se convierte en una amenaza. Esta fascinante obra maestra del expresionismo, claro precedente del mito de Frankenstein es, seguramente, la primera gran película sobre monstruos de la historia del cine .
Set Decoration
Yeggar, un payaso jorobado, director de un espectáculo ambulante, se enamora de una de las bailarinas. Ella cede a sus deseos, pero también le es infiel. Basada en la pantomima teatral creada por Max Reinhardt, es un nuevo acercamiento al ambiente de cuento de hadas en parajes exóticos.
Production Design
Production Design
A police chief raids a gambling den, and arrests the elderly mother of the young Assunta. Though she pleads with him, he will not release her mother. Years later, Assunta plots her revenge.
Costume Design
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
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The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
Production Design
Quaker, el rey de las ostras, es tan rico que lo único que le sorprendería sería ver a su hija casarse con un príncipe. Hace una oferta al príncipe arruinado Nucki, quien manda a un amigo suyo para que le explique cómo es Ossi, la hija de Quaker. Sátira social en la que es para muchos -incluido el propio Lubitsch- la primera película en la que desarrolla su estilo personal; el que acabará conociéndose como el "toque Lubitsch".
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The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.
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La historia de una niña judía obligada a ocultar su identidad para poder asistir a la escuela de medicina en San Petersburgo. POLA NEGRI
Se llamaba Apolonia (1897/1987) y a pesar de ese nombre se hizo un lugar entre las vampiresas más acreditadas del silente. Recuerdo que en mi familia se la llamaba "la de los ojos negros" y, en efecto, el rimmel corría sin mesura por su rostro. Durante el entierro de Valentino montó un número espectacular para la prensa, "desmayándose" varias veces y fingiendo ser la amante nunca correspondida de Rodolfo (algo que el hermano de éste y Mary Pickford se encargaron de desmentir). A comienzos del sonoro su estrella palideció y sus últimos años son un misterio similar al de la la Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) de "Sunset Boulevard". Nos dejó por un tumor cerebral a los noventa años y legó toda su fortuna a la St. Mary's University. (Eddie Constanti)
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Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the "mummy" from inside an empty sarcophagus. When adventurer Wendland comes to visit the tomb, Ma is rescued and falls in love with him, leaving Radu in the dust. Needless to say, her former employer / captor follows them abroad in order to exact his revenge.
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Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the "mummy" from inside an empty sarcophagus. When adventurer Wendland comes to visit the tomb, Ma is rescued and falls in love with him, leaving Radu in the dust. Needless to say, her former employer / captor follows them abroad in order to exact his revenge.
Production Design
Ossi Oswaldo interpreta a una joven que, cansada de que le reprochen todos sus actos, decide disfrazarse de hombre. De este modo descubre la insolidaridad entre los hombres... y también sus amistades equivocadas.
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An adaptation of the famous fairy tale.
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The circus dancer Lulu is a thoroughly liberal being. Although she loves her former savior, the clown Alfredo, she begins a relationship with the noble Henri von Reithofen. Henri kills himself ruined by the horrendous expenses for Lulu. She however is fishing for the next rich patron, the much older Baron Waldheim. His son knows Lulu and warns his father that she will also hurt him. Waldheim succumbs to Lulus's insinuations and punishes his son.
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Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.
Set Decoration