Maria Schell

Relationships between mothers and daughters are often very complex. Love and protective instincts, recognition and pride play just as important a role as patronization and envy, dependency and jealousy. This documentary allows prominent mother-daughter pairs to have their say, being surprisingly open about birth and puberty, growing up, sexuality and old age.

Maximilian Schell's portrait of his sister Maria.

Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.

When a selfless king learns of a beautiful princess in a neighboring kingdom who callously turns down every suitor with an insult, he tries his luck to no avail. So, he hatches a plot with her father in which the princess is married to him, in disguise as a beggar, so he can teach her lessons about humility and compassion.

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A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.

Max Baumstein, Presidente del Movimiento Internacional de Solidaridad, un organismo con sede en París, se reúne con el embajador de Paraguay en Francia para conseguir la liberación de una joven británica. Pero, después de un breve intercambio de palabras, Max mata a tiros al embajador. Durante su arresto, le confiesa a su esposa los motivos de su acción: en 1933, cuando Hitler asciende al poder, uno de sus secuaces mató al padre de Max. Acogido por Elsa, una cantante de opereta, y por el editor Michel Wiener, Max pasó su infancia y adolescencia escondido hasta que consiguió refugiarse en París.

Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film, reveal just how audiences were able to "believe a man can fly." This program features interviews with key cast and crew.

In this belated sequel to 'Lilies of the Field' (1963), jack-of-all-trades Homer Smith revisits the chapel in the Arizona desert that he helped build for five German nuns under the supervision of Mother Maria, and he reluctantly helps them out of a pinch once more.

The intertwined lives of people of both Polish and German extraction who live on the pre-World War II border between the two countries are explored in this drama. Valeska is the Polish/German matriarch of a family living on the German side of the border. Her son is involved with the Hitler youth, but nonetheless keeps secret the presence on family land of a Jew who is hiding from the authorities. When the son inadvertently kills a soldier to prevent his sister from being raped, he runs away after borrowing money from the Jewish man. When soldiers come to the family's door looking for the missing soldier who had been billeted there, the Jewish man commits suicide. In another episode, one of the family's daughters marries a German soldier in a ceremony presided over by a Polish priest.

Desde una galaxia remota, un recién nacido es enviado por sus padres al espacio debido a la inminente destrucción del planeta donde viven. La nave aterriza en la Tierra, y el niño es adoptado por unos granjeros que le inculcan los mejores valores humanos. Con los años el joven se irá a Metrópolis y allí usará sus poderes sobrenaturales para luchar contra el mal...

Berlín, años 20. Cuando el joven coronel Paul von Przygodski (David Bowie) regresa de la guerra, tras pasar varios meses en coma, se da cuenta de que el mundo que conocía ha cambiado drásticamente. Para él, que pertenece a una familia aristocrática, será muy duro ver su casa convertida en una pensión y tener que buscar algún trabajo para ayudar económicamente a los suyos. Después de un periodo de aturdimiento y desorientación, una noche conoce por azar a la baronesa von Semering (Marlene Dietrich), que regenta un club de gigolós.

En 1939, un barco lleno de judíos alemanes que huyen del régimen nazi intentan refugiarse en La Habana. Algunos son víctimas de los primeros campos de concentración, otros intentan reunirse con sus parientes en Cuba. Sin embargo, cuando llegan a su destino, las autoridades cubanas los obligan a volver a Alemania mientras el resto del mundo mira hacia otro lado. Ésta es la historia del llamado "viaje de la vergüenza".

Basada en la novela "Le Malheur Fou" de Lucie Faure en torno a las relaciones adúlteras en la clase alta francesa.

Mischa Gallé's first film was made in 1971, but not picked up and shown until 1975.

Hamburgo, 1963. Después del suicidio de un viejo judío, su diario cae en manos de Peter Miller, un joven periodista freelance. Se trata de un testimonio de los inconcebibles y crueles crímenes cometidos por el capitán de las SS Eduard Roschmann, comandante del tristemente célebre campo de exterminio de Riga (Letonia). Al parecer, Roschmann vive en algún lugar de Hamburgo con una identidad falsa, pero Miller está decidido a encontrarlo como sea.

En el pequeño pueblo de San Angelo, en la frontera de Texas y México, Joe Bradford hace reinar el terror. Torturó a su hermano Willy hasta la muerte y se casó por la fuerza con su esposa Gertie. La pandilla de Joe Bradford aprovecha la impunidad para saquear y violar. Pero Hawk, el hijo de John, decide que hay algo podrido en este pequeño reino y es hora de actuar.

When her father dies unexpectantly, a young woman starts to get suspicious about her mother's behaviour.

En la Inglaterra de los últimos Estuardo, el impopular Jacobo II ha puesto la justicia en manos de George Jeffreys, un hombre sanguinario que persigue con saña a los presuntos enemigos de la corona bajo acusaciones de brujería. Jeffreys es asistido en sus planes por Palfox, su perverso y astuto ayudante. Harry Sefton, hijo del conde de Wessex, se enamora de Charity, hermana de una muchacha quemada por bruja. Harry mantiene relaciones con los rebeldes, que desde Holanda tratan de derrocar a Jacobo.

En los extremos de una isla tropical, existen dos prisiones: una de mujeres y otra de hombres. El tiránico gobernador que domina la isla hace insoportable la vida de las reclusas, hasta el punto de que tres de ellas se escapan de la prisión y se internanen la selva, donde son perseguidas por las patrullas armadas.

In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of the sabotaged cars belongs to a bank robber. The hotel staff wants the robber out, but they also want to keep his ill-gotten money.

Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what he thinks) has a problem with his noisy environment: he can't complete his unfinished symphony. Of course there is a market for unfinished symphonies but, for all he knows, only one became famous. So he had better find a way to finish it. At long last, he comes across Agnès, a divorced woman who agrees to let him her quiet home. Lionel, full of hope, resumes work...

A psychotherapist's love life is a disaster because of her own fears and neuroses. Involving herself in her patients love life add more complications.

Jim Fuller (Stuart Whitman), que ha sido condenado a tres años de cárcel por haber intentado abusar de un niño, intenta rehacer su vida con la ayuda del psiquiatra de la prisión (Rod Steiger), que le consigue incluso un trabajo cuando queda en libertad.

Año 1889. Millares de pioneros ansiosos de colonizar nuevas tierras se dirigen hacia el punto de partida de la gran avalancha que ha de abrir el territorio de Oklahoma a la civilización. Entre ellos se encuentra Yancey Cravat y su mujer Sabra, que ha decidido dejar la ciudad y acompañar a su marido en esta aventura. Nueva adaptación de la novela de Edna Ferber, ya llevada a la gran pantalla en 1931 por Wesley Ruggles con Richard Dix e Irene Dunne como protagonistas.

After five years of war, Clements, a professional seaman, has no ambitions other than to live in peace and carry out his activity. Having settled down in the archipelago of the Aegean Sea, he has founded a small sponge fishing company in an idyllic place and foresees an optimistic future. Unfortunately, he soon finds himself caught in a crossfire...

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

En la época de la fiebre del oro, a un poblado minero de Montana llega Joe Frail (Gary Cooper), un extraño y contradictorio médico sobre el que parece pesar un oscuro pasado. Tras el asalto de unos bandoleros a la diligencia, la única superviviente resulta ser una inmigrante suiza (Maria Schell) que, a causa de una insolación, se queda ciega. De cuidarla hasta que recupera la vista se ocupará Frail.

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.

Drama de época que adapta la célebre novela homónima de Dostoievski, en la que se analizan los problemas de una familia rusa del siglo XIX.

En una ciudad provinciana, Mario, un mediocre oficinista que vive en una modesta pensión, conoce una noche a la joven Natalia, en cuyo rostro se refleja un profunda tristeza. Le da conversación para animarla y ella le explica cómo cambió su anodina vida cuando conoció a un apuesto forastero del que se enamoró y cómo cada noche su regreso. Durante cuatro noches mágicas, Mario, enamorado de Natalia, alberga la esperanza de sustituir en su corazón al misterioso forastero. Adaptación cinematográfica de la novela homónima de Dostoievski.

West Germany's entry in the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was this cinemadaptation of the Gerhardt Hauptman play Rose Bernd. The title character, played by Maria Schell, is a servant girl on a remote farm. Sexually assaulted by both her employer and a coworker, Rose later bears a child, who die soon afterward. After nearly two hours of unrelieved misery, Rose finally finds happiness in the arms of a longtime admirer (where has he been for the past 12 reels?) Rose Bernd (aka The Sins of Rose Bernd) received a smattering of American showings thanks to the drawing power of star Maria Schell.

Basada en la novela de Émile Zola "L'Assomoir". Narra los graves problemas de Gervaise, una joven cuyo marido es alcohólico y que, sin embargo, hace todo lo posible por mantener unida a su familia.

After the fall and before the wall.

Talleyrand, el gran político francés de finales del siglo XVIII y primer cuarto del XIX, rememora en una reunión de amigos, la vida del Emperador de los franceses, desde su nacimiento en Córcega, pasando por sus gestas militares, hasta su muerte en el destierro. La cinta es una pequeña lección de la historia de Francia.

A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Yugoslav partisan during World War II.

Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.

In South Tirol, shortly after ww-ii: Paul and Barbara Holzmann and their son Charlie own a small gasoline station. At their wedding anniversary, of all days, Barbara finds proof that Paul may again have cheated on her. At first she believes his explanations, but when she finds more proof later, she leaves and seeks comfort in the arms of her former friend Nicola in Italy. The story is told from the perspective of her diary.

As Long as You're Near Me (German: Solange Du da bist) is a 1953 West German drama film directed by Harald Braun. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.

This is the tear-jerking love story between young Pamela and casino owner Mayrhoefer.

During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother.

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

Melodrama set during wartime.

Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie joins him before the Gestapo can get to her because of her Jewish ancestry.

Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.

A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of piano-makers in Vienna.

A man in his fifties returns from America to his native village. Everyone knows that in the New World he served a lengthy prison sentence for manslaughter. He retreats to an isolated quarry in the woods he inherited. There he lives like a hermit, gruffly disencouraging anyone to come near the place.