Ernst Rückert

a movie by Heinz Paul

German silent film about the life of Martin Luther

The gorgeous 40-year-old Elsie Lindtner lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a respectable university professor. And yet, there’s something that nags her. She’s about to reach “the dangerous age”, when beauty begins to fade and boredom kicks in. She falls in love with a younger man and divorces her husband, but ends up hiding away in a country house where she can age in secret.

Film by Richard Oswald.

Historical drama about the life of Albrecht von Wallenstein.

Judith, Count Robert de Bertan's daughter, is on holiday with her friend Louise and her father Marquis Emile de Fers. Meanwhile, banker Charles Delcourt has introduced De Bertan to the owner of a gambling-and-dance hall, Olga Tatschowas. De Bertan, unaware that his banker has lost the capital he gave him to invest at Olga's gambling tables, falls in love with Olga. He marries her, unaware that he is the victim of a plot hatched by Delcourt and Olga, who desires a title and De Bertan's possession.

여행 중인 신혼 커플은 작은 마을에서 쉬어가기로 결정한다. 신부는 신비스러운 동굴을 발견하고 그곳에서 ‘죽음’을 만나게 된다. ‘죽음’은 그녀에게 세 명의 목숨을 살린다면 그녀의 남편의 목숨을 살려 주겠다고 하고, 그녀는 그와 함께 여행을 떠나게 된다. 미국 현대미술관(MOMA)이 보유한 35mm 프린트를 기본으로 툴루즈 시네마테크, 뮌헨영화박물관, 러시아 고스필모폰드, 체코영상자료원, 브뤼셀왕립아카이브의 필름을 참고로 디지털 복원되어, 올해 2월 베를린 국제영화제에서 월드 프리미어로 상영되었다. 개봉 당시 ‘충분히 독일적이지 않다는’ 이유로 독일에서는 외면되었으나 해외에서 성공하여 프리츠 랑 감독에게 국제적인 명성을 안겨준 영화이기도 하다. 주한독일문화원의 후원으로 초청된 독일 피아니스트 리하르트 지드호프의 연주로 상영된다. (2016 한국영상자료원 - 영화의 세계에 오신 것을 환영합니다)

Berchtesgaden in the 15th century: A power struggle between mountain peasants who have been raising milk cows on common land and a village bailiff trying to gain power driving them off the land. Both have a ducal documents that states the opposite.

The story of Romeo and Juliet, a tale as old as time-- Here, played as farcical lark: A goofy comedy of manners set in a snowy Bavarian village.

A countess falls for a shepherd who wishes to become a monk.

A middle-class man falls in love with a woman from a more ordinary background, and they end up working in a variety act where they sink into alcoholism. He then kills another man whom he mistakenly believes is a rival.

Robert Lambard, son of a respected Parisian banker, seduces Marguerite Walser, the sister of Guy Walser, a diligent general manager employed by his father. At these times, especially in the upper social class, such an act is of course not without social consequences, and so Guy, after learning about this relationship, demands Lambard junior to marry his sister in order to restore her "soiled" honor . But he just laughs about it and brusquely rejects this request. Since Monsieur Walser puts the family honor and that of his sister above everything else, a heated argument ensues, in which Guy summarily kills the "despoiler of Marguerite's honor". Now Guy's life is destroyed too, because he is put on trial for this bloody act. There will be a convictionmanslaughter for ten years behind bars. This punishment is connected with a deportation. For seven years, Walser spent the life of a Bagno convict in nowhere, he was an outcast.

The first movie based on the ill-fated journey of the Titanic ever produced. Released only a four weeks after the sinking of the original vessel.

A mother is so shocked by her daughter's almost being overrun by a car that she needs internment in a sanatorium. The doctor, in love with her, takes advantage of her amnesic cataleptic state to make believe she has died and take her away from her family. Destiny, though, will make them meet again.