Genica Athanasiou

A young officer of Napoleon's armies returns to Corsica where his sister is waiting for him to avenge the death of their father.

В Испании, ХIV веке, старый идальго по имени Дон Кихот сошел с ума от чтения, поглотив слишком много рыцарских книг. Провозгласив себя рыцарем, он излагает своему оруженосцу, Санчо Панса, идею реформации и возрождения эпохи рыцарства, провозгласив простую девушку своей благородной дамой Дульсинеей, ради которой он готов совершать подвиги… Георг Вильгельм Пабст снимал один и тот же фильм три раза, на трех языках. Данная версия фильма снята на французском языке, две остальных версии сняты на английском и немецком языках (немецкоязычная версия считается утерянной).

This relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan of Arc on the 500th anniversary of her death, but it was soon undeservedly relegated to obscurity in favor of Carl Dreyer's triumphant 'La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc'. The comparison is unfair: Dreyer was an artist, but director Marco de Gastyne certainly proved himself a distinguished craftsman, and his emphasis on the Maid of Orléans early life in Domrémy serves as a picturesque, matching bookend to Dreyer's impassioned courtroom drama.

In a lighthouse off the coast of Brittany, a young man slowly goes mad following a bite by a rabid dog while his father looks on helplessly. Thwarted by a raging sea, they are prisoners of the lighthouse. In a rustic Brittany village, a young bride waits, unaware of the tragedy.

Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother dies, Maldone is called back to manage the estate. There, he takes up the life of a landowner and marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later Maldone is still restless on the estate, and becomes obsessed with Zita, after meeting her by chance one evening.

Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own appetites.