A ship's captain loses course in perilous waters when he discovers his wife cheating on him.
A silent movie about Rugby intertwined with a love story.
Film critic Rüdiger Suchsland's debut film focuses on Robert Wiene's expressionist horror film classic Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) while examining the historic Weimar Republic (1918-1933), inspired by celebrated German sociologist Siegfried Kracauer's influential book 'From Caligari to Hitler' (1947). What effects do cinema and society have upon each other Suchland's f...
"Metropolis", "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", M, "Nosferatu", "People on Sunday", "Berlin, Symphony of a Metropolis" all rank among the classics and most influential films of European Cinema. FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER tells the story of early German Cinema as the story of social and cultural upheaval in the first republic, between 1918 and 1933. Siegfried Kracauer, who wrote the g...
The Weird Countess can easily stand in line with the best film noir masterpieces. It builds a nightmarish mood up to the point when the viewer is sickened by not knowing what exactly is going on. It's structurally very well crafted and employs some very good actors - such as the legends of German cinema Marianne Hoppe and Lil Dagover, breathtakingly beautiful at 74. There's als...
