Der Reporter Peter Hansen verfolgt als Geschworener einen Gerichtsprozess, zunächst ohne großes Interesse. Die Frau des einflussreichen Dr. Overbeck ist tot, und ihr junger Liebhaber Meinhardt ...
Im Mansfelder Land, einem kargen Landstrich in Sachsen-Anhalt herrschen für junge Leute keine guten Perspektiven: Früher wurde in der Gegend Bergbau betrieben, heute aber sind viele Leute arbeitslos...
Als Mischung aus Polit-Satire und Actionfilm angelegte Verfilmung der gleichnamigen PC-Spiel-Reihe. Im Mittelpunkt steht der "Postal Dude", der mit seiner Frau "Bitch" in einer idyllischen Gemeinde na...
Dokumentarfilm über den Amerikaner Edward Snowden und die durch ihn ausgelöste Überwachungs- und Spionageaffäre. Die amerikanische Filmemacherin Laura Poitras schildert darin, wie sie im Januar 20...
Begleitend zur Ausstellung Bengal Stream im Deutschen Architekturmuseum zeigte das Kino des DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum im August und September 2019 einige Filme des eher unbekannten Fil...
The making of patriotic films was not rare among FAI productions, and "Il bacio della gloria" is one example, together with "Armi e amori" (1913) and "Per la Patria!" (1915). “In the Speech fr...
Claire is the beautiful daughter of the director of the steelworks. Revolutionaries storm the director's estate during a strike, and the director is killed. Worker Albert Fjeld remembers that Claire h...
Documentation of the city of Wetzlar in Hesse at the end of the war in November 1918, including Braunfelser Straße and Silhöfertorstraße. Buildings are decorated with wreaths and garlands of fir br...
Young Espen has been wrongfully accused of a theft at school. Worried that no one will believe him, he runs away from home, boards a ship and experiences many adventures. When he later escapes the clu...
Young hairdresser Elisabeth Borg wins the lottery and treats herself to an Easter holiday at a mountain resort. Here she is subjected to the advances of a sly deadbeat, but is rescued by-and becomes e...
An uproarious comic, in which a novel duel by shrapnel is seen, the shells being strapped on the back of each combatant and hammers provided. The two have a most exciting time. Some clever trick...
The film shows a beautiful Winter's day in Nordmarka outside Oslo where people take the tram to the forest to go skiing and sledging.
From the centennial of the Norwegian constitution at Eidsvoll in 1914. King Haakon, Queen Maud and Crown Prince Olav are present.
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.
Documentary about gold extraction methods in the Aruwimi River area. All the various stages are illustrated. Rivers and rocks are first explored and then drilled. Once raw materials are sorted accordi...
An unidentified (and unfortunately incomplete) exotic melodrama, tends towards De Mille's The Cheat. Considered by specialists as a German film.
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the city and cathedral at Amiens after the German failure to capture the city, 5th-7th April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on ...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...