Der Student von Prag
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Nana
A government official, Count Muffat, falls under the spell of Nana, a young actress. She becomes his mistress, living in the sumptuous apartment which he Continue Reading
The Joyless Street
In 1921 in the poor part of an Austrian town called Melchiorgasse there are only two wealthy people: the butcher Josef Geiringer and his wife. Continue Reading
Variety
The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. Continue Reading
Tartuffe
Young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets his own Continue Reading
Waxworks
A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Continue Reading
The Burning Soil
The film follows tells the story of a struggle over a plot of petroleum-rich land. Considered lost until 1978, the film was discovered to have Continue Reading
Othello
Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of Continue Reading
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is eerie and expressionistic, silent and surreal. It has become not only a classic of German Expressionist cinema, but a Continue Reading
