Béla Balázs

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Sodom und Gomorrha
5.8

Sodom und Gomorrha

Oct 13, 1922

Sodom und Gomorrha
1922 98 min 12 vues
Exposed to bad influences since childhood, Mary, a young girl is pushed by her mother to approach an elderly banker by the name of Harber. After almost driving her fiancee to suicide and seducing his mentally-ill son, she realizes through a metaphorical dream the scope of her negligence. Sentenced to prison for incitement to murder Harber, she sees herself as a parallel figure to Lea, Lot's wife in Sodom, where the Angel of the Lord warns the sinful citizens of the city of their impending doom. Lea oppresses the angel and eventually turns it over to the pagan priests when her sexual advances to it are rejected. In another dream sequence, Mary becomes the Queen of Syria, whose oppressed people turn against her and who, in turn, condemns a young man who loves her to death. Finally, her dream returns to the present time and when she awakens, she runs back to her former lover.
Drama
Вор
1

Вор

Jan 01, 1935

Вор
1935 9 min 1 vues
A Soviet cartoon with an original electronic musical score.
Animation
Sonntag des Lebens
1

Sonntag des Lebens

Jan 29, 1931

Sonntag des Lebens
1931 79 min 1 vues
Ellen Hobart is a gold-digging manicurist who sights her sights on David Stone, a wealthy young man. After they marry, Hobart is persuaded to accept $50,000 to give her husband up. She willingly goes along with this arrangement, only to realize she's genuinely in love with the boy when he falls dangerously ill. German-language version of the American pre-code film The Devil's Holiday.
Drama
La Lumière bleue
6.759

La Lumière bleue

Mar 24, 1932

La Lumière bleue
1932 85 min 27 vues
A young woman, Junta, lives apart from her village and, for her solitude and strangeness, is considered to be a witch; when she comes to the village for one reason or another, the townsfolk chase her away. They feel that she may in some way be responsible for the deaths of several young men of the village, who have felt compelled, one by one, to climb the local mountain - and fall to their deaths - on nights when the moon is full.
Drama
Quelque part en Europe
6.2

Quelque part en Europe

Dec 23, 1947

Quelque part en Europe
1947 100 min 14 vues
1944. A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who’s hiding out in a ruined castle. After the initial altercation between them the gang accepts his guidance and he wins their respect by protecting them from the elements.
Drama
La Lumière bleue
6.759

La Lumière bleue

Mar 24, 1932

La Lumière bleue
1932 85 min 27 vues
A young woman, Junta, lives apart from her village and, for her solitude and strangeness, is considered to be a witch; when she comes to the village for one reason or another, the townsfolk chase her away. They feel that she may in some way be responsible for the deaths of several young men of the village, who have felt compelled, one by one, to climb the local mountain - and fall to their deaths - on nights when the moon is full.
Drama
L'Opéra de quat'sous
7.1

L'Opéra de quat'sous

Feb 18, 1931

L'Opéra de quat'sous
1931 112 min 53 vues
A young woman, Junta, lives apart from her village and, for her solitude and strangeness, is considered to be a witch; when she comes to the village for one reason or another, the townsfolk chase her away. They feel that she may in some way be responsible for the deaths of several young men of the village, who have felt compelled, one by one, to climb the local mountain - and fall to their deaths - on nights when the moon is full.
Music
L'Opéra de quat'sous
6.6

L'Opéra de quat'sous

Jun 08, 1931

L'Opéra de quat'sous
1931 104 min 11 vues
A young woman, Junta, lives apart from her village and, for her solitude and strangeness, is considered to be a witch; when she comes to the village for one reason or another, the townsfolk chase her away. They feel that she may in some way be responsible for the deaths of several young men of the village, who have felt compelled, one by one, to climb the local mountain - and fall to their deaths - on nights when the moon is full.
Music
Veszélyes játékok
1

Veszélyes játékok

May 01, 1980

Veszélyes játékok
1980 92 min 1 vues
1934, Germany. The ten-year-old Peter lives in a small town with his parents. His father, an underground Communist, is arrested. In the summer vacation the kids from the neighbourhood fight in two teams, which prevail in turns. One team, led by Ewald, imitates the Nazis, while the other, headed by Fritz, follows his Communist father's example.
Drama
Poulenc: La Voix Humaine / Bartók: Le Château de Barbe-Bleue
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Poulenc: La Voix Humaine / Bartók: Le Château de Barbe-Bleue

Jun 01, 2018

Poulenc: La Voix Humaine / Bartók: Le Château de Barbe-Bleue
2018 121 min 1 vues
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in Poulenc’s monologue, the director Krzysztof Warlikowski perceives a shared dramatic thread, a shared feminine consciousness and a shared sense of imprisonment and suffocation: for the woman who penetrates the confines of Bluebeard’s castle and Elle, the woman who clings to a telephone conversation with a man as the only thing worth living for, are condemned to share the same fate. And this man she speaks to, does he really exist? Unless the director has interpreted Cocteau’s words to the letter and the telephone has become a “terrifying weapon that leaves no trace, makes no noise”…
Music
Doña Juana
1

Doña Juana

Jan 24, 1928

Doña Juana
1928 137 min 1 vues
A Spanish nobleman raises his only daughter as a boy, similarly to Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933). In adulthood, Juana's upbringing causes complications in her love life. Possibly an early example of genderqueer representation.
Comedy
Narkose
1

Narkose

Sep 09, 1929

Narkose
1929 66 min 1 vues
Young Angélique has a crush on the famous writer René Vernon. One night she follows him, sleeps with him and becomes pregnant. Years later, she meets Vernon again, but he doesn't recognize her...
Romance
Иоланта/Замок герцога «Синяя борода»
5

Иоланта/Замок герцога «Синяя борода»

Feb 14, 2015

Иоланта/Замок герцога «Синяя борода»
2015 186 min 1 vues
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind princess of the title in Tchaikovsky’s lyrical work, opposite Piotr Beczala as Vaudémont, the man who wins her love—and wakes her desire to be able to see. Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko are Judith and Bluebeard in Bartók’s gripping psychological thriller about a woman discovering her new husband’s murderous past.
Music
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
1

Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża

Dec 27, 1924

Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
1924 137 min 1 vues
When Professor Horski learns that his wife has published a volume of novellas under his name entitled "Wife" he feels compromised and is angered at her. But as he reads them, he finds that they are great. Also, he reads in them a warning to himself: one should not neglect one's wife for the sake of academic work. The film is considered to be lost.
Comedy
Herzog Blaubarts Burg
7.7

Herzog Blaubarts Burg

Dec 15, 1963

Herzog Blaubarts Burg
1963 61 min 10 vues
Based on the Béla Bartók opera, Duke Bluebeard reluctantly and gradually uncovers the secrets of his psyche to his fourth wife, Judit, opening the seven doors of his castle to ultimately reveal his still living previous wives, among whom Judit must take her place.
TV Movie