Helena Makowska
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Liebet das Leben
Oct 10, 1924La tartaruga
Apr 01, 1918A woman wears a turtle pendant as a sign of how she keeps her distance from men and marriage.
Kochanka Szamoty
Mar 17, 1927
Das Geheimnis einer Stunde
Jan 01, 1925
Diva Dolorosa
Oct 21, 1999In this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut (Lyrical Nitrate) affectionately captures the spirit of the World War One-era cinema diva. In all-but-lost gems such as La donna nuda (1914), and Tigre reale (1916), superstars such as Lyda Borelli and Pina Menichelli portrayed heroines teetering dangerously between defiant indulgence in sexual passion and hysterical remorse at their own cruelties. Delpeut’s inventive celebration of Black Romanticism is both striking and heartbreaking in its composition—a beautifully woven narrative of tempted fate and self-torment, elegantly guided by Loek Dikker’s original score. Zeitgeist Films is proud to present Delpeut’s stunningly experimental work in all its heaving bosomed, luridly tinted glory.
Documentary
La valigia dei sogni
Oct 29, 1953In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The protagonist is a former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction, and uses them to set up recreational performances at schools. After an accidental fire and the risk of prison, he meets a rich producer who helps him to build a film museum.
Comedy
Quo Vadis
Nov 08, 1951À Rome, le général Marcus Vinicius rencontre Lygia, une esclave, dont il tombe amoureux. Mais elle est chrétienne et ne veut rien avoir à faire avec un homme de guerre. Marcus la rachète pourtant à l'empereur Néron, mais elle s'échappe avec l'aide d'un ami. En la retrouvant, Marcus va apprendre à connaître les Chrétiens.
Drama
Lucciola
Feb 02, 1917Die Zirkusdiva
Aug 30, 1924Die vier letzten Sekunden des Quidam
Mar 11, 1924
Taras Bulba
Jun 07, 1924Adventure
Der Tiger des Zirkus Farini
Aug 02, 1923Adventure
Il Fauno
Jun 01, 1917The model Fede loves the writer Arte, but he is enmeshed by the beautiful Femmina. Fede takes comfort in the Faun, a mythological creature who becomes animated from the stone sculpted by Arte. The love story with the Faun represents a return to a dreamt wildness impossible by now, for the modern man, to reach and maintain.
Mystery
Judith
Jun 04, 1923Judith, Count Robert de Bertan's daughter, is on holiday with her friend Louise and her father Marquis Emile de Fers. Meanwhile, banker Charles Delcourt has introduced De Bertan to the owner of a gambling-and-dance hall, Olga Tatschowas. De Bertan, unaware that his banker has lost the capital he gave him to invest at Olga's gambling tables, falls in love with Olga. He marries her, unaware that he is the victim of a plot hatched by Delcourt and Olga, who desires a title and De Bertan's possession.
Drama
Caino
Jan 22, 1918The singer Cécile Hervey celebrates great achievements, while her sister Elda lives quietly with her aunt Claire on land. Elda is engaged to neighbor Bruno Leveson, but is irresistibly attracted by his brother Raoul, which she will marry. Raoul cheats on her, even before the marriage, with her sister Cecile.
Drama
Addio giovinezza!
Feb 02, 1918Two young men move to the city in order to study. One of them gets entangled in a love triangle.
Comedy
Moderne Ehen
Dec 10, 1924La dame en gris
Nov 01, 1919
Amleto
Nov 01, 1917The short film tells the story of Hamlet, who was forced to flee from the treachery of the usurper of the throne who had killed all the relatives of the young. But he will now return to the castle to avenge his father ...
Family
Kiedy kobieta zdradza męża
Dec 27, 1924When 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
Il sogno di un tramonto d'autunno
Dec 11, 1911
Il fiacre n. 13
Jan 01, 1917Il Fiacre n. 13, from the novel of the same title by Xavier Henri Aymon Perrin, Count of Montépin, a highly prolific and much-loved author whose books were vehicles for the depiction of social inequality, narrating stories of love, death, betrayal, blackmail, and redemption. The sweeping narrative of Il Fiacre n. 13 was mutilated by the Italian censor’s suppression of its first part, the most cynical episode, which sets the scene for a scheme discernable in the other three episodes, as the story develops from a sordid murder through plotting and deceit to finally reach a happy ending.
Crime
Czerwony błazen
Oct 13, 1926Crime
