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ABWEGE (DEVIOUS PATH)
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Brigitte Helm (Metropolis) stars as a woman neglected by her self-absorbed husband who begins to mix with a questionable crowd in a trendy nightclub. Her encounters eventually lead to disastrous results. An interesting effort from director G.W. Pabst, who would make the masterful Pandora's Box the following year. Also known as Crisis and Desire. Silent with German intertitles. G.W. Pabst---Germany---1928---97 mins.
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ALRAUNE
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This silent film is the best of the three versions of this film based on Hanns Heinz Ewer's popular novel about Alraune (Brigitte Helm, Metropolis), the offspring of a prostitute artificially inseminated by a mad doctor (Paul Wegener) with the semen of a hanged man. German with English titles.
Henrik Galeen---Germany---1928---97 mins.
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ASPHALT (JOE MAY)
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This often overlooked silent German treasure stylishly incorporates expressionist techniques, a melodramatic storyline, and some arresting optical illusions. The story of a thieving femme fatale who seduces a young police officer, leading to murder, anticipates the plot devices of many a Hollywood film noir of later years. More accurately, however, it belongs to the early German genre of "street films," epitomized by Pabst's Joyless Street. Skillfully directed by film pioneer Joe May, the movie has fully retained its power to engage the audience and features some truly memorable images, including an audacious opening sequence. Definitely a film worthy of rediscovery. Starring Gustav Frohlich (Metropolis) and Betty Amann. Joe May---Germany---1929---93 mins.
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BROTHERS SCHELLENBERG
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In his last German-made film, Conrad Veidt gives a sensitive performance in dual roles as two brothers. The younger brother, a wealthy financier, is a womanizer who nearly ruins a young woman's life. The older brother, a philanthropist, operates a welfare center for needy persons and saves a woman's life. The film tries to depict through realism how miserable life was in the post-war Germany of the early 1920s. With Lil Dagover, Freida Richard, Wilhelm Bendow and Lianne Haid. Silent with English titles. Karl Grune---Germany---1926---82 mins.
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CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI- IMAGE
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The great Expressionist classic with Werner Krauss as Caligari, the fairground showman who hypnotizes his servant (Conrad Veidt) into committing murder at night. Famous for its distorted painted sets, its grotesque camera angles and its atmospheric horror, this cinematic landmark was mastered from a 35mm archive print with an orchestral score and has been projection speed-corrected. The restoration was overseen by renowned film preservationist David Shepard. Also included is a surviving excerpt from director Wiene's Genuine: A Tale of a Vampire (1919, 20 mins.). English intertitles. Robert Wiene---Germany---1919---72 mins.
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CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI- KINO
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The great Expressionist classic with Werner Krauss as Caligari, the fairground showman who hypnotizes his servant (Conrad Veidt) into committing murder at night. Famous for its distorted painted sets, its grotesque camera angles and its atmospheric horror, this cinematic landmark was mastered from a 35mm archive print with an orchestral score and has been projection speed-corrected. The restoration was overseen by renowned film preservationist David Shepard. Also included is a surviving excerpt from director Wiene's Genuine: A Tale of a Vampire (1919, 20 mins.). English intertitles. Robert Wiene---Germany---1919---72 mins.
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CESARE BORGIA
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The bloodthirsty reign of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia is at the center of this long-lost, silent classic film. Conrad Veidt plays one of the descendants of Pope Alexander VI. This ruthless historical character is said to have murdered several people, including his own brother Juan Borgia, and to have committed incest with his sister Lucretia. This careful psychological study of these figures is a thought-provoking examination of greed, lust and evil. Silent with English intertitles. Richard Oswald---Germany---1923---83 mins.
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DIARY OF A LOST GIRL
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In this milestone film, Louise Brooks stars as an innocent girl whose life collapses when she is made pregnant by her father's young assistant. In this follow-up to Pandora's Box, Brooks is just as riveting. This video release is mastered from a restoration by the Bologna Cinematheque in Italy, which adds nearly 16 minutes of previously censored footage never seen before in the U.S. This is an improvement over the 1983 reissue, formerly the definitive existing version. Silent with a new musical score by Joseph Turrin. G.W. Pabst---Germany---1929---116 mins.
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DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS/ ANDALUS
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Starring a very young Conrad Veidt and directed by pioneering German filmmaker Richard Oswald, the silent feature Different from the Others (1919) is one of the earliest films to deal openly with homosexuality. A prosperous man must confront a blackmailer who threatens to go public with his sexuality. Also included on this tape is the legendary collaboration between Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali -- the masterpiece of surrealism, Andalusian Dog (Un Chien Andalou) (1928). Richard Oswald/Luis Bunuel---Germany/France---1919/1928---27 mins./16 mins.
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DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS
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Director Richard Oswald and psychologist Dr. Magnus Hirschfield created this landmark film - one of the first gay-themed works in cinematic history - to help free homosexuals from oppression, and scorn. Conrad Veidt (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) plays a gay concert pianist whose romance with a handsome music student jeopardizes his career, his freedom, and possibly his life. Banned at the time of its release and thought permanently destroyed by the Nazis, the film was only recently resurrected. Its frank depiction of homosexual characters and culture is complex, tolerant, and strikingly modern. Richard Oswald---Germany---1919---50 mins.
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FROM MORN TO MIDNIGHT/ ETERNAL
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These rarely seen silent features represent two very different styles of early German filmmaking. From Morn to Midnight (Karl Heinz Martin, 1920, 41 mins.) is "a stylized blast of German expressionism" (Sean Axmaker, Film.com), very much in the vein of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Told with abstract, theatrical sets and a few frightening dissolves, it is the story of an ambitious man who defies social conventions only to be brought to destruction by his own decadent lifestyle. For decades this gem was believed lost, until a surviving print was found in Japan. Presented with no intertitles and a music score. The Eternal Doubt (Richard Oswald, 1918, 41 mins.) is a tragic tale of a wealthy man's marriage to a much younger woman. He learns that she is having an affair and her deception also leads him to suspect that their child is not his own. Filmed in a restrained, formal manner, usually limited to a single camera angle, the film is very much in the tradition of the very early silents; it is as much theater as cinema. The script is by E.A. Dupont, director of the great German silent, Variety. Presented with German intertitles, original color tinting, and a music score. Karl Heinz Martin/Richard Oswald---Germany---1920/1918---82 mins.
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GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM COLLECTION
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Shadows come alive, landscapes distort, and interior thoughts beget haunting exteriors. This is German Expressionism, exemplified by four classics from the Weimar era.
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GERMAN HORROR CLASSICS (SET)
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Includes beautifully restored versions of Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922, 93 mins.), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919, 75 mins.), The Golem (Paul Wegener/Carl Boese, 1920, 86 mins.), and Waxworks (Paul Leni, 1924, 83 mins.). These stylistically innovative and extremely influential features are cinematic touchstones that any lover of film--horror or otherwise--simply must own. Each disc is also loaded with bonus features, including shorts and excerpts from other films by the directors, photo and artwork galleries, musical score options, and much more.
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GERMAN HORROR COLLECTION
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Three brilliant examples of German expressionism, the horror genre, and silent cinema at its most powerful: F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922, 64 mins.); Paul Weneger and Carl Boese's The Golem (1920, 68 mins.); and Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919, 51 mins.). In addition to all three features, this DVD package includes extensive liner notes, photo still galleries, original poster art, lobby cards and more. (Note: The films were transferred at sound speed, resulting in shorter running times than on some
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GOLEM
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Based on the ancient Jewish legend of the clay figure created by Rabbi Loew in the 16th century to defend the Jews in the Prague ghetto against pogrom. In this great classic famous for its extraordinary crowd scenes and painted sets, the Golem falls in love with the Rabbi's daughter, terrorizes the emperor's court and is subdued by an innocent child. "The alternately terrified and exultant crowd at times recalls the flamboyant outlines and disjointed movement of a painting by El Greco" (Lotte Eisner). Restored by the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna. Silent with music track and English titles. Paul Wegener/Carl Boese---Germany---1920---86 mins.
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HAMLET (SILENT GERMAN)
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"Dip the flags before her, for she is unique," said the legendary film historian Bela Balasz after seeing Asta Nielsen with her pale face and immense eyes in what is one of the most famous performances on film by this great actress of German expressionism. "In every film this woman who seems the quintessence, the epitome of her era, renews herself. In Hamlet, she is as vibrant as a Damascus sabre, the Danish Joan of Arc." Beautiful print. Sven Gade/Heinz Schall---Germany---1921---134 mins.
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HANDS OF ORLAC, THE (1924)
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Overshadowed somewhat by an American sound remake (Mad Love), this is the original expressionist horror classic from the director of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
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HARAKIRI (1919)
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Before M, Metropolis, and The Testament of Doctor Mabuse, German Expressionist director Fritz Lang made this 1919 adaptation of Madame Butterfly. In his trademark visual style, Lang tells the story of the daught er of a Buddhist priest who is trapped between her love for a handsome European soldier and the cultural obligations that threaten that love. Harakiri is the earliest surviving Lang picture and therefore a key document in the development of one of the 20th century's true creative giants. Fritz Lang---Germany---1919---80 mins.
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HELENA ( 1924 )
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This screen translation of Homer's mythic poem is an early and arresting version of epic filmmaking. Directed by German filmmaker Manfred Noa in the Sturm-und-Drang style, it's an intriguing glimpse at one German's ideas about history and mythology in the critical years between WWI and WWII. Manfred Noa---Germany---1924---145 mins.
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HOLY MOUNTAIN
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The greatest of director Arnold Fanck's mountain dramas set against the backdrop of the German Alps. A reclusive climber (Luis Trenker) and a young skier (Ernst Petersen) develop an intense rivalry in their pursuit of the affections of an alluring dancer, played by Leni Riefenstahl (who would go on to direct the Nazi propaganda films, Triumph of the Will and Olympia). A wonderfully photographed, silent classic. Arnold Fanck---Germany---1926---105 mins.
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