Ihrer materiellen Not wegen will sich Anna in der Donau ertränken. Dem arbeitslosen Chauffeur Hans geht es nicht besser, doch er stellt sich ihr in den Weg. Zu zweit fühlen sie sich ihren Existenzsorgen besser gewachsen und gehen fortan al…

On 20th July 1944, Colonel Baron Schenk von Stauffenberg made an attempt to kill Hitler using a bomb at his "Fuehrer headquarters" in eastern Prussia.This is definitely not shot in Tom Cruise-style... G.W. Pabst has reconstructed events up to the colonel's court martial and execution chronologically and in a …

GREAT CONDUCTORS OF THE THIRD REICH includes stunning newsreel footage showing that Böhm, Furtwängler, Karajan, Knappertsbusch and Krauss, among others, turned themselves and their art into Nazi propaganda. The Nazis wanted to be percei…

After 16 years' experience on stage, the actor and playwright Curt Goetz (1888-1960) made his debut as a film director and producer with the silent movie Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend (1923). Writing razor sharp dialogue was his profession; acting comic parts in the theatre - without having to renounce speech…