Acting
Swiss actor.
A deranged woman artist falls in love with a young sculptor. The impossible love ends tragically.
Based on Honore de Balzac’s story of Madame de Langeais. Costume drama about the infamous loves of the countess.
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In 1756, a masked ball was officially celebrated in the Dresden Palais of the Saxon Minister Heinrich von BrĂĽhl. Unofficially, however, talks are taking place with the envoys of Austria, Russia and France with the aim of conspiring against the Prussian King Frederick II. The Prussian envoy, Major von Lindeneck, succeeded in bringing a copy of the concluded secret treaty to the Prussian king. Friedrich consults with his generals, who urge caution. Friedrich is stunned by the reaction and now develops a counter-plan. To do this, he sends von Lindeneck back to Dresden. However, the latter is not very enthusiastic about this, as he thinks he has reason to doubt his wife Blanche's marital fidelity, and he now has to leave her alone.
A lighthouse keeper's wife shelters her fugitive lover.
The story of General Yorck von Wartenburg, a commander in the army of Prussian King Wilhelm, who defied the king's orders for the Prussian army to join Napoleon in his invason of Russia.
Chicago gangsters use cunning and a series of false identities in a violent battle for dominance, all while attempting to dodge the police.
German silent drama
The story revolves around the confusion that arises when a supposed gold discovery in Valais divides the village community. The plot combines elements of a cultural film about old customs in the Lötschental valley with a naive storyline that achieves a strangely powerful effect through its simple realism.
A modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital, and finds him in the form of a London policeman-boxer. She's also interested in having a child.
