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During the Austro Hungarian empire, a girl substitutes for her brother in a military academy.
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Fred Holme is looking for candidates for the beauty contest in his London newspaper. In Rome he discovered the most beautiful woman in the world, the young arts and craftswoman Lucia Sarlo.
Carnevalesca with the beautiful Lydia Borelli is divided into four parts: white carnival - innocent and pure childhood, blue carnival - love and youth, red carnival - violent and destructive passion, black carnival - death and madness.
One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.
Italian Silent Film
German silent film about the life of Martin Luther
Marriage and sexuality is examined through the lens of screenwriter Dr. van de Velde, a Dutch gynocologist.
The young student Mary spends the beginning of her holiday with boat trips, visits to her wealthy groom, and gardening. In fast-paced, rhythmic cuts, Louise and Jakob Fleck draw their audience into a carefree, urban romantic comedy. With a single scene, however, it turns into a melodrama about sexual violence, shame and perpetrator-victim reversal.
The actress Francesca Bertini, as every diva worthy of her name, always arrives on the set extremely late. One day, in the studio, she happened to hear a colleague actor who, back from the front, tells about the brutalities suffered by the civilians in the occupied territories. At night, still troubled by that story, Bertini falls asleep and dreams: in her dream she plays the role of Mariute, a young Friulian countrywoman, mother of three kids waiting for her husband homecoming from the frontline. One day, while she is going to the well for water, she is assaulted and molested by three enemy soldiers. Her father-in-law will avenge her. In the meantime Bertini, waking up with a start, will arrive to work on time and she will end the film inviting the public to put their savings into the war bonds.
In "Fabiola" (1918) Herr Guarzzoni moved from the earliest days of Christianity when the new faith was struggling to just survive to a later period in the Roman Empire when the religion was a major force and attempting to win over Rome.
Based on the play of the same name by Oskar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg.
A favorite student of an old dance teacher gets casted in an important pantomime. When the teacher dies on the stage, she finds support from a journalist's affection to overcome the difficult moment.
The story of the film «La storia di una donna», in which Pina Menichelli played the main role, is typical for «divas-films» – it’s about beauty and weakness of a woman, insidiousness and cowardice of men, inevitable destiny and mad passion…
Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money, but her fiance has left.After getting her godfather's permission for a "white wedding," she realizes she loves the godfather instead.
Love in the Snow (German: Liebe im Schnee) is a 1929 German silent film directed by Max Obal and Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Livio Pavanelli, Maria Paudler and Georg Alexander.
Hans von Trass is a high-ranking German diplomat. When a top-secret document is stolen, his fiancée Christa Varell strangely accuses herself of the theft in a letter. Von Trass entrusts master detective Stuart Webbs with the mysterious case - but is the man he contacted really Webbs?
