Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around. Soon fired for trying to court the owner's daughter, Pinkus lands another job in a more 'upmarket' shoe salon, only to be fired again, before charming a rich benefactress to fund his ultimate dream: Pinkus' Shoe Palace.
Helene Netzler (Asta Nielsen), the owner of the Gluckauf Copper Mine, learns that the mine is exhausted and that her own financial situation is thereby threatened. But with souveranity, and Diva-like, she solves the dramatic situation.
As part of its Women and the Silent Screen series held June 11-13, 2008, the Cinematecket in Stockholm will be screening a the 1916 Danish film ...
根据托尔斯泰的同名戏剧作品改编成的电影，由普多夫金主演，是前苏联默片时代晚期的一部杰作。
The Living Corpse (Zhivoy trup)
(Country: Germany, Soviet Union; Director: Fyodor Otsep; Writer: Boris Gusman, Anatoli Marienhof, Fyodor Otsep, Leo Tolstoy; Cast: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Maria Jacobini, Viola Garden, Julia Serda, Nato Vachnadze, Gustav Diessl, Vera Maretskaya, Dmitri Vvedensky, Vladimir Uralsky, Boris Barnet)
Late-silent ...
This film, the first version of the Juan Moreira story by Eduardo Gutiérrez (second filmed in 1973), exist. But it is not going to show up anywhere and neither Kino, Image, Milestone or anyone of those companies would ever bother to make it available.
In the meantime, I want to share with you this obscure theme that I found almost by accident in Buenos Aires. This score is from...
6 min
one of Zwartjes's first films
displays the strong influence of the New American Cinema he so admired
It examines the interplay between the restless eye of the camera and the equally neurotic actions of the cross-dressing protagonist, Lodewijk de Boer.
Time and scene of action - civil war, small city of a front strip just released by Red Army. But in the city and its vicinities white gangs at support of former officials and local clergy still conduct blasting work. The disguised security officers under a type of gang Knysh rush into city and, "to convert" white, provoke "soyuznichkov" to the open joint actions.
Silent film se...
A young, strong-willed girl called Cainà, tired of the small village life and its narrow-minded mentality, decides to leave the island and secretly boards a ship directed to Italy (or 'the continent,' as people from Sardinia commonly call it) and hides in the hold. Her escape unfortunately ends soon, when the captain finds her. Meanwhile Cainà's father, in an attempt to find hi...
The Statue of Liberty is seen in New York Harbor in 1898, filmed by the Edison Film Manufacturing Company.
