一提默片，大都以为是看不了两分钟就倒掉呼呼大睡的类型。电影怎么能没有声音呢，没有声音谁能受的了，谁能坐在硬板凳上忸怩个把钟头，现在的好莱坞时不时都会搞得昏头大睡，在没有声音的光影中恐怕谁也坚持不住，哪怕来那么丁点音乐也是大大的不同。电影从来就是有声的，即使是在没有半点声响的默片时代，不信，你去听听看---城市的交响曲。清早起来，往来上班，中午下班，吃个午饭，睡个好觉，继续开来，待到下班，生活多彩。1927年柏林平凡的一天，可是怎么奏出个交响乐呢？火车飞驰在去往柏林的路上，清晨的柏林一片宁静，空旷的街上一个人也没有，慢慢的云动起来了，一张小纸片也飞来飞去，街上出现了第一个溜狗的人，第二个，第三个，人越来越多，一扇扇窗户打开了，越来越多的人从门里出来，上学学生们排着整齐的队伍和巡逻的士兵们遥相呼应，工厂的机器转起来了，人们开始了一天的工作。等等，这怎么个...
Frulein Else is a 1924 novella by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler.t has been adapted intothe German silent Frulein Else (1928).
Sylvester, by the hugely underrated Lupu Pick is one of the least known films of the silent era, and unjustly so. Pick, the director of the slightly less obscure Scherben (Shattered), is almost as forgotten as this, his masterpiece... a film that without doubt, in it's time, was one of the most important of the German silent era.
This great Kammerspiel is the middle entry in a ...
In the castle Vogeloed, a few aristocrats are awaiting baroness Saffersttt. But first count Oetsch invites himself.. Everyone thinks he murdered his brother, baroness Safferstat's first husband, three years ago. So he is rather undesirable. But Oetsch stays; arguing he is not the murderer and will find the real one...
本片主人公（爱米尔·强宁斯 Emil Jannings 饰）是一所大旅馆的看门人，一直以来他都为这份体面的工作感到自豪。当他下班后穿着神气的制服，回到自己所居住的贫民区时，邻居们都会向他投来羡慕的眼光。新一天开始了，如常上班的他却被告知老板要辞退他，因为他年纪太大了。但念在他工作多年的份上，老板把他调去打扫厕所，还要收 回他的金边制服。他一下子从神气十足的看门人变成了低三下四的厕所清洁工。不能接受这个事实的他，夜里潜入旅馆把制服偷了回来。他穿着制服去参加侄女的婚礼，没有把被调职一事告诉亲朋好友。很快，他的秘密被别人知道了，大家纷纷嘲笑他。他再也没有颜面去面对别人了，于是跑回旅馆归还了制服，失魂落魄地坐在厕所中。然而故事并没有就此结束……
影片改编自果戈里的小说《外套》。
聲譽日隆的醫生與妻子漸行漸遠，繼而戀上了跳舞女郎，和她搬到鄉下雙宿雙棲。兩人遇上失明的畫家，醫生治好了畫家的雙眼，而女郎則愛上了復明的畫家，直至畫家的眼睛再度失明……北海岸邊對比強烈的光影，襯托着生死愛戀的掙扎。茂瑙不斷反覆講述的三角戀愛和良心角力故事，在他這部最早的傳世作品中已經可見。改編自丹麥劇作家夏里亞布洛的作品《勝利者》。
影片节选自莫里哀的著名戏剧《伪君子》，一个寻常的早上，贪婪的女管家蛊惑主人写赠于遗嘱，老人的外孙来看老人，老人看不起做演员的外孙将他拒之门外，为了让老人清醒，外孙于是假扮了一个电影放映人放映了《伪君子》。戏中戏开始于商人奥格的妻子艾米丽等待远行的丈夫回家...
John, a young man raised by his aunt, is in love with Anna, a servant girl who is going to have his baby. He is willing to marry her but his stern aunt wants him to marry a rich girl. To separate the lovers, she arranges for her nephew to be enrolled at a university in a distant town. She then has Anna sent away to live with Torgus the coffinmaker and his mother where she will ...
