Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit

6.7

Water for Canitoga

March 1939 •German

In the spring of 1905, the water conduit project in the Canadian city of Canitoga is set to be completed. For years, the completion had been marred by sabotage. Engineer Oliver Montstuart commands the last blasting operation. But again, the explosive charge is too large and thus, further construction is forestalled again. When Montstuart confronts foreman Westbrook, the foreman threatens him with a knife. In self-defence, Montstuart shoots him. Now, he has to flee.

6.2

In Our Village

September 1951 •Romanian

The film shows that Romanian peasants were divided between those opposing and those embracing collectivization. The heated debates between the pro and con camps would ultimately lead to murder.

7.5

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

April 1936 •English

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

0.0

Catherine' Marriage

August 1950 •Hungarian

Kis Katalin and Varga Jóska are getting married. During their honeymoon they are preparing plans for the future. Katalin, however, seems to lag behind both in her studies and the work competition, becoming a couch potato version of a wife. Jóska, instead of trying to help, does nothing else than his work.

8.0

Springtime in Budapest

April 1955 •Hungarian

At Christmas Eve in 1944 the runaway Pintér and Gozsó get through the Soviet blockade around Budapest. Pintér intends to hide in a flat abandoned by his own relatives, but he finds his relatives called the Turnovszkys, who are hiding the Jewish Jutka as well. Love unfolds between Zoltán and Jutka.

6.0

The Soil Under Your Feet

December 1948 •Hungarian

In 1905 Hungary, a young village woman has just undergone a marriage to the spoiled son of a man to whom her father is indebted, in order that the debt be cancelled, only to be spirited away by her true love, a young peasant, by whom she soon becomes pregnant. Together they attempt to find a way to buy up her father's debt and also pay for a divorce from her husband, against various odds.

7.4

Cardinal Richelieu

April 1935 •English

The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.

0.0

The Storm

December 1952 •Hungarian

Vörös Hajnal (Red Dawn), a co-operative is the venue of skylarking, while the storm destroys the wheat which is to be harvested soon. Árendás, a middle-peasant, voices severe accusations against members of the co-operative: out of negligence, they failed to keep the ditches clean. It is always the soft option they seem to favour, while the necessity of properly taking care of the farmlands is long-forgotten. Members of the co-operative and the village people are deeply divided.

0.0

Fourteen Lives

September 1954 •Hungarian

September 1952 in a mine in Northern-Hungary after an explosion water breaks in from the neighbouring shaft and fourteen miners become trapped. The whole country unites to save them.

5.6

Little Mother

February 1935 •German

A girl from a boarding school finds a baby and has to keep it because she seems to be the real mother to everyone.

0.0

Andalusische Nächte

July 1938 •German

When the dancer Carmen visits the bullfighter Antonio, who has stabbed a gypsy, in prison, she meets the dragoon brigadier José. The two immediately take a liking to each other, and from that day on, José often visits the café where Carmen dances. When Carmen injures another dancer in a jealous quarrel, José is ordered to arrest her...

0.0

Carola Lamberti

November 1954 •German

Carola has been running the family-owned circus alone since her husband’s death, but she suddenly finds herself at odds with her three adult sons who are also performance artists and want to have a say in how the business is run. The family discord leads Carola to turn her back on the circus, leaving the three inexperienced sons in charge. This turn of events forces the family to learn to work together or face bankruptcy.

5.0

The Fox of Glenarvon

January 1940 •German

An English peace judge in an Irish district is married to an Irishwoman. She is a caring patriot. He is heavily indebted by a life of luxury, and doesn't shy away from dark deeds to maintain his lifestyle. Anti-Britsh propaganda film.

0.0

The Case of Dr Wagner

October 1954 •German

Dr. Wagner is a scientist currently working on an experiment for the Asta plant in East Berlin. If the experiment is successful its a brilliant new invention. But Wagner is the target of sabotage, and all the decisive experiment fails. Wagner can not explain this setback.

7.0

Die Unbesiegbaren

March 1953 •German

The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat movement.

0.0

The Uprooted

January 1950 •Bengali

After Partition, a large group of farmers from East Bengal have to migrate to Calcutta.

5.5

Kind der Donau

May 1950 •German

Marika is a cheerful girl who lives on the Danube aboard an old barge she inherited from her father. She works as a waitress in her aunt's inn, entertaining the guests with singing and dancing. Her greatest dream is to save enough money to repair the old barge and sail down the Danube. One day, she meets three young artists, Georg, Oskar, and Christoph, who all fall in love with her. Together, they put on an open-air revue and raise the necessary money. And with Georg, Marika is lucky in love.

5.0

The Bridge

January 1949 •Chinese

Factory workers in 1947 repair a bridge over Song Hua River so that Communist forces can use it.

7.0

Operette

December 1940 •German

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic opera manager end in abrupt firing in spite of a mutual attraction. He's quickly engaged by another theatre and becomes famous for his lavish stage productions and fine acting, which begins their golden age with Suppé and Strauss.

5.0

The Girl and the Oak

February 1955 •

Smilja is a little girl living in Dalmatian Zagora. One day, her mother dies under a small oak tree and she is left without parents. Luckily, she gets adopted and continues to nurture the oak where her mother died. Many years later, Smilja is a handsome woman, but her jealous stepbrother Josip kills her boyfriend Ivan and rapes her. Ivan's brothers swear revenge.

Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit

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Cast

Sybille Schmitz

Albrecht Schoenhals

Maria von Tasnady

Hans Leibelt

Bernhard Minetti

Hansi Arnstaedt

Paul Bildt

Hans Zesch-Ballot

Rudolf Schündler

Erwin Biegel

Dorit Kreysler

Eduard von Winterstein

Margarete Kupfer

Hermann Pfeiffer

Ilse Rose-Vollborn

Georg H. Schnell

Paul Otto

Bruno Ziener

Oscar Sabo

Alfred Stratmann

Lucie Euler

Eva Klein-Donath

Arthur Schröder

Fred Goebel

Georg A. Profé

Egon Brosig

Antonie Jaeckel

Ilse Pütz

Leo Sloma

Franz Arzdorf

Curt Cappi

Ernst Albert Schaach

Albert Probeck

Georg Gartz

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