Showing posts with label 1927. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1927. Show all posts

08 December, 2011

Berlin - Symphony of a Metropolis (1927)

07 December, 2011

The Loves of Jeanne Ney (1927)

AKA:
Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney >> German
Lusts of the Flesh >> English

About:
He was one of the earliest Austrian Film Directors.

Starring:
Édith Jéhanne - Jeanne Ney
Uno Henning - Andreas Labov
Fritz Rasp - Khalibiev
Brigitte Helm - Gabrielle
Adolf E. Licho - Raymond Ney
Eugen Jensen - Andre Ney
Hans Jaray - Poitras
Sig Arno - Gaston (as Siegfried Arno)
Hertha von Walther - Margot
Vladimir Sokoloff - Zacharkiewicz
Jack Trevor
Mammey Terja-Basa
Josefine Dora
Heinrich Gotho
Margarete Kupfer - (as Küpfer)
Robert Scholz

Director:  Georg Wilhelm Pabst

18 September, 2011

Der Bettler vom Kölner Dom (1927)

AKA:
The Beggar from the Dome of Cologne

Starring:
Henry Stuart
Elza Temary
Carl de Vogt

Director: Rolf Randolf

30 April, 2009

Metropolis (1927)


Synopsis:
In the futuristic mega-city Metropolis, the "managers" live in luxurious skyscrapers while the workers live and toil underground. One day, as Freder, the son of Metropolis founder Joh Fredersen, is cavorting in the Eternal Gardens, he sees a beautiful girl who has with her a group of workers' children. She is quickly shooed away, but Freder follows her down to the workers' underworld. There, he sees the horrors of the workers' lives. He is appalled when an enormous machine, the M-Machine, violently explodes, killing dozens of workers. Freder confronts his father about the workers' plight and the accident at the M-Machine. Grot, foreman of the Heart Machine, informs Fredersen of several mysterious maps found in workers' pockets at the M-Machine. Angered by the news, Frederson fires Josaphat, his clerk, and also orders a spy (credited as the "Thin Man") to tail his son.