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Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rif...

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast

Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.

Runtime

1h 14m

Director

Fred Zinnemann, Curt Siodmak

Cast

Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelt...

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Cast

Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

F. W. Murnau

Cast

George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Runtime

3h 20m

Director

David Lean

Cast

Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin