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Two years after revolutionizing the science fiction film with his epic Metropolis, director Fritz Long revisited the genre with an ambitious spectacle that dramatizes the first lunar expedition. Rather than a flight of pure fantasy, Lang, screenwriter Thea von Harbou and a group of technical consultants conceived a modernized "Trip to the Moon" grounded in state-of-the-art astrophysics. Spiced with romance and espionage (including a network of diabolical...
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Siegfried establishes larger-than-life heroic characters who are defined by tests of valor and rigid codes of honor. In order to win the hand of Kriemhild, Siegfried must win a bride for her brother, King Gunther. Kriemhild's Revenge begins after the death of Siegfried, and weaves the treacherous tale of his widow's ungodly vengeance upon his murderers. The noble qualities of the first film become liabilities in the second, as the blood oaths and...
8) Spies
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Spies: First "modern" spy film. A power-hungry banker with many disguises marshals his forces to steal the secrets of an important treaty.-- M: Perhaps the greatest example of German expressionism on the screen. Drama, social commentary, satire, and an anatomy of a crime are some of the elements of this dark masterpiece. Peter Lorre plays a psychopathic killer of children who successfully evades police but is eventually confronted by the code of the...
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The story of an aging doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved of the duties and uniform which had for years been the foundation of his happiness and pride. More than the plight of a single doorman, however, it is a mourful dramatization of the frustration and anguish of the universal working class. -- Based on container summary.
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"Lotte Reiniger's enchanting 1926 animated masterpiece The Adventures of Prince Achmed is all about magic - from the flying horse our hero rides into a series of wondrous adventures to the glorious bird who removes her plumage to reveal that she is a princess in disguise. Throw in Aladdin, an evil sorcerer, and a powerful witch, and you have a timeless story of love, jealousy, revenge, and transformation."--Container.
11) The Golem
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Set in sixteenth century Prague, a Jewish rabbi creates a giant golem from clay to protect his people from persecution, using black magic. The creature turns on his master with disastrous results.
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