简介:Atka Natas is a secret agent from the oppressive regime of Liquidatzia. He visits his estranged wife Vera, a chemist who is involved with a group of exiles trying to smuggle their compatriots out of Liquidatzia. Almkvist, an honest local policeman and former lover of Vera's, contacts her while investigating the death of one of the refugees. Natas has a list of agents operating in the host country and wants to sell them to the Americans. However before he can do so, Vera tries to kill him, after an argument about getting her parents out of Liquidatzia.
简介:Two differences between this Austrian version and the generally available American version are immediately obvious they differ both in their length and in the language of the intertitles. The American version is only 1,883 metres long - at 18 frames per second a difference of some 7 minutes to the Austrian version with 2,045 metres. Whereas we originally presumed only a negligible difference, resulting from the varying length of the intertitles, a direct comparison has nevertheless shown that the Austrian version differs from the American version both in the montage and in the duration of individual scenes. Yet how could it happen that the later regional distribution of a canonical US silent film was longer than the original version The prevalent American version of Blind Husbands does not correspond to the version shown at the premiere of 1919. This little-known fact was already published by Richard Koszarski in 1983. The film was re-released by Universal Pictures in 1924, in a version that was 1,365 feet (416 metres) shorter. At 18 frames per second, this amounts to a time difference of 20 minutes! Titles were altered, snippets of action removed and at least one major scene taken out entirely, where von Steuben and Margaret visit a small local chapel. (Koszarski) From the present state of research we can assume that all the known American copies of the film derive from this shortened re-release version, a copy of which Universal donated to the Museum of Modern Art in 1941. According to Koszarski the original negative of the film was destroyed sometime between 1956 and 1961 and has therefore been irretrievably lost. This information casts an interesting light on the Austrian version, which can be dated to the period between the summer of 1921 and the winter of 1922. Furthermore, the copy is some 200 metres longer than the US version of 1924. If one follows the details given by Richard Koszarski and Arthur Lennig, this means that, as far as both its date and its length are concerned, the Austrian version lies almost exactly in the middle between the (lost) version shown at the premiere and the re-released one.A large part of the additional length of the film can be traced to cuts that were made to the 1924 version in almost every shot. Koszarski describes how the beginning and the end of scenes were trimmed, in order to speed up the film. However, more exciting was the discovery that the Austrian version contains shots that are missing in the American one - shotscountershots, intertitles - and furthermore shows differences in its montage (i.e. the placing of the individual shots within a sequence). All this indicates that Die Rache der Berge constitutes the oldest and most completely preserved material of the film.
简介:Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing dead. This isn't terribly effective (you have to take a breath once in a while), so the wife of the burgomaster tries to soften up the invaders with a lavish carnival. So successful is this venture that the Spaniards allow the village to escape being decimated, or even taxed. An award-winner many times over, Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germany; evidently, Goebbels caught on that director Jacques Feyder and scenarists Bernard Zimmer and Charles Spaak were drawing deliberate parallels between the Spanish and the then-burgeoning Nazis.
主演:霍尔格·洛文纳德勒,安娜·林达尔,比耶·马尔姆斯滕,耶特鲁德·弗里德,内米·布里泽,约迪丝·彼得松,拉塞·克兰茨,扬·莫兰德,埃里克·黑尔,奥克·弗里德尔,道格拉斯·霍格,Ami Aaröe,托尔尼·安德伯格,英格玛·伯格曼,Rolf Bergström,John W. Björling,Ingrid Borthen,Gustaf Hiort af Ornäs,Svea Holst,基基,乌诺·拉松,彼得·林德格伦,Gunnar Nielsen,Charles White
简介:Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is completely despondent. Seven years earlier, obstreperous Alexander Blom, brings his mistress Sally to live with him, his wife Alice, son Johannes, and crew, aboard the salvage boat he captains. Amidst all the tensions on the small boat, Johannes and Sally fall in love with each other. Written by Will Gilbert
简介:著名同志喜剧“外出就餐”已成为像“美国派”一样的品牌系列。本集主角是眼睛大大的男生凯西(丹尼尔·斯凯尔顿 Daniel Skelton 饰)。他刚搬来小城,和前两集的放荡同人女蒂凡尼(丽贝卡·科芡 Rebekah Kochan 饰)一见如故,被后者哄去同志社区中心做志愿者。在那里他遇到了型男扎克(克里斯·萨尔瓦托 Chris Salvatore 饰)。凯西觉得自己不会是扎克喜欢的类型,但芳心难奈下决定网聊搭讪,而蒂凡尼慷慨的出借前男友——脱衣猛男莱恩(迈克尔E.R.沃克 Michael E.R. Walker 饰)的照片和档案。凯西顺利的让扎克爱上了这个拥有虚假外表的自己,但他没有意识到真正打动扎克的是他的兴趣和梦想。莱恩的意外回归将所有谎言踢爆,凯西想挽回扎克对他的感觉,于是毅然报名参加同志社区的慈善义卖......