Movies: Maria Jacobini

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont....

A decadent noblewoman, whose stranded husband has dilapidated their whole fortune on gambling, tries to keep her daughter in school while hiding their state of poverty from her, by leading a double life as an exotic dancer....

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A neglected Baroness falls in love with her oldest son's military officer friend, their adulterous romance leading the two to flee to Algeria....

The central character of the play, Fedor Protasov, is tormented by the belief that his wife Liza has never really chosen between him and the more conventional Victor Karenin, a rival for her hand. He wants to kill himself, but doesn't have the nerve....

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The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox....

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An engineer, devastated by the death of his fiance during a mountain expedition in north Italy, hopes he might forget about her by marrying a young nurse who adores him. But one day he returns to the mountain retreat where he’d had such happy days wi...

The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...

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A young woman accidentally becomes a movie star....

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The story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci....

Two young men move to the city in order to study. One of them gets entangled in a love triangle....

A snowy Italian drama directed by Gennaro Righelli....

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A costume drama from Roman times. Three out of the original six reels survive....