Mahler on the CouchSummer 1910: Plagued by jealousy, composer Gustav Mahler seeks help from Sigmund Freud. His crisis was caused by a love letter he received, but which was meant for his wife Alma. In...
After 15 years of marriage, Felix was left by his wife Valerie. Although their relationship had become routine, the separation came as a shock. For the lonely Felix, life now seems empty and meaningle...
Through animated maps, this film shows the different steps involved in the Battle of Haelen. Haelen was a cavalry battle on the Western Front at the beginning of World War I, taking place on August 12...
Bathing in the Lahn River Men in swimming trunks jump one after the other from a wooden jetty into the Lahn. From the second half on, the shot runs backwards. The film ends with a close-up of Günther...
The beginning of World War I disturbs the peaceful life of a small Dalmatian village. Fisherman Ivo Kralj leaves for war, leaving his young wife Maria and his mother; then he gets captured and soon th...
Spot Nr. 1 (00:37): VOLKSBANKEN "Lochkarte": A family photo is shown repurposed as a punch card. The stamps are reversed. With a zoom, the photo becomes a moving image showing the family happily toget...
"Hunger Blockade Germany" is one of three documentary films made by the American doctor and amateur filmmaker William Held during a stay in Berlin from 1919 to 1922. His films are especially interesti...
After the retreat of the Serbian army through Albania in late 1915, the French fleet transported around 150,000 Serbs to the island of Corfu in January and February 1916. Soldiers, exhausted from a st...
Young Drahota and his wife, a Russian girl named Taťána, return with the legionnaires from Russia. Before the War Drahota's family lived happily in the town, Drahota's father was a doctor and his si...
Young Frantík, living with his guardian, befriends Martička, the daughter of factory owner Simon. Frantík's mother, however, comes to take her son back with her and puts him in a children's home wh...