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German cinema: 1950s

Dorothea Angermann (1959)
Robert Siodmak

Late one evening, a young woman walks out of a bar and confesses to the murder of her husband. At her trial, Dorothea Angermann looks back on the events that have brought her to this tragic outcome...   [More...]

Lola Montès (1955)
Max Ophüls

By the 1850s, Lola Montès is one of most notorious women of her time. Her love affairs with composers, kings and other men of distinction are legendary...   [More...]

Marianne, meine Jugendliebe (1955)
Julien Duvivier

Vincent Loringer's arrival at a private school in Bavaria creates an immediate stir. The strangely charismatic adolescent who can draw wild animals towards him casts a spell over the other boys, who are enthralled by the stories he tells of his former life on a farm in Argentina...   [More...]

Die Ratten (1955)
Robert Siodmak

Soon after World War II, a penniless young refugee, Pauline Karka, wanders Berlin looking for the boyfriend who has abandoned her...   [More...]

Der Verlorene (1951)
Peter Lorre

In the immediate aftermath of WWII, Dr Karl Neumeister works in a refugee camp, immunising displaced people in the ruins of a defeated Germany...   [More...]

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