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- DirectorRobert BressonStarsIsabelle WeingartenGuillaume des ForêtsJean-Maurice MonnoyerJacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsPierre ClémentiTina AumontSergio TofanoBernardo Bertolucci, along with co-scenarist Gianni Amico, used Dostoievski's 1846, pre-imprisonment novella The Double: A Petersburg Poem, which they moved to Italy and updated to the pro-Vietcong student-protest present.
- DirectorMaximilian SchellStarsJohn Moulder-BrownDominique SandaMaximilian SchellBased on Ivan Turgeyev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the girl (Dominique Sanda as Sanaida) falls in love with the boy's father (Maximilian Schell). This film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970's Academy Awards.
- DirectorLaurence OlivierJohn SichelStarsJeanne WattsJoan PlowrightLouise PurnellNearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.
- DirectorAleksander FordStarsGunther MalzacherElzbieta CzyzewskaPeter SteenBased on Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel, this is the story of life as a political prisoner behind the walls of a Stalinist labor camp.
- DirectorCasper WredeStarsTom CourtenayEspen SkjønbergAlf MallandIvan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. He is innocent, but is sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp. The day begins with Shukhov waking up sick. For waking late, he is forced to clean the guardhouse, but this is a comparatively minor punishment. When Shukhov is finally able to leave the guardhouse, he goes to the dispensary to report his illness. It is relatively late in the morning by this time, however, so the orderly is unable to exempt any more workers and Shukhov must work. Based on the life of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsJames MasonVanessa RedgraveSimone SignoretFilm adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsGianni GarkoAgostina BelliRoberto MalderaThe patriarch of a wealthy family fears that he will show up one day in vampire form. Should this happen, he warns his family to not let him back into his house, no matter how much he begs them.
- DirectorVojtech JasnýStarsWalter GillerGitte HænningJuraj HerzThree stories of adulterous temptation.
- DirectorLéonard KeigelStarsDita ParloMichel SuborSimone BachA countess married to Russia's envoy to the court of Louis XVI is a gambling addict and doesn't seem to mind that she loses nightly at the card table.Until a mysterious count entrusts her with a dangerous secret.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsOmar SharifJulie ChristieGeraldine ChaplinThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsOlivera MarkovicLjuba TadicKapitalina EricIn what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman's adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk.
- DirectorFerdinando BaldiHenri ZaphiratosStarsVladimir MedarLorella De LucaJean-François PoronDespite the disagreement of their mother, the sons of old Taras Bulba are taken to the Dnieper camp on their return from a Kiev seminary, to teach them how to become real Cossacks.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsTony CurtisYul BrynnerChristine KaufmannIn the 16th-century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and Ukrainian cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsBarbara SteeleJohn RichardsonAndrea ChecchiA vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.
- DirectorStellio LorenziStarsGabrielle DorziatArlette ThomasBetty SchneiderAnna Feodotovna Tomski, an old Russian countess, is said to be in possession of the "secret of the cards" that the famous magician Cagliostro once entrusted to her at the court of France. Her grandson Paul, an inveterate gambler, would like to have the secret so that he will no longer lose at the game, but the one who seems to be ready to do anything to obtain it is a German officer, Hermann, who claims to be in love with Lise, the countess' ward.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsMichèle MercierLidia AlfonsiBoris KarloffBoris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories concerning a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring's rightful owner.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsSteve ReevesGiorgia MollScilla GabelThe story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsRossano BrazziIrasema DiliánGino CerviAn evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsCharles VanelDaniele SpalloneCristina GaioniIn 19th century Russia, an 8 year-old boy is sent from his home village to the big city to go to school. On his long way there, he gets to witness the often harsh realities of life in the steppe. Based on allegorical novel by Chekhov.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsSilvana ManganoVan HeflinViveca LindforsIn 18th century Russia, Imperial officer Piotr Grinov is dispatched to a faraway isolated outpost where his loyalties are tested during the Pugachev Rebellion against the Empress Catherine II.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsMax von SydowEleonora GiorgiMario AdorfProfessor Preobrazhensky puts courageous experiences, trying to turn a dog in equal to in all of the person. As a result somebody turns out Doggies. Unfortunately, experience proves that it is better for dog to remain a dog.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsYul BrynnerMaria SchellClaire BloomDrama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.
- DirectorRolf HansenStarsHorst BuchholzMyriam BruEdith MillAt the end of the nineteenth century, Russia, Prince Nekhlyudov, on the verge of contracting a marriage of convenience, leads a superficial and mundane life. He is appointed juror in the trial of a woman in whom he recognizes Katyusha, a woman he once seduced and abandoned pregnant.
- DirectorFranz EichhornStarsOscaritoRenata FronziZé Trindade
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsEnrique SantistebanReynaldo MiravallesRené SánchezWhen her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides her jewels in one of the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death, her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the jewels he believes rightfully belong to him.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsGérard PhilipeLiselotte PulverFrançoise RosayThe game was his curse.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsMaria SchellMarcello MastroianniJean MaraisA humble clerk courts a woman who awaits her lover's return night after night.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsAudrey HepburnHenry FondaMel FerrerNapoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
- DirectorAndré MichelStarsMarina VladyMaurice RonetNicole CourcelBrulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in Sweden for a lumber company meets Ina, a local nature-girl type, falls in love, has an affair, tries to convert her to "civilization", but ends up getting her killed by superstitious villagers instead.
- DirectorJosef von BákyStarsEva BartokIvan DesnyKarlheinz BöhmBeautiful Dunja is bored to death at the post office of her father, far in the depths of Russia. When the dubious officer Minski arrives, she's fascinated by his stories about life in St. Petersburg and easily can be persuaded to accompany him there. Minski promises her father to marry her later. In truth he's soon tired of her and throws her out; she's passed around among the officers of the czar like a prostitute. When her father gets word of it, he wants to take revenge.
- DirectorAntonio PetrucciStarsVittorio De SicaSilvana PampaniniAlberto SordiAn Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov.
- DirectorRenato RascelStarsRenato RascelValentina CortesePaolo StoppaA meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school. He tries to have her change her way of living but she is very hard to convince. When she finally realizes he really loves her it is too late.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsRenato RascelYvonne SansonGiulio StivalBased on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, THE OVERCOAT is the story of a poor city hall clerk (Renato Rascel) whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat.
- DirectorSadan KamilStarsMuzaffer TemaMesiha YeldaNevin AkkayaA woman who came to Istanbul to get married and then had to take shelter in a bar.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsDanny KayeWalter SlezakBarbara BatesA town's corrupt officials think a fool is actually an investigator in disguise.
- DirectorThorold DickinsonStarsAnton WalbrookEdith EvansYvonne MitchellAn army officer becomes obsessed with learning the secret to a card game for which an elderly countess sold her soul years earlier.
- DirectorGiacomo GentilomoStarsFosco GiachettiLamberto PicassoMariella LottiWhen a tragedy strikes father Fyodor Karamazov, the wretched relation with his three sons reveals itself surrounded by intrigue, envy and deceit.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsVivien LeighRalph RichardsonKieron MooreA married woman's affair with a dashing young officer has tragic results.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsIrasema DiliánAmedeo NazzariVittorio GassmanLiterary adaptation: A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.
- DirectorJiri SlavicekStarsOtomar KrejcaLjuba SkorepováVladimír SmeralOne day Chazaj pays a visit to the poor artist Simon and asks him to paint his portrait. Simon agrees but in the end he commits suicide. After Chazaj's death, the picture changes hands and brings misfortune to all who own it.
- DirectorGeorges LampinStarsEdwige FeuillèreLucien CoëdelJean DebucourtMuichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent woman from her own travail, but jealousy and his own naivete conjoin to bring about unimaginable tragedy.
- DirectorPierre BillonStarsRaimuAimé ClariondGisèle CasadesusAn adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Le Eternel Mari", a somber story of marital infidelity, revenge and near madness, and starring Raimu in his last film appearance.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsRossano BrazziGianna Maria CanaleVittorio SanipoliWhen a soldier returns home from the wars, he finds that a local landowner has been terrorizing his family. He disguises himself as a bandit known as "The Black Eagle" and begins taking revenge on the landowner by ravaging his "empire". However, things take a different turn when he falls for the landowner's beautiful daughter
- DirectorTeuvo TulioStarsRegina LinnanheimoOscar TengströmVille SalminenThe daughter of a lighthouse keeper runs away with a shipwrecked businessman to the city. But instead of her dreams, she finds herself selling herself in the streets, until a painter finds her as an ideal model for his next painting.
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- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsLon ChaneyNorma ShearerJohn GilbertA bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him.
- DirectorPierre BlancharStarsPierre BlancharMarie DéaJacques DumesnilA penniless private tutor is hired by a wealthy family in Provence.
- DirectorGilberto Martínez SolaresStarsEmilio TueroLupita TovarSara GarcíaA rich and powerful man volunteers to do jury duty in the trial of a woman accused of murder. He is shocked when he recognizes the defendant as a family servant he seduced many years ago.
- DirectorMario SofficiStarsPedro López LagarZully MorenoJuan José MiguezIt treats the double moral present in the marriage and the estrangement in the pair.
- DirectorRenato CastellaniStarsAssia NorisFosco GiachettiAntonio CentaCount Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet out of his pistol. Now, it is the Count's turn to fire...
- DirectorGustav UcickyStarsHeinrich GeorgeHilde KrahlSiegfried BreuerA troubled father, working as a postmaster in province, worries about his daughter taken to the capital by a rich officer.
- DirectorE.W. EmoStarsHeinz RühmannHans MoserInge ListRabe travels to Vienna in hope of a great inheritance from his aunt. But there are only 13 chairs waiting for him, which he sells. Then he finds a letter from the aunt announcing that she has hidden her money in one of the chairs.
- DirectorG.P. PawarStarsGhanshyamMadhav KaleLalita PawarLalita Pawar stars as a mistreated orphan called Lalita in this rare example of a melodrama drawn from a non-Indian literary source. Madhav (Kale), the son of the family, impregnates Lalita and promises to marry her on his return from Bombay. Years later, Madhav returns married, and refuses to recognize her. To feed her son, Lalita becomes a prostitute and is accused of a murder that takes place in the brothel. The prosecutor turns out to be Madhav.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsGaby MorlayVictor FrancenJorge RigaudIs it his corpse they found in the river?
- DirectorJean DrévilleStarsGaby MorlayJean YonnelJacques ErwinPozdnycheff, a young party animal, destroyed by his lightness the marital happiness of one of his childhood friends who committed suicide. Since then, he is haunted by the memory.
- DirectorVeit HarlanStarsLil DagoverPeter PetersenAlbrecht SchoenhalsAdaptation of Tolstoy story in which a female pianist is the center of a struggle between her husband and his violinist cousin ,a struggle that leads to a tragic conclusion.
- DirectorViktor TourjanskyStarsHarry BaurJanine CrispinJorge RigaudA small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Petersburg, assuming the man will do the right thing and marry her.Instead, a future of scandal and tragedy awaits her.
- DirectorFyodor OtsepStarsMarguerite MorenoPierre BlancharAndré LuguetRussia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible martingale held by Countess Tomski, nicknamed The Queen of Spades. The day Hermann wants to wring the secret from her, the countess dies of fear. Following this tragic scene, Hermann sinks into dementia. Luckily, Lisa, his frail lover, brings him back to life and happiness.
- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsTaizô FukamiAkira HarueKiyoshi KatôA young couple of lovers want to travel to Tokio to work and form a family there, but the parents of him want his son to regent their hotel. Finally, he does what his parents want him to, and her finds herself abandoned in the big city.
- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsIsuzu YamadaYôko UmemuraBenkei ShiganoyaTwo geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto. After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other sister sets up various schemes to get rid of him.
- DirectorAlexis GranowskyStarsHarry BaurJean-Pierre AumontDanielle DarrieuxLiterary adaptation: A Cossack chief leads his forces against Poland. But one of his university trained sons is in love with an enemy daughter.
- DirectorAdrian BrunelAlbert de CourvilleAlexis GranowskyStarsHarry BaurAnthony BushellRoger LiveseyDuring the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle. However, the son falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman.
- DirectorPierre ChenalStarsHarry BaurPierre BlancharMadeleine OzerayRaskolnikov is a Russian man who follows an unusual moral code. A combination of vigilantism and hubris fuels his decision to aid a hapless prostitute by removing her antagonist, a local merchant. Raskolnikov is locked up for the murder, and while he does not deny committing the crime, he tries to persuade the police that he should not be charged.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEdward ArnoldPeter LorreMarian MarshMan is haunted by a murder he's committed.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsGreta GarboFredric MarchFreddie BartholomewThe married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsAnna StenFredric MarchJane BaxterNekhlyudov, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
- DirectorMartin FricStarsVlasta BurianJaroslav MarvanVáclav TréglVlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and peasants seeking his favor for whatever they are advocating or need fixed. Burain is involved in a series of comical situations as he takes everything he can gets his hands on while the peasants, who must plead for the betterment of their conditions, are left on the outside-looking-in. He makes his escape just as the real Inspector General is set to appear, but those-in-need will be no better off when the real McCoy shows up then they were with Burian.
- DirectorErich EngelFyodor OtsepStarsFritz KortnerAnna StenFritz RaspSuspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father.
- DirectorFyodor OtsepStarsFritz KortnerAnna StenHanna WaagSimultaneously filmed French version of the German "Der Moerder Dimitri Karamassof": A son is accused of killing his father, whose young mistress he has also loved. Condemned for ten years, he is accompanied by the woman.
- DirectorFred NibloLionel BarrymoreStarsJohn GilbertRenée AdoréeConrad NagelFedya wins Lisa away from her fiance, Victor Karenin. But after Fedya weds Lisa, he becomes infatuated with a gypsy girl, Masha. His duplicity leads to tragedy.
- DirectorAlexandre VolkoffStarsIvan MozzhukhinLil DagoverBetty AmannHis son and mother in peril at the hands of his enemies, a banished Caucasian warrior is forced to make an alliance with the Russians.
- DirectorFyodor OtsepStarsVsevolod PudovkinMaria JacobiniViola GardenFjodor Protassow wants to divorce his wife, so that she can be happy with another man. But the church won't allow a divorce, so he fakes his own death, becoming a "living corpse".
- DirectorGeorge W. HillClarence BrownStarsJohn GilbertRenée AdoréeErnest TorrenceA peace-loving Cossack chooses to prove himself in battle when his village and childhood sweetheart label him a coward.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingJohn GilbertStarsJohn GilbertGreta GarboGeorge FawcettA married woman compromises her social standing and family life when she falls for a young officer.
- DirectorEdwin CareweStarsRod La RocqueDolores Del RíoRita CarewePrince Dimitri comes from St. Petersburg to spend the summer in a rural district and falls in love with Katusha, an orphaned peasant girl who works for his relatives. Later, en route to the Turkish-Russian front, Dimitri's regiment bivouacs near the village, and Katusha secretly yields to his passion. Her condition soon arouses the suspicions of her aunt, and she is sent from the home in disgrace. Bereft by the death of her infant, Katusha is eventually reduced to surviving as a prostitute, and finds herself imprisoned on a charge of poisoning and robbing a merchant. Dimitri, summoned to the jury at her trial, feels his responsibility and agrees to marry her. Although innocent of the crime, Katusha is banished to Siberia. Their old love is rekindled, but she refuses to become his wife and bears her exile alone.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsÉdith JéhanneUno HenningFritz RaspIn the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsRudolph ValentinoVilma BánkyLouise DresserA wanted Russian lieutenant becomes a masked vigilante seeking vengeance upon the man who stole his family's land, only to fall for his charming daughter.
- DirectorRobert WieneStarsGregori ChmaraElisabeta SkulskajaAlla TarasovaStudent Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis, that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions are necessary for the benefit of mankind, murders an old woman, who operates a crooked loaning house, as well as her sister, who made the mistake of visiting her at the wrong time. He is suspected of the crime, but somebody else confesses to the murder. Meanwhile, he has fallen in love with Sonja, the street-walking daughter of an ex-official who was fired because of drinking. Raskolnikow's sister is engaged with an arrogant official, who dislikes him, because Raskolnikow gave Sonja 25 Rubel for her father's funeral. When Raskolnikow tells him his opinion of his behaviour against the poor, he tries to show he's a good guy also to the public and showing that Sonja is also a thief at the same time by framing her of a theft of 100 Rubels. But after this, Raskolnikow finds out that Sonja was a very close friend of his second victim.
- DirectorRudolf BiebrachStarsErnst HofmannRudolf BiebrachMartha Angerstein-LichoThe patriarch of the family, The General, is indebted to the Frenchman Marquis de Grillet and has mortgaged his property.
- DirectorGustav MachatýStarsEva ByronovaJan W. SpeergerMiroslav PaulWe have a liberal, modern Czech flapper bound to a serious and bored husband and don't forget the important fact that the wife has a lover so soon the widening gulf between husband and wife leads to stress and resentment and we get a tormented psychological study of irreconcilable differences that will lead to tragedy.
- DirectorViggo LarsenStarsViggo LarsenGustav Lund
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsArthur V. JohnsonFlorence LawrenceMarion LeonardFree adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's powerful novel. The subject opens with the return home of Prince Dimitri, who meets the maid Katusha, a little peasant girl, and is instantly charmed with her beauty. Young, artless and innocent, as pretty as a rose, she unwittingly fascinates the prince. His noble bearing likewise impresses her, and his little attentions flatter her, until at length she is unable to resist his advances. The poor girl is meted the usual fate. An alliance is out of the question. The disparity of their ranks even forbids it, and soon the prince must cast her aside. Five years later we find that the girl, who is now a loathsome sight, has learned the bitter lesson of the eternal truth, "The wages of sin is death." It is death to the soul at all events. She has gone down to the lowest depths and is arrested in a low Russian tavern. As she is carried to the tribunal she passes Prince Dimitri, who now sees the terrible result of his sins. He grows repentant and attempts to plead her cause before the jury, but they are a callous lot and pay no attention to the arguments for nor against, and by force of habit vote to send her to Siberia. She is dragged out to the pen of detention and herded with a lot of poor unfortunates, who scarcely bear any resemblance to human beings. The repentant prince determines to give up his life to right the wrong he has done, and visits her here with a view of turning her now vicious nature, handing her a copy of the Bible. She does not recognize him at first, but when she does she flies into fury, beating his body and face with her fists and the book. He leaves her and she sits moodily on the bench with the book on her lap. Shortly she turns its pages and lo, the Resurrection! Her eyes fall on the passage (John xi, 25), "And Jesus said unto her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead yet shall he live." In an instant her whole being changes. There is hope for her salvation, and she reads on. The guards arrive and we next see her with the poor unfortunates trudging over the snow-clad steppes toward the goal from whence few return. She becomes the ministering angel, sharing her comforts with them. The prince, meanwhile, has secured her pardon and hastens after her. Giving her the welcome notice, he begs her to return with him as his wife: but no, she prefers to work out her salvation helping those poor souls to whom a kindness is an indescribable blessing, and bidding him farewell, she renounces the world for the path of duty, so we leave her kneeling on the snow at the foot of the Holy Cross.
- DirectorFrederic ZelnikStarsLya MaraJohannes RiemannHeinrich Peer
- DirectorFrederic ZelnikStarsLya MaraHans AlbersCarl AuenA young girl is seduced by a Epicurean man, whom she later shoots. Acquitted from the crime, she falls into melancholy but a young doctor, who has loved her for a long time, gives her back to life and receives her hand.
- DirectorMárton GarasStarsIrén VarsányiDezsõ KertészEmil FenyvessyMail author for translation. A halhatatlan mûvészi alkotások úgy vonzzák a mûélvezõket, mint a boldog találkozások színhelye a szerelmeseket; több- ször is visszatérnek hozzá. Tolsztoj gyönyörû regénye, a Karenina Anna is ezek közé a mûvek közé tartozik - csak film idáig tíz készült belõle. A regénynek világszerte leg- ismertebb változata 1936-ból való. Fõszereplõje Greta Garbo. Az 1948-as Karenina Anna, Julien Duvivier munkája az eddigi legjobb megfilmesítés. Némafilm viszont egy készült szerte a világon, amely Annát úgy ábrázolja, mint a regény: a sze- relmet sóvárgó asszony alakját teátrális eszközökkel mu- tatja be, aki felnagyított társadalmi konvenciók közt él, s az elõírt és elvárt szabályokat nem igazán tûri. Ter- mészetes meleg érzésekkel közeledik közvetlen környeze- téhez, hiszen éppen ezek az érzések hordozzák magukban a konvenciók, a képmutatás elleni lázadás lehetõségét.
- DirectorLawrence B. McGillStarsDerwent Hall CaineCherrie ColemanLydia Knott"One death, and thousands of lives restored to existence. For some useless life a thousand lives saved from decay and death. Shall not one little crime be effaced and atoned by a million good deeds?" So ran Rodion Raskolnikoff's creed in the book which was responsible for his being expelled from the University, but which elected him the leader of a secret brotherhood which admired him. The law proving too hot for him, he is finally forced to flee to America, still preaching his same doctrine. Rodion's heart is touched by the poverty on the East Side and he determines to kill a pawnbroker who mercilessly squeezes the poor unfortunates to their last cent. He accomplishes the deed, takes money from the safe, uses it for the needy and manages to keep the guilt from himself. But the crime is fastened on an innocent man, who, to escape further torture of a relentless third degree confesses to a crime he had no hand in. Then comes Rodion's struggle between his conscience and his creed, and through the guidance of a "lost sister of the streets," he rejects the faith he founded and acknowledges his guilt.
- DirectorWilliam HumphreyStarsGrace DavisonConway TearleHuntley GordonYoung Laura Hamilton turns down a marriage proposal from Vincent Carlson and marries Theodore Proctor, a bank president. Proctor's financially strapped brother asks him for help, and he has the bank loan his brother a sum of money, a bad loan that results in :Proctor being removed as president of the bank. Devastated, he fakes suicide and turns to a life of crime. His wife, thinking him dead, marries former suitor Carlton, but when Proctor is discovered to be alive, Laura is charged with bigamy. Desperate to save his wife, Proctor plans on actually committing suicide when something happens that negates all his plans.
- DirectorEdward JoséStarsPauline FrederickRobert ElliottJohn St. PolisKatusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
- DirectorBarry O'NeilStarsHolbrook BlinnEleanor WoodruffRichard WangermannDavid Spencer falls in love with actress Babbie Norris, but his wealthy, propriety-conscious father John Spencer makes him marry aristocratic Janice Lane. After five years with Janice, David is so miserable that he goes to the river to drown himself. When he sees a corpse floating in the water, however, he decides instead to change clothes with it and leave his own identification cards on the dead man. Then, starting life over, David gets work as a laborer. He meets Babbie again, and soon moves to the Northwest with her. Meanwhile, after the dead man has been identified as David, Janice marries Dr. Stone, whom she has loved for several years.
- DirectorJ. Gordon EdwardsStarsBetty NansenEdward JoséRichard ThorntonAnna Karenina is a married aristocrat and socialite living in Saint Petersburg. She is living a torrid romance with a wealthy and young count, he loves her and is willing to marry her once she leave her husband.
- DirectorJ. Gordon EdwardsStarsMathilde BrundageEdgar L. DavenportStuart HolmesNekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsNance O'NeilTheda BaraHenry BergmanMiriam, a young Russian girl, has an unfortunate love affair and is threatened with disgrace by having a child out of wedlock. Her father induces Gregor Randor, a young musician, to marry her, by paying him a sum of money. The couple migates to the United States, where they are later followed by Miriam's family, including her younger sister Celia. A love affair develops between Gregor and Celia, and despite their efforts at secrecy, Miriam learns about it. Torn between her outraged pride and her love for her young son, she confronts her cheating husband and her sister--to no avail. So she decides to wreak vengeance on them.