Vampyr (1932)
Fantasy | Horror
A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.
Starring: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gérard
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Passion of Joan of Arc / La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
Biography | Drama | History
In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
Starring: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz, Antonin Artaud, Michel Simon
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Die Gezeichneten / Love One Another (1922)
Drama
This German production directed by Carl Dreyer takes a powerful stand against anti-Semitism. Living in the Jewish ghetto of a Russian village, young Hanna-Liebe (Polina Pickowska) must abandon her friendship with the Gentile boy Fedja (Richard Boleslawski). When she falls in love with Sascha (Torleif Reiss), another Gentile, she follows him to St. Petersburg. There she joins her brother Segal (Vladimir Gajdarov) and learns that Sascha has become a member of a revolutionary group. Fedja informs on them and she and Sascha are arrested, but Segal liberates her. The two are sent back to their village where Fedja incites a pogrom against the Jews. Segal is killed but Sascha is able to rescue Hanna-Liebe from Fedja. Note who plays the villainous Fedja: Richard Boleslawski, future Hollywood director of such memorable 1930s films as Rasputin and the Empress, Les Miserables, and Theodora Goes Wild.
Starring: Sylvia Torf, Polina Piekowskaja, Hugo Döblin, Adele Reuter-Eichberg, Johannes Meyer, Vladimir Gajdarov, Thorleif Reiss
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
