Mountains on Fire

Two of Germany's best and busiest directors collaborated on Berge in Flammen (Mountain in Flames). The storyline should be of interest to pro-ecologists, inasmuch as the directors take to task the warmongers of the world for despoiling the natural beauties of the European mountain ranges with their shell-fire. The final outrage occurs during a battle between the Austrians and the Italians in the Dolomites, culminating with the destruction of an entire mountain (hence the film's title). The harrowing images on screen were complemented perf...

Auferstehung. Katjuscha Maslowa

A nobleman wishes to help the woman he had seduced and abandoned years earlier when he learns that she is now on trial for murder.

The Great Leap

A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.

Bengal Tiger

After causing his friend's death, an animal trainer marries the man's daughter to atone.

The Double Murder of Sarajevo

A dramatization of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

The Fight for the Matterhorn

Struggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama film co-directed by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio Malasomma and starring Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, and Alexandra Schmitt. The film is part of the popular cycle of mountain films of the 1920s and 1930s. Art direction was by Heinrich Richter. Based on a novel by Carl Haensel, the film depicts the battle between British and Italian climbers to be the first to climb the Matterhorn. Trenker later remade the film as The Challenge in 1938.

Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.