Deep Archive Finds in the Vein of Calvaire d'amour: Cult Guide

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

Ilona Ratkay, musical revue star, has a manager with imagination to create alluring stories for publicity purposes. His last one unintentionally entangles a rich farmer and his son who are visiting the capital and taken by Ilona's charm.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Adventurer perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

American mining engineer Jim McClellan is in love with Dolores de Silva, daughter of the deposed president of a Latin American country. He becomes involved in the revolution when he attempts to help the president regain power. After many dangerous adventures, including a narrow escape from a rebel firing squad, McClellan succeeds in restoring Silva to office and winning the girl.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

A lady who had a secret affair lives in fear.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of La peur perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

1913 Russia: when a sheltered daughter is taken by a banker to a restaurant she doesn't know her father works at, she is saved from being seduced and comforts herself later with the more respectable admiration of her piano teacher.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

Philippe, the order of an old colonel, surprises the wife of his boss in the arms of a young lieutenant. So that he remains silent, she offers herself to him.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Les yeux noirs perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

In Ferrara, in the sixteenth century, two rich young friends, Muzio and Fabio, a musician and a painter, fall in love with Valeria, one of the city's most striking beauties. Valeria, the daughter of a widowed noblewoman with little money, chooses Fabio and marries him. Muzio, devastated by his bad fortune, goes to Oriental countries and resurfaces a few years later. His new practices make him very mysterious and attractive to Valeria and her heart is soon conquered...

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Orderly perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Story of the adventures of the resourceful Scheherazade. Newly married to Shahryar, a deranged monarch who murders his brides after the wedding night, Scheherazade manages to keep her head by entertaining her husband with exciting stories.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

A singer who is believed dead returns with a decidedly different appearance.He has been in Russia and has lost his memory. But his wife still loves him.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.