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Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

A Prussian commander disobeys orders and goes to find a British envoy who can negotiate a pact with Austria to help fight off Napoleon in 1806.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

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

During the Great War, an Austrian officer suspected of being an Italian spy, volunteers for a mission to parachute into Italy, where he falls in love with a real spy.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

1812: Napoleon orders German Princess Marie Luise to marry Polish Prince Potovski. Hussar Hansgeorg is to save and escort her so she can marry the Duke of Brunswick. But she refuses - because she has fallen in love with Hansgeorg.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

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

Saga of the Buddenbrook family and their business, set in 19th century Germany.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

A young engineer lies to protect his fiancée, and is later convicted of perjury (after which his fiancée abandons him) and sent to prison. When he gets get, he tries to return to his former life and finds out that's easier said than done--no one wants to hire an ex-con, and when he finds himself broke and homeless, he is "saved" by a local prostitute, and discovers that his only real friends are the people that society deems to be the "lower classes" and "criminals". Just when he is starting to work his way back to "respectability", a situation arises in which he must risk everything he's worked for in order to help out the people who've helped him.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

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

It is about a Chinese princess whose suitors are beheaded if they fail to solve a tricky riddle she has chosen to avoid marriage.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

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

The film centers on a family divided by politics. While the son, a staunch Prussian, is horrified by his father's treacherous support for the French, he equally condemns the local patriots' mindless spirit of revenge.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

The age old legend of a Chinese princess whose suitors are beheaded if they fail to answer a tricky riddle she has deliberately chosen so as to avoid getting married.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

Else locked out by her authoritarian father, seeks refuge with her boyfriend Hans. Complications threaten when Hans's roommate Max falls in love with her, but the situation is resolved: the three remain friends, and decide to form a music hall act.