Deep Archive Finds Movies That Echo the Spirit of Europa postlagern...

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

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

During a fancy masquerade, Hella Swendsen finds out that her fiancé is the son of a woman who died of alcohol problems and at the same time he breaks up his engagement. Later during the party, she meets the man who considers himself guilty of the woman's death. This man tells her the tragic story of her life.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

A young Chinese woman working in the kitchen at a London dance club is given the chance to become the club's main act, which leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love, and murder.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

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

In Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of two men. The first is a dashing young army officer who can provide blazing romance and little long-time security. The other is an older man, influential in the affairs of Austria, who could provide wealth...and tender devotion. Hannerl thinks about it.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

Dancer Parysia is the rage of Paris. Her daughter Margaret is secretly engaged to Andre, and the boy's aristocratic father objects to the alliance. But then Andre himself turns out to be an even greater challenge to the couple.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Love Me and the World Is Mine perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But he longs for his former glamorous life in the circus. When he meets the orphan Berta-Marie, he falls under her spell and leaves his wife and young son behind. He makes Berta-Marie his partner in a new trapeze number. One day, the famous trapeze artist Artinelli takes note of them and engages them for his trapeze show in Berlin. Their salto mortale becomes an immediate sensation. Calculatedly and cold, Artinelli seduces Berta-Marie and destroys "Boss'" happiness.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

The transatlantic liner hits an iceberg and passengers realize that they are left only three hours to live.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

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

A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

Toni wants to become an opera-singer. Her mother was once simple chanteuse. Toni marries the brutal industrialist Liesegang. An Italian doctor falls in love with Toni. He want's to see Liesegang dead.