Deep Archive Finds Movies That Echo the Spirit of Europa postlagernd: Cult Guide

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

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

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Der Demütige und die Tänzerin perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

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.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

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

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

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

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

Lord Cross is a respected and always very serious gentleman. In society he is therefore called "the man without a laugh". One evening, when he and his snobbish girlfriend from the British upper class visited the variety show "Zur Goldenen Kugel" in the somewhat disreputable London district of Whitechapel, in which its director Navratil tried to make the audience laugh with a comic buffo, the Lord's eyes fell immediately on a young gypsy girl. She is called Maryla and dances to the violin.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

Fred Hopkins, a jeweler's assistant, replaces the pearl necklace Lord Reading bought as a wedding present with a worthless imitation. A hunt begins, which the flower seller Rahel and the jumping jack dealer David are able to end by finding the jewelry. Hopkins, who is convicted, then commits suicide for fear of being punished with poison.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

Attorney General Trevor's second wife is found stabbed to death in his safe. Due to a ring with the initials DG, which is also found in the safe, the suspicion initially falls on Donald Gordon, the fiancé of Trevor's daughter.