Essential Cult Cinema Drawn from the Same DNA as Ihr dunkler Punkt: Cult Guide

Dir: Johannes Guter

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Johannes Guter

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

Two passenger ships dock in the port of Hamburg. Aboard the one is the Russian princess Suwarin, who has fled from the Bolshevik homeland into German exile, while the millionaire Cyrus Proctor disembarks from the other ship. Both passengers have found their accommodation in one and the same hotel. Princess Suwarin must start looking for a job to start earning money. She tries on a film production company, where she meets the movie star Tina Bermonte and falls in love with the auxiliary director Andrej Klipman.

Dir: Johannes Guter

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Johannes Guter

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Johannes Guter

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Johannes Guter

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

A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to return to her tightrope walker lover.

Dir: Johannes Guter

Kornej is a young painter of primitivism. An art agent discover the works of Kornej and buy the whole collection. The art critic Moulin is very excited about Kornejs paintings and style. Kornej marries his childhood sweetheart Rita.

Dir: Johannes Guter

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

A one-eyed ferryman finds a baby abandoned in his boat. When the vessel sways the toddler goes overboard. Although it falls into the river, the ferryman does not feel compelled to save it. But the baby does not die, because the river God saves and raises her in his underwater world. 20 years later, the young woman Marija, is hungry for life above water. From now on she only brings harm to all those men who will cross her life.

Dir: Johannes Guter

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Johannes Guter

The old weirdo lawyer Hagger will not let his nephew control his money affairs, even though he has become engaged to Senator Hartwich's daughter Elinor. The uncle himself does not have clean flour in the bag, he is taken in by a circus dancer, Alegria, and to get along with her, he hires burglars with himself, murders his servant, disguises himself as the director's brother and abducts Alegria. He IS insane, and finally indicates himself.