The Auteur's Selection Complementing the Tone of Karriere: Cult Guide

Dir: Adolf Trotz

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

Rolf Brønne comes home to the small town where his cousin Karen Sofie has fallen in love with a painter and asks to help her face her father, Consul Backhaug. Eva who is in love with Rolf misunderstands and agrees to marry Backhaug.

Dir: Adolf Trotz

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

Frau Römer's deceased husband once suffered from hemophilia and passed this defect on to his daughter Olga, who has recently become engaged to doctor Münchow, so Olga's mother feels it is her duty to inform the doctor about her daughter's rare disease. Münchow leaves Olga, who much later marry an older banker. They have three children. Allis well till one of Olga's sons has a serious accident.

Dir: Adolf Trotz

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

The first full-length portrait of the city of German film history shows how peaceful and modern, but also hectic busy and happy at the same time sentimental Berlin was in 1925.

Dir: Adolf Trotz

Originally named "The Clairvoyant" presenting the many talents of parapsychologist Elsbeth Günther-Geffers. First banned, later extensively reworked.