Top-Tier Alternatives In the Shadow of Love and Champagne: Cult Guide

Dir: Robert Land

An old clown loves a young dancer to whom he gives lessons. He heroically withdraws from the love of a rich young man.

Dir: Robert Land

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

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

Dir: Robert Land

Veronika is a candid teenager who lives with her parents in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian Tyrol. As they are poor, her aunt pays her the expenses to do the Christian Confirmation and invites her to the vibrant city of Vienna. But nobody knows that her aunt really works in a brothel.

Dir: Robert Land

The Countess Nlizzi von Lehndorff, impoverished by the war, accepts an offer from a Private Detective Agency to recover a diamond stolen by Fred Sablon, a jewel thief of international reputation. To do this Mizzi has to travel about the Continent, and is pursued by Paul Riedl, who is in love with her. Mizzi cannot explain her movements to him, and he is tormented by jealousy. Unwittingly he helps her to achieve her purpose, for which he is amply rewarded.

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

Dir: Robert Land

Laurence Gerard has just divorced. While leading fat lover Talandier by the nose, She meets the count Lerski, who now works as waiter but do not tell her. When she hears from her husband he is a waiter, she thinks Lerksi lies and throws him out...

Dir: Robert Land

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Spiel um den Mann perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Robert Land

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Robert Land

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of I Kiss Your Hand Madame perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Robert Land

A film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term and their class teacher teaching them about humanism and tolerance, a lesson that would be badly needed three years later.