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

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 Atlantic 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

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.

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

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.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

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

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

Baruch Mayr, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor. Due to this behaviour his father bans him from his family. Baruch, who joined a small burlesque troupe is discovered by an Austrian Erzherzogin (archdutchess) who introduces him to the director of the most important Theater in Vienna, the Burgtheater. Baruch receives a contract there and becomes more and more an assimilated jew. But his relation with the Erzherzogin isn't approved by the Austrian court, so they have to end it. When an old friend of his father, who is always traveling from one Jewish community to the next (and has told him first about the theatres in the world), Baruch becomes a little bit homesick and returns for a holiday to his old shtetl to see his folks and to pick up his childhood sweetheart. But his father wants him not to enter his house, so he returns to Vienna, with his bride. But his old friend does not stop trying to convince his father of his errors.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

"The Bear Joseph", so named because of a fight with a bear, is rescued by Wally, a farmer's daughter, from a dangerous situation in a vulture's nest. He then calls her "Geierwally". They fall in love.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

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.