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

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 Atlantis perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.

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 Moulin Rouge perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

An American millionaire and his daughter Nella are staying at the supremely exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel. When Nella asks for a steak and Bass beer for dinner the order is refused. To get her what she wants her father buys the entire hotel, for £400,000 "and a guinea". Now strange things begin to occur at the hotel.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

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

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Das Grand Hotel Babylon 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

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of This Ancient Law 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

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 fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.