Underground Favorites Mirroring the Impact of The Master of Nuremberg: Cult Guide

Dir: Ludwig Berger

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

One of the first movies made about the fairy tale Cinderella. The film is part of the current German expressionism. Because of that the film ends up being darker than the fairy tale itself.

Dir: Ludwig Berger

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

The story tells how Count Preyn is artfully trapped into a marriage with the cold, unemotional princess of Flausenburg. Poor Count Preyn, with his bubbling Viennese disposition, finds himself lost in the cold atmosphere of the Flausenburg court. On his wedding night he rushes away in desperation and finds a pretty Viennese orchestra leader in a cafe. A romance ensues, the girl never suspecting that he is the prince consort. The girl, Franzi, is hired to teach the princess the modern arts in order to win her husband's love. Right up to the last she is unaware that it is her lover that she is helping to win back for his princess wife.

Dir: Ludwig Berger

Spain at the beginning of the 1580s, at the time of Philip II. The troops of the king entered the village of Zalamea. Captain Don Alvaro is quartered in the house of Pedro Crespo and his two children. Alvaro is very interested in the proud daughter Isabel, who, however, shows him the cold shoulder.