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Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

A country woman in love with a business agent gives birth to a child after he has deserted her for the big city, which causes a scandal.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

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

A young engineer lies to protect his fiancée, and is later convicted of perjury (after which his fiancée abandons him) and sent to prison. When he gets get, he tries to return to his former life and finds out that's easier said than done--no one wants to hire an ex-con, and when he finds himself broke and homeless, he is "saved" by a local prostitute, and discovers that his only real friends are the people that society deems to be the "lower classes" and "criminals". Just when he is starting to work his way back to "respectability", a situation arises in which he must risk everything he's worked for in order to help out the people who've helped him.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

It is about a Chinese princess whose suitors are beheaded if they fail to solve a tricky riddle she has chosen to avoid marriage.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Turandot, princesse de Chine perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A young woman working as a secretary for a Berlin car business tries to impress a rich Australian visitor by pretending she is a foreign countess.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Once a Great Lady perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A socially conscious melodrama about three poor children, who we learn were all born out of wedlock, living with foster parents who do not offer them the proper care, and what fate has in store for each of them.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Der alte Fritz - 2. Ausklang perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

The "people among us" are Berlin building tenants, a cross section of late 20s society.Among them: a government assessor and his wife,who gives birth while in prison, and a flighty landlady who is swindled by a diamond seller.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

The age old legend of a Chinese princess whose suitors are beheaded if they fail to answer a tricky riddle she has deliberately chosen so as to avoid getting married.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht

During the Great War, an Austrian officer suspected of being an Italian spy, volunteers for a mission to parachute into Italy, where he falls in love with a real spy.