Cinematic Era: 1958 Vintage

Documentary with recordings from the Nuremberg war crimes trials.

Asked by his beloved to bring his mother's heart for her dog, a hopeless lover tears it out, stumbles with it, lets it fall. Rolling across the floor, the heart gasps out: “Are you hurt, my son?"

An overview of the art collection of Richard Winther.

Semi-documentary on how marijuana dealers lure small-town teenagers into heroin use and prostitution and how the police help to fight it.

A love story inspired by a poem of Wilfred Rowland Childe.

Film by Ángel Hurtado, which premieres today at the Cine-club Universitaire, Paris.

A lyrical cartoon about the coming of spring inspired by Sigfred Pedersen's poem "Forårs Fredrik." (DFI)

Dutch comedy icon Toon Hermans' second One Man Show was the first to be broadcast live on tv. The show caused a nationwide scramble of tv-sets, with millions of people tuning in. Featuring songs like 'Méditerranée', 'Ballonnetje' and the 'Kolderliedjes,' the show is seen as a landmark of Dutch television history.

Short film by Mihovil Pansini.

A documentary depicting the Warsaw district of Powiśle where time has stopped. One of several films made by Kazimierz Karabasz included in the "black series" of Polish documentaries. Featuring a commentary typical for documentaries of the second half of the 1950s, it is distinguished by penetrating observation and lyricism.

Nightclub owners cash in on new musical fad.

Use of a helicopter to transport an oil-drilling rig to a prospecting site deep in the New Guinea jungle.

A short documentary film about how a last-minute news story is incorporated into a newspaper’s printing process.

A portrait of Hamburg and its people.

A film portrait of British Colombia in the year of her centennial. With a brilliant panorama of famous mountain scenery as background, the film presents an action-packed chronicle of the taming of a wilderness and shows how the wilderness responded. The film reflects the pride with which British Colombians look back on a hundred years of progress.

A spoiled prince is in the habit of smashing his toys. The Mirko doll immerses himself in a magic potion and becomes invisible. He infiltrates the palace and rescues his friends, punishes the bad prince, and the evil wizard. The toy master draws Mirko and makes him visible again so Mirko can play with his friends again.

hong kong film

A group of children live in Nanshan, but the school is in Beishan, and it takes time and effort to go to school every day. To overcome difficulties, we must find a way. Xiao Lingzi is really smart. She builds a conveyor belt one by one to go over the mountain. Her suggestion was approved by everyone. With the collective wisdom and the help of the teacher, they finally used the windmill to create a conveyor belt from the North Mountain to the South Mountain. Amid the singing and cheers, they successfully crossed the mountain with machinery for the first time .

The melodramatic story of Virginia, an ill young woman in love with her wood-carver husband. One day, she has a miscarriage and her health requires monitoring and care. A cousin of hers, Liola, comes from the village and takes it upon hershelf to look after her cousin. Between the latter young woman and the husband of the ill woman, an intense love affair is developing.

A very unusual portrayal of a "sound" from the time it escapes from a singer's gaping mouth to the time it is captured on a film strip.

An exploration of the human body through non-traditional, abstract focusing techniques.

Portrait of a small town.

In describing the basis for TRIPTYCH IN FOUR PARTS, artist Lawrence Jordan writes, "Part one is the Portrait of a North Beach artist, John Reed. Part two and three take place in the desert of the Southwestern United States and Mexico, where I went in quest of, and found, the natural habitat of the peyote cactus. I watched this sacred plant cut and dried for the Indians of the Native American Church. I consumed peyote on numerous occasions. In later years when I red Castineda’s books on the teachings on Don Juan I realized that Mescalito was not a figment of Don Juan’s imagination, and that there is a spirit world whether we like it or not. Part four is a document of the time, and exemplifies the poetry that was in me at that time."

When a massive Soviet battleship negotiates the treacherous Oslo harbor without a local pilot, American counterespionage agent David Harding suspects that the enemy has developed a secret navigational tool and orders his operatives to find a local frogman to take pictures of the vessel's hull when the ship makes a goodwill tour stop in England.

King Ćwieczek II's daughter Beatka plays in the garden. She was interested in flowers growing behind the wall and despite warnings from her babysitter she goes outside. That's where she's kidnapped by the dragon Maok. The King promises half the kingdom to whoever saves the Princess. Three knights take on this challenge. However, none of them succeed. In the gingerbread land, where the dragon takes the princess, the shoemaker Dratewka follows, and succeeds in defeating the beast and returning her home safely.

Lenin signs a decree on the establishment of a university in Turkestan.

Is this documentary actually about the magnificent palace of Beloeil, owned for generations by the princes of Ligne and about its splendid park? Or is it about those who visit it and those who having fun in its park on a Saturday afternoon? Both actually, because Edmond Bernhard never visits a place without taking an interest in the people present there.

Short by Makavejev.

Short documentary by Krsto Škanata.

Film by Boris Cristoff.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary paying tribute to the World Health Organisation on it's tenth anniversary in 1958.

A group of Romanian soldiers helped by peasants, prevents the transport of goods looted by German soldiers from the USSR during the Second World War.

Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? This experimental found footage film outlines the history of humanity in a few minutes. It is focused on the central theme of the 20th century - the Holocaust and the atomic bomb.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Industrial film about the Gevaert factory, where photographic and film products are made.

Tonino, son of a museum guard in Venice, is barred from a masked ball. In a little theater he dons an Arlecchino costume and, guided by Beatrice, embarks on a fantastic journey through masks, monuments, and Goldoni’s characters.

Dans un petit village de France près de Reims, Jean Rivière, un journaliste canadien, descend dans le seul hôtel de l'endroit. Ce soir-là on vient de découvrir, dans sa boutique, baignant dans son sang, la mercière assassinée In a small village in the French countryside, a traveling canadian journalist finds the hostess of the small hotel dead, victim of murder, and begins investigating along with a local magistrate.

Short television report about the filming of the movie "Warum sind sie gegen uns?"

A bored young woman interacts with the stranded objects of a black-and-white room, which take on their own lives as she begins to dream.