The Call of Destiny

Whom the Gods Love

1942

Biographical film about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Silent Barricade

1949

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

The Life and Loves of Beethoven

1937

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

The Grapes of Wrath

1940

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

Dravci

1948

Wild Beasts

Revoluční rok 1848

1949

Year of the Revolution 1848

Egy asszony elindul

1949

Director: Imre Jeney

Shining with Boundless Radiance

1949

Director: Xu Ke

Frona

1954

Writers: Jaroslav Zrotal

The Hours of Hope

1955

In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.

Carola Lamberti

1954

Carola has been running the family-owned circus alone since her husband’s death, but she suddenly finds herself at odds with her three adult sons who are also performance artists and want to have a say in how the business is run. The family discord leads Carola to turn her back on the circus, leaving the three inexperienced sons in charge. This turn of events forces the family to learn to work together or face bankruptcy.

Operette

1940

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic opera manager end in abrupt firing in spite of a mutual attraction. He's quickly engaged by another theatre and becomes famous for his lavish stage productions and fine acting, which begins their golden age with Suppé and Strauss.

White Mane

1953

In the south of France, in a vast plain region called the Camargue, lives White Mane, a magnificent stallion and the leader of a herd of wild horses too proud to let themselves be broken by humans. Only Folco, a young fisherman, manages to tame him. A strong friendship grows between the boy and the horse, as the two go looking for the freedom that the world of men won’t allow them.

Our Daily Bread

1949

A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst participates in the building of a new socialist society. Karl does not understand Ernst's visions, instead he confides in his other son Harry. However, Harry becomes involved in illicit business and Karl quickly realizes that it would be best to join his son Ernst in the citizen-owned factory.

Maria Ilona

1939