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Lou Andreas-Salome, the woman who enraptured nineteenth century Europe's greatest minds, recounts her life to Ernst Pfeiffer in this German film directed by Cordula Kablitz-Post. A published novelist, poet and essayist, Salome's desire to live a life free from convention scandali...
"The extraordinary story of one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters. Paris, 1902: Renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin has just completed The Thinker. Rainer Maria Rilke is a delicate young visitor from Prague, broke and suffering from a case of writer's block....
Superman : the movie: As an infant, Superman is sent to earth from the doomed planet Krypton. As he grows up, he learns he has super powers which he must hide from the ordinary mortals around him. But the time comes when Superman's powers for good are revealed to the world. Super...
After civilization succumbs to a deadly pandemic and his wife is murdered, John Wood, a special forces soldier, abandons his duty and becomes a recluse in the Nordic wilderness. Years later, a wounded woman appears on his doorstep. Maria Johnson is an escaped lab rat and her purs...
"Lehn dich zurück. Höre diese Stimme. Vergiss deinen Alltag, den Job, den Ärger, die Sorgen. Vertrau dich den Worten an. Sie sind nur für dich. Aber Vorsicht: Wenn du einmal gefangen bist in dieser Welt, kommst du nicht mehr hinaus. Diese Stimme - sie ist das Letzte, was du h...
Christian Räth's inspired staging of Der Freischütz, Weber's seminal Romantic opera, at the Haus am Ring stands out due to the bold set and costume design by Gary McCann. It was ₁a festival of singers, that the young conductor Tomas Netopil underscored with the State Opera Orch...
When the First World War broke out in 1914, the music world was not unaffected. Artists inevitably became involved, either as soldiers at the front or as composers of patriotic music or musical memorials to a lost world. The three-part documentary series investigates the (un)know...