A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes […]
Tag: 1957
Short Cut to Hell
A hitman is found out because he was paid off in traceable stolen money. On […]
The Tommy Steele Story
A rags-to-riches tale of a young merchant seaman called Tommy who discovers a certain way […]
Le Notti Bianche
A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for […]
The Thistles of The Bărăgan
Rumania’s entry in the 1958 Cannes Film Festival was the excessively melodramatic Ciulinii Bărăganului. The […]
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a […]
Nights of Cabiria
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. […]
Wild Strawberries
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and […]
The Snow Queen
When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay, his […]
Quiet Flows the Don
Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of […]
A King in New York
A recently-deposed “Estrovian” monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental […]
The Cranes Are Flying
Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the […]