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Ludwig is a 1972 film directed by Italian director Luchino Visconti about the life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Visconti's muse, Helmut Berger, stars as Ludwig, while Romy Schneider reprises her role as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in a very different portrayal compared to her role in the 1950s Sissi trilogy.
Ludwig is a very languidly paced film, but with an impressive sense of tragic crescendo. The fully restored version, running over four hours, builds sympathy in the viewer for Ludwig's decadent, yet ultimately firmly constricted life. Visconti’s meticulous realism gives a bright picture of court life in the nineteenth-century Bavaria and shows with impressive dramatic pathos how a dreamy romantic idealist as Ludwig succumbs to the strenuous and urgent demands of his responsibilities as king. The political sphere of counselors, clergymen, princes and kings, as well as the intricate and often tense relations between the members of the royal family are treated in the film with an acute and refined sensibility to aristocratic decorum and way of living. However, in the 19th century the Bavarian king lacked real political power, causing Ludwig to indulge in his Wagnerian fantasies while more or less ignoring the political reality at the time.
Actors: Cristhian Andrews (producer), Cristhian Andrews (actor), Cristhian Andrews (editor), Cristhian Andrews (director), Cristhian Andrews (composer), Cristhian Andrews (writer), Cristhian Andrews (producer), Melissa Yap-Stewart (miscellaneous crew), Ruya Koman (producer), Ruya Koman (producer), Ruya Koman (actress), Sean Pollock (miscellaneous crew), Adrian Foley (actor), Adrian Foley (miscellaneous crew), Charles Baran (actor),
Genres: Drama, Family, Short,Actors: Susan Spafford (actress), Bruno Mattei (director), Mike Monty (actor), Bruno Mattei (writer), Domiziano Arcangeli (actor), Bruno Mattei (editor), Giovanni Paolucci (writer), Giovanni Paolucci (producer), David Brass (actor), Rene Abadeza (miscellaneous crew), Elio Lamari (editor), Claudio Morales (actor), Michael Garland (actor), Kevin Maxwell (actor), Cindy Jelic Matic (actress),
Plot: The network where the famous anchorwoman Grace Forsyte works, is collapsing and she would do everything to regain the favour of the audience, therefore she convinces her professional team to go to the Amazon jungle for a sensational scoop about the cannibals
Keywords: actual-animal-killed, blood-splatter, cannibal, decapitation, dismemberment, gore, intestines, journalist, jungle, monitor-lizardActors: Molly Parker (actress), Nicoletta Massone (costume designer), Mark Antony Krupa (actor), Léa Pool (miscellaneous crew), Victoria Barkoff (actress), Anna Newman (actress), Pierre Brunet (miscellaneous crew), Ina Fichman (producer), Ina Fichman (producer), Andrew Simms (actor), Howard Bilerman (actor), Caroline Bacle (miscellaneous crew), Miranda Handford (actress), Howard Goldberg (editor), Bertrand Chénier (composer),
Genres: Documentary, Drama, Romance, War,Actors: John W. Iwanonkiw (actor), Donal Logue (actor), Calista Flockhart (actress), Chris Cooper (actor), Kevin Spacey (actor), Paul Guilfoyle (actor), Angelo Corrao (editor), Alicia Rivera Frankl (miscellaneous crew), Rebecca Jenkins (actress), Joe Shelby (actor), Victor Slezak (actor), Kevin Tierney (miscellaneous crew), Bruce MacVittie (actor), Jamie Harrold (actor), Alan North (actor),
Plot: In the 1890s, Clarence Darrow was a corporate railroad lawyer who had a crisis of conscience when he saw the plight of the underprivileged. In response, Darrow quits to fight in the courts on their behalf. In a career that would mark him as the Lawyer for the Damned, we follow Darrow's life through his highs like his labor victories to the low of the hopeless McNamara trial that got him indicted for jury tampering. After all that, he rebuilds his life as a master criminal defense lawyer that would lead him to one of his greatest cases with the Leopold and Loeb trial.
Keywords: 1890s, 1910s, 1920s, change-of-heart, character-name-in-title, corporate-lawyer, criminal-trial, defense-attorney, jury-tampering, labor-lawActors: Elisabeth Volkmann (actress), Hajo Gies (director), Klaus Herm (actor), Lutz Reichert (actor), Erich Bar (actor), Maria Ketikidou (actress), Klaus Naeve (actor), Ralf Komorr (actor), Urs Eplinius (writer), Caro José Tollenaar (actress), Caro José Tollenaar (composer),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,Actors: Vadim Vilsky (actor), Yuri Dedovich (actor), Grigore Grigoriu (actor), Tõnu Aav (actor), Viktor Chutak (actor), Igor Bezyayev (actor), Lavrenti Masokha (actor), Vasile Pescaru (director), Irina Tereshchenko (actress), Praskoviya Didyk (writer), Praskoviya Didyk (writer), Dumitru Margine (actor), Vasili Zagorsky (composer), Valentina Zimnyaya (actress), Sergei Lunkevich (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Peter Ostermayr (producer), Peter Ostermayr (writer), Erni Singerl (actress), Beppo Brem (actor), Hans Fitz (actor), Gustl Gstettenbaur (actor), Joe Stöckel (director), Franz Loskarn (actor), Willy Rösner (actor), Walter Sedlmayr (actor), Rudolf Vogel (actor), Gustav Waldau (actor), Elise Aulinger (actress), Giuseppe Becce (composer), Wastl Witt (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Herbert Wilcox (producer), Peter Bull (actor), Tullio Carminati (actor), Edgar Driver (actor), Patrick Barr (actor), Lilli Palmer (actress), Andreas Malandrinos (actor), Norman Walker (director), Merrill G. White (editor), Katie Johnson (actress), John Garrick (actor), Julian Vedey (actor), Hubert Harben (actor), Davina Craig (actress), Eileen Munro (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Sam Harris (actor), Creighton Hale (actor), Oscar Apfel (actor), Hooper Atchley (actor), Lionel Atwill (actor), Egon Brecher (actor), Frank Baker (actor), A.S. 'Pop' Byron (actor), Spencer Charters (actor), Max Barwyn (actor), J. Gunnis Davis (actor), Eugene Borden (actor), George Eldredge (actor), Agostino Borgato (actor), Hans Joby (actor),
Plot: In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan an immediate marriage. But the War comes and Elsa mysteriously disappears. Alan's ease in speaking German results in his appointment to the British Intelligence and, to aid his use as a spy, they announce he was killed in action. He takes the name and personality of "shell-shocked" Hans Teller, a German prisoner, and is sent into Germany on an exchange of prisoners. Elsa, now a spy in the service of the Fatherland, is in Monte Carlo, where Allied officers on leave can be tempted into revealing war secrets. In Germany, Alan, posing as Teller, is listed as unfit for service, contacts Carl Schrottle (Rod LaRocque), another British agent. They are to locate the German "Big Bertha," the long-range gun bombarding Paris. They are successful and the gun is destroyed. Elsa is recalled and given the assignment of locating the British spy organization and its members. Through her surveillance of Carl, she meets Hans Teller and recognizes him as Alan, but doesn't let on. Alone, she agrees to flee to Holland with him but her superior officer, Ludwig (Lionel Atwill), is not fooled and is in pursuit.
Keywords: actor, actress, applause, assignment, audience, austria, b-movie, backstage, baggage, balconyActors: Edvin Adolphson (actor), Gustaf Molander (director), Rolf Husberg (editor), Georg Rydeberg (actor), Sickan Carlsson (actress), Gösta Stevens (writer), Gustaf Molander (writer), Jules Sylvain (composer), Sigge Fürst (actor), Eric Abrahamsson (actor), Carl Barcklind (actor), Thor Modéen (actor), Gösta Ekman (actor), Nils Hultgren (actor), Tord Bernheim (actor),
Genres: Comedy,