Valeska Gert

German Film Award

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Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (German: Acht Stunden sind kein Tag) is a West German television drama miniseries...

Juliet of the Spirits

Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionab...

People on Sunday

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic...

Das Jahrhundert des Kabaretts

Diary of a Lost Girl

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant,...

Joyless Street

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to bette...

The 3 Penny Opera

In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowl...

Nana

Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous,...

Coup de Grâce

A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.

A Daughter Of Destiny

Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assem...

The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors

In collage sequences, the surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of...

Such Is Life

A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations h...

Cabaret-Berlin, the Wild Scene

Structured as a cabaret show and composed entirely of rare visual and sound archival material, Cabaret-Berlin,...

Portrait of Valeska Gert

“Grotesque dancer” Valeska Gert speaks with inimitable repartee and typical Berlin brashness about her scandals...

Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are...

The Good Lady

A kind old lady is not all that she seems to be, and gets more than she bargained for when she rents out a room...

Tanzerische Pantominen

Three dance performances by dancer Valeska Gert.