Brigitte Helm
March 17, 1906 · 120 years old
Brigitte Helm (17 March 1906 – 11 June 1996) was a German actress, best-remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brigitte Helm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contribut…
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Metropolis
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
The Love of Jeanne Ney
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lov...
Hitler's Hollywood
Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed.