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Silent film social drama
Director
Writer
Screenplay
Status
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Original Language
DE
Grete Gerson
Baronin Inge von Holten
Peter Lenz, Besitzer der Villa
In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.
Baron Etville
Rolf Sander
Theodor Timm
Karl Töns, seine Freunde
Häslein, Rolfs Freundin
Po Gri, Etvilles Freundin
Rosa, Haushälterin
Franz Orschewsky
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In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.
