Movies and TvShows featuring "1930s-literature-on-screen" theme.
In A Stolen Life, a woman named Kate finds herself living the life of her twin sister, Patricia, who steals her identity and tries to take everything away from her. This psychological drama explores themes of deceit, identity, and sibling rivalry.
Narcissus and Goldmund tells the story of a young man named Goldmund, who embarks on a journey of self-discovery and artistic expression. Set in the Middle Ages, Goldmund leaves the confines of a monastery and explores the world, encountering various characters and experiences along the way. His encounters with Narcissus, a scholar and monk, spark a deep friendship and bring out hidden desires and tensions. The story explores themes of identity, sexuality, and the search for meaning.
Kater Mikesch is a German television series.
When a ranch owner is targeted by a greedy man and his hired gun, he must take a stand to protect his land and the woman he loves. With mistaken identities, romantic rivalries, and attempts on his life, the rancher must navigate through a web of deceit and danger to survive.
In 'Night Must Fall', a psychopath preys on the residents of a quiet village, especially targeting a widow. The mentally ill protagonist's true nature is slowly revealed as the plot thickens, leading to a tension-filled climax.
Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more boys than men, kill a gamekeeper when they are caught illegally hunting. Panicked, they retreat into a forest that grows steadily more forbidding and deadly as their fear for the future—and guilt over their action—mounts. Loosely based on hundreds of oral folk tales and legends that haunt the woods of Czechoslovakia, Vlácil’s contemporary updating artistically underscores the relationship between man and nature, crime and punishment, isolation and society, and guilt and memory.
Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.
A head waiter pretends to be his own twin brother in order to keep his secret identity as a travel agent hidden from his wife, leading to humorous misunderstandings and a forgotten wedding anniversary.
Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic background, he is a man of fortune and is trying to buy the castle. To impress his neighbors and the local politicians he invites them to a great hunting party. Uninvited comes a man who claims to be Duke Alexej. Stoklasa believes him to be a hustler. This hustler, however, manages to charm all the women before he leaves.
Venice Film Festival 1938
In Eva Fools Around, a teenage girl gets into an awkward situation when she accidentally steals a birthday cake and has to come up with a cover identity to avoid getting caught. With mistaken identities, drunkenness, and humoristic situations, this screwball comedy takes audiences on a hilarious ride.
In late 19th century Czech-speaking Bohemia, oppressed workers at German-owned mines and foundries revolt against their harsh working conditions. Made shortly after World War II as Czechoslovakia was falling to communism, the film resonates in Czech resentment of the German occupation.
One day the police were checking city blocks and found a dragon egg, which was immediately taken to the lost and found table. And there a five-headed dragon hatched from the egg and ate everything that was in the lost and found table for storage. Not knowing what to do with the charming monster, the police are trying to place him either in an orphanage or in an animal protection society. But everything is in vain, because in fact the dragon is an enchanted princess.
On 26 September 1928, Karel Capek and President T.G. Masaryk meet in the gardens of Topolcianky castle to decide about the fate of their joint literary work. Their fiction film dialogue is based on quotes from a future book and their mutual correspondence, considerably freeing the original format of literary conversation from binding conventions. Capek and Masaryk reproach and offend each other, but they also ask key personal questions and questions about the social functions of a writer and politician respectively. "It's a film about two extraordinary men; it's about the fact that emotions can be sometimes more powerful than ideas even in such exceptional people.