COMING SOON!
The following archival cinematic treasures are COMING SOON to FILMMUSEUM HOME VIDEO!
Light of the Abyss 1923
Producer/Director: Fritz Freisler Script: Paul Fink Production: Freisler-Filmproduktion 90 min. B/W silent w/music score Cinematography: Fritz Freisler CAST: Anita Berber, Nora Gregor, Ilse Larm, Josef Peterhaus, Julius Strobl German dialog.
Austrian promotional film for the Avant-Garde movement featuring Avant-Garde dancer Anita Berber who essays the starring role as Goddess Astarte. A true Weimarian cinematic treasure. Available Soon
Paths to Strength and Beauty 1925 (new color version!)
Producers/Direction: Wilhelm Prager, Nicholas Kaufmann Script: Ernst Krieger, Nicholas Kaufmann, Wilhelm Prager Cinematography: Eugen Herich, Friedrich Paulmann, Friederich Weinmann CAST: Josephine Baker, Jack Dempsey, Leni Riefenstahl, Johnny Weissmuller Music (added in sound era): Dr. Giuseppe Becce Production: Ufa (Cukture Dept.) 100 min. Color silent w/music score German w/English intertitles.
German Weimarian pseudo-documentary film was produced, directed and written by Wilhelm Prager, and Nicholas Kaufmann.
"Paths to Strength and Beauty" concerns the human physical form as an object of cult worship movement during the Weimar Republic. This feature-length film promotes physical fitness training as an acceptable modern (1925) German lifestyle depicting such aspects as personal hygiene, dancing, sports as well as gymnastics in which many scenes depict the sports figures of Grecian antiquity posing nude for the cameras.
Available October 2025
Pandora's Box 1929 (new Color version!)
Producers: Seymour Nebenzal, Heinz Landsmann Script: Frank Wedekind (plays), Laduslaus Vajda (script), Joseph Fleisler (intertitles), G.W. Pabst (script) Director: G.W. Pabst Cinematography: Guenther Krampf CAST: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Gustav Diessl, Carl Goetz Production: Nero-Film AG Color silent w/music score German intertitles w/English captions.
Iconic Weimarian cinematic classic co-written and directed by G.W. Pabst starring Louise Brooks (as Pandora), Fritz Kortner, Gustav Diessl, Carl Goetz, etc.
"Pandora's Box" concerns the rise and fall of an naive, amoral young girl whose insouciant eroticism is her chief inspiration for existence. Available December 2025