Abel Gance's Beethoven (1936) more movies like this

directed by Abel Gance
featuring Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jany Holt, Jean-Louis Barrault, Roger Blin, Jean Debucourt

This fascinating biography chronicles the years in which the master composer began to lose his hearing. The director's use of sound to represent Beethoven's affliction is notable. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Le Golem (1936) more movies like this

directed by Julien Duvivier
featuring Germaine Aussey, Jany Holt, Ferdinand Hart, Harry Baur, Charles Dorat, Roger Karl, Roger Duchesne, Gaston Jacquet

Filmed in Czechoslovakia, this French-language adaptation of the oft-filmed Jewish folk tale The Golem was one of the most expensive productions ever made in that country. The story, which some have cited as a precursor to Frankenstein, is set in Prague's Jewish Ghetto. Fearing an anti-Semitic pogrom at the hands of Emperor Rudolf (Harry Baur), ...

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Volpone (1940) more movies like this

directed by Maurice Tourneur
featuring Louis Jouvet, Harry Baur, Charles Dullin, Fernand Ledoux, Marlon Dorian, Jean Temerson

Though he died in 1943 at the hands of his Gestapo persecutors, the great French stage and screen actor Harry Baur was represented onscreen in 1947 by the first American release of his 1940 vehicle Volpone. Adapted from the Ben Jonson play of the same name, the story concerns a cynical, unscrupulous merchant named Volpone (Baur)-aka "the fox" -- ...

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I Stand Condemned (1936) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Asquith
featuring Harry Baur, Laurence Olivier, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Athene Seyler, Hay Petrie, Kate Cutler, Morton Selten, Robert Cochran

Anthony Asquith evokes a vivid impression of Russia in 1916 in I Stand Condemned. The story follows handsome Russian officer Captain Ignatoff (Laurence Olivier), who is carried into a hospital in a delirious condition from severe war wounds. When he comes to his senses, he sees the beautiful Red Cross nurse Natasha (Penelope Dudley-Ward) staring ...

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