Dagny Servaes

The king of the Ethiopians hoping to make peace with Egypt, offers his daughter Theonis to become the wife of King Amenes. But Theonis falls in love with Ramphis, the handsome son of the king's advisor Sothis.

Biopic about Beethoven.

Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers' revolution. (bfi.org.uk)

Dr. Robert Hart visits his friend Ursula von Hohenau in Saxony in July 1914. There he hears about the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. He immediately returns to his home town where, just before mobilisation, he meets the Polish count Bransky and his daughter Jadwiga, the French Vicomte Latour and the Russian counsellor of embassy count Bronislaw Krascinsky. Bronislaw is madly in love with Jadwiga and jealous of Dr. Hart. After the outbreak of the war Dr. Hart works close to the Polish frontlines.

Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. (imdb)

Austria silent film from 1925 directed by Hans Otto, telling the story about the Austrian officer who rose to head the counter-intelligence efforts of Austria-Hungary. He was himself a paid spy for the Russians.

The general's widow Henriette of Petrin's not happy about the life of her eldest daughter Leonie. The girl married a young man and is now unhappy with their modest life. To escape their everyday life for a while, Leonie has taken on herself to persuade Count Marenzi to show the "big wide world". Leonie buys a fur coat and send the bill counts. Mother Henriette and Leonie's younger sister, Gerti want for Leonie's projects to fail.

Anna Jobst is the daughter of a rich, conservative farmer. Living on the bank of the Moldau, she wishes nothing more than follow the river to Prague, the "Golden City".

A troupe of traveling actors is being welcomed by villagers in Calabria in the summer of 1866. (imdb)

This period drama set in 18th century Volhynia stars Maurice Schwartz as Leybke, a handsome Jewish guardsman who, in the end, martyrs himself and saves his brethren. (imdb)

St. Wenceslas (Czech: Svatý Václav) is a 1930 Czechoslovak historical film about Saint Wenceslas. It was the most expensive Czech film to date, with the largest set constructed in Europe to accommodate an all-star cast of over a hundred, together with 1,000 extras for the lavish battle scenes.

When Elisabeth of Valois becomes engaged, she believes her fiancé is the crown prince of Spain, Don Carlos, a poetic and liberal young man who is the hope of those who would like to see freedom of religion. Instead she gets King Philip, his father, who is a promoter of the Inquisition and oppression both in Spain and in Flanders. Carlos, however, remains in love with Elisabeth.