Il Cinema Ritrovato 2014 - Features
All feature films screened at the 2014 Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival.
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- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsWallace BeeryRichard ArlenLouise BrooksAfter killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.
- DirectorAleksander FordStarsTadeusz LomnickiBeata TyszkiewiczTadeusz FijewskiA group of Polish officers, former POW camp inmates, stays in a deserted German town. All the Germans have already left with the exception of a doctor and his daughters. How should Poles and Germans treat each other in these circumstances?
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsVittorio GassmanMaría MercaderYvonne SansonGiacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.
- DirectorKevin BrownlowAndrew MolloStarsPauline MurraySebastian ShawBart AllisonIn 1940, Germany invades Britain and transforms it into a Fascist state where some Britons collaborate and others resist. In 1944, Pauline, an apolitical Irish nurse becomes a reluctant player in the fight between the two sides.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsSofiko ChiaureliMelkon AlekyanVilen GalstyanThe life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death: his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors, and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia. Hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
- DirectorMehboob KhanStarsNargisSunil DuttRajendra Kumar TuliIn this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code.
- DirectorPer LindbergStarsTora TejeInga TidbladRenée BjörlingAbout a group of office girls hardships in the male world set in 1907. A collective fighting for female solidarity, civil rights and the conflict between love and work.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsBobby WatsonRoman BohnenMartin KosleckThe film depicts the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement from a small radical political adventurer and cell to the dictatorial regime of Germany in the genre of a gangster film.
- DirectorLorenzo PezzanoStarsDenis LottiRolf AurichAlfredo BaldiIn the autumn of 1943, a train loaded with cinematographic and film equipment leaves the city of Rome: its destination is Venice, a city designated by the fascists as the nerve center of the Italian cinema of the newly formed Republic of Salò. The path taken by that train, however, is shrouded in mystery, as is the fate of the films transported. Many films that are believed to have anticipated Italian Neorealism are no longer there: among these there is "Sperduti nel Buio", a silent film of 1914. Denis Lotti, a university researcher from Padua, has decided to put himself on the trail of these disappeared films.
- DirectorRobert WieneStarsWerner KraussConrad VeidtFriedrich FeherHypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChôko IidaShin'ichi HimoriMasao HayamaA widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsJames DeanNatalie WoodSal MineoA rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
- DirectorHolger-MadsenStarsOlaf FønssAugusta BladJohanne Fritz-PetersenAn upperclass war widow marries again. The new husband is also an officer, and soon he has to go to the next war. At the outbreak, she's the only one who does not cheer about it. And the terrors of war soon bring almost all of her friends and relatives, among them generals and high government officials to the same conclusion: War does not pay.
- DirectorMikhail VartanovSergei ParajanovStarsSergei ParajanovMikhail VartanovSofiko ChiaureliFilmed in wartime and edited under candlelight, Mikhail Vartanov's rarely-seen masterwork tells of his friendship with the genius Sergei Parajanov who was arrested by KGB, at the height of his fame, for the outspoken criticism of the Soviet regime. Vartanov resurrects the riveting scenes from his banned 1969 film, The Color of Armenian Land, where Paradjanov concocts the chef-d'oeuvre Sayat Nova (The Color of Pomegranates) - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - then reveals a shocking secret request Parajanov sent him in an unpublished 1974 letter from the Ukrainian prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's staggering last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession - the original camera negative of which survives in Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) - as Parajanov comments on this cherished autobiographical film. The foremost achievement of The Last Spring, emphasized by the American and European critics, is Vartanov's exquisite wordless montage that "evoked the very soul" of Parajanov and earned the praise of many of cinema's greatest masters, such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsWalter HustonFrances StarrGrant MitchellMembers of a family witness two murders, but the gang uses threats, violence and kidnapping to try to keep the members from testifying.
- DirectorWerner HochbaumStarsErich HaußmannHilde von StolzHarry FrankAfter serving 5 years in prison, Robert finds himself disappointed since his wife isn't waiting outside the gates. He heads into the city while Marie makes her way into his direction. For one day, they look for each other in the noisy city of Berlin. Doubt, mistrust, and jealousy begin to germinate in Robert's breast.
- DirectorWojciech HasStarsZbigniew CybulskiIga CembrzynskaElzbieta CzyzewskaUpon finding a book that relates his grandfather's story, an officer ventures through Spain meeting a wide array of characters, most of whom have a story of their own to tell.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsRossano BrazziIrasema DiliánGino CerviAn evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsFlorence VidorLowell ShermanClive BrookA love triangle in a circus troupe,
- DirectorFred NibloMauritz StillerStarsGreta GarboAntonio MorenoMarc McDermottAn architect tries suppressing his passion for a seductive woman.
- DirectorYasujirô ShimazuStarsYumeko AizomeRyôtarô MizushimaDen ÔhinataKeitaro (Obinata Den) is a law student and Yaeko (Aizome Yumeko) is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic. Then, Yaeko's sister Kyouko (Okada Yoshiko) has a breakup with her husband and returns home. Kyouko is clearly interested in Keitaro and Yae becomes anxious.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsRichard ArlenMary BrianOlga BaclanovaAn arrogant boxer named Dum-Dum Brooks romances beautiful Celia Fields, but then falls for temptress Sonia Barondoff on the eve of the big fight.
- DirectorRoberto GuerraEila HershonStarsHenri LangloisLillian GishIngrid BergmanHenri Langlois tour of French Cinemathèque early locations.
- DirectorRaj KapoorStarsRaj KapoorNargisPrithviraj KapoorA poor young man named Raj joins a criminal gang to feed his mother. But when he falls in love with Rita, he decides to reform himself for her.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsSylvia BatailleJane MarkenGeorges D'ArnouxThe family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.