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Photo in the midst:
Dr. Mabuse, Der Spieler“ 1921
Photo at the left bottom:
Faust“ 1926
Photo at the right bottom:
Metropolis“ 1925

 

   
 
 
 

 

 

Abschied 1930
(Other title: So sind die Menschen)

 
 

Director: Robert Siodmak
Writers: Emmerich Pressburger and Irma von Cube
Restoration: b./w., German dialogue version
Year of restoration: 1998

Print: 35mm, 4 acts
Format: standard film format
Length: 2104,1 metres / 76:54 minutes

Anna Boleyn 1920

 

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writers: Hanns Kräly and Fred Orbing
Restoration: b./w. and tinted, German intertitles
Year of restoration: 1998

Print: 35mm, 6 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 2689,1 metres / 131:11 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 18 images per second

Asphalt 1929
(Other title: Polizeiwachtmeister und die Brillanten)

Director: Joe May
Writers: Fred Mojo and Hans Szekely
Restoration: b./w., original German intertitles
Year of restoration: 1995

Print: 35mm, 5 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 2559,9 metres / 102:04 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 22 images per second

Der Berg des Schicksals 1924

 
 

Director: Arnold Fanck
Writer: Arnold Fanck
Restoration: tinted, German intertitles
Year of restoration: 1995

Print: 35mm, 4 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 2077,2 metres / 82:49 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 22 images per second

Die Bergkatze 1921

 

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writers: Hanns Kräly and Ernst Lubitsch
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 2000

Print: 35mm, 6 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 1933,2 metres / 84:47 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 20 images per second

Bigamie 1927

Director: Jaap Speyer
Writer: Max Glass
Restoration: b./w., French intertitles
Year of restoration: 1992

Print: 35mm, 4 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 1787,0 metres / 71:15 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 22 images per second

Der blaue Engel 1929/30

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Writer: Robert Liebmann
Restoration: b./w., German dialogue version
Year of restoration: 2001

Print: 35mm, 5 acts
Format: standard film format
Length: 2922,8 metres / 106:50 minutes

Der blaue Engel / The blue Angel 1929/30
German/English dialogue version

 

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Writer: Robert Liebmann
Restoration: b./w., German/English dialogue version
Year of restoration: 2001

Print: 35mm, 5 acts
Format: standard film format
Length 2857,0 metres / 104:25 minutes

Ein blonder Traum 1932

 

Director: Paul Martin
Writers: Walter Reisch and Billy Wilder
Restoration: b./w., German dialogue version
Year of restoration: 2001, by Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin for Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation

Print: 35mm, 5 acts
Format: standard film format
Length: 2578,1 metres / 94:14 minutes

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari 1919/20

Director: Robert Wiene
Writers: Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz
Restoration: tinted, German intertitles
Year of restoration: 1998, EU/"Lumière"-project

Print: 35mm, 3 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 1497,8 metres / 73:07 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 18 images per second

Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler – Teil 1: Der große Spieler. Ein Bild der Zeit 1921/22

 
 

Director: Fritz Lang
Writer: Thea von Harbou
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 2000

Print: 35mm, 10 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 3528,4 metres / 154:45 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 20 images per second

Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler – Teil 2: Inferno. Ein Spiel von Menschen unserer Zeit 1921/22

 
 

Director: Fritz Lang
Writer: Thea von Harbou
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 2000

Print: 35mm, 7 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 2612,2 metres / 114:34 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 20 images per second

Faust. Eine deutsche Volkssage 1925/26

 

Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Writer: Hans Kyser
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 1999

Print: 35mm, 5 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 2443,4 metres / 97:25 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 22 images per second

Ein Fest auf Haderslevhuus 1921/22

 
 

Director: August Weigert
Writer: Ernst von Jordan-Bassermann
Restoration: tinted, German intertitles
Year of restoration: 2000

Print: 35mm, 5 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 1327,67 metres / 58:14 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 20 images per second

Die Fledermaus 1945

 
 

Director: Geza von Bolvary
Writer: Ernst Marischka
Year of restoration: 2003
Available as Beta Digital
Running time: 94:56 minutes

Frau im Mond 1929

Director: Fritz Lang
Writer: Thea von Harbou
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 2001

Print: 35mm, 10 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 4611,8 metres / 184:00 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 22 images per second

Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten 1941

 
 

Director: Georg Jacoby
Writers: Gustav Kampendonk and K. G. Külb
Year of restoration: 2003
Available as Beta-Digital
Running time: 89:55 minutes

Die Fünf von der Jazzband 1932

 
 

Director: Erich Engel
Writers: Curt Alexander and Hermann Kosterlitz
Restoration: b./w. (but only the sound)
Year of restoration: 2003

Print: 35mm, 6 acts
Format: standard film format
Length: 2340,3 metres / 85:32 minutes

Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam 1920

 

Director: Paul Wegener
Writers: Henrik Galeen and Paul Wegener
Restoration: tinted, German intertitles
Year of restoration: 2000, EU/"Lumière"-project

Print: 35mm, 5 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 1953,5 metres / 95:17 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 18 images per second

Der große Sprung 1927

Director: Arnold Fanck
Writer: Arnold Fanck
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 2002

Print: 35mm, 7 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 3045,0 metres / 121:40 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 22 images per second

Der heilige Berg 1926

 
 

Director: Arnold Fanck
Writer: Arnold Fanck
Restoration: tinted, German intertitles
Year of restoration: 2001

Print: 35mm, 6 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 2629,8 metres / 104:52 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 22 images per second

Hilde Warren und der Tod 1917/18

 

Director: Joe May
Writer: Fritz Lang
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 2000/2001

Print: 35mm, 5 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 1386,1 metres / 67:37 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 18 images per second

Ihr dunkler Punkt 1928
(Other title: Her dark past)
 
 

Director: Johannes Guter
Writer: Robert Liebmann
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 1999

Print: 35mm, 4 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 2512,0 metres / 110:10 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 22 images per second

Der Kampf der Tertia 1928
(Other title: Jugend von morgen)
 
 

Director: Max Mack
Writers: Max Mack and Axel Eggebrecht
Restoration: tinted, German/French intertitles
Year of restoration: 1994

Print: 35mm, 7 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 2572,9 metres / 102:35 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 22 images per second

La Habanera 1937  
 

Director: Detlef Sierck
Writer: Gerhard Menzel
Restoration: b./w., German dialogue version
Year of restoration: 2000

Print: 35mm, 5 acts
Format: standard film format
Length: 2657,0 metres / 97:07 minutes

Der letzte Mann 1924
Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Writer: Carl Mayer
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 2003

Print: 35mm, 6 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 2027,1 metres / 80:50 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 22 images per second

Der letzte Mann 1924
(English/American title: The last laugh)
American version
Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Writer: Carl Mayer
Restoration: b./w., English intertitles
Year of restoration: 2003

Print: 35mm, 6 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 1771,3 metres / 70:48 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 22 images per second

Liebe muss verstanden sein 1933
This film was considered to be lost and was only recently rediscovered!
Director: Hans Steinhoff
Writer: Herbert Juttke
Restoration: b./w., German dialogue version
Year of restoration: 2003
Available as Beta Digital
Running time: 80:09 minutes
Madame Dubarry 1919
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writers: Hanns Kräly and Fred Orbing
Restoration: tinted, German/French intertitles
Year of restoration: 1999/2000

Print: 35mm, 7 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 2579,9 metres / 126:15 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 18 images per second

Der Mann, dem man den Namen stahl 1944/45
Director: Wolfgang Staudte
Writers: Wolfgang Staudte and Josef Maria Frank
Restoration: b./w., German dialogue version
Year of restoration: 1996, by Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin for Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation

Annotation:
In 1995 the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin reconstructed the film in accordance with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation. The original film was captured material in Sovjet archives before being returned to the national film archives of the GDR in the mid 50s (56 image-reels and 23 sound-reels). The completion of the film out of many single components took the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv 1 year. Now, the film is available.

Print: 35mm, 4 acts
Format: standard film format
Length: 2269,0 metres / 82:56 minutes

Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war 1937
(Other title: Sherlock Holmes)
Director: Karl Hartl
Writers: Robert A. Stemmle and Karl Hartl
Restoration: b./w., German dialogue version
Year of restoration: 2001

Print: 35mm, 6 acts
Format: standard film format
Length: 3047,9 metres / 111:40 minutes

Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht 1930
(Other title: Der Himmelskandidat / Jim, der Mann mit der Narbe)

 
 

Director: Robert Siodmak
Writers: Ludwig Hirschfeld and Curt Siodmak
Restoration: b./w., German dialogue version
Year of restoration: 1998

Print: 35mm, 3 acts
Format: standard film format
Length: 1436,8 metres / 52:31 minutes

Mann im Sattel 1944/1999

 
 

Director: Harry Piel
Writer: Hanns Marschall
Restoration: b./w., German dialogue version
Year of restoration: 2000, by Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv

Annotation:
At the end of World War II the film was finished except for a few shots. For a long time the film was considered to be lost until 74 image-reels and 50 sound-reels were finally discovered unsorted as nitrate material in the national film archives of the GDR. These film fragments, found by the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, certainly featured the original film-sound, but Werner Schmidt-Boelcke's music was not yet included – it had gotten lost. In 1999 the film was completed by the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv being the proprietor of the film material and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation as holder of the cinematographic rights. For the composition of a new film music the Berlin composer and musician Lexa Thomas could be enlisted.
After their completion the music parts were mixed with the original sound which are now available.

Print: 35mm, 5 acts
Format: standard film format
Length: 2773,8 metres / 101:39 minutes

Metropolis 1925
 

Director: Fritz Lang
Writer: Thea von Harbou
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 2002

Print: 35mm, 7 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 3370,5 metres / 134:39 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 24 images per second

Metropolis 1925

Director: Fritz Lang
Writer: Thea von Harbou
Original music: Gottfried Huppertz
New adaptation: b./w., German and English intertitles
Year of adaptation: 2002

Print: 35mm, combined, 7 acts
Format: standard film format
Length: 3379,4 metres / 123:31 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 24 images per second

Münchhausen 1943

Director: Josef von Baky
Writers: Berthold Bürger and Fritz Thiery
Restoration: colour, German dialogue version
Year of restoration: 1995

Print: 35mm, 6 acts
Format: standard film format
Length 3152,5 metres / 115:13 minutes

Die Nibelungen – Part 1: Siegfrieds Tod 1923  
 

Director: Fritz Lang
Writer: Thea von Harbou
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 1990

Print: 35mm, 7 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 3212,8 metres / 140:55 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 20 images per second

Die Nibelungen – Part 2: Kriemhilds Rache 1923  
 
Director: Fritz Lang
Writer: Thea von Harbou
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 1990

Print: 35mm, 7 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 3360,4 metres / 147:23 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 20 images per second

Nosferatu 1921
Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Writer: Henrik Galeen
Restoration: tinted, German intertitles
Year of restoration: 1995

Print: 35mm, 5 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 1910,3 metres / 83:46 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 20 images per second

Orlac’s Hände 1925
Director: Robert Wiene
Writer: Ludwig Nerz
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 1998

Print: 35mm, 7 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 2252,9 metres / 89:50 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 22 images per second

Die Pest in Florenz 1919  
 
Director: Otto Rippert
Writer: Fritz Lang
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 1999/2000

Annotation:
The existing version was developed on the basis of an original camera negative, partly nitrate, partly acetate, without opening credits or intertitles. The text of the opening credits and the intertitles corresponds to the censor's certificate. A film of the same production company and year served as sample for the character type. The position of the intertitles was given by handwritten numbers in the negative.
The adaptation took place in 1999/2000 in a cooperation of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation and the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv.

Print: 35mm, 7 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 2078,3 metres / 101:23 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 18 images per second

Phantom 1922
Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Writer: Thea von Harbou
Restoration: tinted, German intertitles
Year of restoration: 2003

Print: 35mm, 6 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 2999,7 metres / 131:34 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 20 images per second

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes 1939
Director: Hans Steinhoff
Writers: Walter Wassermann and Charlotte H. Diller
Restoration: b./w., German dialogue version
Year of restoration: 2002

Annotation:
The only existing colour shots show the finally discovered bacillus. The colour elements were found in the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv and have now been put into the already existing material. A print including these colour elements is now available.

Print: 35mm, 6 acts
Format: standard film format
Length: 3115,7 metres / 113:53 minutes

Schatten 1923
(Other title: Eine nächtliche Halluzination)

 

Director: Arthur Robison
Writers: Rudolf Schneider and Arthur Robison
Restoration: tinted, no intertitles
Year of restoration: 1999

Print: 35mm, 4 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 1933,2 metres / 84:47 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 20 images per second

Schloss Vogelöd 1921

Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Writer: Carl Mayer
Restoration: tinted, German intertitles
Year of restoration: 2002

Print: 35mm, 6 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 1665,8 metres / 73:04 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 20 images per second

Der Sträfling aus Stambul 1929
(Other title: Die zwei Frauen des Thomas Zezi)
 
 

Director: Gustav Ucicky
Writers: Frank Schulz and Robert Liebmann
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 1995

Print: 35mm, 5 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 2468,0 metres / 98:25 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 24 images per second

Sumurun 1920  
 

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writers: Hanns Kräly and Ernst Lubitsch
Restoration: tinted, German intertitles
Year of restoration: 2000

Print: 35mm, 6 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 2355,1 metres / 114:53 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 18 images per second

Tagebuch einer Verlorenen 1929

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writer: Rudolf Leonhardt
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 1996/97

Print: 35mm, 7 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 3032,5 metres / 120:55 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 24 images per second

 

 

 

 

Tartüff 1925
(Other title: Herr Tartüff)
American version

Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Writer: Carl Mayer
Restoration: b./w., English intertitles
Year of restoration: 2003

Print: 35mm, 7 acts
Format: silent film format
Length: 1754,6 metres / 69:58 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 22 images per second

Titanic 1942
Director: Werner Klingler and Herbert Selpin
Writer: Walter Zerlett-Olfenius
Restoration: b./w., German dialogue version
Year of restoration: 1995

Print: 35mm, 5 acts
Format: standard film format
Length: 2414,3 metres / 88:14 minutes

Walzerkrieg 1933
Director: Ludwig Berger
Writer: Hans Müller and Robert Liebmann
Restoration: b./w., German dialogue version
Year of restoration: 2001

Print: 35mm, 5 acts
Format: standard film format
Length: 2464,9 metres / 90:06 minutes

Warum lügst Du, Elisabeth? 1944
Director: Fritz Kirchhoff
Writer: Gerhard T. Buchholz
New adaptation: b./w., German dialogue version
Year of restoration: 2002

Print: 35mm, 4 acts
Format: standard film format
Length: 2138,9 metres / 78:11 minutes

Die wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna 1929
Director: Hanns Schwarz
Writer: Hans Szekely
Restoration: b./w., German intertitles
Year of restoration: 1999

Print: 35mm, 8 acts
Length: 2914,2 metres / 116:12 minutes
Recommended speed of projection: 24 images per second

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