1943 Movies

A circus film made as a deliberately escapist release at a time when the Second World War was starting to turn against Germany and its allies.

A silent color film of Martha Graham dancing extracts of "Lamentation".

Gifted amateur dancer gets her big break on the Berlin Stage in this wartime romantic comedy.

Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?

An elder brother's sacrifice to educate his sibling leads to family strife when the younger brother marries into a rival family, sparking betrayal and tragedy that tests their bonds.

The New Adventures of Schweik adopted to the WWII reality.

Begins with a three beat announcement drawn out in time which thereafter serves as a figure to divide the four sections. Each return of this figure is more condensed, and finally used in reverse to conclude the film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2...

Biographical film about Saint Rita da Cascia, who lived in Umbria in the 14th century.

The film tells about the heroic struggle of Ukrainian farmers-partisans with nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic war.

A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail.

Documentary on picking the right Cadet.

In the oyster and fishing town of Arcachon, one man doesn't want his adopted son to get married to the daughter of his rival, and he suspects a dark underlying secret.

Dr. Kálmán Bajor, a lawyer in his fifties, falls in love with his friend's secretary, twenty-year-old Turkish Vali. Valit seduces his young suitor and asks her to marry him. The lawyer's daughter Mimi does not look kindly on the marriage, but she cannot dissua...

In memory of the Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger(1867-1942). The film was shot three months before the composer's death, on Frösön island, home of Peterson-Berger.

Arctic Passage (RKO "This Is America" series) is a documentary showing the construction of the highway from British Columbia to Alaska: the seemingly insurmountable barriers to be overcome, the boom towns that ro se up on the way, the mud, the mosquitoes, the...

Bucharest, 1876. Don Dumitrache instructs his trusted man, Chiriac, to watch his young wife, Veta. Dumitrache is sure that Veta having an affair, she does not know is that her lover is Chiriac own...

In this western, a decent Indian agent loses his job and his good name after someone steals the government money he was to deliver to a tribe. Because he cannot bear to see the people starve over the long winter, he begins searching for the robbers. He does so...

Blackie the Lamb has two goals in life: to keep his nephews from listening to swing music, and to keep from getting caught by Wolfie the Wolf.

The hotel owned by widow Ida Hentola is full of artists who can't pay their bills. The energetic manager isn't too happy about her daughter Mirjami and painter Akseli Niemelä getting all lovey-dovey. Misunderstandings caused by a lottery ticket mess up the hot...