The Right to Love

The Right to Love 1930

1

With a script co-written by Weimar-era sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, this enlightened drama deals with WWI soldiers who have become impotent due to wounds but still want to marry.

1930

Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening 1929

1

Moritz Stiefel faces expulsion due to poor marks. When he is caught with an essay titled “Shame and Lust”, he is indeed kicked out – instead of classmate Melchior Gabor, who actually penned it. Gabor was drawing on his experiences with neighbourhood girl Wendla. Then Wendla turns up pregnant. Stiefel descends into despair ... Exploitation between Eros and Thanatos in this “sexual tragedy of youth” based on Frank Wedekind’s play. Setting the film in the 1920s provided a chance to explore “modern” youth culture, complete with cigarettes, jazz music, the gramophone, and a goodly bit of alcohol. Richard Oswald, a master of films of manners and young sex beginning in the 1910s, fully explores the temptations of the youthful body, even early childhood flirtatiousness. At the same time, with his target audience in mind, the film laments the bigotry and double standards of the adult world.

1929

Once I Loved a Girl in Vienna

Once I Loved a Girl in Vienna 1931

1

A musical about love that spans the period before and after the Great War in the Austro-Hungarian empire.

1931

The Volga Girl

The Volga Girl 1930

1

A love story between a simple peasant girl (Holt) and a dashing young officer (Sym), who however doesn't see more in her than a temporary affair.

1930

Schoeller's Boarding House

Schoeller's Boarding House 1930

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Adaptation of a popular comedy: When the country uncle he has been bilking comes to town to visit, a young student takes him to a boarding house full of exaggerated eccentric characters.

1930

The Tsarevich

The Tsarevich 1929

1

Based on the play and subsequent operetta of the same name.

1929

Girls for Sale

Girls for Sale 1931

1

About trafficking. A nightclub in Buenos Aires is advertising for blonde women for glamorous jobs.

1931

The Orlov

The Orlov 1927

1

Based on the operetta of the same name.

1927