Alexis Granowsky
2021Das Lied vom Leben
Alexis Granowsky
Aribert Mog, Margot Ferra
This Brechtian musical about a young woman who flees from her decrepit, noble fiancé and marries a sailor is an interesting, although not a completely successful attempt to translate the sort of stage show to film. It has some good points, including the complete abandonment of the sort of surrealistic stage design that had enlivened the silent cinema. Instead, this tries for a purely cinematic technique, including multiple exposures, undercranking and distorting camera angles and lenses.
The Song of Life
Die Koffer des Herrn O.F.
Alexis Granowsky
Alfred Abel, Hedy Lamarr
In the very oldfashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (the hotel just has five). This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is. Journalist Stix and architect Stark have an idea how to use this event. They proclaim, that O.F. is a former citizen of the town, who became a millionaire abroad. They tell their fellow citizens that the town still needs modernisation, like better hotels, nightclubs, shops, etc. And soon, Ostend is a boomtown, then a capital. The architect, responsible for the new buildings is finaly allowed to marry the mayor's daughter, while Stix marries the cabaret star and the widowed mayor his new secretary. The only problem is, O.F. hasn't shown up, while finance experts from all over the world are trying to solve the depression problem.
The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Les aventures du roi Pausole
Alexis Granowsky
André Berley, Josette Day
Blessed King Pausole sleeps every night with one of his 366 wives (one per day, plus one for leap years). The arrival of a young airman, who falls in love with the king's daughter, will upset the peaceful habits of the palace.
Les aventures du roi Pausole
The Rebel Son
Adrian Brunel, Alexis Granowsky
Harry Baur, Anthony Bushell
During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle. However, the son falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman.
The Rebel Son
Les nuits moscovites
Alexis Granowsky
Annabella, Pierre Richard-Willm
During the First World War, the Russian officer Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his nurse, Natasha Kovrin. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
Moscow Nights
The Merry Monarch
Alexis Granowsky
Emil Jannings, Sidney Fox
Good King Pausole selects a wife for every day in the year, but one protests when he spends her day searching for young Princess Aline who has eloped with Giglio, a visiting airman stranded in the kingdom. Giglio comes from a modern and different world and this gives Queen for a Day some ideas about how to make her title a lasting one.
The Merry Monarch
Еврейское счастье
Alexis Granowsky
Solomon Mikhoels, Moisei Goldblat
Менахем Мендель пытается заработать деньги на уличной галантерейной торговле, затем на организации страховой конторы, но его проекты оканчиваются неудачей. Случайно найдя список богатых невест, потерянный сватом, Менахем решает заняться сватовством…
Еврейское счастье