Max Reinhardt

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Max Reinhardt, William Dieterle

Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale

A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...

Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt

Gottfried Reinhardt

Max Reinhardt, Lil Dagover

"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater producer and theater founder. With his Jedermann production on August 22, 1920, he founded the Salzburg Festival.

A Dream Comes True

Addison Richards, Ross Alexander

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

Sumurûn

Max Reinhardt

Bertha Wiesenthal, Eduard von Winterstein

Eine venezianische Nacht

Max Reinhardt

Maria Carmi, Joseph Klein

The young Anselmus Aselmeyer fulfilled a long cherished dream: He travels to Venice, the city of his dreams. Once there, the porter Pipistrello directs him immediately to the hotel of his boss, and Anselmus lands in the middle of a wedding party. Mestre Mangiabene, a wealthy oilman, marries the beautiful but completely depleted Marchesina dei Bisognosi. But the secretly loves an officer.

Die Insel der Seligen

Max Reinhardt

Paul Davidson, Erika De Planque

Nymphs and gods and their foul play. Directed by Max Reinhardt.

Camille

Ralph Barton

Paul Robeson, Sinclair Lewis

A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s Paris and New York.

Der ewige Jude

Fritz Hippler

Harry Giese, Mona Maris

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America

Barrie Gavin

Dennis Marks, Maurice Abravanel

The story of Kurt Weill 's relationship with the American popular theatre. During his years in exile on Broadway, the composer of Mack the Knife and The Alabama Song, who personified decadent Berlin, found a new life in New York, creating such standards as September Song and Speak Low. Director Barrie Gavin describes the film as "the history of an artist ... struggling to write music which could have real meaning for the society he had just joined." Weill is remembered by the conductor Maurice Abravanel and the actor Burgess Meredith and there are extracts from several of his works.