Oskar Werner
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forget James Bond for a moment and step into the real, dour and chilling world of spies and counterspies. Richard Burton was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his role as the burned-out British agent who refuses to "come in from the cold" to take a desk job. Instead, he launches into the most dangerous assignment of his career, stalking East German agent (and Golden Globe winner) Oskar Werner. John Le Carre's best-selling novel provides...
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of German Jews, trying to avoid Nazi oppression in Germany, leave on a ship bound for Cuba and freedom, only to be forbidden to leave the ship when they reach Havana.
5) Lola Montès
Series
Criterion collection volume 503
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Français
Description
The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit in. Charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing.
Series
Criterion collection volume 452
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
After a fellow spy is murdered, an agent who is working as a defected spy trying to get inside information realizes that he is just as expendable as his fellow agent.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full frame ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 119 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US Army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information.
9) Lola Montès
Publisher
Distributed by WinStar TV & Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Letterbox presentation.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Depicts, through flashbacks, the life of a famous courtesan, recounted as part of a lavish circus act. The ringmaster introduces and displays Lola Montés who recalls her romances with Franz Liszt, a student, and Ludwig, King of Bavaria before she was reduced by scandal, poverty and ill fortune to her present life as a circus performer.
Publisher
Distributed by Facets Multimedia
Pub. Date
2005]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet of program notes (41 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
Français
Description
Story of friendship between two artists and their mutual love for the same woman. Considered Truffaut's greatest film.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (162 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
All eyes are focused on the Vatican, hoping to see the puffs of white smoke signaling the selection of the next Pope, but this time, much more is at stake, for the new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world on the brink of nuclear war.
12) Ship of fools
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (149 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
