Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood

1995 - 1995

Where It All Began

1st October 1995

Episode 1

Highlighting the world's first public presentation of films in Paris, the comedies by Max Linder, Abel Gance's J'Accuse and the onset of World War I.

Art's Promised Land

8th October 1995

Episode 2

Including Ingeborg Holm by Victor Sjostrom and Greta Garbo's star-making performance opposite Lars Hanson in Gosta Berling's Saga. Directed by Michael Winterbottom.

The Unchained Camera

15th October 1995

Episode 3

Featuring The Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein, Metropolis by Fritz Lang, Joyless Street starring Greta Garbo, The White Hell of Pitz Palu featuring Leni Riefenstahl and Louise Brooks becomes a star in Pandora's Box.

The Music of Light

22nd October 1995

Episode 4

Highlighting Abel Gance's masterpiece, Napoleon.

Opportunity Lost

29th October 1995

Episode 5

Exploring the early career of Alfred Hitchcock.

End of an Era

5th November 1995

Episode 6

Focusing on the arrival of sound films, The Jazz Singer and the onslaught of World War II.

Top Cast

Kenneth Branagh

Director

Kevin Brownlow

The origin of European cinema, from its infancy as a novelty created by French inventors Auguste and Louis Lumière to its flourishing as the pinnacle of film-making in the silent era and as a serious commercial contender against America.

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