72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Robert Siodmak
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Robert Siodmak
Germany
71 min.
Hella and Peter, a couple too poor to get married, live in a decrepit bourgeois pension in West Berlin. Fellow guests include, among others, a womanizing Russian immigrant, a ruined Baron, two music hall dancers, and a back-street charlatan. In reality, this movie details the atmosphere of desperate promiscuity and unbeareable loneliness that forces these two lovers apart.
Robert Siodmak
Germany
90 min.
Thirteen years old, courteous and reliable, edgar is staying in the Hlevetian palace, Miramar, with his kind and distinguised mother. The slow rythm of the courtyard's mature but decadent guests obliges him to create his own distractions. He reads adventure books and makes friends with Fritz, a mischievous bellboy of fourteen. The arrival at the hotel of the ex-champion race car driver Herr von Haller undermines Edgar's confidence in the adult world. His mother falls for the charms of his temporarily infatuated cassanova who is systematically using the boy to get closer.
Robert Siodmak
USA
87 min.
Steve returns to Los Angeles after a year of voluntary exlie spent trying to forget his ex-wife, Ana. Hercapricious penchant for luxuries could not be supported by the salary of an armoured car driver and their marriage had fallen apart in only seven months. He meets her accidentally in L.A.'s Rondo Club, richly bedecked, not the wife of Slim Dundee, a notorious Bunker hill ganster. Steve, still in love with Ana, tries to get close to her again by convincing Dundee to become partners on the next caper. Now in the armoured car, waiting for the attack, Steve begins to flashback on his cazy love for Ana.
Robert Siodmak
USA
95 min.
Martin Rome, a gangster of Sicilian background, is admitted to St. John's Hospital for wounds suffered in combat with the police. He's badly hurt, but regains consciousness and is promptly interrogated by Liutenant Vittorio Candella, a former friend now sworn to stop him. martin imagines a lifetime of penance as there appears no way out of a conviction for the murder of Señora Grazia and the theft of her jewels.
Robert Siodmak
Germany
98 min.
Herfort is a loser. Terrified by the sight of revolvers, but hounded mercilessly by his creditors, he decides to kill himself. Standing in front of the mirror, he puts a revolver to his temple, but suddenly sees the reflection of Janitscheck, a thief who excuses his presence by claiming to be on the point of starvation. Emotionally touched, Herfort has an idea: if the thief promises to kill him by surprise, in the next twelve hours, he will receive a third of the money coming from Herfort's life insurance. Janitscheck accepts and signs a contract. Herfort decides to enjoy his last few hours and goes to a dance hall where he meets Kitty, the woman of his dreams. He no longer wants to die, but Janitscheck prepares to fulfill his obligations.
Robert Siodmak
Federal Republic of Germany
97 min.
Berlin, New Years Day, 1955. A stunned vacant looking young woman, Pauline, is arrested by the police while presenting a false, bloodstained passport. Anna and Karl, her presumed neighbors, go to the station to identify her. there, in the presence of the police, Pauline suddenly slaps Anna. The latter doesn't flinch; rather, encouraged by her husband, she explains the outburst with a story whose only innocent character is their son.
Robert Siodmak
Germany
74 min.
One Saturday evening in their humblre attic apartment, tazxi driver erwin and wife Annie get ready to go to the cinema. Unfortunately, all hope for a happy weekend is spoiled by a quarrel. As a result, Irwin gets together with a wine representative, Wolfgang, to play cards and drink beer. The compulsion to escape routine leads the two friends on a Sunday adventure with a shop assistant, Brigitte, and a model, Christel.
Robert Siodmak
France
91 min.
Greedy, underhanded, and very bourgeois, Mathilde Mollenard lives in the grey, monotonous atmospehere of Dunkirk with her two children. She learns that he husband, while residing in Shangai, was heavily involved in smuggling arms. When the shipping firm that employs him becomes suspicious and decides to send him home for six months, Mathilde expects him to arrive down and out and is exasperated by the though of having to support him. But he is a sea wolf with devoted followers and friends in the Mafia, in opioum dens and on the streets at night. He thinks the return home will be a harmless social formality.
Robert Siodmak
USA
87 min.
While sitting in a New York cafe, Scott Handerson invites a stranger to spend the night with him. She accepts on the condition that don't exchange names. Arriving home some time later, Handerson finds three police inspectos waiting to tell him that his wife has been found strangled. all suspicion falls on huim and his only alibi lies with the stranger whose identity is still a complete mystery.
Robert Siodmak
France
111 min.
Eleven girls, cabaret dancers, have disappeared without a trace. The police have an anonymous letter ending in the sentence "You will pay for your last dance". They believe that the killer is a sex maniac who attracts the attention of his victims by means of advertisments in the press. Adrienne, a friend of one of the victims, decides to collaborate with the police by answering all the newspaper advertisments referring to women.
Robert Siodmak
USA
104 min.
Pirate captain Vallo captures a shipload of arms belonging to the Baron Gruda who has been charged by the King of Spain with quashing a rebellion in an Antillan colony. Gruda is freed because Vallo wants to sell the arms to El Libre, a rebel leadre fromt he Island of Cabra whom Vallo must first liberate from the Spanish. But the captain's plans go astray when he meets and falls in love with El Libre's daugther, Consuelo. Risking the mutiny of his men, Vallo joins the rebels and leads them with new ideas and new arms.
Robert Siodmak
USA
85 min.
Before his murder, Dr. Peralta was visited by an attractive woman. The suspect's identity is soon discovered Ruth Collins, newspaper girl in the building were the doctor had his office. She claims that she was taking a walk during the hour in question. Detective Stevenson is spectical, but learns that ruth as a twin sister. He consults a psychoanalist specializing in the problems of twins and discovers that Dr. Peralta has detected symptoms of schizophrenia in one of the sisters. Now the problem is to determine shich of the two is ill.
Robert Siodmak
USA
100 min.
Assistant State Prosecutor, Clive Marshall, tries to drown in alcohol his unhappiness at home and work. To his office one day arrives Thelma Jordon reporting an attempt to rob the house of her aunt, an eccentric and wealthy old lady. Marshall is fascinated by the elegant, beautiful, sensual and hard Thelma. She tells him that she is recently separated from a shamesless dowry-chaser. He believes, fatally, that she offers an space from the monotony and they become lovers. One night, she reports that her aunt has just been murdered for her valuable jewellery. The principal suspect is Tony Laredo, Thelma's estranged.
Robert Siodmak
USA
105 min.
Two weird-looking men barge into a New Jersey cafeteria one night. After intimidating the enployees and clients, they announce that they've come to kill Ole Anderson, a man they've never seen, but who usyally enters the cafeteria every night at about that time. When he doesn't show up, they leave. Teenage Nick runs from the cafeteria to Ole's humble shelter to warn him. The Swede listens passively, then says that he will wait in his room. Various flashbacks provide clues to this mysterious reaction.
Robert Siodmak
USA
83 min.
Three women are found strangled in the space of a few weeks. all of them were beautiful and young, but each had some type of physical imparement. Helen Capel manages Mrs. Warren's home like a company, the latter having been struck dumb by shock of some years now. One night the police discover that the killer's footprints lead to mrs. Warren's hose where she lives with several people: her cynical and fickly son Steve; her son-in -law, Albert, a professor of chemistry; Blanche, Albert's secretary and Steve's lover; the gardener and his alcoholic wife. No one had entered of left the house. blanche appears murdered in the wine cellar and the doors are shut tight.
Robert Siodmak
USA
80 min.
Harry Quincey, know by the children as Uncle Harry, leaves the hamlet of his birth to intern himself in a psychiatric hospital. On the way he meets an old girlfriend, Deborah, who tells him that her husband is dead and that she is willing to marry him. Harry's thoughts return to the mysterious demise of their relationships and to the murder of Hester, Harry's sister.
Robert Siodmak
USA
85 min.
Philip Marshall is an honest an simple man that has already stopped hoping for too much hapiness in life. He works in a tobacco office and lives with his vulgar, dominant wife Cora and her 25 year old son, John, her reason for being. John decides to go to Canada because he can no longer stand the atmosphere at home. Profoundly affected, Philip decides to abandon his wife's bed; despite Cora's rabid indignation, he goesto to sleep in what was John's room. The following day he meets a teenage girl, another lonely soul, and identifies with her. Back at home he must face his wife who is determined to set things right.
Robert Siodmak
Germany
95 min.
Bernt maintains secret relations with Gerda, an attractive teenager. he confesses to her brother, his friend, Walter, that before asking for her hand he has to break up eith Erna. He provides Walter with Erna's apartment key so that Walter can break this to her objectively. In the morning the police arrive and arrest him; Erna has been murdered and a button like Bernt's was found close to the body. Brought before the magistrate (Walter's father, Bienert) Bernt doesn't mention that he gave Erna's key to Walter and is sent to jail.
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