72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Joe May
Germany
85 min.
A policeman susprises a beutiful and very sexy coman in the process of stealing jewellery. He falls in love with her, but she treats him cooly. He is soon suspected of murder and arrested by his father, the Chief of Police. She can provide the alibi that will save him, but will she?
Alexis Granowsky
Germany
77 min.
There is a great deal of speculation in the small community of Ostend on the mysterious person whose thirteen suitcases await him at the local Inn. A journalist creates a story that the guest is a millionaire and the people get euphoric. They set about to improve the city, but the stranger doesn't appear. Seeing that they are getting restless, the reporter and the innkeeper conclude that he has arrived in secret and doesn't show himself because he doesn't feel like it.
Wolfgang Staudte
German Democratic Republic
87 min.
The surgeon, Hans mertens, returns to Berlin after World War II, traumatizen by his war experiences. To alleviate his terrible anxiety, he drinks and languishes in a flat badly damaged by the bombing. His landlady, Susan, is a young artist recently freed form a concentration camp. Living together and coping with the new emotions that arise for both draws Hans out of his drug-induced apathy. He sees the new Berlin taking shape, but the nightmare return when he also sees his old company commander, a known war criminal.
Max Nosseck
USA
89 min.
This is the story of John Herbert Dillinger, a well known figure in the story of organized crime. Dillinger was born in Indianapolis in 1903 and was shot to death by the Chicago police in 1942. Philip Jordan, the film's scriptwriter, creates, via a powerful synthesis of events and situations, the tense atmosphere sorrounding the ban led by this famous gangster.
Rogelio A. González
Mexico
92 min.
Gloria, a sick, lame very pious woman goes to the village priest because her husband, Pablo, makes fun of he beliefs. Tortured by what he considers her obsession he asks for a divorce, but she naturally refuses for religious reasons. Pablo, a taxidermist, talks about the perfect crime one day in the tavern.
Thorold Dickinson
United Kingdom
88 min.
Bella mallen is almost driven insane by the erratic behaviour of the gaslight in her mansion. Her husband Paul, can't hide his fear, and Bella feels trapped. Some time later they discover that the strange phenomenon had a logical explanation: an intruder was hidding in the attic.
Joseph H. Lewis
USA
87 min.
Bert Tare has had a passion ofr arms since childhood. He became one of the best professional marksman around and even met his wife, Laurie, on the shooting range. Laurie is a very sexy soman, but also very dangerous. Too fond of luxuries for someone without much money, she convinces her husband to perpetrate a series of robberies. During one of these she murders two people and the wanted couple are obliged to seek refuge on the mountain. Laurie plans to kill the seriff, but bart has reached the limit of his endurance. His reaction is completely unexpected.
Fritz Lang
Germany
80 min.
Niels Prien, an officer in the Japanesse navy, falls in love with the geisha O-Take-Suan. she, meanwhile, awaits the return of his son who, before leaving for Germany, promised to return to her in the shortest time possible. He does, but accompanied by another woman.
H. Bruce Humberstone
USA
82 min.
A pretty young woman has been murdered. The Chief of Police suspects a show business promoter who had been trying to make her into a star. The chief does not, however, assign a detective to the case until the victim's sister requests him to do so. The job goes to a huge man, affable on the outside, terrified inside. Formerly in love with the victim, he pursues the manager with special care.
Slatan Dudow
Germany
72 min.
Berlin, 1931. A working class family, the Bórnicke's, falls victim to rampant unemployement. humilliated by the reproach that is heaped on them, their son committs suicide. The daugther, Annie, becomes pregnant to Fritz and they decide to het married, but he leaves her on the day of the wedding. At a festival organized for the unemployed by the communits party, Fritz and Annie come to see their personal destinies in terms of the destiny of the proletariate.
Jean Benoit-Levy, Marie Epstein
France
100 min.
Rosa's family is having financial difficulties, so she decides to abandon her life of leisure and find a job. Wanting to practice her altruism as well as make money, she applies for a job looking after children in a working-class neighborhood. Doctor Libois is sceptical, but with the help of Madame Paulin, Rosa is hired and starts a rough apprenticeship. Little by little, she gains the trust of the children, especially that of Marie Coeuret to whom rosa devotes special attention. For her part, Marie adores Rosa, but realizes that Doctor Libois is also in lover with her protector.
Pierre Chenal
France
87 min.
Having been tricked by her husband, Angela decides to take revenge by flirting with his obese friend, Canabol. Her husband, although humiliated, cannot believe that his wife would try to fool him with this mastodon of a man. Canabol has meanwhile fallen hopelesslu in love with Angela, even to the point of losing weight. Indeed, his physical condition becomes his obsession and form of martydom.
Pál Fejös
USA
69 min.
New York during the 1920's. A man and a woman eat in the same restaurant and work in the same office, but seem predestined to never meet. Both decide to go home early on the night before Independence Day, but the music of a passing truck announcing the attractions on Coney Island changes their minds. They meet and fall in live on the beach. An accident on the Russian mountain and a police foul up forces them apart for a moment, long enough for thousands of people to get between them.
Marcello Pagliero
Italy
81 min.
A house burgler in action discovers a young girl trying to commit suicide. After convincing her to stop, she convinces him to rob a collar covered with precious stones. A typist who can't stand the monotony of her life embarks on a series of crazy adventures culminating in a miraculous escape from the police. The three meet in a local night club and fall in love.
Mario Soffici
Argentina
100 min.
Rosaura lives in a modest hotel with her daugthers and her partner, an aging bohemian painter. She keeps both the hotel and her daugthers in order and is the perfect match for the timid and romantic artist. For another of the guests, however, she's the poor, frigthened, trapped girl that he loves. For the old painter, she's perverse; he takes her to the edge of a crime.
Andrew Stone
USA
77 min.
The protagonist of this musical comedy is a ballet dancer whoachieves great fame. Unfortunately, he also has a very bad fight with his wife, a singer, but they finally manage to reconcile their differences. The film is enhanced by fourteen musical numbers that demonstrate the talents of a variety of famous big bands and conductors.
Robert Florey
USA
88 min.
The summer of 1900 in the city of San Steffano in Northern Italy. Francis Ingram, a concert pianist, lives confined to a wheelchair in the Villa Francesco, a mansion for the 16th Century. While re-writing his will, he asks his partners to visit him and testify that he is of sound mind. Unfortunately, Francis dies the same night after falling down the stair in his chair. The reading of the will reveals that his private nurse, Julie Holden, is the only beneficiary. Francis' nephew and brother-in-law begin to conspire with the layer to obtain the inheritance. A climate of terror fills the house.
Thorold Dickinson
United Kingdom
95 min.
Suvorin doesn't have a penny, but has heard that the Countess Ranevskaya sold her soul to the devil for the secret to winning at cards. Suvorin plans to seduce Lisaveta in order to get close to her aunt, he Countess. Once he gets the secret, he decides to bet everything on a card game.
Wolf Rilla
USA
77 min.
Major Alan Bernard witnesses a series of strange phenomena while visitinf the village of his brother-in-law, Gordon Zellaby. The town has apparently fallen under the power of a supernatural force so powerful that even an airplane flying over the area is affected.Suddenly the people lose conciousness. When they recover, the women realize that ther are pregnant. They gestate for twelve months, then give birth to twelve very similar babies: blonde, exceptionally intelligent, and telephatic.
Erwin Piscator, Mikhail Doller
Germany
97 min.
The fishermen of Santa Barbara seek better working conditions fomr their shipowner. He rejects their request and they go on strike. The owner recruits personnel from a neighbouring country, contracting them at an auction. Soon rivalry develops between the two groups. The union seems impotent and extremist within it provoke a deadly conflict with the scabs wherein one of them is shot. This causes some of them to re-think the situation and abandon their post when they conclude that the boss had seduced them with promises. Only a few obstinate ones continue to go fishing. One young man infiltrates their ranks and provokes a rebellion wich spreads all along the coast.
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