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The film was Fridrikh Ermler's last silent feature and last of four productively contentious collaborations with the method actor Fiodor Nikitin. To prepare for his part as Filimonov, a soldier suffering from total amnesia due to shell shock from the Great War, Nikitin apparently disguised himself as a doctor's assistant in the Forel Psychiatric Clinic to study actual amnesia patients. Meanwhile, Ermler creates a profoundly realistic and moving portrait...
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Set in the imaginary city of Utopia (a thinly disguised stand-in for Vienna), the story follows the consequences of an antisemitic law passed by the National Assembly forcing all Jews to leave the country. At first the decision is met with celebration, yet when the citizens of Utopia are confronted with the loss of the Jewish population -- and the resulting economic and cultural decline -- the National Assembly must decide whether or not to invite...
67) Safety last!
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Criterion collection volume 662
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The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. He plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success.
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Abandoned love -- Absolutely sweet Marie -- All along the watchtower -- All the tired horses -- Apple suckling tree -- As I went out one morning -- The ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest -- Billy -- Black Diamond Bay -- Buckets of rain -- Catfish -- Clothes line saga -- Country pie -- Crash on the levee (down in the flood) -- Day of the locusts -- Dear landlord -- Dirge -- Don't ya tell Henry -- Down along the cove -- Drifter's escape --Father...
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