A large group of 24 Film-Kurier booklets from 1925 through 1941 (with one example from 1948). Highlighted by issues featuring Greta Garbo in Mata Hari and Marlene Dietrich in Die Grosse Zarin, as well as several early silent films including Fritz Lang's Frau im Mond. Notably, the group includes several Nazi propaganda films. Each 4to, profusely illustrated with original wrappers. Titles include:
Variete (1925)
Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney [The Love of Jeanne Ney] (1927)
Geld! Geld! Geld! [L'Argent] (1928) French silent film masterwork starring Brigitte Helm based on the novel by Emile Zola
Die Weisse Hoelle vom Piz Palü [The White Hell of Pitz Palu] (1929) featuring Leni Riefenstahl
Frau im Mond [Woman in the Moon] (1929) silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by his wife Thea von Harbou (this is only a single sheet, not a booklet issued by Film Kurier)
Tagebuch einer Verlorenen [Diary of a Lost Girl] (1929) starring Louise Brooks; Harole Halt Dich Fest! [Feet First] (1930) featuring Harold Lloyd
Mata Hari (1931) featuring Greta Garbo
Die Grosse Zarin [The Scarlet Empress] (1934) featuring Marlene Dietrich
Gold (1934) science-fiction film featuring Brigitte Helm
Ein Mann will nach Deutschland [A Man Wants to Get to Germany] (1934)
Krach im Hinterhaus [Trouble Backstairs] (1935)
Pygmalion (1935)
Die Julika [Harvest] (1936) Austrian romance starring Paula Wessely
Savoy-Hotel 217 (1936) starring Hans Albers
Fanny Elssler (1937) featuring Lillian Harvey
Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht [The LIfe and Loves of Tschaikovsky] (1939)
Bismarck (1940) starring Paul Hartmann
Der Sieg des Glaubens [The Victory of Faith] (1933), the first Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl recounting the Fifth Party Rally in Nurember in 1933.
Im Kampf gegen den Weltfeind [In Battle Versus the Enemy of he World: German Volunteers in Spain] (1939) directed by Karl Ritter about the Condor Legion
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes [Robert Koch: The Battle Against Death] (1939)
(2) copies of Nazi propaganda film Sieg im Westen [Victory in the West] (1941) which saw the forced participation of French prisoners of war.
Berliner Ballade (1948), the first leading role for Gert Fröbe
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