Donatello & Fosco Dubini / Barbara Obermaier - Hedy Lamarr – Secrets Of A Hollywood Star
MGM-tycoon Louis B. Mayer called Hedy Lamarr “the most beautiful girl of the century.” A psychological portrait of glamour star Hedy Lamarr who became scandalously famous in 1933 as the first nude on the screen with her appearance in the Austrian/Czech film Ecstasy. She then had an extraordinary career in more than 25 Hollywood films. But.. she also invented a torpedo guided system which was patented in 1942 and serves today as the basis for mobile phones.
The documentary (2006, 85 mins) contains interviews with Mickey Rooney, Lupita Kohner, Kenneth Anger and many other personal friends of Hedy. Also featured is the trailer “Jean Seberg – American Actress (5 mins), the trailer “Thomas Pynchon – A Journey Into The Mind (3 mins) – several documents and photos in ROM-format. Finally, the 2-disc DVD offers Hedy Lamarr’s legendary scandal film Ekstase (1933, 79 mins) in an uncut version.
Languages English and German, subtitles English and German.
€29.50

Dietmar Post / Lucia Palacios - Monks – The Transatlantic Feedback
Label: Play Loud! / PLDVD04
Artist: Dietmar Post / Lucia Palacios
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tag: Documentary.

Lars Movin and Moller Rasmussen - Words of advice: W. Burroughs on the road
In 1983, cult hero William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), traveled throughout Scandinavia making a series of personal appearances.
Label: Microcinema International / MC-958
Artist: Lars Movin and Moller Rasmussen
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Documentary, Poetry, Spoken Word.

Gerd Kroske - La Villette
Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance artists, including Jürg..(read more)
Label: DEFA
Artist: Gerd Kroske
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Art, Documentary, Eastern Europe, History.
