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"....I see more and more clearly that the launching of the sound film must be regarded as an operation of the film industry designed to break the revolutionary primacy of the silent film, which had produced reactions that were difficult to control and hence dangerous politically. An analysis of the sound film would constitute a critique of contemporary art......."

Walter Benjamin. Letter to Theodor Adorno, September 12, 1938. Paris.


Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Selected Links

www.Syberberg.de---Syberberg's own site and something amazing to behold.

The Film: Der Ister---On Heidegger's interpretation of Hölderlin (features Syberberg)

The Film: Der Ister---A Film by David Barison and Daniel Ross (the film's official website)

Parsifal: A Film by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg filmt bei Brecht---site in German on Syberberg's films of Brecht plays

Syberberg's Films of Brecht Plays---from the Goethe Institute of Montreal

New German Cinema---Pages from the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg--- Important Filmography from the NEW YORK TIMES

World Cinema: Directors: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

On Susan Sontag's Review of Syberberg's HITLER: A Film from Germany

Syberberg's Hitler Films---Unkind and inaccurate remarks on Syberberg by a supposed 'critic'.

Pages of Thomas Elsaesser---Perceptive and admirable critic of Syberberg's films

 


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Feature-length Films 1912-1939: [Silents: The 'Teens] [1920] [1921] [1922] [1923] [1924] [1925] [Transition to sound: 1926-1929] [Talkies: 1929] [1930] [1931] [1932] [1933] [1934] [1935] [1936] [1937] [1938] [1939] Recent Additions & Coming Soon: [Click here]. Titles Searching For: [Click here]. Trading-Page Policy: [Will trade].

 


Feature-length Films 1912-1939

  •   Year of release

TITLE

...Studio (if U.S.) or Country

Stars

Director (partial)

Silents: The 'Teens

1920

1921

1922

1923

1924

1925

1926:

Transition era to sound: 1926-1929 (* =Films with Sound, PART-TALKIE, or 100%-TALKIE Vitaphone or Western Electric audio-track, as originally released.)

1927

1928

1929

ALL films from here on are *ALL-TALKIE. [Titles in italics are either lost films for which only the audio-track survives, via a film's original Vitaphone sound-on-disc or other system, OR films which I have been unable to collect in any other way, so far. I have these on audio cassette, for the die-hard.]

1930

1931

1932

1933