1955 Movies

Documents the life and habits of the largest of all penguins, filmed during a French Antarctic expedition led by Paul Emile Victor.

A story about the love and subsequent life story of agronom Elmer Oras and Margi Kaski and their son. The story has its origins just before the Winte...

Casper, the Friendly Ghost, attends the circus and frightens the performers. He then encounters a Laughing Hyena that is unable to laugh. Casper, dete...

In a battery of photographs created with the use of mirrors, distorting lenses of his own manufacture and easel tricks, Weegee transformed the Mona Li...

The film shows the reconstruction of the city of Bremen after 1945 until 1955.

Sequences of photographic abstractions have been balanced against more realistic sections. A surrealistically charged encounter between two lovers, a...

With his hard-work and patience, a virtuous boy overcomes the harshness of the world.

This short travelogue, visiting Spain, was shot in VistaVision.

In 1955, Albert Maysles traveled by motorcycle throughout Russia. During this trip, he shot what was to become his first film, 'Psychiatry in Russia',...

The post-war years. Yakut hunter Bykadyrov discovers mysterious footprints in the taiga leading to a village where the head of a geological expedition...

Short film directed by Wolfgang Kiepenheuer

A German Film Award Silver medal winning short documentary.