Screenplay: Léo Lania
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Léo Lania. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Threepenny Opera (The 3 Penny Opera)
1931 · Movie · 112 min. · Germany
Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast Rudolf Forster · Carola Neher · Reinhold Schünzel · Fritz Rasp
Plot In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'.
7.1
256 votes
7.1
256 votes
L'opéra de quat'sous
1931 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany
Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast Albert Préjean · Florelle · Gaston Modot · Margo Lion
Plot Bilingual version of the film "Die Dreigroschenoper", shooted simultaneously with its predecessor for the French market.
6.5
34 votes
6.5
34 votes
Melody of Hate
1962 · Movie · 91 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Ralph Lothar
Cast Maria Perschy · Horst Frank · Dietmar Schönherr · Dorothee Parker
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Die Koffer des Herrn O.F.
1931 · Movie · 80 min. · Germany
Direction Alexis Granowsky
Cast Alfred Abel · Harald Paulsen · Peter Lorre · Ludwig Stössel
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Ultimatum
1938 · Movie · 83 min. · France
Direction Robert Wiene · Robert Siodmak
Cast Erich von Stroheim · Abel Jacquin · Bernard Lancret · Dita Parlo
Plot About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement...
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Le drame de Shanghaï
1938 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast Raymond Rouleau · Louis Jouvet · Christl Mardayn · Elina Labourdette
Plot A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is...
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Crazy Affairs
1954 · Movie · 81 min. · Italy
Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Carla del Poggio · Enrico Viarisio · Enzo Fiermonte
Plot Young Dalia Rossi is mistaken for a mad person and is committed to "Villa Felicità", a mental institution run by Professor Ruiz. When she is first examined she is found...
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Pasha's Wives
1939 · Movie · 98 min. · France
Direction Marc Sorkin · Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast Viviane Romance · John Lodge · Marcel Dalio · Sylvie
Plot Mireille, a Frenchwoman, has married a westernized Turkish diplomat. Thinking that she will live a dream life in an Arabian Nights setting, she accepts to follow Vedad Bey, her husband,...
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Hunger in Waldenburg
1929 · Documentary · 47 min. · Germany
Direction Phil Jutzi
Cast Holmes Zimmermann · Sybille Schloß
Plot Powerful semi-documentarian depiction of the miserable working and living conditions in the Silesian city of Waldenburg.
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