Jorge Preloran (1933-2009) was one of South America's most respected and prolific ethnographic filmmakers and was considered a pioneer in ethnobiography. Among his most admired films are "Imaginero" (1969), about a religious icon carver, and "Zulay, Facing the 21st Century," about a young Ecuadorean woman's odyssey to Los Angeles. He also made "Luther Metke at 94" (1980), an Os...
These days, Lassen Peak sleeps. Standing on the crater rim, you’ll be hard-pressed to think of the summit as a fiery place. In fact, you’ll likely be cold. The airy heights, more than 10,400 feet above sea level, are whipped by chilly winds even in summer, and most years a snowfield blankets the pit of the main crater.
But in the early twentieth century Lassen was the only—and ...
Der Gelbe Schein was shot at the end of WW I in a partly Jewish neighbourhood in Warsaw, the so called Nalevsky-Quarters. Poland still was occupied by German troops at that time. Parts of the movie were filmed at the Ufa-Union-Ateliers in Berlin Tempelhof though.
Der Gelbe Schein was planned as propagandistic movie against the Russian Empire of the Czar. But it premiered not be...