Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Le P'tite Lili is a short film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1927. This is a visual illustration of a song, The Lady of gravel and Benech Lilie,...

This first film adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play about class distinctions was made in 1955 in the Vienna Rosenhügel studios, but it was...

This is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than ever. She still has to go through the forest and she...

In the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil, groups of migrants move trying to find better place to live, at least with water. Some of them go to...

This film is based on actual letters German soldiers sent home from the siege of Leningrad during World War II. The litany of trouble these poor...

Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from.

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends...

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....

A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

Documentary about the construction of tlephone lines.

British war documentary

How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent...

The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military...

Adaptation for TV of the play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. A very rich old lady arrives in her nearly bankrupt native village. She is ready to come to...

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.