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Goethe! – a new German period drama

August 13, 2010

Fellow period drama lover Anna kindly sent us these trailers from Goethe!, a new german costume drama, and we leave you with a taste of it.  The images look good! From what we found online the basic plot is about a love triangle. Goethe is in love with a young girl called Lotte but someone else is [...]

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The Countess

April 18, 2010

The Countess is the story of the Hungarian Elizabeth (Erzebet) Bathory, the renowned countess who supposedly killed and tortured thousands of young virgins to maintain her beauty. This movie completely escaped our attention in 2009 but in Paris, right now, there’s movie posters everywhere so we thought to post some trailers for those, like us, [...]

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Pope Joan (2009)

November 6, 2009

Die Päpstin (Germany) La papessa (Italy) La papisa (Spain) Runtime: 149 min (not one boring minute)   A woman as pope, the highest rank in the catholic church? For 1200 years the legend of Joan’s existence hasn’t died. In a world were Christianity was reducing a woman’s role to homemaker and mother a brave woman [...]

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Pope Joan: the trailer (in german)

July 20, 2009

We are terribly late with this information since the trailer is available since May but we felt we should post it, mainly to satisfy our growing curiosity about the movie. As we said in our previous post, the movie is based on the book Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross. The author is organizing a [...]

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Pope Joan: some stills

July 6, 2009

These aren’t exactly fresh news but it’s always pleasant to admire good stills of interesting upcoming movies, like Pope Joan. A while ago, we talked about this adaptation based on Donna Woolfolk Cross’ bestseller and after seeing these images, we are very excited to watch this movie. What do you think? Images: Aceshowbiz.com

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