Alexander Hammid Movies

A BAFTA award nominated documentary studying Hungarian refugee problems after the October 1956 revolution. Shot on the Austro-Hungarian frontier and...

Genre: Documentary

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In 1932 Hammid bought a handheld camera Bell-Howell and made his second film, Na Pražském hradě [Prague Castle], in close...

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This first true Czech avant-garde film turns away from a purely celebratory approach to the city. The camera follows a detached protagonist on his...

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In 1932 Hammid bought a handheld camera Bell-Howell and made his second film, Na Pražském hradě [Prague Castle], in close...

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Karel Plicka was also cinematographer of this short movie. Editor in charge was Alexander Hackenschmied. There is an extraordinary emotional charge,...

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An intimate study of the life of a domestic cat, taking place over a period of months as she gives birth to a litter of kittens and cares for them as...

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An intimate study of the life of a domestic cat, taking place over a period of months as she gives birth to a litter of kittens and cares for them as...

Genre: Documentary

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An intimate study of the life of a domestic cat, taking place over a period of months as she gives birth to a litter of kittens and cares for them as...

Genre: Documentary

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An intimate study of the life of a domestic cat, taking place over a period of months as she gives birth to a litter of kittens and cares for them as...

Genre: Documentary

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An intimate study of the life of a domestic cat, taking place over a period of months as she gives birth to a litter of kittens and cares for them as...

Genre: Documentary

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An intimate study of the life of a domestic cat, taking place over a period of months as she gives birth to a litter of kittens and cares for them as...

Genre: Documentary

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Night Journey, the dance, had its premiere only two and a half years after Appalachian Spring, and it is a close cousin. It too has a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Martha Graham

The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner...

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Cast: Maya Deren

The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner...

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Cast: Maya Deren

This first true Czech avant-garde film turns away from a purely celebratory approach to the city. The camera follows a detached protagonist on his...

Genre: Documentary

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A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Maya Deren

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Maya Deren

A documentary of peasant life in an isolated village in the Carpathian Mountains of Slovakia, starting in early spring and ending after the harvest.

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A 1945 Oscar nominated short documentary about the Library of Congress. It is one of 26 documentary shorts produced between 1942 and 1945 by the U.S....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ralph Bellamy

A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edvard Beneš

Alexander Hammid's sensitive narrative of how a pre-adolescent boy is helped by a psychiatrist to come to terms with his feelings.

Genre: Drama

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Post-World War II film for young couples advising them of means to strengthen their marriages. Shows how two young couples have built lasting...

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Husband and wife struggle to attain a balance of power in their marriage in this neorealist social guidance film.

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Analysis of personality cited as an important step in choosing the right partner for marriage. Emphasis is placed on choosing marriage partners with...

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Dramatization of the experience of a young married couple whose quarrels undermine their happiness and prevent the development of adult love based on...

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Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Burgess Meredith

Promotional film extolling the wonders to be seen at the New York World's Fair.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Fields

In 1932 Hammid bought a handheld camera Bell-Howell and made his second film, Na Pražském hradě [Prague Castle], in close...

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Madame Flora is terrified when she perceives a supernatural presence during one of her fraudulent séances...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie Powers

Youth in Canada learning to come to terms with the world in which they have to live. A picture of the journey to adulthood - a composite of many...

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A documentary featuring musicians including Artur Rubinstein, Jan Peerce-Nadine Conner, and Jascha Heifetz.

Genre: Music

Cast: Deems Taylor

Night Journey, the dance, had its premiere only two and a half years after Appalachian Spring, and it is a close cousin. It too has a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Martha Graham

"To Be Alive!" was designed to celebrate the common ground between different cultures by tracing how children in various parts of the world mature...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Fields

Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Burgess Meredith

Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Burgess Meredith

Short story film about a derelict and forgotten character hiding in a room somewhere in South America.

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Cast: Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

Four episodes on the theme of human hope and survival set in Santambrogio, Italy; Fermathe, Haiti; British Columbia and Kjeller in Norway.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Harvey

Hymn of the Nations, originally titled Arturo Toscanini: Hymn of the Nations, is a 1944 film directed by Alexander Hammid, which features the "Inno...

Genre: Music

Cast: Arturo Toscanini

Film on the refugee situation in Austria as a result of Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

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A dream-like narrative in which a woman (Deren), is washed up on a beach and goes on a strange journey, a quest for personal identity, encountering...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Maya Deren

U.S. Goverment film about the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s and 1940s.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fredric March

Probably the best-known advertising film for Bata, where joke and irony meet commercial purposes. Tires are sent from rural countryside to the...

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Cast: Inka Zemánková

"To Be Alive!" was designed to celebrate the common ground between different cultures by tracing how children in various parts of the world mature...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Fields

"To Be Alive!" was designed to celebrate the common ground between different cultures by tracing how children in various parts of the world mature...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Fields

"To Be Alive!" was designed to celebrate the common ground between different cultures by tracing how children in various parts of the world mature...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Fields

A man and a woman meet on the streetcar. Six years ago, they were close . . .

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jiřina Čermáková

Mimi lives with her parents and the maid Fanka in a villa near the forest. One day, a gamekeeper comes to court Mimi when her parents are away.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Theodor Pištěk

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jan Antonín Baťa

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Karel Beníško

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Karel Beníško

1948 ARC Identifier 46998 / Local Identifier 306.131. FEATURES THE PERSONALITY, PHILOSOPHY, TECHNIQUES AND ARTISTRY OF EDWARD WESTON, AS SHOWN...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Weston

Andrea, a beautiful daughter of a railway gateman, is seduced by a rich passenger, who missed his train. Left pregnant, Andrea marries another man...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karel Schleichert

An unknown gang has again broken into a van containing money from the European bank. Banker Sam Hamilton decides to use an armoured car for the next...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Carlo Aldini

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zdeněk Štěpánek

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zdeněk Štěpánek

Two secretaries go out on a double date, but the inexperienced Mary flees when offered money for sexual favors. She takes refuge in a cafe and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: L. H. Struna

A Better Tomorrow (1945) is a documentary short that focuses on New York City progressive public schools.

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A 13-minute documentary film depicting life in Prague.

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On the coast of Yugoslavia lives fisherman Ivo Kralj, his wife Marie, son Vuk, and Ivo's mother in one happy home. Marie, who loves her husband and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: L. H. Struna

A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edvard Beneš

A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edvard Beneš

A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edvard Beneš

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jindřich Elbl

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martha Graham