Pabst, G. W. (Georg Wilhelm) 1885-1967

Adventures of Don Quixote by G. W Pabst( Visual )

29 editions published between 1932 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 164 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Don Quixote has read too much on chivalry, and made himself mad. He declares himself a knight, chooses Sancho Panza as his squire and the neighboring farm-girl his 'fair Dulcinea', and sets off on adventures, including the famous 'tilting at windmills'

Weisse Hölle vom Piz Palü = The white hell of Pitz Palü( Visual )

5 editions published between 1998 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 137 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

While enjoying a romantic stay in a remote cabin, Maria and Hans come across the tale of Dr. Krafft, who lost his wife in an avalanche. On the anniversary of her death, Dr. Krafft appears at the cabin and the couple offers to help him in his search

White hell of Pitz Palu( Visual )

27 editions published between 1929 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 85 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The best of the German "mountain film" genre, notable for its impressive photography, about a man who sets out with two companions to conquer an Alpine peak that has already claimed his wife

Paracelsus( Visual )

8 editions published between 1943 and 2013 in German and English and held by 53 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This large-scale tribute to the 16th-century Swiss physician/alchemist Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, commonly known as Paracelsus, was the second of three films directed by Pabst for the Third Reich and was shot at the Barrandov Studios outside occupied Prague. Paracelsus is appointed town physician of Basel and conflicts with reactionary academics and avaricious merchants to prevent the plague from overtaking the city. The hero embodies those attributes which appealed to the Nazi psyche - "a rebel hero cleansing Germany of ancient practices, anti- intellectualism ("Resolute imagination can accomplish all things," states Paracelsus) and the replacement of Latin (foreign influences) with the German language. The film is particularly noteworthy for the scene in which Death appears. In it, Paracelsus has succeeded in keeping the plague from infiltrating the town by having goods which a merchant attempted to smuggle in destroyed. However, the juggler Fliegenbein, attached to the caravan, manages to escape to a tavern where he starts the infection of the city in a brilliantly choreographed Totentanz (danced by Harald Kreutzberg) before Paracelsus who realizes that the city is doomed. At the completion of the macabre performance, the spectre of Death is seen with his scythe

German expressionism collection( Visual )

1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 49 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Warning shadows : Psychological study of a count who is insanely jealous of the attentions his wife pays to "the lover" and various other suitors. The situation comes to a head when a showman/mesmerist puts on a "shadow play" for them all, in which their emotions and passions are mirrored

Der Schatz( Visual )

18 editions published between 1990 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 42 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Near Marburg (today Slovenia), people tell the story of a treasure that was hidden during the Turkish invasion of 1683, the year the Turkish Army was besieging Vienna. Everyone thinks it's nonsense except for one old worker who feels that the treasure must be in the bell maker's house. A young traveling worker, who has fallen in love with the bell maker's daughter Beate, makes fun of the old man's belief in the story. But Beate convinces him that the old worker may be right. So the young worker begins the search for the treasure. Together the young man and the old man find the treasure

G.W. Pabst by Barthélemy Amengual( Book )

11 editions published in 1966 in French and held by 42 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The mistress of Atlantis( Visual )

9 editions published between 1932 and 2009 in English and held by 37 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Two French legionnaires become lost in the Algerian desert and discover the fabled lost continent of Atlantis

Psychagogische Strategien des filmischen Diskurses in G.W. Pabsts Kameradschaft (Deutschland, 1931) : mit dem vollständigen Filmprotokoll im Anhang by Hermann Barth( Book )

1 edition published in 1990 in German and held by 37 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Es geschah am 20. Juli( Visual )

7 editions published between 1955 and 2009 in German and held by 33 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This is the true saga of the anti-Hitler German Army officers' bomb plot of July 20, 1944 that almost killed Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler, and thus very nearly changed the course of World War II ... [In contrast to the reasons behind the plot given in the 2008 Hollywood feature Valkyrie, this film] reveals instead that it was to stop the loss of German lives and the destruction of Germany, and also not to continue the war to a successful conclusion. Thus, it is a more historically accurate film ... Much of the dialogue is lifted straight from historical records."--Container