German Cinema from Royal Books, Inc.

Berlin: N.p., 1921. Vintage borderless double weight publicity photograph from the lost 1921 German film, showing actress Ursel Renate Hirt slouched in a chair. Insignia of photographer Alexander Binder from the negative at the bottom right corner the recto, with Binder's stamp and a printed mimeo snipe on the verso. Noted portrait and film photographer Alexander Binder… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1980 documentary, showing director Wim Wenders and his subject, the director Nicholas Ray. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Wenders joins Ray, his friend and hero, in New York City to discuss Ray's dying wish to make a film about a painter with a terminal illness who… Read more about this item

N.p.: Arca-Film, 1969. Collection of six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 West German film. Five with Arca-Film stamps on the verso. A pseudo-documentary sexploitation film about infidelity, told through several stories of broken marriages. Three photographs 9.5 x 7 inches, three photographs 7 x 5 inches. Light soil on the versos, else Near… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text and titles in German. White untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credit for screenwriter Janusz Henryk Kryst. 122 leaves, with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, with a Very Good black Velo binding.

Berlin: CCC-Film [CCC-Filmkunst], 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on two leaves. A spoiled young man, the titular Schliemann, searches in vain around the world for an answer to the secret of happiness. Salmon titled wrappers, with credit for screenwriter Gerhard Menzee. Title page present, with credit for screenwriter Gerhard… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1985. Draft script for the 1985 German film, here under the English title "Into the Spirit of Times, Past and Present." With annotations in manuscript pencil on the first three pages regarding casting, noted as copy No. 112 in manuscript ink on the title page. Text and titles in English. The fourth and final entry in… Read more about this item

Munich: N.p., 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in German. Alongside contemporaries Werner Herzog and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Percy Adlon is considered a member of the New German Cinema movement. He is best known for his film "Bagdad Cafe" (1987), written around the same time as this screenplay. Set in Mexico. … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1985. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Single annotation in manuscript ink on page 1. An allegory about an unusually powerful man who becomes a danger to his city, with the inhabitants unwilling, and eventually unable, to stop his reign of terror. Green untitled wrappers, with credits for screenwriter and director Alex Tudor.… Read more about this item

Munich [Munchen]: Roxy Film, 1978. Draft script for the 1978 German film. Text in English. Based on the 1968 novel by George Saiko. In 1934, a young archaeologist returns to his home in Austria only to discover rising social and political tensions, complicating his relationship with his fiancee, an indecisive woman who wants to remain neutral throughout… Read more about this item

Tel Aviv: Bar Kochba, 1968. Treatment script for the 1975 Polish film. Text in English. The true story of Janusz Korczak, an educator, doctor, children's book author, and caretaker of an orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw. During World War II, Korczak refused to leave the city, instead choosing to stay at the orphanage to protect the… Read more about this item

Munich: Bavaria Atelier, 1978. Press kit for the 1978 film. Full-color illustrated folder, with six black-and-white borderless reference photographs and 15 gatherings of promotional reading material, housed all together in a white envelope. Based on the novella by Thomas Tryon, from his 1976 collection "Crowned Heads." A struggling Hollywood producer attempts to revive his career by luring… Read more about this item

Munich: Radiant Film, 1991. Agency Draft script for the 1991 film, here seen under its original title "Du Bist Marriott," or "The Plastic Nightmare." Text in German. Based on Richard Neely's 1971 novel "The Plastic Nightmare." A man emerges from a bloody car accident with amnesia, and begins to suspect foul play as he delves further into… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1989. Revised Draft script for the 1990 fantasy film. Based on Michael Ende's 1979 novel. Bastian Bux returns to Fantasia, where the Childlike Empress seeks his and Atreyu's aid in defeating "Emptiness," an evil force controlled by a cruel sorceress. The second film in the NeverEnding Story series, preceded by "The NeverEnding Story" six years… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1978. Final Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a note to agent Paul Kohner, dated 2/8/1978. Text and titles in German. Red titled wrappers, noted as Endfassung on the front wrapper, with credits for screenwriters Andreas Rosgony and Dorothea Dahlen. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Andreas Rosgony and Dorothea Dahlen. 223… Read more about this item

Venice, CA: Moritz Borman Productions / Mutoskop Film, 1985. Draft script for the 1989 film, here under its working title "The Artisan." Text in English. Based on Stephen Sheppard's 1986 novel "The Artisan," which was in turn based on the true story of Johann Georg Elser, a quiet German carpenter who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939. … Read more about this item

Munich: Roxy, 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1971 novel "Don't Ask Me if I Love" by Israeli film director and writer Amos Kollek. The son of a wealthy military arms manufacturer intends to pursue a life as a writer after serving in the Israeli Army, in spite of his father's wishes that… Read more about this item

Munich: Roxy, 1971. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in German. Based on the 1971 novel "Don't Ask Me if I Love" by Israeli director and writer Amos Kollek. The son of a wealthy military arms manufacturer intends to pursue a life as a writer after serving in the Israeli Army, in spite of his… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1950. Collection of eight vintage photographic prints, produced in the 1950s, each with six illustrations from eight different films directed by noted German animator Lotte Reiniger. The films represented include "Sleeping Beauty" (1922), "Cinderella" (1922), "The Magic Horse" (1953), "Thumbelina" (1954), "The Three Wishes" (1954), "Caliph Stork" (1954), "The Gallant Little Tailor" (1954), "The Frog Prince" (1954),… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1981. Collection of ten vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1981 film, all showing actress Natja Brunckhorst. Based on the 1978 book "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" ("We Children from Zoo Station") by Kai Hermann and Horst Rieck, in turn based on the sordid experiences of teenage runaway and heroin addict Christiane Vera Feischerinow. … Read more about this item

Paris: L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne, 1934. Vintage one-color French program for the 1934 German film, here under the French title "Le Chateau Saint-Hubert." Text in French. Based on the 1895 German allegorical novel "Schloß Hubertus" by Ludwig Ganghofer.Count Egge, an arrogant noble, disappointed in the common choices of his children, experiences an apostasy after being blinded by an eagle… Read more about this item