1948 Movies

The film was shot by the DSE (Democratic Army of Greece) in 1948. The filming took place in Grammos and Vitsi, an area that the DSE had under its cont...

A portrait of Hawick, pronounced 'hoik' by the locals, a town in the Scottish Borders. The film was shot in Technichrome - a vibrant colour system dev...

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey from a crier boy from Liminga to an international...

Paul Campani's first short film. Made on 16mm film. Right now this is considered lost media. The short is thought to be between 10 and 15 minutes long...

The twenty-minute Santa's Workshop was turned into a two-minute trailer, with which Suomi-Filmi Oy also presented its Christmas greetings.

A film by P. K. Atre.

A young woman disguises herself as a soldier when her boyfriend arrives to propose.

In this film, African-American Leroy Collins struggles with the onus placed on him by Society when he falls in love with a white woman.

The images show a special summer. As on 20th June 1948, the currency reform is proclaimed, the precarious situation for the people from Hamburg change...

About the film: Based on the eponymous book by the Norwegian skier Tomm Murstad, Skiing with Per and Kari shows two children who receive skis for Chri...

In an unsightly tenement house, the walls of which are as peeling as the souls of the tenants, an old woman waits for her son to return from prison. H...

A comic short film by Riccardo Freda.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Calle and Palle work as assistants at Circus Bollini.

This propaganda film reflects the rhetoric of the 1948 election campaign. Through black-and-white contrasts, emotional appeals, and threats of a “retu...

Jonckheere, the patriarch of a farming family, has two sons: Fons and Walter. Fons leaves the farm and goes astray, while Walter continues to run the...

Farmer Jan Alting, who has disowned his son for collaborating with the nazis, provides shelter for a Jewish couple, a wanted communist and a rebel ari...

An unusual cartoon that equates a dog/cat rivalry with a spurned lover relationship. A dog about to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge explains hi...