The Cornet (1955)
- Original title
- Der Cornet
- Directed by
- Walter Reisch
- Genre
- war film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young soldier serves in the Great Turkish War. The film adapts a famous poem about love and death on the battlefield.
historicalpoeticmelancholicvisually lushslow-burnatmosphericromantictragicwar-torn
What happens
The Cornet (German: Der Cornet. Die Weise von Liebe und Tod) is a 1955 West German historical film war film directed by Walter Reisch and starring Götz von Langheim, Anita Björk and Wolfgang Preiss. Set during the Great Turkish War, the film is related to the 1912 poem The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke. It was shot in Eastmancolor. Location filming took place in Würzburg in Bavaria. The film's sets were designed by the art director Wolf Englert. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Children, Mother, and the General (1955)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.