Franz Schubert toils by day as his father’s clerk while secretly composing in Beethoven’s shadow, gaining little recognition until friends persuade publisher Diabelli to host a public performance where he meets and falls for soprano Therese Grob. Abandoning a teaching career, he moves in with artist and poet friends, finds inspiration for the “Erlkönig,” and together with Therese sustains himself by performing his songs.

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In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne...

Follow the launch of Lamborghini’s career as a manufacturer of tractors, a creator of military vehic...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

Popular Hong Kong actress Amy Yip plays Sister Har -- a seminal figure in 1960s and '70s Hong Kong n...

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film...

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...

An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politi...

A portrait of the British writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who, although he had radical instincts, h...

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In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...