1953 Movies

The 200th Finlandia Review from March 1953 begins by telling the story of making newsreels. Then, in flashbacks, we see highlights from the first ten...

General Chai and Lady Balsam

Down under the constant attacks of the German and Bulgarian forces, headquarters one of the partisan detachment in the midst of a severe winter and sn...

A study of the behavior of four and five year old children at home and at nursery school. At four the vacillation between infantile helplessness and v...

Casper befriends Short Tail, the beaver.

A documentary featuring the Avro "Vulcan" jet aircraft on the ground and in flight.

Malm is the editor at a Stockholm newspaper who gets the assignment to cover the big ski race Vasaloppet.

The wife is unhappy that her husband has not registered with the Home Guard like the other men.

Based on the play of the same name by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. Two poor actors, Neschastlivtsev and Schastlivtsev, — no money, no work, no tobacco and th...

Two young high school boys spike the punch at a Halloween party, mischievously let the air out of car tires, and finally steal a car to go for a joyri...

This travelogue begins with the vast agricultural wealth of the country, whose farmers can produce four times the amount required to feed the country'...

A widow and a husband tired of a loveless marriage rekindle the attraction they shared in their youth.

A 1953 Bengali Drama Film directed by Subodh Mitra.

The bizarre tale of Pennsylvania Railroad fireman Henry who is involved in a hunting accident. He ends up in Limbo where a supernatural figure explai...

A propaganda short commissioned by the United Fruit Company on the benefits they bring to Central America, such as creating jobs and delivering educat...

A female mosquito net vendor's life changes when she meets the boss of an office and makes her his secretary.

Lost film directed by Stan Brakhage. Possibly never existed. "I don’t think the film was ever finished or even edited. I think it was a title, possib...