1911 E5 - Eva Hielscher

1911 E5 - Eva Hielscher

From The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever by Tristan Ettleman

April 1, 2026 · 55 min · Season 13 · Episode 5

About this episode

Eva Hielscher discusses a diverse selection of films from 1911, highlighting various genres and countries.

Eva Hielscher, head of film-related collections at Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum , selects a wholly international survey of 1911 films, jumping from country to country and genre to genre. This heterogeneous view of the year ranges from French comedy and animation experiment shorts to an Italian epic and German feature…and a document of a historic expedition! Eva is also co-artistic director of the Bonn International Silent Film Festival . She is co-editor of The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity between the Wars and Color Mania – The Material of Color in Photography and Film . Visit the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own top five for 1911! Films and resource mentioned: Rosalie and Her Phonograph (1911) - Romeo Bosetti The Strange Bird (1911) - Urban Gad The Third Fram Expedition to the South Pole (1911) - Leon Amundsen L’Inferno (1911) - Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro, and Adolfo Padovan Little Nemo (1911) - Winsor McCay and J. Stuart Blackton Rosalie and Léontine Go to the Theatre (1911) - Romeo Bosetti The Abyss (1910) - Urban Gad The Great White Silence (1924) - Herbert Ponting Atlantis (1913) - August Blom The…

People in this episode

Host: Tristan Ettleman

Guest: Eva Hielscher

Topics covered

  • 1911 films
  • international cinema
  • film history
  • silent film
  • film genres

Keywords

  • 1911
  • films
  • silent film
  • international cinema
  • film history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum

Books & works: Rosalie and Her Phonograph, The Strange Bird, The Third Fram Expedition to the South Pole, L’Inferno, Little Nemo, Rosalie and Léontine Go to the Theatre, The Abyss, The Great White Silence, Atlantis, The Conquest of the Pole

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