The End of the Road(1919)

The Price He Paid(en)

The Price He Paid

Out of Africa(en)

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.

Geißel der Menschheit(de)

Venereal disease threatens to tear a young couple apart.

The Libertine(en)

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.

Of the World's Horrors(ro)

A wife and her husband have both contracted syphilis and don't know how to tell each other.

The Quiet Duel(ja)

A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.

Open Your Eyes(en)

A propagandistic melodrama recounting the dangers and horrors of venereal disease.

Sex Madness(en)

A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is torn between the prospect of a slow, intensive but proven therapy and a supposed miracle cure.

The Escape(en)

A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.

Synden Lockar(fi)

Es werde Licht! 3. Teil(de)

A tyrannical landowner terrorizes his wife and seduces the daughter of one of his employees.

Es werde Licht! 2. Teil(de)

A doctor who believes that only the immoral catch syphilis reconsiders his stance.

Es werde Licht!(de)

A painter with syphilis infects his brother's wife and the child born of their affair.

The Terrible Lesson(es)

Supported by a simple story, this film is merely educative: gives advice against venereal diseases.

Falsche Scham(de)

This educational film combines medical information and story to teach the viewers about the prevention and treatment of syphilis. The four episodes cover the stories of students looking to pick up prostitutes, a careless medical student, a wet nurse who has infected an infant, and a country girl afraid of seeking treatment.

Birthright(en)

Chicken farmer John Lloyd learns the importance of blood tests when he gives his pregnant wife a dose of the clap after a one-night fling with a lonely waitress.

A Woman Branded(de)

Toni van Eyck became known with her leading role in this early "Aufklärungsfilm" (education film) Gefahren der Liebe/A Woman Branded (Eugen Thiele, 1931) opposite Hans Stüwe. She played a rape victim, who finally becomes a murderess.

Synnin jäljet(fi)

Tuula, Mirri and Aino are roommates at a nurse college. At her hospital internship, Aino works with Dr. Eero who has had an affair with Viivi, the director of the nurses' dormitory. At the same time, Tuula is starting to get closer to Mirri's fiancé Ragnar who has begun to doubt Mirri's love and loyalty.

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet(en)

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

The Scarlet Trail(en)

A docudrama aimed at propagandizing the prevention of venereal disease