Translation of "Kostümfilm" in English

I knew it was a costume piece, but I hoped he'd take it somewhere else.

A period piece about Columbus returning from America.

There's no audience for period films.

A passionate amateur actor auditions for the leading part in a costume drama.

Perhaps I had stumbled onto the set of a cinema company filming a costume drama of some sort.

Bernard's ability to combine dramatic narrative with spacious settings and large numbers of performers was utilised in the two remaining productions of his silent film career, "Le Joueur d'échecs" (1927) and "Tarakanova" (1930).

What reads here like a banal costume picture, becomes, directed by Fritz Lang, a masterful drama that impresses with perfectly staged images, that convey credibly the mood of the 18th Century by their proximity to painting .

On the other hand, the decision to paint Paris Hilton as a French queen surprisingly recalls Sofia Coppola's costume film Marie Antoinette, which portrays the unsuspecting little blonde in a luxurious dreamworld amidst her cream cakes and buckled shoes.

Within its historic walls you feel like an actor in a costume drama or a count from the 19th century on the threshold of the 21st century.

The missing originality of "Blades of Blood" thus stands as the biggest flaw of Lee's newest costume drama.

Make your own costume drama at houses like Highclere Castle, the setting of the fictional Downton Abbey.

But more importantly, this is the first Korean costume film that could win me over.

He used the opportunity and also worked for the special effects for the colourful costume movie "Münchhausen" (43), where he was responsible for the sequence with the superfast runner and with the long-distance gun.

Rodney Graham gained international recognition for his costume drama Vexation Island, which he conceived in 1997 for the Canadian pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Palladio's biography would be worth a novel or a costume film: his humble Paduan descent, the difficult beginnings in the sculpture laboratories, the encounter with the patron who introduced him to classical culture...

The costume film Red Lion (Akage, 1969) tells of the revolutionary ambitions of the tragicomic protagonist – played by a brilliant Toshiro Mifune, who appears in eight of Okamoto’s films.

With pompous and beautiful images, rather unusual for a comedy, the director created a period movie, which seeks for its equals.

Therefore, the aforementioned problems shouldn't prevent anyone from watching this period movie, if you like the genre.

A “critical costume drama” constructed from a patchwork of historical, literary, and popular sources, the film's fragmented narrative structure explores the connections between representation, speculation and the discourses of high and low culture that emerged in the early 18th century and remain relevant to the present day.

With its running time of 107 minutes "The Assassins" is rather short for a period movie and especially when it comes to films full of intrigues involving several parties and which are also heavy on story you should take some more time to elaborate the characters and the drama.

Fortunately, that doesn't change "Masquerade" being a really well done period film with a lot of humor.

Despite that, a running time of 138 minutes, which seems a tad too long, and some forced melodrama "The Face Reader" remains a well done period movie.

Review: When the director of "The King and the Clown" brings a new period drama to the big screen the expectations naturally are quite high.

This appeared at the time to be a viable solution. This complex combination of intentions is also perceptible in "Congress of Love", whose »framing story« in the wax museum provides the film with a certain ironic distance from historical and costume dramas of the traditional type and also permits, as if purely incidentally, the director to take his audience on that roller-coaster ride which had become almost obligatory since the introduction of Cinerama and Todd-AO.

The plot fits there perfectly as we soon get to understand and after his successful directoral debut "An Affair" and "Asako in Ruby Shoes" Lee can deliver a very convinving costume drama, that balances drama and discreet comedy quite well.

In his history of cinema, Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst (The Development of German Film, 1935), Oskar Kalbus called it a "typically Jewish-influenced film" and claimed it was merely a "didactic costume drama".