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Werner Herzog – Herz aus Glas AKA Heart of Glass (1976)
Synopsis by Hal Erickson Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glas) is essentially a treatise by Werner Herzog on the power and importance of art. Director Herzog was known to put his actors through the wringer...
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Oliver Haffner – Ein Geschenk der Götter AKA A Godsend (2014)
Out of the blue Anna, an actress at a provincial community theater, gets fired. Fresh off the stage, she suddenly finds herself at the local job center. On the urging of her theater-mad case worker,...
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Stephan Geene – Umsonst AKA For Nothing (2014)
Unannounced, Aziza is once again standing in her room – internship, Portugal, everything canceled. But her room is occupied. Her mother, Trixi, has rented it out. Zach lives there now, a...
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Werner Herzog – Fata Morgana (1971)
Info from wiki, Fata Morgana is a film by Werner Herzog, shot in 1969, which captures mirages in the desert. Herzog describes the film as “a documentary shot by extraterrestrials from the Andromeda...
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Dominik Graf – Die geliebten Schwestern AKA Beloved Sisters (2014)
Friedrich Schiller was Germany’s William Shakespeare, a poet and playwright who espoused Romanticism and was for a time forced into exile because of his political writings. Alongside Goethe, he is...
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Helma Sanders-Brahms – Deutschland bleiche Mutter aka Germany, Pale Mother...
Quote: In her film Germany, Pale Mother Sanders-Brahms depicts her childhood in Germany during and after WWII. In order to survive, mother (Lene) and child (Anna) form a self-sufficient bond which...
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Nicolas Wackerbarth – Halbschatten AKA Everyday Objects (2013)
Quote: On an overcast summer’s day, Merle arrives at her lover Romuald’s villa, jacket and luggage in hand, to find the doors are locked. He had invited her to visit him in the south of France but...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Ich will doch nur, daß ihr mich liebt aka I Only...
A man is interviewed by a sympathetic woman. His tale unfolds, of hard work that never pleases his parents, of a father who denigrates his efforts, of an indifferent mother. He builds them a house....
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Hans Richter – Everyday (1929)
Quote: Every Day was a film that German avant-garde filmmaker Hans Richter made as part of a film production course run by the Film Society. It features filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein playing a...
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Helmut Käutner – In jenen Tagen aka Seven Journeys (1947)
Synopsis: Told in seven chapters, Käutner’s first postwar film portrays the lives of average people overwhelmed and traumatized by the impact of fascism. Käutner uses the framing device of an...
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Harun Farocki – Parallel 2 – 4 (2014)
The four‐part cycle Parallel deals with the image genre of computer animation. The series focuses on the construction, visual landscape and inherent rules of computer-animated worlds. Quote: Cinema’s...
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Arthur Maria Rabenalt – Martina (1949)
Synopsis: The young Martina gets towards the end of the war of World War II to a pimp and so she goes first to the juvenile court and then in the care. Here she meets her older sister Irene, who...
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Edgar Reitz – Die andere Heimat – Chronik einer Sehnsucht AKA Home from Home:...
Quote: When Edgar Reitz made the Heimat film series in 1984 he created an incredible chronicle of German rural life in the 20th century. He went on to release another couple of mini-series, bringing...
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Christian Petzold – Polizeiruf 110: Kreise (2015)
German review by T. Groh: Quote: […] Ein Meta-Fernsehkrimi. Für dieses Vorhaben bietet der BR-“Polizeiruf” um Kommissar von Meuffels einem etablierten Auteur wie Christian Petzold das ideale...
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Christian Petzold – Yella (2007)
Christian Petzold’s drama deals with a woman, who leaves her hometown for a promising job and a new life, but is haunted by the truths of the past. As her marriage to Ben broke and her professional...
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Leni Riefenstahl – Der Sieg des Glaubens AKA Victory of the Faith (1933)
Der Sieg des Glaubens (English: The Victory of Faith) is the first documentary directed by Leni Riefenstahl, who was hired despite opposition from Nazi officials that resented employing a woman — and...
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Leni Riefenstahl & Béla Balázs – Das blaue Licht AKA The Blue Light (1932)
Synopsis Junta is hated by the people in the village where she lives, especially by the women, who suspect her of being a witch. Only she can climb the nearby mountains to a cave high up, whence a...
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Nicolas Humbert – Step Across the Border (1990)
from imdb, “This film is a snapshot of the life of Fred Frith, an English-born multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor. It finds him in Europe, Japan, and the US, working and playing with a...
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Werner Herzog – Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen AKA Even Dwarfs Started...
Synopsis: The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature...
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Ferdinand Khittl – Das magische Band AKA The Magic Tape (1959)
Das magische Band – West Germany 1959, 21 min. Directed by: Ferdinand Khittl Written by: Bodo Blüthner, Ferdinand Khittl, Ernst von Khuon Cinematography by: Ronald Martini Music by: Oskar Sala Edited...
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