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Christoph Rüter – Klaus Kinski – Ich bin kein Schauspieler (2000)
German-language documentary on the actor. Numerous excerpts. (A conventional companion piece to Herzog’s My Best Enemy). 42 min 40 sek...
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Christoph Hochhäusler – Dreileben – Eine Minute Dunkel AKA One Minute of...
The Dreileben trilogy comes to a nail-biting close with director Christoph Hochhäusler’s expert thriller, which also brings escaped felon Molosch—a peripheral character in the first two parts—into...
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Alfred Zeisler – Der Schuß im Tonfilmatelier AKA The Shot in the Talker...
IMDB: During the shooting of a jealousy scene on a soundstage, one actress is murdered. Due to the fact that the male star of the movie had a relation with the victim and the female star is now his...
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Margarethe von Trotta – Das Versprechen (1995)
From the L.A. Times: November 03, 1995 Kevin Thomas “LOVE AND THE BERLIN WALL” Margarethe von Trotta’s beautiful, stirring love story “The Promise” reveals, through the lives of one young couple, the...
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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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Edgar Reitz – Heimat – Eine deutsche Chronik (1984)
The series (11 episodes) tells the story of the village Schabbach, on the Hunsrueck in Germany through the years 1919-1982… IMDB: Plot Summary for “Heimat – Eine deutsche Chronik” (1984) (mini) The...
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Edgar Reitz – Mahlzeiten AKA Lust for Love (1967)
Synopsis: Lust for Love (“Mahlzeiten”) is the story of Elizabeth (Heidi Stroh), a beautiful and seductive woman who has only one aim: happiness – and as much of it as possible! Like a hungry vampire...
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Sergei Bodrov – Bear’s Kiss (2002)
A dramatic fantasy romance film directed by Sergei Bodrov. A German, Swedish, Russian, Spanish, French, and Italian co-production, it tells the story of the circus girl Lola, who raises a bear from...
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Peter Kahane – Die Architekten AKA The Architects (1990)
SYNOPSIS Shot in 1990, this portrayal of life in East Berlin offers a snapshot of what life was like just before the wall came down and communism gave way to a more democratic way of life. The film...
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Sohrab Shahid Saless – Rosen für Afrika AKA Roses for Africa (1992)
Quote: Between 1991 and 1992 he [Saless] directed Rosen für Afrika, a Psychodrama about how injustice is turned into oblivion about an opportunity worker and a woman from the civil house of a marriage...
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Herrmann Zschoche – Karla AKA Carla (1965)
East German romance about a non conformist young school teacher and a disenchanted journalist turned fisherman. And Ulrich Plenzdorf (Scriptwriter) on the Making of Carla, 1993...
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Carl Boese & Paul Wegener – Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam aka The Golem:...
Classic Horror Review : Emanating from Jewish folklore, the legend of the “golem” has transfixed audiences for centuries. Although when used pejoratively the word “golem” describes a moronic person...
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Alexander Kluge – Jeder Zirkus hat ein Ende (2018)
Alexander Kluge: Jeder Zirkus hat ein Ende 10vor11 Kulturmagazin, 25./26.6.18, RTL Die 1509. und zugleich letzte Ausgabe des Kulturmagazins 10 VOR 11. Zum Abschied mit Überlänge. Mit Hannelore Hoger,...
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Helena Wittmann – Drift (2017)
Two women spend a weekend together at the North Sea. Walks on the beach, fish buns at a snack stand, mobile weather forecasts. Sky, horizon, water. One of them will soon return to her family in...
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Gustav Ucicky – Flüchtlinge AKA Refugees (1933)
Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as “Volga Germans”, in the Soviet province of Manchuria. http://nitroflare.com/view/863B286ECC9F0C4/Fluechtlinge_1933.upgrade.part1.rar...
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Ferdinand Diehl – Die Sieben Raben AKA The Seven Ravens (1937)
A peasant father sends his seven sons to fetch water for their sickly young sister but when he curses them for not returning soon enough, they turn into ravens and disappear. Many years later when the...
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Robert Wiene – I.N.R.I. AKA Crown of Thorns (1923)
By the director of Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain,...
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Kurt Meisel – Tragödie einer Leidenschaft (1949)
When she was a little girl, Liuba came to town with her widowed mother to live in the block of flats owned by her aunt Anna Iwanowna. The wealthy and cold-hearted Anna Iwanowna barely accepted them as...
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Alexander Kluge, Basil Gelpke – Mensch 2.0 (2011)
Quote: Another mammoth-project with the “chronologist of our time” Alexander Kluge. With 12 hours film, Gelpke and Kluge try to get a better understanding of the new human, which arouse from the...
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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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