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Georg Wilhelm Pabst – Kameradschaft AKA Comradeship (1931)
Synopsis:An old German mine was split in two after the end of WWI because of where the new border was located. In the French part a fire breaks out; the German miners send a rescue group in, helping...
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Werner Nekes – Makimono (1974) (DVD)
Quote:Makimono is an Asian roll painting depicting a landscape. The subject of the film is the language of film itself, its mutability and its influence on the viewer’s vision and thinking. While the...
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Werner Herzog – Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit AKA Land of Silence...
Quote:This moving documentary by director Werner Herzog enters into the world of Fini Strabinger of Bavaria, who is both deaf and blind. Fini has made a career of helping others who are similarly...
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Géza von Bolváry – Das Lied ist aus AKA The Song Is Over (1930)
Quote:I don’t hesitate to call “Das Lied ist aus” one of the great masterpieces of early German cinema. It is one of the best and most stylish of all the Weimar musical sound films, and it’s unusual...
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Géza von Bolváry – Der Herr auf Bestellung (1930)
Quote:“Der Herr auf Bestellung – the gentleman who can be booked” has the Weimar dream team of Walter Reisch as scriptwriter, Geza von Bolvary as director and most importantly, the incomparable Willi...
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Peter Fleischmann – Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein AKA Hard to Be a God...
Synopsis:Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a...
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Ulrike Ottinger – Zwölf Stühle aka Twelve Chairs (2004)
Short Synopsis…Her son-in-law, Ippolit Matwejewitch Worobjaninow, is a former nobleman and a dandy who is currently wasting away as a small town magistrate in charge of civil marriages. He eagerly...
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Ewald André Dupont – Das alte Gesetz AKA This Ancient Law [+extras] (1923)
Baruch Mayr, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor. Due to this behaviour his father bans him from...
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Veit Helmer – Tuvalu (1999)
PLOT: Anton is a lowly, mistreated assistant at a bathhouse run by his blind father; he falls in love with Eva, the daughter of a sea captain. His real estate developer brother wants to tear down the...
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Johannes Schaaf – Traumstadt AKA Dream City (1973)
TRAUMSTADT concerns a remote town where people from all over can indulge in their wildest dreams. Per Oscarsson and Rosemarie Fendel play an unhappy couple who hope that a trip to this magic town will...
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Rosa von Praunheim – Der Einstein des Sex AKA The Einstein of Sex: Life and...
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld (German: Der Einstein des Sex) is a 1999 German film directed by Rosa von Praunheim. The plot follows the life of the Jewish doctor Magnus...
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Pola Beck – Am Himmel der Tag AKA Breaking Horizons (2012)
The 25-year-old Lara (Aylin Tezel) takes her studies in architecture not very seriously and spends her free time with her best friend Nora (Henrike of Kuick) in Techno clubs. She is surprised when she...
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Paul Leni – Das Tagebuch des Dr. Hart aka The Diary of Dr. Hart (1916)
“Dr. Robert Hart visits his friend Ursula von Hohenau in Saxony in July 1914. There he hears about the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. He immediately returns to his home town where, just before...
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Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub – Von heute auf morgen aka From Today...
Quote:Based on an unknown Schönberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a not-quite loveless marriage. A husband and wife return from a party where she has flirted with...
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Jean-Marie Straub – Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt...
JONATHAN ROSENBAUM:Quote: “Far from being a puzzle film (like Citizen Kane or Muriel), Not Reconciled is better described as a ‘lacunary film’, in the same sense that Littré defines a lacunary body: a...
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Edgar Reitz & Ula Stöckl – Geschichten vom Kübelkind AKA Tales Of The...
A woman screams, a newborn baby cries. A nurse leaves the hospital and dumps a bucketfull of slimy afterbirth into a bin.Moments later, Kubelkind (“Dumpster-kid”, an Austrian insult) emerges fully...
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F.W. Murnau – Die Finanzen des Großherzogs AKA The Finances of the Grand Duke...
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State’s debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The...
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Konrad Wolf – Sterne AKA Stars (1959)
Synopsis:A detachment of Nazi soldiers escorting Greek Jews to the Oswiencim death camp stops at a small Bulgarian town in 1943. Walter, the non-commissioned officer from the Nazi army, a skeptical...
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Wolfgang Staudte – Die Mörder Sind Unter Uns AKA The Murderers Are Among Us...
Synopsis:Susanne Wallner returns to the ruins of Berlin from a Concentration Camp after WW2 to discover that someone else lives in her apartment: Dr. Hans Mertens, the war made him depressive and he...
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Carl Boese & Paul Wegener – Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam AKA The Golem:...
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem – a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution. 5.95GB | 1h...
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