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Werner Herzog – Mein liebster Feind – Klaus Kinski AKA My Best Fiend (1999)
Quote:The love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski is utterly puzzling to outsiders. The film is about the deep trust between an actor and a director and their independently and...
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Günter Peter Straschek – Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland AKA Film...
Essay Film Festival: Straschek was among the first cohort to graduate from the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB). He started studying film in 1966, alongside Hartmut Bitomsky, Harun Farocki,...
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Joe May – Ihre Majestät die Liebe AKA Her Majesty Love (1931)
Quote:The story is pleasent fluff where Franz Lederer has to marry a rich woman in order to be chief executive of a big firm. He pretends to be in love Käthe von Nagy’s bar girl and just guess how...
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Jürgen Böttcher – In Georgien AKA In Georgia (1988)
Quote:In 1986 and 1987, Jürgen Böttcher and his crew travelled to Georgia to film this fascinating country and its people. Böttcher, the painter, was particularly interested in the art of Georgian...
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Hartmut Bitomsky – B-52 (2001)
Quote:”The B-52 is a very large aircraft,” a crew member says in the straightforward new documentary ”B-52,” which begins a two-week run today at Film Forum. Several clean-cut Air Force personnel give...
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Phil Jutzi – Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück AKA Mother Krause’s Journey to...
Quote:In the middle of an economic crisis, the workers are living in poverty and struggling to find a little happiness and get a warm meal. Mother Krause lives with her two grown-up children, as well...
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Werner Nekes – Uliisses (1982)
Quote:The film is a Homeric journey through the history of cinema. Its theme is based on the mythological Odysseus of Homer, the Ulysses of James Joyce, and the synthetic figure, Telemach/Phil, from...
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David Hemmings – Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo AKA Just a Gigolo (1978)
Synopsis:‘After the First World War a young shell-shocked Prussian officer returns to Berlin. He finds that the life he knew there has vanished for ever; he cannot adjust to the new times. He drifts...
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Helke Misselwitz – Winter adé (1989)
Quote:Traveling by train from one end of the country to the other, the DEFA documentary team interviewed East German women of different ages and backgrounds. In this masterpiece, they reveal their...
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Wim Wenders – Der Stand der Dinge aka The State of Things (1982)
Quote:Fresh from the tangled dramas of two temporarily halted film productions—including his collaboration with Coppola—Wenders used the cinematic quagmires as fodder for a film about filmmaking....
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Werner Schroeter – Der Rosenkönig AKA The Rose King (1986)
Synopsis:Released in English-speaking countries as The Rose King, the German Der Rosenkonig is another of director Wern Schroeter’s self-indulgent studies of intense, artistically expressed human...
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Hans Werckmeister – Algol – Tragödie der Macht AKA Tragedy of Power (1920)
Quote:“The rule of coal is gone. The bios plants will provide power to the world from today!” In this rediscovery of Weimar cinema, a dystopian vision of unfettered capitalism that is eerily...
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Leo Birinsky & Paul Leni – Das Wachsfigurenkabinett AKA Waxworks (1924)
A wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner’s daughter in the stories. 1.76GB | 1h 20mn | 764×576 | mkv...
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Robert A. Stemmle – Berliner Ballade AKA The Berliner (1948)
In Berliner Ballade, Gert Froebe makes his screen debut as Otto, a feckless Everyman who tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and...
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Fritz Hippler – Der ewige Jude AKA The Eternal Jew (1940)
Under the guise of a brutally honest documentary, this malevolent propaganda film aims to be an “indispensable tool in the hands of the Aryan race”, designed to depict the “true” Jew when the masks of...
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Veit Harlan – Jud Süß AKA Jew Seuss (1940)
In this notorious Nazi propaganda historical costume melodrama, a conniving, ambitious Jewish businessman, Süß Oppenheimer, snares a post as treasurer to the Duke of Wurttemburg by showering the...
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Arthur Maria Rabenalt – Martina (1949)
Plot (A little bumpy because google translator):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...
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Robert Wiene – Raskolnikow AKA Crime and Punishment [Italian] (1923)
Synopsis:Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg, driven to utter desperation by grinding poverty and near-starvation, formulates a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker...
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Konrad Wolf – Der kleine Prinz (1966)
Quote:Der kleine Prinz (1966/1972) has been even more thoroughly buried by history than the rest of Wolf’s work, or the corpus of DEFA production in general. The reasons for this neglect are multiple...
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Dietrich Haugk – Der Kommissar – Als die Blumen Trauer trugen (EP 39) aka The...
Dr. Trotta is shot at night in his garden. He was a fan of the odd band “Joker Five” among which Keller suspects the perpetrator. The female singer of this band, a friend of Trottas son Peter, died a...
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