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Andreas Dresen – Stilles Land AKA Silent Country (1992)
Up until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of communist rule in East Germany, the most anyone in the outlying regions of that country knew about its overall situation was...
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Florian Gottschick – Nachthelle (2015)
A drama with a supernatural edge, this genre-crossing gem finds two couples visiting a home from their past, and sexual tension that brings out the worst in each other. Long-buried grudges resurface...
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Harun Farocki – Parallel I (2012)
Parallel I opens up a history of styles in computer graphics. The first games of the 1980s consisted of only horizontal and vertical lines. This abstraction was seen as a failing, and today...
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Tom Tykwer – Die tödliche Maria AKA Deadly Maria [+Extras] (1993)
Synopsis by Sandra Brennan This German psychodrama looks into the events that lead an introverted woman into taking extreme action against her oppressors. Poor Maria has spent her life being ignored...
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Ester Amrami – Anderswo AKA Anywhere Else (2014)
You left your home to move far away. You were struck by a wind of change and were unfaithful to yourself. You reinvented yourself and you are now feeling free. But suddenly pressure arises in you....
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Roland Reber – Illusion (2013)
Synopsis: Eight people that cannot be more different meet in a bar. For one night they escape their everyday life which is paralysed of rituals and find themselves in a journey to their world of...
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Veit Harlan – Hanna Amon (1951)
Synopsis Hanna and her brother Thomas Amon live on the estate of their deceased parents. While Hanna of local veterinary and Thomas Brunner of the mayor’s daughter is secretly admired and sought...
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Christoph Hochhäusler – Die Lügen der Sieger AKA The Lies of the Victors (2014)
Investigative journalist Fabian Groys enjoys great freedom since the stories he uncovers make for strong sales. He works for a political news magazine in their Berlin head office. In this context, his...
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Thomas Heise – Vaterland AKA Fatherland (2002)
“Vaterland” is a key work in Thomas Heise’s filmography. In the beginning a voice over reads the letters his father Wolfgang and his brother sent their family from a labour camp. When they were 19...
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Irm Sommer & Ed Sommer – Hedonistic Communication (1970)
Quote: HEDONISTIC COMMUNICATION / IRM ED SOMMER / KONTAKTE / ICH DU UND ICH is the title of this super obscure experimental short film including also explicit sex. Very raw and primitive, it features...
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Oliver Hirschbiegel – Elser AKA 13 Minutes (2015)
In November 1939, Georg Elser’s attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails, and he is arrested. During his confinement, he recalls the events leading up to his plot and his reasons for deciding to take...
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Sohrab Shahid Saless – Hans – Ein Junge in Deutschland (1985)
Plot in German “Der in Westdeutschland lebende, iranische Filmemacher Saless (“Utopia”) schildert in seinem Drama eine deutsche Jugend am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs Frankfurt 1944: In der...
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Jakob Lass – Love Steaks (2013)
Quote: If Joaquin Phoenix met Carole Lombard in their twenties by the sea you would get the sizzle we feel in Jakob Lass’ Love Steaks. Clemens (Franz Rogowski) arrives as a trainee at a Northern...
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Fred Kelemen – Verhängnis AKA Fate (1994)
“The paths of people from various countries cross during the course of one night. They speak different languages, but they are fatefully bound together by the solitary quest for happiness and...
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Volker Schlöndorff – Baal (1970)
Plot: Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality. Quote: Screening as part of the Masters &...
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Michael Obert – Song from the Forest (2014)
SYNOPSIS “In my memory, I retained such a dream-like impression of my stay in New York that I sometimes wondered if I had really been there.” Louis Sarno As a young man, US-born Louis Sarno heard a...
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Wim Wenders – Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky AKA A Trick of the Light (1995)
Quote: “A Trick of Light” is a silly yet sporadically entertaining pseudo-documentary in which filmmaker Wim Wenders, along with the help of several film school students, tells the story of the...
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst – Das Bekenntnis der Ina Kahr AKA The Confession of Ina...
Synopsis: ‘Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Warned by her friends and relatives that Jurgens is a bad job, impulsive Ina Kahr...
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Horst E. Brandt & Heinz Thiel – Heroin (1968)
This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West Berlin, the Gellert bath in Budapest, and more). The plot...
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Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub – Paul Cézanne im Gespräch mit Joachim...
Description: In 1989 Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet realized a film project that was commissioned by Virginie Herbin, director of the audiovisual department of the Musée d’Orsay. The film is...
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