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Volker Schaner – Lee Scratch Perry’s Vision of Paradise (2015)
Quote:A thrilling, poetic narration with the legendary Lee Scratch Perry, this movie is a unique project in many ways: it’s not a biography but rather a fairytale documentary! The director followed...
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Michael Verhoeven – Wer im Glashaus liebt… AKA He Who Loves in a Glass House...
Michael Verhoeven shot the film on 16mm in the Vienna studio of painter Hundertwasser, for the first time with his wife Senta Berger as an actress. Due to “Indecent Exposure” Verhoeven and his main...
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Max Mack – Die Tango-Königin (1913)
Quote:Hanni, the shop girl, comes from a milieu like Zille, from which she is freed, so to speak, by Ferdinand, a wealthy elderly gentleman. The first date turns into a shopping spree, and after the...
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Joris Ivens & Joop Huisken & Robert Ménégoz & Ruy Santos – Das Lied der...
Quote:“The Song of the Rivers, or Das Lied der Ströme, is a 1954 documentary production by the East Germany’s Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA). Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens was the leading...
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Helmut Käutner – Himmel ohne Sterne AKA Sky Without Stars (1955)
Synopsis:Anna (Eva Kotthaus) is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen, lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along...
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Christoph Hübner – Thomas Harlan – Wandersplitter aka Thomas Harlan – Moving...
Quote:Thomas Harlan, filmmaker, author and revolutionary was born in 1929 in Germany. His father was the infamous propaganda filmmaker Veit Harlan, director of Jew Suess. During his childhood, as a...
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Hans Bertram – Feuertaufe AKA Baptism of Fire (1940)
From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:Though entirely based on “authentic” newsreel materials, this is a splendidly distorted “record” of the Nazi Blitzkrieg against Poland, designed to terrorize...
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Rosa von Praunheim – Neurosia – 50 Jahre pervers AKA Neurosia – Who Shot Rosa...
Neurosia is the autobiography of the director Rosa von Praunheim. The movie begins with Rosa presenting his autobiography in a movie theater. Before the film begins, he is shot. But – his body gets...
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Harun Farocki – Serious Games 1: Watson Is Down (2010)
Quote:In the autumn of 2009 we filmed a drill at the Marine Corps Base 29 Palms in California. Four Marines sitting in a class represented the crew of a tank. They had laptops in front of them on...
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Jason Barker – Marx Reloaded (English Version) [+ Extras] (2011)
A cultural documentary that uses some of the central ideas of 19th century German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx to try to make sense of the global financial crisis of 2008-09. This crisis...
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Harun Farocki – Wie man sieht AKA As You See (1986)
Quote:My film As You See is an action-filled feature film. It reflects upon girls in porn magazines to whom names are ascribed and about the nameless dead in mass graves, upon machines that are so...
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Alexander Kluge – Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike. Marx – Eisenstein...
»Der Entschluß steht fest, das KAPITAL nach dem Szenarium von Karl Marx zu verfilmen«, notierte Sergej Eisenstein am 12. Oktober 1927. Eisenstein, der mit Panzerkreuzer Potemkin (1926) die Filmsprache...
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Harun Farocki – Ein Tag im Leben der Endverbraucher AKA A Day in the Life of...
Quote:Harun Farocki plunders 40 years of advertising films, which he orchestrates to constitute an ironic 24 hours in the life of typical consumers. Mixing different colours, periods, various...
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Ina Weisse – Das Vorspiel AKA The Audition (2019)
IMDB:Anna Bronsky is a violin teacher at the Conservatoire. Against the advice of her colleagues, she imposes the admission of a pupil, in whom she sees a great talent. With a lot of involvement, she...
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Ludwig Berger – Ich bei Tag und du bei Nacht AKA I by Day, You by Night (1932)
A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, she sleeps there by night and he by day. They’ve never met, but they can’t stand each other. Then one day, they meet by chance… Quote:Ich bei...
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Harun Farocki – Immersion: Serious Games 3 (2009)
For Immersion, Harun Farocki went to visit a research centre near Seattle specialized in the development of virtual realities and computer simulations. One of their projects consists in using virtual...
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Harun Farocki – Serious Games 4: A Sun with No Shadow (2010)
This chapter considers the fact that the pictures with which preparations were made for war are so very similar to the pictures with which war was evaluated afterward. But there is a difference: The...
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Harun Farocki – Serious Games 2: Three Dead (2010)
In this second of a four part series, media artist Harun Farocki explores the interplay between modern warfare and electronic media using computer simulation and documentary footage. Originally...
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Hans Billian – Die Beichte der Josefine Mutzenbacher (1978)
Review:(taken from imdb)Yet another Euro film based on the memoirs of goodtime gal Josephine Mutzenbacher (aside from several softcore, there were also the XXX SENSATIONAL JANINE and PROFESSIONAL...
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst – Westfront 1918 (1930)
Plot synopsisWestfront 1918 (aka Comrades of 1918) was the first talkie effort from German filmmaker G. W. Pabst, which he made for Nero Films, a production company headed up by Seymour Nebenzahl....
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