Christoph Hübner – Thomas Harlan – Wandersplitter aka Moving Shrapnel [Extra]...
This is the content of the second disc of Wandersplitter aka Moving Shrapnel, in whichThomas Harlan revists his film and literary work.It is much more than an extra and more something like a second...
View ArticleRosa von Praunheim – Praunheim Memoires (2014)
Rosa von Praunheim sheds light on his life story and the most important stages in it. Born Holger Radtke, he moved to Frankfurt am Main with his adoptive parents at the age of twelve. With his...
View ArticleChristian Petzold – Undine (2020)
Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return...
View ArticleBurhan Qurbani – Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)
Quote:Francis, 30-year-old refugee is the sole survivor of a boat which crossed the Mediterranean illegally from West Africa. When he wakes up on a beach in the south of Europe, he is determined to...
View ArticleRosa von Praunheim & Markus Tiarks –Überleben in Neukölln AKA Staying alive...
Rosa von Praunheim portrays some Berlin citizens which are all connected to the GLBT community.This doc works as a sequel to his 1989 movie “Überleben in New York” (Staying alive in New York) in some...
View ArticleRosa von Praunheim – Härte AKA Tough Love (2015)
A German pimp with a penchant for violence. The prostitute with a heart of gold who loves him. The demented mother who ruined him. Lots of depressing sex scenes set in dreary working-class apartments....
View ArticleJürgen Böttcher – Jahrgang ’45 AKA Born in ’45 (1966)
Synopsis: ‘Li and Al share a cramped little room in an old building, which goes a long way towards explaining why they are thinking of divorce. It is practically impossible for Lisa and Alfred to find...
View ArticleHeinrich Breloer – Brecht (2019)
Hollywood Reporter:Director Heinrich Breloer mixes drama with documentary in his marathon TV biopic of radical playwright and leftist icon Bertolt Brecht. Interweaving glossy dramatic scenes with...
View ArticleMarie Luise Droop & Muhsin Ertugrul – Das Fest der schwarzen Tulpe (1920)
This silent film rarity has turkish intertitles only. Reason is that it was restored and shown for a turkish film festival about Muhsin Ertugrul. Muhsin Ertugrul is a legendary turkish film director...
View ArticleMonika Treut – My Father Is Coming [+Extras] (1991)
A immigrant’s father is coming to visit from Germany. She has lied to him about her acting career, having looked unsuccessfully for parts for a year, and has also told him she’s married. So she...
View ArticleAndreas Goldstein – Adam und Evelyn (2018)
Quote:‘Adam and Evelyn’ tells the story of a couple, from the summer to the winter of 1989. It begins in the provinces of East Germany. When Evelyn catches Adam cheating on her, she leaves for Hungary...
View ArticleGeorge P. Cosmatos – The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Quote:At noon on October 25th, the Transcontinental Express left Geneva Station with almost one thousand people aboard. Their destination: Basel, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Stockholm....
View ArticleHerbert Vesely – Nicht mehr fliehen AKA No More Fleeing (1955)
In a desolate, destroyed landscape – bearing now irrelevant traces of technological society – a man and a boy try to find their way under a fierce sun. 1.00GB | 1h 04m | 720×538 | mkv...
View ArticleSohrab Shahid Saless – Utopia (1983)
Quote:A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five prostitutes and their pimp, who pits them against...
View ArticleAngela Schanelec – Ich bin den Sommer über in Berlin geblieben AKA I stayed...
Quote:Nadine is obsessed by a memory linked to a haunting tune she can no longer sing — until she hears someone else singing and everything falls back into place again. A melancholy observation of two...
View ArticleManfred Blank & Wolf-Eckart Bühler – Leuchtturm des Chaos AKA Pharos of Chaos...
Sterling Hayden, the semi-retired actor, war hero, and writer passes his days living on a barge in France. He enjoys telling anecdotes, until finally opening up about his alcoholism, loneliness,...
View ArticleKlaus Wyborny – Die Geburt der Nation AKA The Birth of a Nation (1973)
Quote:Authentically ‘New’ German Cinema, and, simultaneously, an archaeology of narrative film itself, Wyborny’s avant-garde landmark defines cinema as a ‘nation’ that has perversely acquired rulers,...
View ArticlePeter Stein – Sommergäste (1976)
Peter Stein’s production of Gorki´s SOMMERGÄSTE at the Schaubühne in December 1974 became one of the greatest theatre successes in Germany and beyond. “That’s how theatre should always be. That’s how...
View ArticleWolf-Eckart Bühler – Der Havarist AKA The Shipwrecker (1984)
Actor Sterling Hayden found himself cooperating with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 40s and 50s Hollywood. This film tracks the restless actor’s search for meaning, his discomfort with...
View ArticleChristian Petzold – Die Beischlafdiebin (1998)
Petra professionally works as a thief abroad to finance the studies of her younger sister Franziska in Germany. When she returns, she realizes that her sister has a secret, too. Quote:TV-Drama von...
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