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Ralph Habib – Geheimaktion schwarze Kapelle AKA The Black Chapel (1959)
Synopsis:‘Germany, 1933. Fearing that the rise of Nazism will inevitably lead to war, a number of officers band together to form an anti-Hitler group. They recruit a journalist, Golder, to take a plan...
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Hartmut Bitomsky – Das Kino und der Tod aka Cinema and Death (1988)
Quote:“Das Kino und der Tod/Cinema and Death”(1988), is one of his ‘Cinema Anthology’ ,which was made by extraordinary Bitomsky’s voice and movement of his hands that turn over photos of murder in...
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Rudolf Thome – Just Married (1998)
Quote:Frangipani and Friedrich wrestle with the vagaries of married life, while also trying to preserve their own individual personalities. Frangipani’s primary concern, however, is with Friedrich’s...
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Vojtech Jasný – Ansichten eines Clowns AKA The Clown (1976)
Hans Schnier has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his...
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Helena Wittmann – Drift (2017)
Two women spend a weekend together at the North Sea. Walks on the beach, fish buns at a snack stand, mobile weather forecasts. Sky, horizon, water. One of them will soon return to her family in...
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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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Edgar Reitz – Die Zweite Heimat – Chronik einer Jugend, Die AKA Heimat 2 (1992)
The movie consist of 13 separate episodes each handling a period between 1960 and 1970. The length of these periods varies from one day to some years. It tells the story of a group of people in Munich...
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Jochen Hick – Mein wunderbares West-Berlin AKA My Wonderful West Berlin (2017)
Berlin-based filmmaker Jochen Hick explores the long shadow left by Paragraph 175 in his fascinating documentary My Wonderful West Berlin (Mein Wunderbares West-Berlin)…“Many victims died before the...
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Various – 24 h Berlin – Ein Tag im Leben AKA 24 Hours Berlin (110 min) (2009)
THIS IS NOT THE 24 HOUR VERSION!IT IS A TV RIP OF THE 110 MINUTES VERSION AIRED ON 3sat FIRST IN NOVEMBER 2009! INFO 20 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, after euphoria and disenchantment,...
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Ingemo Engström – Flucht in den Norden (1986)
Based on Klaus Mann’s 1934 novel “Entkommen zum Leben”. Johanna, a young Berliner, flees the Nazis in 1934. She goes to Finland and begins an affair with a man of similar Radical beliefs. His death...
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Edgar Reitz – Heimat 3 – Chronik einer Zeitenwende (2004)
This is not only a sequel to the “Second Heimat”, but also a chronicle of a very decisive decade for Germany (1989 to 200). The main couple of the mini-series released in 1992, Hermann Simon and...
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Herbert Vesely – Der Kurze Brief zum langen Abschied aka Short Letter to the...
Here is a Peter Handke Adaptation from the 70s featuring Geraldine Chaplin and Music by Brian Eno.about the novel:In ”Short Letter, Long Farewell,” a German playwright is pursued by his wife, an...
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Edgar Reitz – Heimat-Fragmente: Die Frauen (2006)
Quote:“There is a time for sewing up and a time for tearing apart. That’s an old proverb of my mother’s”. The wise little saying is nothing less than a piece of “Heimat”. Or not really, since the...
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Henner Winckler – Lucy (2006)
Eighteen-year-old Maggy has a baby, Lucy, eight months old. She has dropped out of school and broken up with Lucy’s father. Maggy still lives with her mother, who often takes care of the baby so that...
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Ferdinand Khittl – Die Parallelstrasse AKA The Parallel Street (1962)
Die Parallelstraße is one of the most mysterious pioneer films of the New German Cinema. It was produced by GBF, a production company for innovative industrial and promotional films and received...
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Jan-Ole Gerster – Lara (2019)
Lara has just turned sixty; it’s a very special day that will culminate in a career-defining piano concert given by her son. Viktor remains elusive, however, and his mother’s repeated attempts to get...
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Harun Farocki – Industrie und Fotografie (1979)
Farocki frequently chooses a single news photo as his pretext. In his film he explains convincingly that ‘learning from images’ is not so much a question of having power over the image or a consistent...
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Sohrab Shahid Saless – Dar Ghorbat AKA Far from Home (1975)
Quote:Husseyin (Parviz Sayyad), Turkish migrant workers, working in a factory in West Germany. Every day after work, he goes to his home with local subway, where he lives with workers from his country...
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William Klein – The Little Richard Story (1980)
SYNOPSIS:William Klein goes on the hunt for Little Richard, the legendary “Architect of Rock and Roll”, who quit show business in 1957 at the height of his fame to become an evangelist. Richard was...
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Werner W. Wallroth – Blutsbrüder AKA Blood Brothers (1975)
Blood Brothers (German: Blutsbrüder) is a 1975 East German western film directed by Werner W. Wallroth and starring Dean Reed, Gojko Mitic and Gisela Freudenberg. The film’s sets were designed by the...
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