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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Der amerikanische Soldat AKA American Soldier (1970)
Quote:The German-born American GI Ricky (Karl Scheydt) returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s experimental noir is a subversive,...
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Werner Herzog – Letzte Worte AKA Last Words (1968)
Quote:The story of a solitary man who refuses to leave a Greek island (at one time a leper colony) is told by a strange variety of characters who don’t have much to say except to repeat their tellings...
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Gerd Kroske – Heino Jaeger – Look Before You Kuck (2012)
Quote: The German painter and cabaret artist Heino Jaeger was once a celebrated radio star. The radio recordings “Fragen Sie Dr. Jaeger/ Ask Dr. Jaeger” achieved cult status in the 70s. Nevertheless,...
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Andreas Voigt – Alfred (1986)
In “Alfred”, his final film at the film school Potsdam-Babelsberg, the documentaryist Andreas Voigt portrays the 76-year old Leipzig communist Alfred Florstedt, whom he had met just before his death...
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Hans Steinbichler – Winterreise AKA Winter Journey (2006)
Synopsis:A diagnosed manic-depressive whose impulsive behavior only serves to further isolate him from his increasingly irritated family and friends, Franz Brenninger (Josef Bierbichler) is a...
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Peter Nestler – Die Römerstraße im Aostatal AKA The Roman Street in the Aosta...
Quote: Today, the «Römerstrasse» in Italy’s Aosta valley, is a significant traffic artery in the center of modern Europe. Nestler’s journey explores the moving history of the Aosta valley, which...
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Nicole Vögele – Closing Time (2018)
Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city’s sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. Until one morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo...
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Luise Donschen – Ganze Tage zusammen AKA Entire Days Together (2020)
A young girl is cured of her epilepsy just as summer vacation is about to begin. During her last days with her classmates, she’ll come to experience life in a new way. Arranged as a series of...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982)
Quote:Rainer Werner Fassbinder premiered “Veronika Voss” in February 1982, at the Berlin Film Festival. It was hailed as one of the best of his 40 films. Late on the night of June 9, 1982, he made a...
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Kornél Mundruczó – Evolution (2021)
Quote:Episodes trace three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history....
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Theodoros Angelopoulos – Meres tou ’36 AKA Days of ’36 (1972)
Quote:In 1936, the balance between centrist and right-wing political forces that support the Metaxas regime is undermined by the hostage-taking of lawyer and right-wing MP Kontaxis. In a square, a...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Martha (1974)
A single woman in her early thirties, Martha (Margit Carstensen) is on vacation with her father in Rome when he has a heart attack and falls down dead. She reacts rather indifferently and returns home...
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Gerd Kroske – Kehraus (1990)
SynopsisThe first in a three-part trilogy from director Gerd Kroske. 1990, KEHRAUS on the streets of Leipzig at night: street sweepers clean away what nobody needs anymore. Among many other things...
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Werner Herzog – Lebenszeichen AKA Signs of Life (1968)
“A soldier is assigned to guard a fortress on a remote Greek island and finds himself unable to cope with the crushing boredom of the task in this interesting drama, an early film by renowned-director...
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Henrika Kull – Glück AKA Bliss (2021)
In a world where their femininity is considered a commodity, two sex workers fall in love with each other. Together – and yet each on her own – they experience the one moment when happiness seems...
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Gerhard Lamprecht – Einmal eine große Dame sein AKA Just Once A Great Lady...
Quote:People on Sunday. Kitty Holm’s girlfriends dream of men and clothes. But Kitty, a salesgirl in a car showroom has bigger dreams – she wants to be a great lady. On Monday, Kitty manages to sell a...
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Alexander Kluge – Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos AKA Artists Under...
Synopsis: The circus artist Leni Peickert is planning the circus of the future. She wants to show the animals authentically, and not dressed up as people. In face of the inhuman situation, the artists...
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Wim Wenders – Same Player Shoots Again (1968)
Quote:„SCHAUPLÄTZE was my first short film. But it got lost somehow. However, two leftover shots remained and became the first two shots of SAME PLAYER SHOOTS AGAIN. They form some kind of prelude....
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Werner Herzog – Die beispiellose Verteidigung der Festung Deutschkreutz AKA...
Quote:Four guys break into an old castle and find uniforms and military equipment. They then prepare to defend it from an imaginary enemy. 307MB | 15m 30s | 766×576 | mkv...
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Werner Herzog – Woyzeck (1979)
Quote:Everything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But Woyzeck, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices — the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, Woyzeck is a...
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