Cristina Perincioli – Für Frauen. 1. Kapitel AKA For Women Chapter 1 (1972)
Quote:Equal pay for equal work! Four female employees at a West Berlin supermarket, who feel heavy pressure both at work and at home, go on strike to demand the same salary that their male colleague...
View ArticleHerbert Achternbusch – Servus Bayern aka Bye-Bye Bavaria! (1977)
Achternbusch, poet, poacher, and Bavarian wants to leave his native land.Quote:In this somewhat experimental satirical black comedy, a renowned and sensitive poet and writer is fed up with the...
View ArticleEugen York – Der Greifer AKA The Copper (1958)
Synopsis:‘Otto Friedrich Dennert a veteran of the Essen police force is known as “The Grabber” for his unconventional methods. While investigating a series of killins of women he reaches retirement...
View ArticlePaul Cox – Touch Me (1993)
Synopsis:Two woman, the elder in her early forties. the younger in her twenties. They are good friends. The older woman. Sarah, is an artist, a painter, who has first and foremost found solace and...
View ArticleDito Tsintsadze – Eine Erotische Geschichte AKA An Erotic Tale (2002)
Ernest Hemingway wrote his Parisian stories on the table of a sidwalk café. Niko prefers to pen his Berlin tales on the counter of a funky bar behind the shark tank. What better place for a writer to...
View ArticleBob Rafelson – Wet (1995)
SynopsisA huge bath showroom. Brass fixtures along the walls, sink and showers, enameled toilets, jacuzzi tubs, steam showers, all polished and gleaming. Saleswomen and salesmen move uneasily amongst...
View ArticleKen Russell – The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch (1993)
SynopsisThe woman, in her thirties, stands gazing out to sea. The man, a rather studious type, lounges on the grass and finds the woman fascinating. The woman passes closely by without a glance in his...
View ArticleSusan Seidelman – The Dutch Master (1994)
Synopsis:Teresa, a young dental hygenist from Brooklyn in her twenties, is about to marry Joey, a traffic cop. A few weeks before her wedding, while eating lunch on the steps of the Metropolitan...
View ArticleNicolas Roeg – Hotel Paradise (1995)
A beautiful woman wakes up with a hangover in the bridal suite of a luxury hotel. And finds herself handcuffed to a naked man. Remembering this is her wedding day, it is a shock to discover the man...
View ArticleHal Hartley – Kimono (2000)
SynopsisA hot summer day on a country road. A young woman in her bridal dress gets kicked out of a car. Lost and frustrated, she wanders off across a sea of grass into a dark wood – and discovers an...
View ArticleWerner Klingler – Spion für Deutschland AKA Spy for Germany (1956)
In 1944, Nazi agent Erich Gimpel is summoned by a German general staff that knows it is about to lose the war. This loyal officer is given a last chance mission: to go to the United States to spy on...
View ArticleDani Levy & Maria Schrader – Meschugge (1998)
Quote:Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena’s mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying...
View ArticleHelga Fanderl – Konstellationen AKA Constellations (2013)
Quote:“By editing in the camera every subject matter finds a cinematic form and rhythm of its own. Transforming fragments of real life experience in a specific moment and place, every individual film...
View ArticleHerbert Achternbusch – Der Neger Erwin AKA The Negro Erwin (1981)
A man is released from prison. He is planning to pick up his old craft, filmmaking. A reporter follows him to a tavern called Der Neger Erwin (The Negro Erwin). 353MB | 1h 28m | 640×480 | mkv...
View ArticleWalter Krüttner – Es muß ein Stück vom Hitler sein aka It Must Be a Piece of...
Part of DVD release Die “Oberhausener” – Provokation der Wirklichkeit (Provoking Reality)Edition Filmmuseum 69Quote:Oberhausen Manifesto 1962:28.2.1962 The collapse of conventional German film has...
View ArticleMarc Rothemund – Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur...
German romantic comedy set in Munich, featuring Christoph Waltz in one of his early leading roles. SUMMARYA comedy centering on the lives of eight Germans who long for sexual excitement. Depressed...
View ArticleArnold Fanck & Georg Wilhelm Pabst – Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü AKA The...
The White Hell of Piz Palü opens with the male protagonist, Dr. Johannes Krafft, who mountain climbs with his wife on their honeymoon. At the sight of an avalanche, he laughs arrogantly. Nature seems...
View ArticleHans-Jürgen Pohland – Bürger Grass AKA Citizen Grass (1965)
Bürger Grass – BRD 1965 – Drehbuch und Regie: Hansjürgen Pohland – Musik: Horst Geldmacher – Mit: Günter Grass, Willy Brandt – Produktion: Modern Art Film Documentary short film in which we see...
View ArticlePeter Schamoni – Moskau ruft! aka Moscow Is Calling! (1959)
12′ – West Germany 1959 – Directed and written by: Peter Schamoni – Cinematography by: Jost VacanoMusic by: Occamstreet Footwarmers – Produced by: Schongerfilm A film made secretly in Moscow by Peter...
View ArticleLeni Riefenstahl – Tiefland (1954)
After spending the 1930s as the Third Reich’s principal cinematic chronicler, Leni Riefenstahl returned to fictional films with Tiefland. According to Riefenstahl, she had refused to make any more...
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