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Klaus Wildenhahn – John Cage (1966)
This rare documentary, simply called “John Cage”, was made in 1966 for the German TV station NDR and is one of the earliest films devoted entirely to the work of Cage and his collaborators. It was...
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Alan Vydra – Happening AKA Les soumises (1981)
Carolyn Grace has an older husband who insists she wear very old-fashioned night clothes and is obviously unexciting in bed. She has lots of fantasies, triggered by chance events and encounters....
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Hans H. König – Rosen blühen auf dem Heidegrab AKA Roses Bloom on the Grave...
In a small German village in the middle of large moors, there is an old legend of a young woman having sunk in the wetland after being raped by a Swedish intruder of the Thirty Years’ war. Now young...
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Melanie Waelde – Nackte Tiere AKA Naked Animals (2020)
Quote:Katja, Sascha, Benni, Laila and Schöller. These five young people have more in common than just the fact that they are living in provincial Germany free of parental interference. They have one...
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Gustav Trautschold – Ilse und ihre drei Freier AKA Ilse and Her Three Suitors...
Ilse/Elza (Alice Hechy) is into a local painter but her father wants her to marry Count van Trutwitz or some American.Two of her friends pretend to be these would-be suitors with intentionally...
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Philip Koch – Play (2019)
Seventeen-year-old Jennifer recently moved to a new city with her parents, but finds no connection with her new classmates. The dreamy and in social interaction with others insecure and shy girl...
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Matthias Luthardt – Pingpong (2006)
Quote:The German middle class takes another drubbing in novice helmer Matthias Luthardt’s pingpong, a chamber piece with four characters full of unspoken needs that rarely bursts with the kind of...
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Georg C. Klaren – Wozzeck (1947)
Plot:The body of Franz Wozzeck lies on a table in an anatomy lecture of a small German university. Whereas the doctor in charge of dissecting the cadaver can only see the murdered corpse lying on the...
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Willi Forst – Mazurka (1935)
Quote:A female cabaret singer is put on trial for murdering a predatory musician. Wikipedia wrote:Warner Brothers Studios acquired the U.S. distribution rights but shelved the film in favor of its own...
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Hans Steinhoff – Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen...
Young Heini Volker has a problem. His unemployed father demands he joins Berlin’s young communists. But his heart belongs to the Hitler Youth. As violence escalates between these camps, Heini’s...
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Rüdiger Neumann – Rüdiger Neumann – Archiv der Blicke (1980-1993)
Quote:Rüdiger Neumann is a filmmaker and professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg whose teaching has influenced two generations of filmmakers, many of whom now play an active role in...
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Shu Lea Cheang – Fluidø (2017)
EXPLICIT CONTENTIt is the year 2060 and AIDS has been eradicated. However, in some, the HIV virus has now mutated into a gene from which a drug can be produced that has become the white powder of the...
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Siegfried Kühn – Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow (1973)
SYNOPSISFriedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow worked for the railways his entire working life. He took up service at the small station of Luege 34 years ago. Now, the line is to be electrified and Platow,...
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Christoph Schlingensief – My Wife in 5 (1985)
Quote:Between Broadway act, classical music and operetta – cinema never came that close to the good old mixtape! In MY WIFE IN FIVE, Schlingensief composes tracks and takes to a shimmering cinematic...
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Jürgen Böttcher – Der Sekretär AKA The Secretary (1967)
Quote:Presentation of a commited State Party (Socialist Unity Party of Germany) secretary at the Chemicals Combine in Buna. A former miner and small farmer rises to a leading political position –...
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Hans Rolf Strobel & Heinrich Tichawsky – Notizen aus dem Altmühltal aka Notes...
A sociological essay on a Bavarian region where the economic miracle is left out. The documentary emphasises the declining populations due to migration and notes how such places come with “a lot of...
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Douglas Sirk – Schlußakkord AKA The Final Chord (1936)
Plot:A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, Hanna...
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Frank Beyer – Bockshorn (1984)
SynopsisTwo adolescents, Sauly and Mick, get to know each other while hitchhiking and stick together for the long haul. They both want to reach the ocean, which is some thousand kilometers away. An...
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Kurt Jung-Alsen – Betrogen bis zum jüngsten Tag AKA Duped Till Doomsday (1957)
Synopsis:‘It is June 1941 and a company of German soldiers is stationed near the Lithuanian border. While on leave, three soldiers – Wagner, Lick and Paulun – go off on a hunting trip. All is fine...
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Franz-Josef Spieker – Süden im Schatten aka South in the Shade (1962)
Part of DVD release Die “Oberhausener” – Provokation der Wirklichkeit (Provoking Reality)Edition Filmmuseum 69 Oberhausen Manifesto 1962:28.2.1962 The collapse of conventional German film has finally...
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