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Unknown – Der Heimat Schützengraben AKA Our Homeland’s Trenches (1916)
Der Heimat Schützengraben (1916) Felicity Rash wrote:During the war years, film developed as a novel and effective vehicle for primary and secondary war propaganda. Visual images of a heroic Self and...
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Manfred Vosz – Stadtführer Für Bonn Und Umgebung AKA Guidebook to Bonn and...
Stadtführer Für Bonn Und Umgebung (1969) Quote:Inspired by Thorndike’s similar East German films,this is a carefully researched, professionally executedindictment of the West German government...
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Rudolf Thome – Venus Talking AKA Venus im Netz (2001)
Venus Talking (2001) The internet is an integral part of Rudolf Thome’s feature, VENUS TALKING. Novellist Venus lives with her family out of Berlin and moves temporarily to the city where she is...
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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – Werk ohne Autor AKA Never Look Away (2018)
Werk ohne Autor (2018) German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime. Werk ohne Autor (2018)...
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Helga Reidemeister – Von wegen Schicksal AKA Is This Fate? (1979)
Von wegen Schicksal (1979) PLOT: Irene Rakowitz, aged 48, is a divorced mother of four, who lives with her two youngest children in West Berlin’s Märkisches Viertel public housing district, surviving...
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Kurt Barthel – Fräulein Schmetterling AKA Miss Butterfly (1966)
Fräulein Schmetterling (1966) A poetic, modern fairy-tale about the desire for personal fulfilment: Following their father′s death, 18-year-old Helene and her little sister have to adjust to the...
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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – San Domingo (1970)
San Domingo (1970) “This surrealistic experimental film finds the son of a young nobleman staying with hash-smoking hippies in a seamy section of Munich. He falls for a hippie girl who is involved in...
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Sophie Linnenbaum – The Ordinaries (2022)
The Ordinaries (2022) In a repressive three class-society, Paula, a simple Supporting Character, is about to face the most important test of her life: she has to prove she deserves to be a Lead. She...
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Andreas Voigt – Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung (1994)
Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung (1994) This film follows some extremely right-wing teenagers in Leipzig, Germany, over a period of one year (1992/1993). It portrays what they think about belief, love and hope...
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Rudolf Thome – Die Sonnengöttin AKA The Sun Goddess (1993)
Die Sonnengöttin (1993) An American film-critic flies to Berlin to investigate about the life of German filmmaker F. W. Murnau. After meeting his former girlfriend, a painter, and finding a statue...
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Annekatrin Hendel – Schönheit & Vergänglichkeit AKA Beauty & Decay (2019)
Schönheit & Vergänglichkeit (2019) “Beauty and decay” is a documentary about three rebels, who shine even brighter than the rest of the vibrating East Berlin boheme of the 80ies: Sven Marquardt,...
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Titus Selge – Unterwerfung (2018)
Unterwerfung (2018) Paris 2022. François is a literary scholar and drinker. His relationships with women are limited to one year, his life is sufficiently happy. Until the day when charismatic Muslim...
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Peter Lilienthal – David (1979) (HD)
David (Mario Fische) is the son of a German rabbi during the early days of the Holocaust. The boy is a horrified witness to the burning of his father’s synagogue and the humiliation of his relatives...
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Ula Stöckl – Neun Leben hat die Katze AKA The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968)
Neun Leben hat die Katze (1968) Three women, a journalist, her French friend and a pop singer, deal with life, career, desire, sex and personal fantasies....
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Peter Schamoni – Hundertwassers Regentag (1971)
Hundertwassers Regentag (1971) Hundertwasser the painter is portrayed in this international prize winning film. The life and works of the artist are woven into a fascinating, enchanting visual...
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Rudolf Thome – Die Versöhnung (1964)
Die Versöhnung (1964) Synopsis:A man bored with his wife goes to the Munich Oktoberfest. He meets a pregnant student who discusses the problems of bourgeois marriage with him and finally returns home...
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Viola Shafik – Jannat ‘Ali AKA My Name Is Not Ali (2011)
Jannat ‘Ali (2011) Viola Shafik’s documentary explores the story of El Hedi ben Salem, a lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Quote:‘My Name Is Not Ali’ is...
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Sven Taddicken – Mein Bruder, der Vampir aka My Brother, the Vampire (2001)
Mein Bruder, der Vampir (2001) A fifteen year-old girl experiencing the first pangs of womanhood accompanies her mentally retarded brother as he begins to experience his sexual awakening in this...
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Brigitte Kramer – Ulrike Ottinger – Die Nomadin vom See AKA Ulrike Ottinger –...
Ulrike Ottinger Die Nomadin vom See (2012) Quote:The filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has made a name for herself with her unique feature films and documentaries, such as Madame X – Eine absolute Herrscherin...
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Thomas Arslan – Ferien aka Vacation (2007)
Ferien (2007) SynopsisFerien (Vacation, 2007) was perhaps the festival’s best German feature. Thomas Arslan’s latest outlines the strained composition of a family and the disintegration of a marriage,...
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