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41) Jerichow
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Türkçe
Description
In a small desolate town in northeastern Germany, a handsome ex-soldier, a Turkish businessman, and his beautiful, restless wife find themselves in a desperate love triangle in this suspenseful reworking of classic film noir *The Postman Always Rings Twice* from acclaimed director Christian Petzold. Nominated for a Golden Lion at the **Venice Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*JERICHOW a compact and...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lola manages her personal life with the same ruthless efficiency she uses to succeed in the business world. She keeps her relationship with her boss Elise a secret, as well as the existence of her older sister Conny, who has a long history of mental illness. But when she receives the news that Conny has attempted suicide, Lola's secrets begin to unravel into the workplace. As she tries to do what's best for her sister without jeopardizing all that...
43) Silent Country
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A young, naive and enthusiastic director comes to a provincial town in East Germany to put on Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the local theater. Although the lethargic company shows no interest in the play, he remains undaunted. Meanwhile it is fall 1989 and far away in the capital a revolution is taking place. This gentle comedy is the debut film of renowned German director Andreas Dresen. Silent Country took the 1993 International Film Festival...
44) Heart of Glass
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A small village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Deutsch
Description
I WAS AT HOME, BUT... tells the story of Astrid (Maren Eggert), a forty-something mother of two, struggling to regain her balance in the wake of her husband's death. Her adolescent son Phillip (Jakob Lassalle) disappeared for a week and now that he has returned, he faces disciplinary action at school and his toe requires amputation. As new questions confront Astrid from every angle, even simple activities like buying a bicycle or engaging with a work...
46) Re-Animator
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
47) Nudar
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Deutsch
Description
NUDAR is a Syrian woman who arrived in Germany to pursue her career as a doctor. During the filming, she turns the camera on Rand Beiruty, the filmmaker, creating a dialogue between them.
48) Piglets
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Two guys, a grandmother and two piglets in a surrealistic atmosphere. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Outfest Film Festival.**
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
Deutsch
Description
After he gets out of jail, Hoffi is looking for a fresh start. He wants to find Urban, a role model of sorts that he met during a brief hospital stay. Along the way, Hoffi meets a young woman, Gila, who is willing to overlook his past. Despite her family's disapproval, Gila decides to build a life with Hoffi, but initially he balks at the responsibility. Thanks to the encouragement of his brigade members, Hoffi realizes his mistake and decides to...
50) Perpetuum
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A ball goes its way in this experimental animated short.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The Gleiwitz case reconstructs in detail the 1939 surprise attack by a Nazi unit on the radio station in Gleiwitz, a German town on the Polish border. This attack was blamed on Polish forces, thus served as Hitler's justification for marching into Poland and starting WWII. It shows how facts and opinions can be manipulated and how people are made to accept lies, murder and war. To depict fascism, director Gerhard Klein and his Czech cameraman, Jan...
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In this experimental short, Lutz Dammbeck relocates his Leipzig-based artists' circle, known as the Herbstsalon (Autumn Salon), to La Sarraz Palace in Switzerland. In 1929, La Sarraz was the site of a legendary congress held by leading European avant-garde filmmakers-including Sergei Eisenstein, Béla Balázs, Ivor Montagu, Hans Richter and Walter Ruttmann-who wished to create an independent cinema as a forum for discussing issues such as elitist...
54) Bär (Bear)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A grandchild recounts his grandfather's difficult past and the burden of his own inheritance. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Shorts at the **Indianapolis International Film Festival**.
55) (Null)
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An unknown girl breaks out of her daily grind by undergoing an intense audio-visual trip. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
56) Zing
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Day in, day out, Mr. Grimm is busy with his job as the Reaper, harvesting people's lives. One day, his monotonous existence is interrupted by the door bell. It's a little girl. She wants her cat back. Little does she know that she's the next life on Mr. Grimm's list... **Sitges Film Festival** nominee for Best Animated Short Film.
57) Stroszek
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Bruno STROSZEK is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and beaten by the thugs who have been Eva's pimps, they join Bruno's neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin. In that winter bound, barren prairie,...
58) Munchhausen
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting, and a rich color palette, supervised by cameraman Konstantin Irmen-Tschet, who had worked for Fritz Lang in earlier Ufa films.
59) Angst
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Erwin Leder (*Schindler's List*) plays a maniacal killer based on the real-life serial murderer Werner Kniesek. ANGST is a gorgeously stylized and shockingly visceral experience: a forgotten classic on the fringes of the slasher cycle. "*The rarest masterpiece of cinema.*" - **Gaspar Noé**
60) Love's Confusion
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Sonya, an art student, loves the med student Dieter. And Siegi, a factory worker, loves the bricklayer Eddie. At a lavish Carnival party at East Berlin's art school an unintentional exchange of partners begins. When everyone takes off their masks, Dieter realizes that he did not spend the evening with Sonya, but with Siegi! Director Slatan Dudow, a collaborator of Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler, was a celebrated DEFA director, yet East German officials...
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