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  • Philipp Döring – Nagel zum Sarg aka The Nail (2012)

    2011-2020DramaGermanyPhilipp DöringShort Film

    The film is set in Berlin in 1965. Τhe old woman welcomes the Commissioner at her doorstep with the words “I have been waiting for you for 30 years”. She has been maintaining for years the grave, where now by accident, this skull was found. The skull, has a rusty nail in it. In a long monologue, the woman confesses for the first time, her tragic life story.Read More »

  • Claus Bredenbrock – Pier Paolo Pasolinis Reisen durch Italien AKA Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey (2018)

    2011-2020Claus BredenbrockDocumentaryGermanyPier Paolo Pasolini

    The documentary retraces Pier Paolo Pasolini’s journey along the coast of Italy in 1959. His reportage was published on the magazine “Successo” alongside the pictures of photographer Paolo di Paolo, who had the original idea of the trip.Read More »

  • Franz Marischka – L’uomo dal pennello d’oro (1969)

    1961-1970ComedyFranz MarischkaGermany

    Edwige Fenech plays the girlfriend of beatnik-hippy artist Archie (Willi Colombini). Throughout the film Edwige is either having her body painted during a hippy party, posing naked for Archie or seducing other men. All is not fun and games for Edwige though after another hippy girl (Marcella Michelangeli) has her eyes on Archie.Read More »

  • Walter Heynowski – Aktion J (1961)

    Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtDocumentaryGermanyWalter Heynowski

    Quote:
    Compilation film, tracing the political career of Dr. Hans Globke, allegedly a former Nazi, now Secretary of State in West Germany.

    Included in Amos Vogel’s classic book Film as a Subversive Art.Read More »

  • Thomas Arslan – Geschwister – Kardesler (1997)

    1991-2000DramaGermanyThomas ArslanTurkey

    Thomas Arslan’s second feature film and part of his Berlin-trilogy is a slow-paced milieu study of German-Turkish youth in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The film depicts the every day life, domestic conflicts, dreams and disappointments of three siblings and their aimless, meandering strolls through the Kreuzberg district. The family itself encapsulates the culture clash that is at the centre of many German-Turkish films. In Arslan’s film, the mother is German, the father is Turkish and the children have to make up their own minds about their cultural allegiances. Seventeen-year-old Leyla tries to escape from her family by spending most of her time with her best friend Sevim. Read More »

  • Michael Curtiz – Fiaker Nr. 13 aka Cab Nr.13 (1926)

    1921-1930GermanyMichael CurtizSilentWeimar Republic cinema

    IMDB User Reviews
    20 April 2004 | by bullybyte (United Kingdom)

    *** This review may contain spoilers ***

    SPOILERS!! The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife.Read More »

  • Chris Kraus – Scherbentanz AKA Shattered Glass (2002)

    2001-2010Chris KrausDramaGermany

    Plot:
    Written and directed by newcomer Chris Kraus, this German art-house family drama centers around the eccentric Jesko (Jürgen Vogel), who, despite his debilitating condition, – he is dying of cancer and only his mother’s bone-marrow could save him – makes a visit to his father, Gebhard (Dietrich Hollinderbaumer), and brother, Ansgar (Peter Davor), on the day that Ansgar is scheduled to take over the family company. What Jesko doesn´t know, is that his mother, who went insane 20 years ago, ran away and got drug addicted, was found and brought back.
    Interesting plot, beautiful photography, well-written dialogue, well-developed characters.Read More »

  • Hans-Christian Schmid – Crazy (2000)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaGermanyHans-Christian Schmid

    On his fifth attempt at boarding school, young Benni has one last
    chance to prove to his parents he can function in the academic world, and, most importantly, pass math. But Benni has other concerns; he is partially paralyzed and struggling with typical teenage issues – making friends, falling in love and having sex. When his mother decides to move him to yet another school, Benni must decide whether to make a stand for what truly matters to him. Based on an autobiographical novel by Benjamin Lebert, Crazy has earned Schmid great praise for its honest portrait of teenage life.Read More »

  • Bruce La Bruce – Ulrike’s Brain (2017)

    2011-2020Bruce LaBruceComedyDramaGermanyQueer Cinema(s)

    Doctor Julia Pfeiffer has the brain of the radical leftwing activist Ulrike Meinhof stored away in a box. Her rival, the extreme rightwing ideologist Detlev Schlesinger, is in possession of the remains of Michael Kühnen, a neo-Nazi gay who died of AIDS. What will happen when these characters meet? A little big provocation directed by the inimitable Bruce LaBruce.Read More »

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