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In the little town of Herzsprung – whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts – almost nothing has changed since German unification, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, becomes one of the unemployed and lives on welfare. To make matters worse, she falls in love with a dark-skinned, roving adventurer and the whole village starts talking about it.Read More »
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Helke Misselwitz – Herzsprung (1992)
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Christian Weisenborn – Die Guten Feinde (2016)
2011-2020Christian WeisenbornDocumentaryGermanyAn intimate quest by a son to understand the identity of his father; a look back at the Berlin of the 30s and a special group of friends who loved life and, in the darkest hours of German history, ultimately chose good over evil.Read More »
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Florian Gallenberger – Grüner wird’s nicht, sagte der Gärtner und flog davon AKA As Green As It Gets (2018)
2011-2020AdventureComedyFlorian GallenbergerGermanyGeorg “Schorsch” Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town. When the owner of the local golf course tries to cheat Schorsch for his money, he grabs the control stick and flies away in an attempt to save his plane and himself.Read More »
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Jorgo Papavassiliou – Held der Gladiatoren (2003)
2001-2010ActionAdventureGermanyJorgo PapavassiliouAfter almost the whole family decimated by soldiers of the Roman Empire, the noble Germanus is captured as a slave. Humiliated and tortured by the mighty of Rome, he is obliged to endure the most terrible trials. In the bloody combat that wages as a gladiator in the Roman arenas, Germanus ends up losing his only brother, who dies in the hands of the cruel lakes. But Germanus will not give up and now will have to use all his spirit of struggle and leadership to command the masses against oppression towards freedom.Read More »
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Hans-Christian Schmid – Crazy (2000)
Hans-Christian Schmid1991-2000ArthouseDramaGermanyOn 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.
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Andrew Davies & André Schäfer – Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger (2010)
Andrew Davies2001-2010André SchäferDocumentaryGermanyTwenty five years after the death of Rock Hudson, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, biographers and movie historians discuss his career, his personal life and his death, all especially in relation to his closeted homosexuality. Born Roy Fitzgerald, Hudson treated who was known as “Rock Hudson” as being a studio creation that was somewhat outside himself. However, he sometimes was still “Rock Hudson: movie star” to those who knew him. Publicly, he had to maintain the façade of that creation, the public who saw in him a handsome, rugged, masculine yet likable and safe leading man and movie star. That façade included a short two-year marriage of convenience to Phyllis Gates. His movie career on the most part also supported that façade, especially when there was a foil of a more effeminate or nebbish male character playing against him. Read More »
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Ilker Çatak – Das Lehrerzimmer AKA The Teachers’ Lounge (2023)
Ilker Çatak2021-2030DramaGermanyWhen one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.Read More »
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Wolfgang Becker – Ich und Kaminski AKA Me and Kaminski (2015)
Wolfgang Becker2011-2020ComedyDramaGermanyIn this tragicomic road movie, unsuccessful young journalist Sebastian Zöllner (Daniel Brühl) is writing an article on the legendary but almost forgotten painter Manuel Kaminski. As Zöllner misuses the reclusive Kaminski under the guise of helping him reconnect with his lost love, Zöllner’s ulterior motive becomes obvious – the sooner Kaminski dies, the sooner he can cash in on the article and become famous. But misuse can be a two-way street – the elderly Kaminski doesn’t mind having someone pay his way to travel throughout Europe, thus escaping the control of his overbearing daughter Miriam. Based on world-renowned Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann’s novel of the same name, this art industry satire highlights the emptiness of blatant self-promotion while taking the audience on a true adventure.Read More »
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Matti Geschonneck – In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts AKA In Times of Fading Light (2017)
2011-2020ComedyDramaGermanyMatti GeschonneckA family of German Communists caught on the wrong side of history.Read More »