Follows the 15-year-old, Heinz Stilke, a member of the Hitler Youth. Heinz is proud of his father, who died bravely for his fatherland, but suddenly learns that he himself is half Jewish. Heinz leaves his gymnasium and is forced to flee his classmates lest his secret be revealed.Read More »
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Michael Kann – Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn… AKA Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen (1987)
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Dominik Graf – Im Angesicht des Verbrechens aka In Face of the Crime (2010)
Dominik Graf2001-2010CrimeGermanyTV“In this epic-scale saga of life on both sides of the law, Max Riemelt plays Marek Grosky, a Russian Jew who immigrated to Germany in the 1920s. Grosky is one of a large number of Russians who have fled their homeland and settled in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. While Marek has become a police officer in Berlin, his sister Stella (Marie Baumer) is married to a high-ranking crime chieftain, and the cop finds himself caught between two worlds, torn between his devotion to duty and his ties to his family. As a war rages between criminal factions in Charlottenburg, Marek witnesses the death of his brother and falls for a Ukrainian woman who has been brought to Germany to work as a prostitute. Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (aka In Face Of The Crime) was originally created as a ten-part series for German television; it was later re-edited into a pair of feature-length films which were screened as part of the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival. “
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Antonio Skármeta – Ardiente paciencia AKA Burning Patience (1983)
1981-1990Antonio SkármetaArthouseDramaGermanyArdiente Paciencia, or El Cartero De Neruda, is a 1983 film directed by Antonio Skármeta. It was remade in 1994 as Il postino. It tells the story of Mario Jiménez, a fictional postman in Allende’s revolutionary-era Chile, who befriends the real-life poet Pablo Neruda in the years before Neruda’s death.Read More »
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Monika Treut – Die Jungfrauenmaschine AKA Virgin Machine (1988)
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Dorothee, a would-be writer and journalist, leaves Germany for the Oz of San Francisco, searching for her long-lost mother and a cure for the malady of love. Installed in the Tenderloin, she peeps in on neighbors’ bizarre sex rituals as well as does sightseeing of the more traditional kind. But encounters with male impersonator Ramona, charming Hungarian bohemian Dominique, and Susie Sexpert, barker for an all-girl strip show, lead to exploratory adventures of self-discovery and fun. When Dorothy surfaces like a dazzled tourist on the wilder shores of the city’s lesbian community, she has discovered her true sexuality and left some illusions behind. (Written by Monika Treut)Read More » -
Benjamin Quabeck – Verschwende deine Jugend AKA Play It Loud! (2003)
2001-2010Benjamin QuabeckComedyDramaGermanyThe year is 1981, the German New Wave is at the peak. Harry, otherwise Sparkasse trainee, wants to make it big as a manager of the band of his friends, Apollo Schwabing. He has booked the band as the opening act for a concert where the group DAF are the headliners.Read More »
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Ruth Beckermann – Waldheims Walzer AKA The Waldheim Waltz (2018) (HD)
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Peter Nestler – Pachamama – Unsere Erde AKA Pachamama: Our Land (1995)
1991-2000ArthouseDocumentaryGermanyPeter NestlerPachamama is another fine example of Peter Nestler’s extraordinary documentaries. He takes us on an expedition to Ecuador, to the heart of an ancient Indian culture. Although heavily damaged by the Spanish conquerors, many of the old treasures and, more remarkably, many of the old traditions and customs have survived and are still in practice today. It’s a film of quiet beauty and sadness, but of a sadness that is friendly and not bitter; a film about the cultural wealth of a fascinating country. (Ted Roth, -viennale.at)Read More »
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Werner Schroeter – Salome (1971)
1971-1980DramaGermanyTVWerner SchroeterShot in a Roman temple in Baalbek, Lebanon, based on Oscar Wilde’s play, this television film features the drama of Salome, who asks Herod for the head of John the Baptist, whom she loves and who rejected it.Read More »
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Werner Herzog & Denis Reichle – Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten AKA Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
1981-1990Denis ReichleDocumentaryGermanyWarWerner HerzogQuote:
Werner Herzog looks at the young soldiers who make up the Miskito Indian rebel army. The Indians are an abused minority who sided with the Sandinistas in the Nicaragua civil war. However once the Sandinistas won the Indians were once more an abused minority and had to fight once more for their rights.Read More »