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The former owner of a craftsman’s business, Wolfgang Kunert, who has been unemployed for a long time, is waiting at the job agency. When it is his turn after four hours of waiting time, which Heidi Ganz, the agency responsible for him, cannot offer him any work and points out his misconduct in general, he loses his nerves. He pulls out a gun and takes Mrs. Ganz hostageRead More »
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Margarethe von Trotta – Tatort: Unter uns (2007)
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Josef von Báky – Münchhausen AKA The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943)
1941-1950AdventureFantasyGermanyJosef von BákyThird Reich CinemaThis 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.Read More »
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Erich Engels & Fyodor Otsep – Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff (1931)
1931-1940DramaErich EngelsFyodor OtsepGermanyWeimar Republic cinemaPlot Synopsis
This is a stripped down (but still excellent) version of “The Brothers Karamazov.” Young Dimitri Karamasoff, on leave from the army, returns home to ask his father for money to get married. When he arrives he finds that his father has become smitten with a young woman of extremely questionable character named Gruschenka. His father gruffly rebuffs Dimitri’s request for money. Dimitri immediately seeks out his fathers lover to demand that she break off the engagement. Things get a bit more complicated when his anger towards her turns to infatuation – and eventually obsession. Dimitri and his father are both mad for Gruschenka, but she doesn’t want anything from either of them – except their money. Things come to a head when the old man is found murdered. Did Dimitri really commit patricide? Or is there more to the story?Read More » -
Michael Klier – Der Riese (1984)
1981-1990DocumentaryExperimentalGermanyMichael KlierDer Riese (The Giant), 1983
by Harun Farocki[Harun Farocki gave the following introduction at a screening of Michael Klier’s Der Riese as part of the #VIDEOTAPES series at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in January 2014. Special thanks to the N.B.K. for their permission to reproduce the following text for ERC’s screening of Der Riese on April 29th, 2015 at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz. Translated by Fjoder Donderer. Edited by Ekrem Serdar and Jennifer Stob.]Read More »
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Klaus Lemke – Brandstifter (1969)
1961-1970DramaGermanyKlaus LemkeA drama set in Cologne’s revolutionary circles of the late 1960s.
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Die in der außerparlamentarischen Opposition aktive Studentin Anka hat vonfolgenlosen Diskussionen die Nase voll.Da sie nicht mehr daran glaubt, mit Worten allein die Welt verändern zu können, plant sie eine militante Aktion: Aus Protest gegen den Vietnam-Krieg deponiert sie eine Bombe in einem Kölner Kaufhaus, um die Öffentlichkeit zur Auseinandersetzung zu zwingen.Read More »
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Rosa von Praunheim – Männer, Helden, schwule Nazis aka Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis (2005)
2001-2010DocumentaryGermanyPoliticsQueer Cinema(s)Rosa von PraunheimA German documentary by Rosa von Praunheim that looks at gay men with hard-core right wing views, Men, Heroes and Gay Nazis gives the impression of being documentary dynamite. ‘Some may be shocked that I do not take a stand in my film and do not portray gay neo-Nazis as monsters, but as people living their lives in dramatic contradiction’. (sneersnipe.co.uk)Read More »
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Rosa von Praunheim – Die Jungs vom Bahnhof Zoo AKA Rent Boys (2011)
2011-2020DocumentaryDramaGermanyQueer Cinema(s)Rosa von PraunheimThis German documentary explores the history of hustler culture at Bahnhof Zoo train station, an unofficial meeting place for male prostitutes from the world over. The film discusses hustler world with male escorts both current and retired about their personal experiences, and discovers surprising undercurrents of strength and compassion. ~ Cammila CollarRead More »
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Peer Raben – Heute spielen wir den Boß (1981)
1981-1990ComedyGermanyPeer RabenFilm extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.
Starring some of RWF’s familiar cast and himself in an uncredited mini-role.Read More »
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Hans Fischerkoesen – Das dumme Gänslein AKA Silly Goose (1945)
1941-1950AnimationGermanyHans FischerkoesenShort FilmThird Reich CinemaA silly goose falls under the spell of a bad wolf, but all the other animals unite in helping her.Read More »