This heady exercise in excess mixes the operatic passion of La Traviata, stylish decadence of Stroheim and Sternberg, and the macabre glee of Grand Guignol. Ingrid Caven plays Dietrich-like chanteuse stricken with CamilIe-like wasting disease. The disease seems to be arrested when a plump, wealthy young man (Peter Kern) develops a grand passion for her, but mortality raises its grinning skull again when she falls helplessly in love with another man. Jay Cocks in Time wrote, “La Paloma is a wonderful mad shotgun wedding of high camp movie mythology, bad taste, obsessive, romanticism, and impudent satire… Whatever it is, it certainly is some kind of fantastic movie.”Read More »
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Daniel Schmid – La Paloma (1974)
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Volker Schlöndorff – Die Stille nach dem Schuß AKA The Legend of Rita (2000)
Volker Schlöndorff1991-2000DramaGermanyQueer Cinema(s)RomanceDie Stille nach dem Schuss or The Silence after the Shot, known in English as The Legend of Rita, is a 2000 German film about fictionalised exiled West German radical left Red Army Faction members, though the fictional characters all have close parallels to several real-life RAF members. After a brief overview of the initial bank robberies of the 2nd of June Movement with the distribution of chocolate kisses as well as a disastrous prison break at the Westberliner Prison, the group flees, via the Friedrichstraße train station, into the German Democratic Republic.Read More »
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Dennis Gansel – Das Phantom AKA The Phantom (2000)
Dennis Gansel1991-2000GermanyThrillerAfter the partner of a policeman is killed he is drawn into a mysterious plot of conspiracy and terrorists.
Based on the book “Das RAF-Phantom”.Read More »
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Cuini Amelio-Ortiz – Margarethe von Trotta – Zeit der Frauen (2022)
2021-2030Cuini Amelio-OrtizDocumentaryGermanyMargarethe von Trotta is one of the few German female director icons and is internationally revered as a star director. In 2022 she will celebrate her 80th birthday. Her works are among the most important German films and have written German (film) history. Margarethe von Trotta asserted herself early on in a purely male domain. In 1981 she won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for “Die leaden time” and thus started her world career.Read More »
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Wim Wenders – Anselm – Das Rauschen der Zeit AKA Anselm (2023)
Wim Wenders2021-2030DocumentaryGermanyAnselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present diffuse the line between film and painting, thus giving a unique cinematic experience that dives deep into an artist’s work and reveals his life path.
4 wins, 7 nominations.Read More »
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Mark Cairns – Das Leben geht weiter AKA Life Goes On (2002)
2001-2010DocumentaryGermanyMark CairnsWarThe absurd and often surrealistic story of the last propaganda film of the Third Reich.Read More »
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Peter Stein/Peter Schönhofer/Thomas Grimm – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust (2001)
2001-2010ClassicsGermanyPerformancePeter SchönhoferPeter SteinThomas GrimmFaust I und II. By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Arena Treptow, Berlin. 16/17 December 2000.
It took Peter Stein more than ten years to realize his life-long dream of staging both parts of Goethe’s tragedy in an unabridged version. He finally succeeded in raising sufficient funds to hire an ensemble and, most importantly, to engage Bruno Ganz for the part of Faust. They had worked together before; early in both their careers Ganz played Tasso in Stein’s famous production at the Bremen Municipal Theatre in 1969 and Peer Gynt and the Prince of Homburg at the Berliner Schaubühne in 1971 and 1974 respectively. However, even though casting was settled, a series of disasters still seemed to haunt the production. Read More »
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Peter Welz – Banale Tage (1992)
1991-2000ComedyDramaGermanyPeter WelzQuote:
In East Berlin in the late 70s, two boys meet one evening in a disco: Thomas, who is from a working class family and is doing an apprenticeship, and Michael, a 16-year-old school pupil from an educated middle-class family. They both miss the tram home and walk together instead, ending up at Michael’s house where they discuss God and the world into the early hours. Following this encounter the two boys enter into an unusual friendship, united by their mutual desire to get away from the phoniness, the limitations and the restrictions of their parents and of society.Read More » -
Helke Misselwitz – Herzsprung (1992)
1991-2000DramaGermanyHelke MisselwitzQuote:
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 »