Germany

Two teens, Sauly and Mick, both want to reach the ocean, and then they were approached by a man who told Sauly he had sold his guardian angel. The boys do not really believe in guardian angels or is it possible they are such things?Read More »

The Future of Emily (Flügel und Fasseln) is the work of Helma Sanders-Brahms, one of the original New German Cinema directors of the early 1970s. Unlike some of her more caustic films about the German experience, this is a relatively conventional drama of generational jealousy and bitterness, a picture that could well be a stage play. It’s also reminiscent of American movies about strong women in conflict, pitting famous German star Hildegard Knef against French actress Brigitte Fossey. Knef’s big break came with the very first post-war German success The Murderers Are Among Us. Fossey’s best-known picture remains René Clément’s Forbidden Games, where she played a Parisian tot orphaned by the war. The film’s original German title translates as “Wings and Shackles”, which apparently refers to the predicament of its movie star heroine Isabelle, a woman adored by fans but hobbled by family disapproval.Read More »

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A journalist from Munich brings revelations in a boulevard magazine about the trafficking in drugs in that city.

Ein Journalist will in einem Boulevardblatt die Hintergründe des Kokainhandels in München aufdecken. Die Drogenmafia ermordet seine Freundin und seine Eltern. Auch der Reporter bezahlt seinen Alleingang mit dem Leben.Read More »

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A former bank clerk conceives a one-man robbery at the bank he works. He had before established an alibi for himself pretending and declaring him legally dead. Further complications ensue when he rejoins his estranged wife.Read More »

The film follows two mountain enthusiasts, battling through a glacier areain the Swiss mountains, the sublime beauty of the film is effectively staged.The attention will be paid equally to the contemplation of nature, such as theMountain sports on his then latest technical standard And it&’s also about a newform of natural experience thanks to the film and cinema technology that enablesa wide audience to look at then still little-known mountain tops for the first timeRead More »

In The Life And Art Of Ernest Ludwig Kirchner, director Michael Trabitzsch boldly braids together the disparate strands of the Austrian Expressionist’s life and work–combining color with black and white photography, third person narration with first person confessions from Kirchner’s own notebooks, and an angular jazz score with the melodies of Kirchner’s day. “We claim as our own everyone who reproduces directly and without falsification whatever it is that drives him to create.” These words, carved into wood and hung in 1904 at the butcher shop group studio of Die Brucke (“the bridge”) by their author, Kirchner, were a credo that drove the artist and his work well beyond the life of the famed Dresden art collective. Read More »

The film tells the story of the blond “singing sailor” Hannes Kröger who works in a St. Pauli club on the Große Freiheit 7, and falls in love with a girl. But she prefers his rival Willem and Hannes returns to the sea.Read More »

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JEWELS is an early example of the visual fascination of dark Vienna. The film was released in 1930 as one of the last silent films under the powerful title SENSATION IM DIAMANTENCLUB. The screenplay was based on motifs from Hoffmann’s story ‘Das Fräulein von Scuderi’ (1819), which is considered the first crime story in German. Director Hans Brückner mixes some elements of the genre in his crime film, the palette ranges from classic ‘Whodunit’ to detective to elements of horror film, focuses on shadows, lighting effects, cross-fading according to German and drastic wrestling matches based on the American pattern. As a ‘modern’ script idea, the dissociative movement disorder, i.e. the psychological paralysis of a victim in shock, impresses a motif that will later prove to be indispensable for the horror repertoire. (Letterboxd)Read More »

On a trip to the Aegean, Maria D., who lives withdrawn and is shy of people, is confronted with the impressions of an archaic culture. Fascinated by the morbidity and religiosity of the people living on a Cycladic island, she decides to put an end to her loneliness.Read More »