Here we have a fascinating documentary on the Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct and entertaining at the same time. The focus is on musicals from East-Germany and the Soviet Union but there are also references to musicals from Czechoslovakia and Romania.
Interviewees: Erich Gusko, Karin Schröder, Brigitte Ulbrich, Helmut Hanke, Hans-Joachim Wallstein, Maya Turovskaya, Chris Doerk, Frank Schöbel & Margarita Andrushkevitch.Read More »
The first comprehensive study of German artist Otto Dix looks at the life and work of the maligned German artist, blacklisted by the Nazis for his depictions of the horrors of war.Read More »
Plot
Jakob Windisch has written THE number one bestselling novel. Since he is very shy, no-one has seen him except Uhu Zigeuner who is the designated director of the film adaption. Zigeuner is on the hunt for the woman of his dreams, a woman who should also play the main role in the film. Meanwhile, ruthless producer Oskar Reiter wants to buy the film rights at all costs – and he is struggling for the love of the beautiful Valerie. These and a lot more egos meet every night in a restaurant called “Rossini” where everybody must go so that everybody else sees them.Read More »
An American film critic flies to Berlin to investigate the life of German filmmaker Murnau. After meeting his former girlfriend and finding a statue near Murnau’s tomb, begins a strange mystic journey through time and space: a romantic unification of ancient and modern world, suspicions and memories, art and life. And the critic is about to learn something new about himself…Read More »
Beruf Neonazi is a german documentary from 1993. It follows the daily work oft the young Neonazi Bela Ewald Althans. The movie foregoes comments and let the utterances of Althans alone. But through the sequence of self-exposure and the monoolgue his political opinion becomes clear. One scene shows Althans at the memorial place Auschwitz where he denies the Holocaust.
The movie got under performance ban in some german cities. Some time later i was shown to people above 18 but with some clear words of the presenter and a discussion about it.
In 1996 Althans was sentenced by german court to 3 years and 6 months because of isparagement of the state and sedition inclusive isparagement of the memory of the deceased and insult. The statements in movie became proofs for the action.Read More »
Oberon and Titania, the elf king couple from Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, fate has landed in a contemporary city park. Your task is to help modern couples who only maintain “relationships” to regain true lust and love.Read More »
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Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her family. Under the name of his jail buddy Henry, he moves in with his pen pal–who has never seen him–and is always watched suspiciously by their roommate. Nik seeks contact with the literary culture, although he feels disgusted by the pompous fuss of this society. He is not without talent and works on a novel in which he minutely describes the abduction of an industrialist. Henry gets shot at the prison breakout and visits Nik to get help from him. He likes his novel plot and wants to put it into action.Read More »
Though it was accepted as standard entertainment upon its first release, the German Jugend (Youth) has in recent years been perceived as an implicitly pro-Nazi tract. Adapted by Thea Von Harbou from a controversial 19th century play by Max Hulls, the story concerns a young girl named Annchen (Kristina Soderbaum), who from childhood onward has had her judgment warped by the self-righteous proclamations of a fanatical priest (Eugene Klopfer). After her first sexual experience, Annchen is so overwhelmed by guilt that she commits suicide, profoundly affecting the lives of those closest to her. Some critics have suggested that the film advises its audience to beware false prophets-except those wearing brown shirts and armbands, who will lead the populace from the opiate of religion to the glories of National Socialism. The fact that Jugend was directed by Kristina Soderbaum’s husband Viet Harlan, one of the German film industry’s leading torch-bearers for the Third Reich, has not been a point in its favor. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie GuideRead More »
Summary
Joachim “Blacky” Fuchsberger provided the starting point for “Overgames”: In 2005, he stated in a talk show that the content of his TV game show “Nur nicht nervös werden”, which first aired in 1960, was originally developed in US-American psychiatric institutions with the aim to re-educate the Germans, a “psychologically disturbed nation”. Director Lutz Dammbeck sets out on a global research that leads to important questions: In which regard may games change the world? Can a person be re-educated? And what is the idea of a permanent revolution?Read More »