Germany

  • Gerry Schum – Land Art (1969)

    1961-1970ExperimentalGermanyGerry SchumVideo Art
    Land Art (1969)
    Land Art (1969)

    Synopsis:
    The Fernsehgalerie (television gallery) is a modification of the conventional art gallery. The objects presented were created especially for the program at various locations in Europe, the United States and Canada. Under the theme of “Land Art”, the artists incorporate the natural landscape they have chosen as an essential component of their artworks.Read More »

  • Bernd Eichinger – Der grosse Bagarozy AKA The Devil and Ms. D (1999)

    1991-2000Bernd EichingerComedyCrimeGermany
    Der grosse Bagarozy (1999)
    Der grosse Bagarozy (1999)

    Psychiatrist Cora is in a professional crisis, two of her patients have succumbed to each other. Stanislaus Nagy appears in her practice, a strange young man possessed by Maria Callas. But Cora has anything but a harmless Callas admirer. The man suddenly claims to be the bodily devil and, hidden inside his poodle, has directed the life of the opera dives. Nagy also gains a strange power over Cora’s fate.Read More »

  • Karl Grune – Waterloo (1929)

    Karl Grune1921-1930ClassicsGermanySilentWeimar Republic cinema
    Waterloo (1929)
    Waterloo (1929)

    Waterloo is a German made movie that depicts the soldiers of Belgium + The Netherlands; Brunswick; England, Ireland, Scotland + Wales; Hanover; Nassau; and Prussia’s victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.Read More »

  • Wolfgang Liebeneiner – Bismarck (1940)

    Drama1931-1940GermanyThird Reich CinemaWolfgang Liebeneiner
    Bismarck (1940)
    Bismarck (1940)

    Synopsis:
    A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies – including aggressive war – helped to unite Germany.Read More »

  • Robert Stone – Der Dritte Weltkrieg AKA World War Three (1998)

    1991-2000DocumentaryGermanyRobert StoneWar
    Der Dritte Weltkrieg (1998)
    Der Dritte Weltkrieg (1998)

    Synopsis
    This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbachev sees a successful military coup taking place in the USSR. Western actions against brutal crack-downs on civilians involved increases tension between the sides, finally resulting in nuclear war.Read More »

  • Alan Vydra – Leos Leiden AKA Born Erect (1976)

    1971-1980Alan VydraComedyEroticaGermany
    Leos Leiden (1976)
    Leos Leiden (1976)

    Leo suffers from priapism. His biggest goal is to find healing, but this endeavor turns out not to be easy.

    Starring: Eric Braun, Angelika Hefner, Carmen Miehlich, Jeannie Baker, Michaela Roos, Uschi Wagner, Gerhard Hartig, Helga Richter, Crystine Roberts, Vicki West, Monika Metzger, Sandra Peterson, Peter Straus & Jeannette Charles.Read More »

  • Christoph Boekel – Der Sog des Kriege – Eine Familiengeschichte (2022)

    2021-2030Christoph BoekelDocumentaryGermany
    Der Sog des Kriege Eine Familiengeschichte (2022)
    Der Sog des Kriege Eine Familiengeschichte (2022)

    “Der Sog des Krieges” is a film about the destructive power of war, about mental destruction and the effects on future generations.
    I have had my father’s war diaries and his field letters to my mother since the 1980s. From 1943 until the end of the war, he was a trusted officer in the 999 Penal Division and saw himself as a “tool in a mighty machine”. His notes are unfiltered documents from the immediacy of war. They convey how he felt, thought and experienced it. They show how propaganda seduces and how the laws of war destroy humanity. Read and understood in today’s context, my father’s notes are warnings for those born later.
    Christoph BoekelRead More »

  • Kadir Sözen – Von glücklichen Schafen (2015)

    2011-2020DramaGermanyKadir Sözen
    Von glücklichen Schafen (2015)
    Von glücklichen Schafen (2015)

    Synopsis:
    Elmas is in her mid-30s and lives with her two teenage children, Can and Sevgi in Cologne. For a single mother, her children are more important than anything else, she is ready to do anything for them. She has a tense relationship with her father, the old man has been living alone since retirement and the death of his wife, drinks a lot of raki and rarely sees his grandchildren. Can finds out why the relationship is so tense when his best friend Stefan gives him a special gift for his 16th birthday: a visit to a small brothel run by pimp Klaus. But instead of his defloration, he experiences a shock: Suddenly his mother, who works as a prostitute, faces him. Read More »

  • Hans Steinhoff & Karl Anton & Herbert Maisch – Ohm Krüger aka Uncle Kruger (1941)

    Hans Steinhoff1941-1950DramaGermanyHerbert MaischKarl AntonPoliticsThird Reich Cinema
    Ohm Krüger (1941)
    Ohm Krüger (1941)

    The most incendiary of Nazi Germany’s anti-British films, and one of the most audaciously cynical movies ever made. Conceived by Joseph Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry as a propagandistic blockbuster, this lavish production leaves no stone unturned in its bitter indictment of Great Britain, which at the time (early 1941) stood alone as Germany’s wartime foe. In its historical re-enactment of the Second Boer War, Ohm Krüger depicts Britain as a relentlessly aggressive power, hell-bent on world domination; the film’s remarkable set pieces feature a scotch-swilling Queen Victoria, a cruelly conniving Cecil Rhodes and a Winston Churchill look-alike who presides over a murderous concentration camp. On the Boer side stands saintly “Uncle” Krüger, portrayed as a model of simple dignity and unerring moral right by one of the world cinema’s greatest actors, Emil Jannings. Read More »

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