Germany

Widely recognized as the source of the Frankenstein myth, the ancient Hebrew legend of the Golem provided actor/director Paul Wegener with the substance for one of the most adventurous films of the German silent cinema.Read More »

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Having inherited a hotel, two brothers have very different ideas as to how to re-float it as a profitable venture. The one wants to turn it into a love hotel with pretty girls from Thailand so that the customers will be able to save themselves the fare to Bangkok. The other one has in mind an institute for the moral edification of the young. In both cases the hotel would be a meeting place, though of very different characters.Read More »

“A lonely forty one year old still living with his mother in the middle of nowhere sets off for Romania in search of a wife…”

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Erwin, in his forties, runs a petrol station with his mother in a lost corner of Germany. This withdrawn mother-son couple leads a life without surprise. But feeling his end approaching and afraid to leave his son alone.Read More »

Directed by a group of three young female directors named Irene von Alberti, Miriam Dehne and Esther Gronenborn. Each one of them has written and directed one of the episodes, which where composed to a continual narrative. Every episode is about one of the members of the Prater-ensemble (Prater is a small off-mainstream stage in Kastanienallee /Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, a part of the city well-known as a students district with lots of bars, night-clubs and fashion-stores, but also high unemployment). They are rehearsing René Polleschs “Stadt als Beute” / “city as a prey”, which was staged at Prater in 2001. Read More »

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“It’s a story about a country on the edge of Europe, bordered by the Baltic Sea and lashed by the north winds. Once a powerful state of northern Germany in the 16th Century, dispossessed of half its territory during the Napoleonic Wars, it regained its power in the 19th Century under William I.Read More »

Basing his work on his own novel, Herkunft [Origin], Oskar Roehler shot an autobiographical film in which the destinies of three generations confront German history from the postwar era up until the 1980s. As an unloved child of bohemian intellectuals professing the political clichés of the 1960s, the filmmaker projects his disenchantment onto a sarcastic image of society, while introducing a surprisingly subtle romantic tone to the proceedings.Read More »

An overwhelmed young mother, her hard-working boyfriend and her lonely sister are trapped in their daily routine and social conventions, until one of them breaks out of her role and turns everything upside down.Read More »

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The title refers to the postcode 1000, which was valid for the whole of West Berlin at the time and was often abbreviated to 1. In larger cities, the number of the postal delivery district was placed after the place name. This resulted in designations such as “1 Berlin 36” or “1 Berlin 44”.Read More »

Director Konrad Wolf’s gritty and controversial tale follows two young women who go to work at a uranium mine in Wismut, East Germany. With anarchists, former S.S. soldiers, and ex-Russian officers working in close proximity, the mine becomes a microcosm of world politics and social unrest.Read More »