Michael Klier

  • Michael Klier – Idioten der Familie AKA Family Idiots (2018)

    2011-2020DramaGermanyMichael Klier

    Wanting to start a new life, 40-year-old Heli has found an institution in which she can put her younger, mentally disabled sister. Her three egocentric brothers have agreed to the plan and come to share their sister’s final weekend at the house where they all grew up on the outskirts of Berlin.Read More »

  • Michael Klier – Alter und Schönheit aka Age and Beauty (2009)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaGermanyMichael Klier

    An ill man’s dying wish reunites four old friends. (IMDb)
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    Friends brought together by tragic circumstances discover how sad their own lives have become in this bittersweet comedy-drama from German filmmaker Michael Klier. Harry (Henry Hübchen), Justus (Burghart Klaussner) and Bernhard (Armin Rohde) were close when they were young but haven’t seen each other in many years. However, they meet for the first time in decades when they learn another member of their circle, Manni (Peter Lohmeyer), has fallen ill and has only a short time to live. Manni has done well for himself and has a fine house with a pool as well as a vintage Ferrari, but as his life draws to a close he wants to spend time with his pals and asks them to help him with his one nagging regret. Manni used to date a beautiful girl named Rosi (Sibylle Canonica), but he treated her badly and she left him; all these years later, Manni asks his pals to find her so he can apologize and beg her forgiveness.Read More »

  • Michael Klier – Der Riese (1984)

    1981-1990DocumentaryExperimentalGermanyMichael Klier

    Der Riese (The Giant), 1983
    by Harun Farocki

    [Harun Farocki gave the following introduction at a screening of Michael Klier’s Der Riese as part of the #VIDEOTAPES series at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in January 2014. Special thanks to the N.B.K. for their permission to reproduce the following text for ERC’s screening of Der Riese on April 29th, 2015 at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz. Translated by Fjoder Donderer. Edited by Ekrem Serdar and Jennifer Stob.]Read More »

  • Michael Klier – Ostkreuz (1991)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaGermanyMichael Klier

    In Ostkreuz (1991), Michael Klier tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanys during the Wende, and deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany. (Filmgalerie 451)Read More »

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