German

  • Michael Kann – Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn… AKA Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen (1987)

    1981-1990DramaGermanyMichael KannWar
    Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn... (1987)
    Stielke, Heinz, fünfzehn… (1987)

    Follows the 15-year-old, Heinz Stilke, a member of the Hitler Youth. Heinz is proud of his father, who died bravely for his fatherland, but suddenly learns that he himself is half Jewish. Heinz leaves his gymnasium and is forced to flee his classmates lest his secret be revealed.Read More »

  • Dominik Graf – Im Angesicht des Verbrechens aka In Face of the Crime (2010)

    Dominik Graf2001-2010CrimeGermanyTV
    Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (2010)
    Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (2010)

    “In this epic-scale saga of life on both sides of the law, Max Riemelt plays Marek Grosky, a Russian Jew who immigrated to Germany in the 1920s. Grosky is one of a large number of Russians who have fled their homeland and settled in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. While Marek has become a police officer in Berlin, his sister Stella (Marie Baumer) is married to a high-ranking crime chieftain, and the cop finds himself caught between two worlds, torn between his devotion to duty and his ties to his family. As a war rages between criminal factions in Charlottenburg, Marek witnesses the death of his brother and falls for a Ukrainian woman who has been brought to Germany to work as a prostitute. Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (aka In Face Of The Crime) was originally created as a ten-part series for German television; it was later re-edited into a pair of feature-length films which were screened as part of the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival. “
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  • Monika Treut – Die Jungfrauenmaschine AKA Virgin Machine (1988)

    Arthouse1981-1990GermanyMonika TreutQueer Cinema(s)
    Die Jungfrauenmaschine (1988)
    Die Jungfrauenmaschine (1988)

    Quote:
    Dorothee, a would-be writer and journalist, leaves Germany for the Oz of San Francisco, searching for her long-lost mother and a cure for the malady of love. Installed in the Tenderloin, she peeps in on neighbors’ bizarre sex rituals as well as does sightseeing of the more traditional kind. But encounters with male impersonator Ramona, charming Hungarian bohemian Dominique, and Susie Sexpert, barker for an all-girl strip show, lead to exploratory adventures of self-discovery and fun. When Dorothy surfaces like a dazzled tourist on the wilder shores of the city’s lesbian community, she has discovered her true sexuality and left some illusions behind. (Written by Monika Treut)Read More »

  • Benjamin Quabeck – Verschwende deine Jugend AKA Play It Loud! (2003)

    2001-2010Benjamin QuabeckComedyDramaGermany
    Verschwende deine Jugend (2003)
    Verschwende deine Jugend (2003)

    The year is 1981, the German New Wave is at the peak. Harry, otherwise Sparkasse trainee, wants to make it big as a manager of the band of his friends, Apollo Schwabing. He has booked the band as the opening act for a concert where the group DAF are the headliners.Read More »

  • Ruth Beckermann – Waldheims Walzer AKA The Waldheim Waltz (2018) (HD)

    2001-2010DocumentaryGermanyRuth Beckermann
    Waldheims Walzer (2018) (HD)
    Waldheims Walzer (2018) (HD)

    Synopsis
    A biographical drama film about Kurt Josef Waldheim, former UN Secretary General and the controversy of his participation and role in the Nazi regime during WW II .Read More »

  • Werner Schroeter – Salome (1971)

    1971-1980DramaGermanyTVWerner Schroeter
    Salome (1971)
    Salome (1971)

    Shot in a Roman temple in Baalbek, Lebanon, based on Oscar Wilde’s play, this television film features the drama of Salome, who asks Herod for the head of John the Baptist, whom she loves and who rejected it.Read More »

  • Lajos Lázár & Paul Sugar – Rabmadár aka Prisoner Number Seven (1929)

    Lajos Lázár1921-1930DramaHungaryPaul SugarSilent
    Rabmadár (1929)
    Rabmadár (1929)

    Synopsis: This crime story centres around Anna, the prisoner, who was drawn into stealing by her lover and that’s what got her in prison. The girl would like to meet Jenő, her sweetheart again. She begs the prison physician until she lets her out for one night. She visits the man, but the womaniser hotel waiter has long forgotten her. He has already coaxed the naive do-all girl, Birdie, courted the chambermaid, and is now planning to rob the cash-register with his new lover, an acrobat. The acrobat falls on the run with an elevator out of order and dies. Anna forgives the disloyal Jenőnek, whom she still loves, but when she learns of Birdie expecting a child from him, she convinces Jenő to marry the girl and then returns to the prison.Read More »

  • Werner Herzog & Denis Reichle – Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten AKA Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)

    1981-1990Denis ReichleDocumentaryGermanyWarWerner Herzog
    Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten (1984)
    Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten (1984)

    Quote:
    Werner Herzog looks at the young soldiers who make up the Miskito Indian rebel army. The Indians are an abused minority who sided with the Sandinistas in the Nicaragua civil war. However once the Sandinistas won the Indians were once more an abused minority and had to fight once more for their rights.Read More »

  • Dominik Graf – Mein Falke AKA My Falcon (2023)

    2011-2020Dominik GrafDramaGermany
    Mein Falke (2023)
    Mein Falke (2023)

    A documentary-like drama about an emotionally frozen woman who opens up to life again…” ~Filmdienst

    Synopsis:
    Forensic biologist Inga is so busy with her work at the institute that it takes her a while to notice how lonely she is after separating from her husband. When it is claimed that she has a half-sister and the falconer asks her to look after a baby falcon, she falls into a vortex of painful feelings.Read More »

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