A single woman in her early thirties, Martha (Margit Carstensen) is on vacation with her father in Rome when he has a heart attack and falls down dead. She reacts rather indifferently and returns home to her highly-strung mother and begins to new era of her life taking care of a completely ungrateful and insulting mother (declining an offer of marriage from her boss). After a barrage of verbal abuse and offensive remarks from her mother who see’s her as an ‘ugly old spinster’ she accepts a proposal of marriage from an equally insulting and disrespectful man, Helmuth. They honeymoon in Italy. Read More »
Margit Carstensen
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Martha (1974)
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Die Niklashauser Fart aka Niklashuasen Journey (1970)
1961-1970ArthouseDramaGermanyRainer Werner FassbinderIn the 15th century, Hans Bohm, a shepherd, claimed to have been visited by the Virgin Mary. He began preaching and gathered around him thousands of disciples who believed him to be the New Messiah. He was arrested and burned at the stake by the church. Fassbinder uses this true story to reflect the sexual and political upheaval in Germany, showing how and why revolution fails.Read More »
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Christoph Schlingensief – Terror 2000 – Intensivstation Deutschland AKA Terror 2000 (1992)
Christoph Schlingensief1991-2000ComedyCultGermanyThis satire of post re-unification Germany follows a couple investigating the disappearance of a German social worker and the Polish family in his care. Their search takes them to the town of Rassau, where the remaining hostage takers are living undercover as a priest and a furniture wholesaler.Read More »
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Christoph Schlingensief – Die 120 Tage von Bottrop AKA The 120 Days of Bottrop (1997)
Christoph Schlingensief1991-2000ComedyCultGermanyThe survivors of the old Fassbinder crew gather one last time to shoot a remake of Pasolini’s Salò. Meanwhile, the producer sends an agent to Hollywood to meet Udo Kier, Kitten Natividad and others on a mission to raise money and get ex-Visconti superstar Helmut Berger to appear in the film.Read More »
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Das Kaffeehaus AKA The Coffeehouse (1970)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder1961-1970ArthouseComedyGermanyKAFFEEHAUS, DAS
(nach Carlo Goldoni)“In Ridolfo’s coffeehouse, citizens meet to talk about money, friendship, love, and honor. This is a modernistic staging for television of a play by Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793), the Venetian playwright whose many works preserve in scripted form the improvisational productions of the Italian commedia dell’arte.”Read More »
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Martha (1974) (HD)
1971-1980ArthouseDramaGermanyRainer Werner FassbinderA single woman in her early thirties, Martha (Margit Carstensen) is on vacation with her father in Rome when he has a heart attack and falls down dead. She reacts rather indifferently and returns home to her highly-strung mother and begins to new era of her life taking care of a completely ungrateful and insulting mother (declining an offer of marriage from her boss). After a barrage of verbal abuse and offensive remarks from her mother who see’s her as an ‘ugly old spinster’ she accepts a proposal of marriage from an equally insulting and disrespectful man, Read More »
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Andrzej Zulawski – Possession [+Commentary] (1981)
1981-1990Andrzej ZulawskiDramaFranceHorrorSummary:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.Read More » -
Chris Kraus – Scherbentanz AKA Shattered Glass (2002)
2001-2010Chris KrausDramaGermanyPlot:
Written and directed by newcomer Chris Kraus, this German art-house family drama centers around the eccentric Jesko (Jürgen Vogel), who, despite his debilitating condition, – he is dying of cancer and only his mother’s bone-marrow could save him – makes a visit to his father, Gebhard (Dietrich Hollinderbaumer), and brother, Ansgar (Peter Davor), on the day that Ansgar is scheduled to take over the family company. What Jesko doesn´t know, is that his mother, who went insane 20 years ago, ran away and got drug addicted, was found and brought back.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Chinesisches Roulette AKA Chinese Roulette (1976)
1971-1980ArthouseDramaGermanyRainer Werner FassbinderSynopsis:
A wealthy couple, with a daughter Angela, a young teen who walks with crutches, tells each other they are off for the weekend on business (he to Oslo, she to Milan). Actually, both are meeting their lovers, and both go to the family’s county home, Traunitz castle. Surprising each other, there’s sophisticated laughter; they decide to continue as planned. Dinner, however, is interrupted by the arrival of Angela and her mute attendant, also named Traunitz. The next day, the child initiates a game of “Chinese roulette,” in which one team tries to guess which of them the other team is thinking of by asking questions. The game has an edge of cruelty and the results are explosive.Read More »
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