Holunderblüte tells the stories of 10 children in Kaliningrad, a Russian territory located Read More »
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Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy AKA Die Nibelungen, Teil 1 – Siegfried (1966) Harald Reinl, Uwe Beyer, Rolf Henniger, Siegfried Wischnewski
Volker von Alzey, the royal bard of the Burgunds (far greater then modern Burgundy) Read More »
From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses AKA Von Caligari zu Hitler: Das deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen (2014) Rüdiger Suchsland, Siegfried Kracauer, Fritz Lang, Thomas Elsaesser
Focuses on the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and its ‘collective spirit’ in cinema. Read More »
Arms and the Man AKA Helden (1958) Franz Peter Wirth, O.W. Fischer, Liselotte Pulver, Ellen Schwiers
1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. Read More »
The Nanny (1965) Seth Holt, Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett
Bette Davis is an English nanny whose charge is a rude 10-year-old Joey, just discharged from a disturbed Read More »
The Man with the Glass Eye AKA Der Mann mit dem Glasauge (1969) Alfred Vohrer, Horst Tappert, Karin Hübner, Hubert von Meyerinck
A man is found dead in a London hotel. The knife is still stuck in the victim’s chest Read More »
Bismarck (1940) Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Paul Hartmann, Friedrich Kayßler, Lil Dagover
A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia Read More »
All My Girls AKA Alle meine Mädchen (1980) Iris Gusner, Andrzej Pieczynski, Lissy Tempelhof, Fritz Marquardt
Film student Ralf is assigned to make a documentary on a team of six women Read More »
Violet of Potsdam Square AKA Das Veilchen vom Potsdamer Platz (1936) J.A. Hübler-Kahla, Rotraut Richter, Paul W. Krüger, Margarete Kupfer
In a poor Berlin neighborhood, a horse used in the WWI cavalry Read More »
The Story of Little Mook AKA Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck (1953) Wolfgang Staudte, Thomas Schmidt, Johannes Maus, Friedrich Richter
An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids Read More »
Under the Bridges AKA Unter den Brücken (1945) Helmut Käutner, Hannelore Schroth, Carl Raddatz, Gustav Knuth
“Under the Bridges”, made in the last year of the Third Reich, proves that artistic Read More »
Henri 4 AKA Henry of Navarre (2010) Jo Baier, Julien Boisselier, Joachim Król, Andreas Schmidt
A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre Read More »
The Farewell AKA Abschied – Brechts letzter Sommer (2000) Jan Schütte, Josef Bierbichler, Monica Bleibtreu, Jeanette Hain
It is one of the last days of an exceptionally hot summer in 1956. Read More »
The Fair AKA Kirmes (1960) Wolfgang Staudte, Juliette Mayniel, Götz George, Hans Mahnke
At the end of WWII a soldier who had often been ordered to execute women Read More »
Berlin Around the Corner AKA Berlin um die Ecke (1965) Gerhard Klein, Dieter Mann, Monika Gabriel, Erwin Geschonneck
Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf (Dieter Mann) and Horst (Kaspar Eichel) are two young metalworkers Read More »