Franz Lang (Götz George) was one of the commandants of the Auschwitz concentration camps. Read More »
Tag Archives: Germany
Wherever You Are… (1988) Krzysztof Zanussi, Julian Sands, Renée Soutendijk, Maciej Robakiewicz
An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland Read More »
Is This Fate? AKA Von wegen ‘Schicksal’ (1979) Helga Reidemeister
This documentary chronicles the ups and downs of a German family in the 1970s Read More »
War and Love in Kabul AKA Mein Herz sieht die Welt schwarz – Eine Liebe in Kabul (2009) Helga Reidemeister, Hossein, Shaima
Hossein and Shaima have loved each other since childhood. As teenagers they were separated by war. Read More »
Germany Year Zero AKA Germania anno zero (1948) Roberto Rossellini, Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze
Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the Second World War Read More »
Cross of Iron (1977) Sam Peckinpah, James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason
With too much action to be lumped with “antiwar” films, and too little pro-war sentiment Read More »
Among the Cinders (1984) Rolf Hädrich, Paul O’Shea, Derek Hardwick, Yvonne Lawley
Author Maurice Shadbolt went before the cameras to play father to the main character Read More »
The Player AKA Der Spieler (1938) Gerhard Lamprecht, Eugen Klöpfer, Lída Baarová, Hedwig Bleibtreu
Quite a fine and engaging interpretation of Dostoevsky’s novel. Read More »
The Children (1990) Tony Palmer, Ben Kingsley, Kim Novak, Siri Neal
Rose Sellars (Kim Novak) is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower (Sir Ben Kingsley). Read More »
The Chronicles of Polyaris (2014) Christine Reeh, Dmitry Bogomolov
This film aims the poetic portray an abandoned town, called Pyramiden, surrounded by eternal ice Read More »
Iracema – Uma Transa Amazônica (1975) Jorge Bodanzky, Orlando Senna, Paulo César Peréio, Edna de Cássia, Lúcio Dos Santos
Truck driver travelling along the Transamazonic Road, a huge highway in Brazil that crosses Read More »
The Cold Heart AKA Das Kalte Herz (1933/2016) Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Franz Schnyder, Elfriede Gärtner, Stefan Schnabel
A poor and lonely coal seller trades his heart to a demon of the forest Read More »
Samson and Delilah (1996) Nicolas Roeg, Dennis Hopper, Elizabeth Hurley, Eric Thal
Mara and her husband Manoa are both upstanding and religious Israelites living Read More »
Rosemary AKA Das Mädchen Rosemarie (1958) Rolf Thiele, Nadja Tiller, Peter van Eyck, Carl Raddatz
West Germany in ’50s is becoming an economic superpower. Read More »
The Kaiser’s Lackey AKA Der Untertan (1951) Wolfgang Staudte, Werner Peters, Paul Esser, Renate Fischer
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. Read More »