Black marketeers Marko (Miki Manojlovic) and Blacky (Lazar Ristovski) manufacture Read More »
Tag Archives: Germany
In the Presence of a Clown AKA Larmar och gör sig till (1997) Ingmar Bergman, Börje Ahlstedt, Marie Richardson, Erland Josephson
Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert – and a patient in the psychiatric ward Read More »
In a Year with 13 Moons AKA In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (1978) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John
This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Read More »
Mistress of the World AKA Les mystères d’Angkor (1960) William Dieterle, Richard Angst, Martha Hyer, Micheline Presle, Carlos Thompson
Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough Read More »
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005) Fatih Akin, Alexander Hacke, Ahmed Ulug, Cem Yegul
Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city that bridges Europe and Asia Read More »
Ivy AKA Sarmasik (2015) Tolga Karaçelik, Nadir Saribacak, Hakan Karsak, Kadir Cermik, Özgür Emre Yildirim
When the ship’s owner goes bankrupt, the crew learns there is a lien on the ship Read More »
Zero Hour AKA Stunde Null (1977) Edgar Reitz, Kai Taschner, Herbert Weissbach, Günter Schiemann
The narrative is set in the summer of 1945 in a small village outside Leipzig Read More »
The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) Josée Dayan, Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Jean Rochefort
A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Read More »
Vision – Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen (2009) Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung
The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. Read More »
Karl May (1974) Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Helmut Käutner, Kristina Söderbaum, Käthe Gold
This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. Read More »
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia AKA Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004) Pirjo Honkasalo, Pirkko Saisio
A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict Read More »
Love One Another AKA Die Gezeichneten (1922) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Adele Reuter-Eichberg, Vladimir Gajdarov, Polina Piekowskaja
Based on the 1918 novel ‘Elsker hverandre’ by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives Read More »
What? AKA Che? (1972) Roman Polanski, Marcello Mastroianni, Sydne Rome, Hugh Griffith
A young American woman (Sydne Rome) traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems right. Read More »
We Children from Bahnhof Zoo AKA Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (1981) Uli Edel, Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother Read More »
Guimba the Tyrant AKA Guimba, un tyran une époque (1995) Cheick Oumar Sissoko, Fatoumata Coulibaly, Habib Dembélé, Lamine Diallo
Documents the rise and fall of a cruel and despotic village chief Guimba Read More »