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Tag Archives: Germany
Muukalainen / The Visitor (2008) J.-P. Valkeapää, Allan Bernard, Vitali Bobrov, Emilia Ikäheimo, Drama
A young boy lives with his mother on a farm surrounded by deep forest in the remote wilds of the Finnish countryside. Read More »
The Great King (1942) Veit Harlan, Otto Gebühr, Kristina Söderbaum, Gustav Fröhlich, Drama, History, War
King Frederick II (aka “Frederick the Great”) of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Austrian army at Kunersdorf, and things aren’t going well. Read More »
Erste Liebe / First Love (1971) Maximilian Schell, John Moulder-Brown, Dominique Sanda, Drama, History, Romance
Based on Ivan Turgeyev’s novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Read More »
Witness in the War Zone (1987) Nathaniel Gutman, Christopher Walken, Hywel Bennett, Marita Marschall, Action, Drama, Mystery, War
Don Stevens is an ace reporter sent to Beirut, Lebanon to report on the Lebanese civil war. Read More »
Carnival Story (1954) Kurt Neumann, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, Drama
In search of better business, a big American carnival opens in Munich, Germany. Joe the barker befriends attractive pickpocket Willie, finds her a job, and beds her. Read More »
Joyless Street (1925) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Ágnes Eszterházy, Drama
Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid’s clients is arrested. Read More »
The Death of Mario Ricci (1983) Claude Goretta, Gian Maria Volontè, Magali Noël, Heinz Bennent, Drama
A TV journalist and his assistant come to interview a sociologist whose books deal with world hunger Read More »
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Terence Davies, Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Drama, Music
The second film in Terence Davies’s autobiographical series (‘Trilogy’, ‘The Long Day Closes’) is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies’s own family. Read More »
Odissea (1968) Franco Rossi, Mario Bava, Piero Schivazappa, Bekim Fehmiu, Leonard Steckel, Constantin Andrieu, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Odysseus’ journey told in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka. Read More »
Carla’s song (1996) Ken Loach, Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Scott Glenn, Drama, Romance, War
1987, love in time of war. A bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly sad life in Glasgow. Read More »
Mein Name ist Bach / My Name Is Bach (2003) Dominique de Rivaz, Vadim Glowna, Jürgen Vogel, Karoline Herfurth, Biography, Drama
Brilliant composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach completes the long journey from his home in Leipzig to Potsdam. Read More »
The Big Mess (1971) Alexander Kluge, Vinzenz Sterr, Maria Sterr, Sigi Graue, Sci-Fi, Comedy
Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Read More »
Part-Time Work of a Female Slave (1973) Alexandra Kluge, Franz Bronski, Bion Steinborn, Drama
Roswitha is working to carry out illegal abortions, to support her husband and two children. Read More »
Pandoras Box (1929) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Crime, Drama, Romance
Lulu is a beautiful young woman who can seemingly work her charms on all of the men around her. Read More »