Tag Archives: german

The film tells the story of Anita G., a young East German migrant to West Germany and her struggle to adjust to her new life.
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Produced and directed by seven Munich Film School students, Honolulu takes place not in Hawaii, but inside of a rural town just outside of Munich, Germany. Read More »

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. Read More »

In the wake of the Second World War, the Danish authorities force thousands of German prisoners of war to defuse the millions of mines buried on Danish beaches.
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Johnny Hawks, a former Indian fighter, returns to the West after the Civil War. Read More »

Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. Read More »

Based on historical events, Rick Ostermann’s “Wolfskinder” is a handsome drama that follows orphaned German children as they wander the chaotic wilderness of Soviet-occupied East Prussia after Germany’s WWII defeat. Read More »

Bored with life in Paris, Christian takes off for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to sunny Ibiza. Read More »

“Sunday Drivers” is an uneasy road comedy in which disgruntled “bourgeois remnants” set out from Leipzig for Berlin, where they plan to sell their cars and cross to the West. Read More »

Focuses on the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and its ‘collective spirit’ in cinema. The purpose of film as a cultural tool is examined. Read More »