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 / 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 / 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 »
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 »
Der Mann mit dem Glasauge (1969) Alfred Vohrer
A man is found dead in a London hotel. The knife is still stuck in the victim’s chest Read More »
All My Girls / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 »