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Endorphine (2015) André Turpin, Sophie Nélisse, Mylène MacKay, Lise Roy, Guy Thauvette
Complex time shifting drama revolving about a violent senseless murder and young witness. Read More »
Ticket of No Return / Bildnis einer Trinkerin (1979) Ulrike Ottinger, Tabea Blumenschein, Lutze, Magdalena Montezuma
A woman given to us as a “trinkerin” is having a special tour in Berlin Read More »
Heimat Fragments: The Women / Heimat-Fragmente: Die Frauen (2006) Edgar Reitz, Nicola Schössler, Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer
Lulu, the daughter of musician Hermann Simon, is looking for something she feels is missing from her life. Read More »
The Punch Bowl / Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944) Helmut Weiss, Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt, Hilde Sessak
Hans Pfeiffer and some of his friends are drinking “Feuerzangenbowle”. Talking about their school-time they discover that Hans Read More »
Epilogue / Epilog: Das Geheimnis der Orplid (1950) Helmut Käutner, Horst Caspar, Bettina Moissi, O.E. Hasse
The journalist Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. Read More »
Stammheim: The Trial of the Baader-Meinhof Group / Stammheim – Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe vor Gericht (1986) Reinhard Hauff, Ulrich Tukur, Hans Kremer, Therese Affolter
Stammheim Prison in Stuttgart, West Germany, as the five defendants–Andreas Baader Read More »
Herzsprung (1992) Helke Misselwitz, Memdu Aki, Jaleh Amini, Cesare Basile
In the little town of Herzsprung almost nothing has changed since German unification – except a rise in unemployment. Read More »
Berlin Chamissoplatz (1980) Rudolf Thome, Hanns Zischler, Sabine Bach, Wolfgang Kinder
An architect falls in love with a student who engages actively against Read More »
Utopia (1983) Sohrab Shahid Saless, Manfred Zapatka, Imke Barnstedt, Gundula Petrovska
A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws Read More »