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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 »
Europa Europa (1990) Agnieszka Holland, Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan Read More »
The Rabbit Is Me / Das Kaninchen bin ich (1965) Kurt Maetzig, Angelika Waller, Alfred Müller, Ilse Voigt

The Rabbit Is Me was made in 1965 to encourage discussion of the democratization of East German society. Read More »
Searching for Ingmar Bergman AKA Auf der Suche nach Ingmar Bergman (2018) Margarethe von Trotta, Bettina Böhler, Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Ruben Östlund

Internationally renowned director Margarethe von Trotta takes a closer look at Bergman’s life Read More »