
The dancer, Diotima, meets an engineer and skier, Karl, in his cottage in the mountains where they fall in love and have an affair. Read More »
Tag Archives: german
The Wall (1991) Jürgen Böttcher

A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. Read More »
The Fox of Paris (1957) Paul May, Martin Held, Marianne Koch, Hardy Krüger

One of the few WW2 films that indeed had something to tell. And probably it still has to tell something, as it concerns a subject that is not very well publicly known. Read More »
The Doctor of Stalingrad AKA Der Arzt von Stalingrad (1958) Géza von Radványi, O.E. Hasse, Eva Bartok, Hannes Messemer

After Stalingrad battle battalions of German prisoners were taken to concentration camps. Read More »
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971) Rosa von Praunheim, Berryt Bohlen, Bernd Feuerhelm, Ernst Kuchling

Daniel, a young man from the provinces come to the city and moves from one gay subculture to the next. Read More »
Drift (2015) Karim Patwa, Scherwin Amini, Miro Caltagirone, Vanessa Comte

Robert (22), a former driver in illegal races, returns to his hometown after a long period of absence. Read More »
Nightmares Come at Night (1970) Jesús Franco, Diana Lorys, Paul Muller, Jack Taylor

In Zagreb, the striper Anna de Istria works in a sleazy cabaret. She is seduced by the blonde Cynthia Robins that invites her to move to her house. Read More »
Komitas (1989) Don Askarian, Samvel Ovasapian, Margarita Woskanjan, Omig Saadetian

The film is dedicated to the Armenian monk and genius composer Komitas, and the 2 million victims on his people in Turkey in 1915. Read More »
The Comedians (1941) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Käthe Dorsch, Hilde Krahl, Henny Porten

Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. Read More »
Mission to Hell (1964) Gianfranco Parolini, Paul Hubschmid, Marianne Hold, Brad Harris

Some guys try to locate a evil guy’s secret diamond mine somewhere in Thailand. Read More »