
This three-hour epic 16mm film focuses on a mother and son fleeing her abusive husband in Berlin and wandering the former East Germany seeking a town that has long since vanished. Read More »
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Schwarzer Kies (1961) Helmut Käutner, Helmut Wildt, Ingmar Zeisberg, Hans Cossy

In 1960, in a rural part of West Germany, an American military base is set up in a small village of 250 inhabitants. Read More »
Cafe Electric (1927) Gustav Ucicky, Willi Forst, Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Alberti

Erni (Marlene Dietrich), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist Göttlinger (Fritz Alberti) falls for a pickpocket Fredl (Willi Forst) Read More »
Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser (1957) Gerhard Klein, Ekkehard Schall, Ilse Pagé, Ernst-Georg Schwill

The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Read More »
Barbara – Wild wie das Meer (1961) Frank Wisbar, Harriet Andersson, Maria Sebaldt, Carl Lange

Nicely done drama on the basis of the Jacobsen novel. Wisbar translates the novels’ mistery and sexual ambiguity entirely Read More »
Das Bekenntnis der Ina Kahr (1954) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Curd Jürgens, Elisabeth Müller, Albert Lieven

Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Read More »
Stroszek (1977) Werner Herzog, Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion Read More »
The Great Sacrifice (1944) Veit Harlan, Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff

Albrecht is a son in a family of wealthy intellectuals that has a seaside estate near Hamburg. Read More »
The Holy Mountain (1926) Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, Ernst Petersen

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 »
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 »