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Tag Archives: Germany
The Corridor / Koridorius (1995) Sharunas Bartas, Daiva Ksivickiene, Mantvydas Janeliunas, Viacheslav Amirhanian
The atmosphere of a corridor between yesterday and tomorrow Read More »
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum / Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1975) Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser
Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. Read More »
Slums of Berlin / Die Verrufenen (1925) Gerhard Lamprecht, Bernhard Goetzke, Paul Bildt, Aud Egede-Nissen
A young engineer lies to protect his fiancée, and is later convicted of perjury Read More »
Brother / Brüder (1929) Werner Hochbaum, Gyula Balogh, Erna Schumacher, Ilse Berger
“Brüder”, a film directed by Herr Werner Hochbaum ( who was a remarkable film director in the talkie 30’s ) Read More »
End of an Affair / So endete eine Liebe (1934) Karl Hartl, Paula Wessely, Willi Forst, Gustaf Gründgens
The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I Read More »
The Indian Tomb / Das indische Grabmal (1959) Fritz Lang, Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walther Reyer
Harald Berger and his Indian lover, the temple dancer Seetha, desperately flee from the shikaris (cavalry) of Eschanapur’s maharajah Chandra Read More »
Angélique, marquise des anges (1964) Bernard Borderie, Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort
In this first part of the Angélique cycle, set in Mid-17th century France under the young Sun King Louis XIV Read More »
The Great Water / Golemata voda (2004) Ivo Trajkov, Saso Kekenovski, Maja Stankovska, Mitko Apostolovski
An ailing communist reflects on his childhood in Stalinist Yugoslavia. Read More »
The Wounds / Rane (1998) Srdjan Dragojevic, Dusan Pekic, Milan Maric, Dragan Bjelogrlic
This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society. Read More »