A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as ‘besleme’ (foster child and maid). Read More »
Tag Archives: Germany
The Black Chapel AKA Geheimaktion Schwarze Kapelle (1959) Ralph Habib, Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Ernst Schröder
1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities Read More »
The Yacht of the Seven Sins AKA Die Yacht der sieben Sünden (1928) Jacob Fleck, Luise Fleck, Brigitte Helm, John Stuart, Rina Marsa
After the talent agent who was booking entertainment for a strange ship is killed Read More »
Taiga (1992) Ulrike Ottinger
Taiga is an eight-hour documentary directed and photographed by Ulrike Ottinger. Read More »
The Left-Handed Woman AKA Die linkshändige Frau (1978) Peter Handke, Edith Clever, Markus Mühleisen, Bruno Ganz
Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. Read More »
Michael Kohlhaas – Der Rebell (1969) Volker Schlöndorff, David Warner, Anna Karina, Thomas Holtzmann
It’s medieval times. Kohlhaas merchants with horses. When going to the local fair to sell his horses Read More »
Longing AKA Sehnsucht (2006) Valeska Grisebach, Andreas Müller, Ilka Welz, Anett Dornbusch
A metalworker and volunteer firefighter, who is content with his marriage to his childhood sweetheart Read More »
The Star of Africa AKA Der Stern von Afrika (1957) Alfred Weidenmann, Joachim Hansen, Marianne Koch, Hansjörg Felmy
Biographic Movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa. Read More »
Bastards AKA Les salauds (2013) Claire Denis, Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille
Supertanker captain Marco Silvestri is called back urgently to Paris. Read More »
No Mercy, No Future AKA Die Berührte (1981) Helma Sanders-Brahms, Elisabeth Stepanek, Nguyen Chi Danh, Karl Heinz Reimann
Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. Read More »