A young Austrian survives the crash of a commercial airliner. Six years later, she’s a clerk, a mother, happy. Read More »
Tag Archives: Germany
Blue Note – A Story of Modern Jazz (1997) Julian Benedikt, Andreas Morell, Freddie Hubbard, Gil Melle, Herbie Hancock
“It must ‘schwing!'” was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records Read More »
The Garden (1990) Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Philip MacDonald
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. Read More »
En garde (2004) Ayse Polat, Maria Kwiatkowsky, Pinar Erincin, Luk Piyes
Alice is 16 years old and an introverted girl with a special ability: she hears extraordinary good. Read More »
Smoke (1995) Wayne Wang, Paul Auster
Writer Paul Benjamin (William Hurt) is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren’s (Harvey Keitel) smoke shop. Read More »
Heart of Fire (2008) Luigi Falorni, Letekidan Micael, Solomie Micael, Seble Tilahun
Eritrea during the independence war against Ethiopia. Awet’s mother left her when she was only a little girl Read More »
Lucky the Inscrutable (1967) Jesús Franco, Ray Danton, Barbara Bold, Dante Posani
An American secret agent is sent to Europe to track down a ring of counterfeiters. Read More »
I’ve Loved You So Long (2008) Philippe Claudel, Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill
Juliette was 15 years in prison. Confronted with the unexpected goodness of her younger sister Léa Read More »
The Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship (1920) Fritz Lang, Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John
Kay Hoog wants to stop the organisation “Die Spinnen” to get a certain diamond, that will give the owning woman the crown of Asia Read More »
The Spiders, Part 1: The Golden Lake (1919) Fritz Lang, Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John
In San Francisco, the sportsman Kay Hoog tells to the members of a club that he has found a message Read More »