A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland’s Solidarity union. Read More »
Tag Archives: Germany
The Ninth Day (2004) Volker Schlöndorff, Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl, Hilmar Thate
In World War II, after a period living hell on earth in the concentration camp of Dachau with other catholic priests Read More »
My Beautiful Country (2012) Michaela Kezele, Zrinka Cvitesic, Misel Maticevic, Andrija Nikcevic
Kosovo, 1999. As the civil war between Serbs and Albanians rages, hatred has replaced tolerance, and towns are brutally divided along ethnic lines. Read More »
Free Radicals (2003) Barbara Albert, Kathrin Resetarits, Ursula Strauss, Georg Friedrich
A young Austrian survives the crash of a commercial airliner. Six years later, she’s a clerk, a mother, happy. Read More »
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 »