
Karla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. Read More »
Tag Archives: Germany
Quiet Days in Clichy (1990) Claude Chabrol, Andrew McCarthy, Nigel Havers, Barbara De Rossi

The American writer Joe arrives in Paris to research and write about Proust. Read More »
Casanova (1927) Alexandre Volkoff, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne

The main plot concerns itself with political intrigue, as Casanova travels from Venice to Russia and back again on a variety of “secret missions.” Read More »
Anisoara (2016) Ana Felicia Scutelnicu, Willem Menne, Andrei Morari, Anisoara Morari

Anishoara is a 15 year old girl, who lives in a beautiful old village in Moldova. Read More »
Station Six-Sahara (1963) Seth Holt, Carroll Baker, Peter van Eyck, Ian Bannen

In the Sahara, at an oil pipeline pumping station belonging to Medina Oil Company, five technicians man the facility. Read More »
Extreme Ops (2002) Christian Duguay, Rufus Sewell, Devon Sawa, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras

A film crew travels to the Austrian Alps near the (former) Yugoslav border to film three extreme sports Read More »
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny

This movie follows the life of a young German woman, married to a soldier in the waning days of WWII. Read More »
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer — arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. Read More »
Obszön – Der Fall Peter Herzl (1981) Hans-Christof Stenzel, Volker Spengler, Lydia Kreibohm, Karina Fallenstein

Peter Herzl, social worker and Left sympathizer from Wuppertal, West Germany, is assaulted and robbed on the way back from Yugoslavia to his home country. Read More »
Step Across the Border (1990) Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel, Jonas Mekas, Julia Judge, John Spacely

This film is a snapshot of the life of Fred Frith, an English-born multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor. Read More »