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Tag Archives: Germany
Carnival Story (1954) Kurt Neumann, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, Drama

In search of better business, a big American carnival opens in Munich, Germany. Joe the barker befriends attractive pickpocket Willie, finds her a job, and beds her. Read More »
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Terence Davies, Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Drama, Music

The second film in Terence Davies’s autobiographical series (‘Trilogy’, ‘The Long Day Closes’) is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies’s own family. Read More »
Odissea (1968) Franco Rossi, Mario Bava, Piero Schivazappa, Bekim Fehmiu, Leonard Steckel, Constantin Andrieu, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Odysseus’ journey told in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka. Read More »
Carla’s song (1996) Ken Loach, Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Scott Glenn, Drama, Romance, War

1987, love in time of war. A bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly sad life in Glasgow. Read More »
Mein Name ist Bach / My Name Is Bach (2003) Dominique de Rivaz, Vadim Glowna, Jürgen Vogel, Karoline Herfurth, Biography, Drama

Brilliant composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach completes the long journey from his home in Leipzig to Potsdam. Read More »
The Big Mess (1971) Alexander Kluge, Vinzenz Sterr, Maria Sterr, Sigi Graue, Sci-Fi, Comedy

Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Read More »
Part-Time Work of a Female Slave (1973) Alexandra Kluge, Franz Bronski, Bion Steinborn, Drama

Roswitha is working to carry out illegal abortions, to support her husband and two children. Read More »
Pandoras Box (1929) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Crime, Drama, Romance

Lulu is a beautiful young woman who can seemingly work her charms on all of the men around her. Read More »
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, Drama

Thymiane is a beautiful young girl who is not having a storybook life. Her governess, Elizabeth, is thrown out of her home when she is pregnant, only to be later found drowned. Read More »