Tag Archives: Germany

A Roman noble, Cethegus, attempts to begin a war, putting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, contrary to the Byzantine Emperor Justinian Read More »

A chess grandmaster is at a huge tournament, and if his lover has been found painted and the blood drained from her body he becomes a main suspect. Read More »

Servais Mont, a photographer, matches Nadine Chevalier who makes her cash starring in economical soft-core films. Read More »

A middle class household in Loire, in which matters look only a bit off kilter. Read More »

Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed. Read More »

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. Read More »

In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. Read More »

This movie is the sequel to “God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun” (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol), and takes place 29 years after Antonio das Mortes killed Corisco (the “Blond Devil”), last of the Cangaceiros. Read More »

Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches Read More »

The young toolmaker Jochen fights with his colleagues to a performance bonus. Read More »