Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.
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Tag Archives: Germany
Winnetou und das Halbblut Apanatschi / Winnetou and the Crossbreed (1966) Harald Philipp, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Götz George, Western, Adventure
On her 21st birthday, settler Mac Haller’s daughter Apanatschi receives her father’s secret gold mine as a gift. Read More »
Old Shatterhand (1964) Hugo Fregonese, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Daliah Lavi, Western, Adventure
A peace treaty between the United States government and the Apaches is about to be signed in Washington. Read More »
Routine Pleasures (1986) Patrick Amos, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Documentary
What do a club devoted to model trains and the legendary film critic and painter Manny Farber have in common? These two story lines intersect in an attempt to recreate the past. Read More »
Abschied von gestern / Yesterday Girl (1966) Alexander Kluge, Günter Mack, Hans Korte, Drama
The film tells the story of Anita G., a young East German migrant to West Germany and her struggle to adjust to her new life.
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Honolulu (2001) Uschi Ferstl, Florian Gallenberger, Peter Bechtel, Daniel Brühl, Shira Fleisher, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Produced and directed by seven Munich Film School students, Honolulu takes place not in Hawaii, but inside of a rural town just outside of Munich, Germany. Read More »
Bluebeard (1972) Edward Dmytryk, Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. Read More »
Fontane Effi Briest (1974) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Drama, History
In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. Read More »
Hexen geschändet und zu Tode gequält / Mark of the Devil II (1973) Adrian Hoven, Erika Blanc, Anton Diffring, Percy Hoven, Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders “witches” and “heretics” during the Inquisition. Read More »
The Man You Loved to Hate (1979) Patrick Montgomery, Edward Binns, Paul Kohner, Marcel Dalio, Documentary
Erich von Stroheim was an director of silent movies, as well as an actor in both silents and talkies. Read More »