High-school senior Peter considers the adults around him to be hypocritical Read More »
Tag Archives: Germany
Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings AKA Heimat 3 – Chronik einer Zeitenwende (2004) Edgar Reitz, Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Peter Schneider
Hermann Simon and Clarissa Lichtblau reunite after almost exactly 19 years Read More »
Royal Baths AKA Prinzenbad (1993) Bernhard Wicki, Ulrich Wildgruber, Róbert Alföldi, Richard Blank
I shot Prinzenbad in 1993. Five years earlier, my family and I had taken a trip to Budapest. Read More »
The Vanishing AKA Spoorloos (1988) George Sluizer, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege
Rex and Saskia are on holiday, a young couple in love. They stop at a busy service Read More »
Sleeper AKA Schläfer (2005) Benjamin Heisenberg, Bastian Trost, Mehdi Nebbou, Loretta Pflaum
Johannes, a new assistant at the university, is asked to provide reports Read More »
Bungalow (2002) Ulrich Köhler, Lennie Burmeister, Devid Striesow, Trine Dyrholm
Paul is a German soldier who goes AWOL when the truck he is riding Read More »
Lucky (Niggers) AKA Im Glück. Neger (2006) Thomas Heise, Lena Lauzemis
This film recollects Heise’s experience in 1990 when he staged a play by Heiner Müller Read More »
The Ball (2003) Dorien Gay Rosenthal, Veronika Zemanova, Warren Banks, Avi Muyderman
Money, sex, or love? If your last night on earth was just beginning – what would you do? Read More »
Takiye: Allah yolunda (2010) Ben Verbong, Erhan Emre, Stipe Erceg, Özay Fecht
Metin and his family are devout Muslims living in Cologne. Read More »
Devil in the Flesh AKA Le malizie di Venere (1969) Massimo Dallamano, Laura Antonelli, Régis Vallée, Loren Ewing
Based on the infamous novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch this fine film follows Read More »
The Monster of London City AKA Das Ungeheuer von London-City (1964) Edwin Zbonek, Hansjörg Felmy, Marianne Koch, Dietmar Schönherr
Then the spirit of Jack the Ripper seems to be very much alive in 1960s London Read More »
What a Way to Die AKA Sommersprossen (1968) Helmut Förnbacher, William Berger, Helga Anders
Germany 1934. In the middle of a southern German forest, a number of mannequins Read More »
The Mumbo Jumbo (2000) Stephen Cookson, Jamie Walters, Brian Blessed, Joss Ackland
A cynical young American, Thomas Doubting, stumbles upon a magical amulet Read More »
Freckled Max and the Spooks AKA Pehavý Max a strasidlá (1987) Juraj Jakubisko, Martin Hreben, Gerhard Karzel, Eddie Constantine
Young orphan Max leaves the circus to escape his abusive fosters. Read More »
The Wound AKA Yara (1998) Yilmaz Arslan, Yelda Reynaud, Halil Ergün, Nur Sürer
Hulya, the daughter of a family who migrated to Germany from Turkey (Yelda Reynaud) Read More »