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Tag Archives: Germany
Joyless Street (1925) Die freudlose Gasse

Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered Read More »
Windows on Monday (2006) Ulrich Köhler, Isabelle Menke

Frieder and his wife Nina, a doctor, are fixing up their house, though their relationship is obviously strained. Read More »
Night Shapes (1999) Andreas Dresen, Myriam Abbas

The Pope is in town and the night of his visit is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin’s inhabitants. The down-and-out, the rich and the poor Read More »
Ghetto (2006) Audrius Juzenas, Heino Ferch

In 1942, in Vilnius, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel Read More »
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972) Luigi Comencini

Based on Carlo Collodi’s classic novel, this mini-series is about an animated puppet named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. Read More »
Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub (1941) Jürgen von Alten

A warrant officer in the Great War lands up falling in love with a woman who has written a letter to an unknown soldier. Read More »
Lacombe Lucien (1974) Louis Malle, Pierre Blaise

A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance Read More »
Ghosts (2005) Christian Petzold, Julia Hummer

Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden Read More »
Rewind & Play (2022) Alain Gomis, Thelonious Monk

The lack of respect with which the Black musician Thelonious Monk was treated in Autumn, 1969. Read More »