
East German fairy tale adaption of the Brothers Grimm story “Bearskin” in which a soldier Read More »
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The White Desert (1922) Ernst Wendt, Karl Balta, Maria Bauer, Dita Borissowa

About the violent captain Gaustad on a ship of rape, mutiny and shipwreck, in the icy waters of Sweden. Read More »
Schlußakkord / Final Accord (1936) Douglas Sirk, Willy Birgel, Lil Dagover, Mária Tasnádi Fekete

A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. Read More »
Full Contact (2015) David Verbeek, Grégoire Colin, Lizzie Brocheré, Slimane Dazi

Full Contact is a contemporary tale of a man trying to find new purpose Read More »
Ewiger Wald / Enchanted Forest (1936) Hanns Springer, Rolf von Sonjevski-Jamrowski, Günther Hadank, Heinz Herkommer, Paul Klinger

Intended as a cinematic proof for the shared destiny of the German woods and the German people beyond the vicissitudes of history Read More »
Die Republik der Backfische (1928) Constantin J. David, Käthe von Nagy, Raimondo Van Riel, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur

The ridin’, ropin’ and shootin’ Billie is shipped from the Argentinian pampas to Europe to be polished girls’ boarding school. Read More »
The House on the Coast (1954) Bosko Kosanovic, René Deltgen, Bert Sotlar, Nadja Regin

The story takes place in a town on Adriatic coast. Mother wants to marry her daughter to a wealthy doctor Read More »
Our Flags Lead Us Forward (1933) Hans Steinhoff, Heinrich George, Berta Drews, Jürgen Ohlsen

In the depths of the Great Depression and in the waning days of the crumbling Weimar Republic Read More »
Train Station Pickups (1979) Walter Boos, Marco Kröger, Katja Bienert, Ingeborg Steinbach

A film about drug addiction and prostitution in Berlin that focuses exclusively on “show values” Read More »
Operette (1940) Willi Forst, Maria Holst, Dora Komar

The first film of Willi Forst’s legendary Viennese trilogy is essentially a condensed history of the golden age of Viennese operetta mirrored in the fictive love story Read More »