
Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the Second World War Read More »
Tag Archives: Germany
Cross of Iron (1977) Sam Peckinpah, James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason

With too much action to be lumped with “antiwar” films, and too little pro-war sentiment Read More »
Among the Cinders (1984) Rolf Hädrich, Paul O’Shea, Derek Hardwick, Yvonne Lawley

Author Maurice Shadbolt went before the cameras to play father to the main character Read More »
The Player / Der Spieler (1938) Gerhard Lamprecht, Eugen Klöpfer, Lída Baarová, Hedwig Bleibtreu

Quite a fine and engaging interpretation of Dostoevsky’s novel. Read More »
The Children (1990) Tony Palmer, Ben Kingsley, Kim Novak

Rose Sellars (Kim Novak) is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower (Sir Ben Kingsley). Read More »
The Chronicles of Polyaris (2014) Christine Reeh, Dmitry Bogomolov

This film aims the poetic portray an abandoned town, called Pyramiden, surrounded by eternal ice Read More »
Iracema – Uma Transa Amazônica (1975) Jorge Bodanzky, Orlando Senna, Paulo César Peréio, Edna de Cássia, Lúcio Dos Santos

Truck driver travelling along the Transamazonic Road, a huge highway in Brazil that crosses Read More »
The Cold Heart / Das Kalte Herz (1933/2016) Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Franz Schnyder, Elfriede Gärtner, Stefan Schnabel

A poor and lonely coal seller trades his heart to a demon of the forest Read More »
Samson and Delilah (1996) Nicolas Roeg, Dennis Hopper, Elizabeth Hurley, Eric Thal

Mara and her husband Manoa are both upstanding and religious Israelites living Read More »
The Kaiser’s Lackey / Der Untertan (1951) Wolfgang Staudte, Werner Peters, Paul Esser, Renate Fischer

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. Read More »