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Tag Archives: Germany
Death Is My Trade / Aus einem deutschen Leben (1977) Theodor Kotulla, Götz George, Elisabeth Schwarz, Kurt Hübner

Franz Lang (Götz George) was one of the commandants of the Auschwitz concentration camps. Read More »
Wherever You Are… (1988) Krzysztof Zanussi, Julian Sands, Renée Soutendijk, Maciej Robakiewicz

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland Read More »
Is This Fate? / Von wegen ‘Schicksal’ (1979) Helga Reidemeister

This documentary chronicles the ups and downs of a German family in the 1970s Read More »
War and Love in Kabul / Mein Herz sieht die Welt schwarz – Eine Liebe in Kabul (2009) Helga Reidemeister, Hossein, Shaima

Hossein and Shaima have loved each other since childhood. As teenagers they were separated by war. Read More »
Germany Year Zero / Germania anno zero (1948) Roberto Rossellini, Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze

Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the Second World War Read More »
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

Rose Sellars (Kim Novak) is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower (Sir Ben Kingsley). Read More »