“Under the Bridges”, made in the last year of the Third Reich, proves that artistic Read More »
Tag Archives: Germany
A Girl Cut in Two / La fille coupée en deux (2007) Claude Chabrol, Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand
Gabrielle is a young woman with a future: she’s the weather girl on a local TV station Read More »
Henri 4 / Henry of Navarre (2010) Jo Baier, Julien Boisselier, Joachim Król, Andreas Schmidt
A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre Read More »
Golem, the Spirit of the Exile / Golem, l’esprit de l’exil (1992) Amos Gitai, Hanna Schygulla, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Ophrah Shemesh
An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement Read More »
The Flight of the Eagle / Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd (1982) Jan Troell, Max von Sydow, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Göran Stangertz
Based on the novel by Per Olaf Sundman, Ingenjör Andrées Luftfärd (Flight of the Eagle) Read More »
The Farewell / Abschied – Brechts letzter Sommer (2000) Jan Schütte, Josef Bierbichler, Monica Bleibtreu, Jeanette Hain
It is one of the last days of an exceptionally hot summer in 1956. Read More »
The Fair / Kirmes (1960) Wolfgang Staudte, Juliette Mayniel, Götz George, Hans Mahnke
At the end of WWII a soldier who had often been ordered to execute women Read More »
Berlin Around the Corner / Berlin um die Ecke (1965) Gerhard Klein, Dieter Mann, Monika Gabriel, Erwin Geschonneck
Berlin in the 1960s. Olaf (Dieter Mann) and Horst (Kaspar Eichel) are two young metalworkers Read More »
Seven Hours of Gunfire / Aventuras del Oeste (1965) Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent, Rik Van Nutter, Adrian Hoven, Gloria Milland
When he was 12 years old, Bill Cody, later knew as Buffalo Bill Read More »
Strange M. Victor / L’étrange Monsieur Victor (1938) Jean Grémillon, Raimu, Pierre Blanchar, Madeleine Renaud
A merchant from Toulon (Raimu) of honorable appearance is in fact a receiver for a band of criminals. Read More »