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Tag Archives: Germany
Peer Gynt (2006) Uwe Janson, Robert Stadlober, Susanne-Marie Wrage, Karoline Herfurth

A complete opposite of a hero is banished from his village for his (in)actions. Read More »
The President / Le président (2013) Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Gérard Essomba, Valery Ndongo

A president for 42 years in power discretely left the palace on the eve of an important electoral meeting. Read More »
Goodbye Bafana (2007) Bille August, Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger

James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth, Bafana, and had even had a photograph taken with him. Read More »
The All-Around Reduced Personality: Outtakes (1978)

Edda works as a freelance press photographer, usually on commission earning little for uninteresting jobs Read More »
Inventory / Stan posiadania (1989) Krzysztof Zanussi, Krystyna Janda, Artur Zmijewski, Maja Komorowska

Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Read More »
No Shooting Time for Foxes / Schonzeit für Füchse (1966) Peter Schamoni, Helmut Förnbacher, Christian Doermer, Andrea Jonasson

A young man and his friend Viktor are two young men from a middle-class house. Read More »
The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina / Le bellissime gambe di Sabrina (1958) Camillo Mastrocinque, Mamie Van Doren, Antonio Cifariello, Rossana Martini

Sabrina is beautiful, Sabrina has beautiful legs, Sabrina has seven moles on her Read More »
Twelve Chairs / Zwölf Stühle (2004) Ulrike Ottinger, Georgiy Deliev, Gennadiy Skarga, Svetlana Dyagilyeva

In her glorious adaptation of Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov’s 1920s Soviet satirical novel Read More »
Chocolat (1988) Claire Denis, Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet

A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon Read More »