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Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1930.
Language
German
Description
Emil Jannings (The Last Laugh, Faust, Othello), the quintessential German expressionist actor, stars as Professor Rath, the sexually-repressed instructor of a boys' prep school. After learning of the pupils' infatuation with French postcards depicting a local nightclub songstress, he decides to personally investigate the source of such indecency. But as soon as he enters the shadowy Blue Angel nightclub and steals one glimpse of the smoldering Lola-Lola...
2) Fata Morgana
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
German
Description
Footage shot in and around the Sahara Desert, accompanied only by a spoken creation myth and the songs of Leonard Cohen.
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
FLYING CLIPPER, directed by Hermann Leitner and featuring narration from Burl Ives, follows the untold adventures of a Swedish sailing ship and its young crew as they navigate the Mediterranean Sea in the early 1960s. This documentary is a stunning travelogue that takes you to the dreamiest destinations of the old world. Under the stewardship of Captain Skoglund, a group of 20 Merchant Marine cadets venture through historical landmarks, such as Tutankhamen's...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2010
Language
German
Formats
Description
A young couple's relationship is pushed to the brink while vacationing in the Mediterranean in this smart, sexy drama from acclaimed new filmmaker Maren Ade. On the surface, Chris and Gitti appear blissfully in love while enjoying the sun and sand of Sardinia. But the more time they spend together, the more their silly games and playful teasing begin to unmask hidden fears and desires. When they accidentally run into another, seemingly happier and...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
German
Description
An affecting and bittersweet glimpse into the shared connections of a motley group of nightshift workers at a big box store, including the reclusive newbie Christian (Franz Rogowski) and the charming but mysterious Marion (Sandra Hüller). Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and **BFI London Film Festival**.
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
German
Description
Filmmaker Rüdiger Stein wants to produce his first meaningful documentary. By chance, he meets Klaus and Manuela, two young teenagers who grew up in difficult social circumstances. They are expecting a child and plan to move in together. It’s a perfect, socially important topic for Rüdiger’s first film. But Manuela changes her mind and the project threatens to fall apart. Rüdiger feels obliged to intervene so he can save his film, but it seems...
7) A6/A9
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Concrete reptiles are chasing you and it's 100 metres until the last exit...
8) REALFilm
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
German
Description
This multimedia collage, which includes performances by pantomime artist and dancer Fine Kwiatkowski, painter and filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck and musician Robert Linke, is a reflection on the medium of film and its elements: sound, light and movement. Dammbeck’s goal is to cleanse these elements of ideology and then commerce and compose a new film out of them. The process is played out in the space in real time. Recorded in Leipzig on May 14, 1986,...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
For the 1977 intermedia exhibition Tangenten I (Tangents I), Dammbeck and co-organizer, sculptor and painter Frieder Heinze had planned to collaborate on a film that would combine non-camera animation with 35mm footage of a train ride between the two Dresden districts of Radebeul and Pieschen. When Tangents I was banned, Heinze turned to other projects, but Dammbeck continued working on the film by himself. METAMORPHOSES I—the first experimental...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
German
Description
After Dammbeck’s original film project Herakles (Hercules) was rejected by the East German DEFA Studios in 1983-84, the artist was still fascinated by the Hercules story. He started experimenting with different media combinations, including overpainting, photography, film clips, collage, painting and movement. These experiments resulted in groundbreaking multi-media collaborations and in the film THE CAVE OF HERCULES, in which Dammbeck explores...
11) Wallflower Tango
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Kalle, a thief who is just about to steel a valuable diamond is caught by the lonely Charlotte. Kalle tries to escape with his haul but Charlotte is not willing to let him go...
12) Birdstrike
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
If an airplane encounters birds, the birds are normally on the losing end. But what if the airplane is smaller than the bird?
13) Cobra Verde
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Portuguese
Description
The feared bandit COBRA VERDE (Klaus Kinski) is hired by a plantation owner to supervise his slaves. After the owner suspects Cobra Verde of consorting with his young daughters, the owner wishes him gone. Rather than kill him,the owner sends Cobra Verde to Africa. The only white man in the area, Cobra Verde finds himself the victim of torture and humiliation. Later, he trains soldiers in a rebel army. Far from home, Cobra Verde is on the edge of madness....
14) Eolomea
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
German
Description
Eight space cargo-ships disappear without a trace within three days, and there is suddenly no contact with the orbiting space station, Margot. The space council orders a total flight stop. But one space ship secretly takes off to go to the space station. The scientist in charge, Maria Scholl, sees no other solution than to order a total flight stop to this mysterious sector of space. Her colleague, Prof. Tal, is acting suspiciously, as he knows things...
15) Children’s Home
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
German
Description
A film about children and teenagers living in an East German CHILDREN'S HOME in Mentin, Mecklenburg in the late 1970s. They talk openly about their past experiences, how they affected their lives and why they ended up in the home, describing unstable home situations, domestic violence and their parents’ alcohol abuse. But these young people also share their hopes for the future. This documentary was produced as an opening film for Roland Gräf’s...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The distinguished German writer Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) lived for several years in the 1960s on Manhattan’s Upper Westside. His publisher, Harcourt Brace, had hired him as a textbook editor for their German-language school book editions, which allowed him to stay in New York and also tend to his own writing. In his spare time he got to know his neighborhood very well, observing the goings on in the streets, cafeterias, and parks. In 1968 German...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
German
Description
Alfred and Lisa decide to divorce after only a couple of months of marriage. Alfred takes a few days off to clear his head, riding through Berlin and meeting strangers; although he ultimately returns to Lisa, but the ending remains open. In East Germany's closest counterpart to early Godard, Jürgen Böttcher grasps the life of 20-year-olds in Prenzlauer Berg with social and regional exactness and translates it into a universal language. Born in '45...
18) Jerichow
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Türkçe
Description
In a small desolate town in northeastern Germany, a handsome ex-soldier, a Turkish businessman, and his beautiful, restless wife find themselves in a desperate love triangle in this suspenseful reworking of classic film noir *The Postman Always Rings Twice* from acclaimed director Christian Petzold. Nominated for a Golden Lion at the **Venice Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*JERICHOW a compact and...
19) A Regular Woman
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Türkçe
Description
Based on the tragic “honor killing” of Hatun Aynur Sürücü in 2005, the film A REGULAR WOMAN portrays a glimpse of life for a free spirited young woman living with an ultra-conservative Turkish Muslim family in Berlin. After escaping a forced marriage in Turkey with her abusive cousin, Hatun provokes the ire of her family by embracing a westernized lifestyle. After enduring endless harassment, she finally leaves the family and attempts to survive...
20) Woyzeck
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
German
Description
Everything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But WOYZECK, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices -- the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, WOYZECK is a comic marvel: ignorant but courageous, full of energy to little purpose. To a local doctor, WOYZECK is a curiosity, the object of cruel study. WOYZECK, 40, has a young wife, Marie, and a small child. He dotes on them, but Marie, even though she has periods...
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