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1) Transit
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
German
Formats
Description
In Christian Petzold's brilliant and haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers's 1942 novel, Georg, a German refugee, flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming enmeshed in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie.
2) Undine
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
German
Formats
Description
Christian Petzold boldly reimagines the ancient myth of Undine in this suspenseful tale of romance and betrayal in modern day Berlin. Undine (Paula Beer) works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water. Will Undine defy fate when she meets a diver (Franz Rogowski) offering her a chance at new love?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Author Ulrich Plenzdorf and director Heiner Carow winningly portray everyday life in East Berlin in a passionate, but star-crossed love story. Featuring the music of the East German cult rock band, The Pudhys, the film proved so popular that official media blackouts could not keep audiences away from this cult classic. Paul is unhappily married to a beautiful but ignorant woman who cheats on him. Paula, who has two children from different fathers,...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Se recoge en esta obra el análisis y diagnósticos sobre mipymes de algunos sectores económicos con mucha tradición en Bogotá, que se han visto afectados por los TLC: las fábricas de muebles del barrio Doce de Octubre, las de calzado en el Restrepo, las de prendas de vestir en Policarpa Salavarrieta y los panificadores de Fontibón. Al estudio de estos gremios, se suma el de uno que no tiene un espacio físico -o cluster- en la ciudad: los desarrolladores...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Los proyectos editoriales de Germán Arciniegas y de Arturo Zapata contribuyeron a la modernización de la industria editorial colombiana, al proponer nuevos autores y temas, así como nuevas formas de acercamiento a los ya conocidos, legitimando la figura del editor al mismo tiempo como hombre de letras y de negocios. Igualmente, contribuyeron a desarrollar la edición como un espacio relativamente diferenciado de la creación literaria, la impresión...
7) Frantz
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.
8) Indecent
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Sholem Asch wrote God of Vengeance in 1907, he didn't imagine the height of controversy the play would eventually reach. Performing at first in Yiddish and German, the play's subject matter wasn't deemed contentious until it was produced in English, when the American audiences were scandalized by the onstage depiction of an amorous affair between two women. Paula Vogel's newest work traces the trajectory of the show's success through its tour...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction manuscript for young readers about a group of Allied spies and codebreakers that cracked the Nazis's infamous cypher, allowing them to read secret military messages and turn the tide of World War II. During WWII, as the Germans waged war, every Nazi plan, every attack, was sent over radio. But to the Allies listening in, the messages sounded like gibberish. The communications were encoded with a powerful cypher-unless you could unlock...
10) Bad banks
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
German
Formats
Description
The six episodes of Season One follow Jana Liekam, an up-and-coming investment banker in Luxembourg. Her conniving boss Christelle Leblanc gets her fired, and Jana has to get a similar job in Frankfurt, leaving behind her boyfriend and his 5-year-old daughter. Behind-the-scenes, Leblanc continues to manipulate Jana for her own obscure plans, tipping her off to an attractive deal. Now indebted, Jana is expected to deliver something in return.
11) Vision
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Latin
Description
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist. In a staggering performance, Barbara Sukowa portrays von Bingen’s fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of women within the order, even as she fends off outrage from...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Scenes from an East German marriage. A young couple, Sonya and Jens, are very much in love. They get married and have a child. When Sonya wants to go back to work after her maternity leave, they clash for the first time; Jens insists that she remain a full-time wife and mother. The debut film of Katrin Sass (Goodbye, Lenin!, 2003). Until Death Do Us Part turns an actual police report into a gripping drama, as director Heiner Carow (The Legend of...
13) Frantz
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
German
Description
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, FRANTZ recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war’s “lost generation”: Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz’s grave. Adrien’s presence is met with...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It is 1988. Jacob (Gottfried John), from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth (Angelica Domrose) in East Germany. When they secretly meet in East Berlin, it seems the Stasi (secret police) know about it. When Jacob visits her village, someone informs on him and he is deported. Elisabeth knows who begrudges her this love and takes her revenge. By the director Heiner Carow (Coming Out, The Legend of Paul and Paula), this film is part...
15) The Dark Valley
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
German
Description
Somewhere high in the Alps, a lone rider makes his way along a hidden path and reaches a small village, tucked away between the steep mountains. This stranger goes by the name of Greider; nobody knows where he’s from and, met with blatant distrust, nobody wants him in the village. The sons of Old Brenner, the village patriarch who holds the entire community under his threatening, violent ways, would have chased him away if Greider hadn’t given...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Writing with the wry realism of Sally Rooney, one of Germany' most promising literary talents demonstrates her incisive understanding of the complexities of relationships and the depths of the human heart in this witty and compulsively readable novel about five very different women whose lives intersect. What happens when women fulfill their roles as wives, mothers, friends, lovers, sisters, and daughters? What comes next? Award-winning author Daniela...
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