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Kurt Maetzig – Ernst Thälmann – Sohn seiner Klasse AKA Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class (1954)
This historical-biographical film begins in the first days of November 1918 on the western front. News comes to the soldiers…
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Kurt Maetzig – Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse AKA Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class (1955)
The second part of the Ernst Thaelmann films encompasses the time period between 1930 and Thaelmann’s murder in 1944. It…
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Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani – Ajami (2009)
Synopsis:Ajami is an area of Jaffa where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians try to live together in an atmosphere that…
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Robert Florey – Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Synopsis:In 19th Century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt…
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Raoul Ruiz – Régime sans pain (1985)
Jonathan Rosenbaum from Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons (2004), pp. 236-237: Within my experience, Ruiz is the…
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Juichiro Yamasaki – Atarashiki tami AKA Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn (2015)
Synopsis:Yamasaki’s highly inventive take on the jidaigeki (historical drama) concerns a group of rural farmers treated poorly by tax authorities…
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Anthony Mann & Laurence Harvey – A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
In West Berlin at the height of the Cold War, British spy Eberlin (Laurence Harvey) is tasked with the dangerous…
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Simon Rawles – Inside the Secret World of Incels (2019)
As passions rise over Brexit many of the UK’s female MPs have received death threats and rape threats online. I…
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John Waters – Polyester (1981)
Quote:For his first studio picture, filth maestro John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse…
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