1981-1990

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A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.Read More »

A Soviet allegory made during the somewhat more permissive atmosphere under Gorbachev, of the sometimes puzzling relationship between a master and a slave.Read More »

“An almost forgotten little thriller with the great Bruno Ganz…”

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Former bank manager Bruno, who now works as a gardener, seeks revenge on his old bank. After he saves the life of the unemployed Stefano, he sees him and his girlfriend Maria as the ideal accomplices for his plan. Together they want to rob the bank where Bruno once worked and thus fight for a new life.Read More »

The platoon leader of the mainland gang was robbed of an arms deal by the gang leader Feng Weixiong. As a result, the two sides forged enmity and fought each other from time to time. The young gang David Huang and the retired Uncle Sha Zhanjia were ordered to investigate the case. On one occasion, Feng shot and killed a foreign military officer with two mainland gunmen in order to frame the platoon leader and force the police to launch “Operation Harlem” to wipe out the gang.Read More »

An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a ’60s radical turned doctor in exile.

Doc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. As a doctor, he knows that the illness he has contracted ten years before in war-torn Africa is getting worse. The diagnosis is cholera, but Doc Knows the disease’s real name: despair. His thoughts about his failed struggle for justice and ideals are drowned regularly in alcohol. On the other side of the world lives Jimmy, a speed-loving motorbike freak who, when his mother dies, finds a letter from Doc and discovers that his father, whom he thought was dead, is still alive. The encounter of the two men leads to a reappraisal of two worlds in opposition.Read More »

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A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean’s novel “La Lectrice”. Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constance decides to do the same. Here the film takes on a kaleidoscopic effect as the lives of Constance and Marie become merged, making it hard to distinguish what is real and what is fantasy. This structure is further complicated when the lives of Constance’s clients become tangled with the stories she reads. The film is interspersed with readings from well known literary sources as diverse as, amongst others, Baudelaire, Duras, Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll and de Sade’s “120 days…”Read More »

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After his business partner Robert Shriving is killed by an exploding computer, Duncan Free (Ian Ogilvy) sets out to uncover a network of powerful individuals who are using technology to collect personal data for their own ends.Read More »

Franz Woyzeck, the protagonist of Georg Büchner’s unfinished drama is incorporated in this adaption of a classic. The contemporary Franz Wodzeck lives in Germany’s Ruhr industrial region. Wodzeck meanders back and forth between the monotony of working each day in a car factory and returning each evening to the cheerless desolation of the factory dormitory. Once his girlfriend, Maleen, snubs him for his boss, Wodzeck’s personal and social frustrations escalate into a vista of emotions: he runs amok and bloodily stubs Maleen to death. After he has killed his one sole love Wodzeck resigns himself to his fate. A hollow shell of a man is admitted to a psychiatric asylum. He feels no more anxiety, no more desire. He simply exists. FBW Prädikat: “wertvoll”.—Oliver HerbrichRead More »

A pair of lovers rob a train for money but accidentally cause leakage of a tanker that is transporting highly toxic material, and break through the ozone layer. A boy stays in home because of illness finds suddenly that he can understand the white cat’s language. And the cat tells him that the severe accident without ending will cause extinction of all lives on earth. But all adults are busy making money and living, no one wants to listen the boy and his animal’s words. So the boy has to organize animals with him to finds the source of pollution and save the whole world.Read More »