Drama

Mykola and Vasya go in search of their father, who left them when they were children, after they come to know that he is dying in Luxembourg. Kolya considers him a hero, while Vasya thinks he is a scoundrel.Read More »

Two troubled women on the edge see their lives intertwined when they embark on a vicious crusade of revenge, fueled by shifting passions and haunting secrets.Read More »

Synopsis:
THE SADNESS OF THE FIGHT IS THE SADNESS OF LOVE. THE JOY AND DECLINE OF LIFE THAT ONLY COUPLES KNOW.

A husband and wife’s pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.Read More »

Synopsis:
Jan Nebel’s life is quite depressing and just a streak of bad luck. His former girlfriend tells him that she is HIV positive, his sister is married to a disgusting idiot and his father dies with his head on a plate of noodles. Above all, he gets into a street riot between anarchists and the police on the way to his job at a slaughterhouse. Thus, he is fired, but gets to know the mysterious Vera who becomes his new girlfriend. Together with Jan’s weird friend Buddy, they move into his father’s apartment and try to survive their Berlin everyday life…Read More »

Variety Review
A strongly narrated tale about obsessive love between two sisters, “Open My Heart” by young documaker Giada Colagrande starts as a quasi-voyeuristic look at forbidden passion, then slowly turns to a very Italian film noir. Though the racy material is used more ritualistically than naturalistically, story still has a perverse fascination, despite some technical clumsiness and stiff thesping.Read More »

17-year-old Claire struggles between her commitment to swimming and her first turmoil in love. Maurice Revedy, an elderly man who is as mysterious as he is extravagant, welcomes her in his spacious home. But Claire carefully avoids this distant figure who is no other than her grandfather. Proud, rebellious, and solitary, they represent two generations who push each other away, while also being attracted to each other. They are two interwoven trajectories that confront each other, one searching for the future, the other tormented by his past.Read More »

Ragnar has left his family farm and works as a taxi driver in Reykjavík in the early sixties. He’s drawn to the beautiful but unhappy girl Gogo and hopes to build a better life with her. But she’s a lost soul and their brief romance results in tragedy. Hugely popular and controversial in its day, it was seen by 63.000 people in Iceland which was then around the third of the population. The film is based on the novel 79 af stöðinni by Indriði G. Þorsteinsson.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 »

Harold Pinter’s 1975 play, adapted for television by Granada in 1978.

A legendary pairing for John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, No Man’s Land is Pinter at his most ethereal and individual. Pinter’s obsession with memory making victims of us all is the starting point for this tale of Hirst, a wealthy writer haunted by his past, and Spooner, the man without a past who tries to rescue him. Spooner’s personality is built on a bundle of self-inventions that are likely to topple at any moment. It is a play of despair, of emptiness, vague in its diction and purveying an air of loneliness and waste. As a hypnotic treatise on the pipe dream of a past made good, it is a spellbinding, haunting cautionary tale.Read More »