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Realtime, an experimental feature, impresses as an early reflection of the interaction between computer graphics and military technology, of simulation and reality in a world governed by electronic systems and increasing automation. (MUBI)Read More »
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‘This historical satire, based on Heinrich Mann’s world-famous novel, Der Untertan, is ranked by film critics among the 100 Most Significant German Films of all time. In Mann’s biting critique of conservative Wilhelmine Germany, written during WWI, Diederich Hessling learns an important lesson for an ambitious man: one must first serve power to gain power for oneself. From then on, his modus operandi is to bow to superiors and kick underlings.’
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‘A young German man flees from an unhappy marriage to live on an island in the Adriatic Sea off the Yugoslavian coast. His mother attempts to hire a young girl to bring him back to Germany.’
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Thriller set in the world of Forensic Pathology. Coroner Paul Herzfeld finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.Read More »
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Young Sonja is accused of murdering her boyfriend Manfred. The film reveals her background, which remains hidden in court: the half-orphan girl becomes pregnant by Manfred, has an abortion and is sent to a reformatory for it. Manfred gets her pregnant again and then leaves her; desperate and humiliated, she shoots him. In court she remains defiant and silent. On the last day of the hearing, a deus ex machina appears: the figure skater Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, Sonja’s great idol, descends from the sky and floats with her over the roofs of Regensburg.Read More »
Black and white short film with Claudia Skoda and Gerhard Plez as actors.
It is part of Infermental 1, a film that gathers short films of many German directors and lasts 4 hours.Read More »
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Married with a young daughter, a 30-year-old woman yearns to return to her working life as a translator, to the confusion and consternation of her husband, a prosperous engineer. A formally stringent adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.Read More »
The mayor of a small town is trying to gain glory for himself by starting a youth football team. The head of a local agricultural school challenges his self-indulgence by starting an all-girls team to compete against the boys.Read More »
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Scenes from everyday life in Afghanistan. A film diary of sensitive intensity about what is new in the life of the people and which exists side by side with backwardness and attempted restoration of outdated structures.Read More »