An aviator of a commercial line disappears in the Brazilian jungle. Two friends organize an expedition to find him. As if there were not enough dangers in the Amazon, three members of the expedition have another goal: to steal a golden goddess.Read More »
Cine-Gazzettino, 23 September 1929 wrote:
Wilhelm Dieterle’s strong and manly art and Marcella Albani’s suave charm intermingle here in a splendid natural setting, to depict a drama where love and duty, compassion and hate, purity and crime merge together in a very interesting story.Read More »
On a shortlist with Eiichi Yamamoto’s BELLADONNA OF SADNESS and René Laloux’s FANTASTIC PLANET as one of the most surreal, psychedelic and truly cosmic animated features ever made, German director Helmut Herbst’s utterly insane THE CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS follows a commune of Berlin stoners and intellectuals who get set adrift in space in 1972 in a packing container clutched in a giant flying hand. Various space flotsam smashes into the windshield – enormous insects, Mighty Mouse, a Bird Man from “Flash Gordon” – while hypnotic Krautrock drones in the background moaning “Where am I??”, and a naked man bounces up and down off a massive red pepper. Read More »
Jacob (11) tries to hide the suicide of his father because he is afraid to have to live in an orphanage.Read More »
from wiki:
Shalom Pharao (1982) is a German cartoon by Curt Linda (director) and Günter Tolar (screenplay).
The film is about the biblical story about Joseph and his brothers. The narration is a story-within-a-story. The secretary tells Pilate and his wife the biblical events in the story of Joseph (Genesis / 1. Book of Mose chap. 37-50). Mostly with contemporary references.Read More »
synopsis:
A City is Blackmailed
Criminals are blackmailing the city of Leipzig and showing that they’re serious by
pulling off a major attack. The special police squad finds evidence leading to a village
that is scheduled for demolition to make way for open-pit mining. The cops run into a
wall of silence among the townspeople who are fighting to preserve their village…
Directed by renowned filmmaker Dominik Graf, a realistic thriller that pits high-tech
against tradition in the midst of a desolate, ruined landscapeRead More »
The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna to solve the murder of his father. Step by step he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in Secret-Service machinations and chemical-weapon sales and ends up in mortal danger himself. Meanwhile, he also realizes that there is no connection between his father’s murderess and those dubious activities. Her motive for killing him goes back much further, to a court hearing during the Third Reich.
This film was later remade by Carlo Rola with the same title in 2008.Read More »
Plot and Background
Director Hellmuth Costard asked himself in 1974: “Is it possible to make films in Germany today?”. Benefiting from a television job, he equips himself with his own camera system and films with several cameras in order to make the illusion of filming clear. In 1977 he failed, interviewed colleagues like Hark Bohm (“North Sea is Murder Sea”) and met his idol Jean-Luc Godard, who came to Hamburg for a day but failed at the NDR and left again. Costard is speechless.Read More »
