This Nazi propaganda film compares the ancient Egyptian pharaohs with the contemporary German regime of Adolf Hitler. Read More »
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Anton Kutter – Germanen gegen Pharaonen AKA Germanics Against Pharaonics (1939)
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Luis Trenker – Der verlorene Sohn AKA The Prodigal Son (1934)
1931-1940ClassicsDramaGermanyLuis TrenkerThird Reich CinemaPLOT: “Mountain-film” specialist Luis Trenker plies his trade with his usual expertise in the Austrian Velorene Sohn (Prodigal Son). Trenker himself plays the leading role of Tonia Feuersinger, a Tyrolean mountaineer bound and determined to scale the American Rockies. He also wants to journey to the States to court pretty American tourist Lillian Williams (played by pretty American actress Marian Marsh). Leaving his broken-hearted local girlfriend (Maria Andergast) behind, Tonio treks to New York, but never quite makes it to the Rockies; instead, he gets a welding job on a skyscraper, then achieves success as a prizefighter. In the end, however, he realizes that his heart is still in the Tyrol and thus returns to the arms of his hometown sweetheart. Though aimed at the German-speaking clientele, Verlorene Sohn was financed in Hollywood by Universal Pictures.
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? – Die Kanzlei (1920)
?1911-1920GermanySilentWeimar Republic cinemaFilm restored by Filmoteca de la Generalitat Valenciana (Spain)
At a chancery a lawyer helps his female customers, predominantly with his member. Watch how even back in silent-movie times girls expressed themselves freely on camera. By the way, back in those days, women with ‘Rubens’ figures were considered beauty-queens, but the sex was similar to what’s happening today! There’s merry threesomes, lesbian games and a priest off the straight and narrow! Porn-fodder of the rare kind: A movie from 1920!Read More »
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Jörg Adolph & Gereon Wetzel – How to Make a Book with Steidl (2010)
2001-2010DocumentaryGermanyJörg Adolph and Gereon WetzelGerhard Steidl has spent the last 40 years printing and publishing books. His legendary, unconditional obsession with his trade has led him to become the publisher of choice for an A list of artists that include Martin Parr, Ed Ruscha, Robert Adams, Jeff Wall and Robert Frank among others.Read More »
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Hans Richter – Inflation / Zweigroschenzauber / Rennsymphonie (1927 – 1929)
1921-1930ExperimentalGermanyHans RichterShort FilmWeimar Republic cinema
Three shorts by Hans Richter.
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Hans Richter – Alles dreht sich, Alles bewegt sich / Rhythm 23 / Two pence magic (1923 – 1930)
1921-1930ExperimentalGermanyHans RichterShort FilmWeimar Republic cinema3 Films by Hans Richter.
ALLES DREHT SICH, ALLES BEWEGT SICH (1929) (00:03:25)
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Hans Richter – Filmstudie (1926)
1921-1930ExperimentalGermanyHans RichterShort FilmWeimar Republic cinema

Entertaining Dadaist experimental short, similar to Man Ray’s work, full of shifting geometric shapes, stock footage of seagulls, flying eyeballs, and glaring floating heads.Read More »
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Uli Edel – Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2008)
Drama2001-2010GermanyPoliticsUli Edel

Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force Horst Herold. And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he’s only dealing with the tip of the iceberg. Written by Constantin FilmRead More »
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Thomas Heise – Eisenzeit (1992)
Documentary1991-2000GermanyThomas Heise
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Documentary film on the memories of four children from Eisenhüttenstadt who were all born at the same time the Berlin wall was built.Read More »




