Germany

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A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained.Read More »

Micha, a young boy being beaten by his abusive father, joins other bullies at school to terrorize people for amusement, including his own brother.Read More »

“An intelligent reflection on the power dynamics in a modern relationship…”

Synopsis:
Saara (35) and Robert (32) are high on their love. Just recently Robert moved from Berlin to Helsinki to give their relationship a real perspective. Their love is a constant play with gender role clichés and power relations, yet behind the unconventional façade, both have to struggle with their fears and insecurities. Looking forward to a time-out, the two set off to an extensive summer holiday on a lonely island in the Finnish archipelago. Triggered by the rough nature, the couple falls back into archaic patterns they are desperately trying to overcome.Read More »

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.Read More »

In Police Department 1985 (1985), Heise observes the ins and outs of the Berlin People’s Police Department. Fassbinderesque mise-en-scènes of officers watching the USA v. GDR hockey game in a rec room adorned with gaudy floral wallpaper are contrasted with long tracking shots of Berlin-Mitte streets and the recordings of police statements: A woman describes her domestic abuse incident and a man, arrested for trespassing, explains that he just realized that these walls were meant to contain them, not to keep the “others” out.Read More »

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White-collar crime from the perspective of the public prosecutor’s office. The unemployed civil engineer Kaiser (Martin Lüttge) becomes the managing director of the construction company “Zielbau GmbH”. Bankruptcy is foreseeable because the only client, Siegmann (Alexander Radszun), has negotiated a construction price that is far too low. After the bankruptcy, the subcontractors cannot be paid, apparently planned by Siegmann, and Siegmann owns the apartment block. Prosecutor König (Hark Bohm) wants to prove that Siegmann is guilty of fraud. But evidence must not be obtained by illegal means.Read More »

Tells the story of punk in the GDR.Read More »

A former prostitute working at a Swiss reform school meets a girl who reminds her of herself.Read More »

Jim Tudor, screeanarchy.com
Margarette von Trotta found Ingmar Bergman a long time ago. She recollects as much in her new documentary about the iconoclast Swedish filmmaker, Searching for Ingmar Bergman, an excellent, excellent effort which she goes ahead and stars in. She was a young lady, living in late-1950s Paris, when her Nouvelle Vague-obsessed cohorts dragged her to a screening of Bergman’s first internationally acclaimed masterpiece, The Seventh Seal. Read More »