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A bored, aimless 14-year-old girl falls into the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s after attending ‘The Sound’, a modern new disco. In search of acceptance and freedom, she falls in with a teenage boy who is hooked on heroin and eventually develops an addiction of her own.Read More »
This film, set in the 80ies, tells about young people in a big city, their lifes, their desires, their dramas and their dreams. The five episodes, directed by then young german directors who had just graduated from the HFF in Munich, Germany (Hochschule für Film & Fernsehen) are all inspired by french and american genre-movies and throughout free of illusions, which expressed the fashionable trend of the ‘no future’-attitude of these days. The titles and directors of the five episodes:
1. Verliebt, verlobt, BRD-igt – dir.: Gisela Weilemann
2. Star – dir.: Helmer von Lützelburg
3. Running Blue – dir.: Dominik Graf
4. Panter Neuss – dir.: Johann Schmid
5. Disco Satanica – dir.: Wolfgang Büld
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A boastful miller pretends that his daughter Marie can spin straw into gold, and so she is locked into a room full of straw and ordered to spin it into gold by the next morning. A little man appears and offers his help in exchange for Marie’s necklace. The greedy treasurer makes Marie spin twice more until the only thing she has left to give the little man is the promise of her first-born child…
The classic Grimm’s fairy tale with socially critical overtones in its analysis of work and exploitation.Read More »
The owner of a failing Munich strip club sends his manager to an area of the country considered backwards to recruit new talent for his club.Read More »
Johanna (Katharina Thalbach), after escaping Nazi Germany, takes refuge on a friend’s family estate in Finland. There, she experiences a passionate erotic romance with her friend’s brother, Ragnar (Jukka-Pekka Palo), who shares her anti-fascist feelings and wants to join the resistance movement in France. Based on Klaus Mann’s novel.Read More »
For many years, Nadja has worked as a housekeeper for an upper class Greek couple. When she’s diagnosed with a serious illness, and the man of the house runs into financial difficulties due to the economic crisis, Nadja loses her job.Read More »
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20 years old Casanova Jan falls in love with the 3 years younger Turkish girl Yasemin, who lives in Germany with her family. She’s well protected by her father, who believes in the Turkish traditions. She has to struggle for every little freedom that’s certain for her German friends, but still respects and loves her father and keeps the appearance of an honorable Turkish girl. Her love to Jan however disturbs this fine balance. So it’s not hate or quarrel that interferes with their love, but the differences of their cultures.Read More »
A Greek beach on a sunny day. All of a sudden, a small dinghy boat crammed with fifty refugees lands on the beach and its passengers start running through a crowd of stunned tourists.
This disturbing scene shapes the destinies of many characters: a Nigerian on the run, a Greek security guard haunted by guilt, a French camp owner caught up in the upheaval, a German couple hosting a secretive refugee, a Syrian family taking a fresh start but soon to be tormented by their past.Read More »
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“The condemned Village”. After years in Soviet Captivity, farmer Heinz Weizmann returns to his village in West Germany. His joy of returning home is clouded by news the U.S. occupation forces intend to build an airfield on village lands. The villagers are expected to just move away. Led by Heinz they protest. He is arrested and imprisoned but eventually support from all of West Germany prevents the airfield from being built, and the village and their way of life is saved.Read More »