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Espionage and intrigue as nuclear scientists attempt to keep and retain top
secret information relating to the atomic bomb.Read More »

Katja Fleming (Lilli Palmer) lives a life like in a golden cage. Her husband is tycoon Robert Fleming (O.E. Hasse) who is accustomed to complimenting his wishes, and treats his wife no better than a presentable accessory. Katja is no longer willing to live in hollow luxury. The former stage actress also wants to have a life of her own, finally realizing and living out her dreams, which she had once given up for the sake of her husband. The fictitious world around her, created by Robert, depresses her more and more and threatens to suffocate her. Robert can not understand Katja’s dissatisfaction and rules like a patriarch. One day, in the guise of writer John Lawrence (Peter van Eyck), Katja’s rescue appears.Read More »

An exiled Syrian author travels to a remote island in the North Sea to commit suicide. There he stays at a modest hotel run by a devoted elderly woman whose quiet humanity incites a reawakening of his desires and instincts for life.Read More »

In 1945 Amrum Island, 12-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and farms to help feed his family. Life feels idyllic on this windswept isle until peace reveals an unexpected danger closer to home.Read More »

Synopsis:
One of the most influential and visionary artists of the past century is celebrated in this documentary which covers the highlights of his fascinating career. The format of the film mirrors the restless reality of his life; an inveterate traveller and always on the move, Max Ernst lived and worked in Germany, France, and America. His nomadic way of life kept him searching: “A painter is lost if he finds himself.” This film looks at his involvement with the Dadaists in Cologne, his time in Paris, his flight to New York, his life in America, and his return to Europe, revealing the “private, brittle places of refuge” he created at various stages in his life.Read More »

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The everyday life and problems of a working class family are treated in this documentary, produced together with the Bruder family. Unskilled workers’ hopeless situation reproduces itself generationally because of social discrimination that confronts them at every turn.Read More »

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In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Chilean Junta’s Chancellery, entered into two large concentration camps in the north of the country — Chacabuco and Pisagua — leaving with filmed sequences and sound recordings.

1974 Special Jury Prize, Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week
1974 Jury Prize, Grenoble International Documentary Film Festival
1974 Silver Sestertius, Nyon International Documentary Film FestivalRead More »

Mannesmann was a German industrial conglomerate. It was originally established as a manufacturer of steel pipes in 1890 under the name “Deutsch-Österreichische Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG”. (Loosely translated: “German-Austrian Mannesmann pipe mills AG”). In the twentieth century, Mannesmann’s product range grew and the company expanded into numerous sectors – starting from various steel products and trading to mechanical and electrical engineering, automotive and telecommunications. From 1955, the conglomerate’s management holding with headquarters in Düsseldorf was named Mannesmann AG. – more (on wikipedia)Read More »

CinemaSerf, IMDB wrote:
Bruno Decarli (“Count Greven”) is quite good here, as the nobleman who likes to collect works of art. When in Java, he alights on a mystical totem and decides he has to have it – despite the objections of the local priest (Conrad Veidt) whom he swiftly despatches. That’s not the end of our holy man, however, as he haunts his killer with portents of impeding doom… Veidt looks superb as the spirit; his (heavily made up) facial features – always hugely effective – are lit with added poignancy and the direction from Robert Wiene builds a good degree of tension as the denouement, quite literally, looms.Read More »