Hundertwasser the painter is portrayed in this international prize winning film. The life and works of the artist are woven into a fascinating, enchanting visual composition using a refined crossfading technique. The effect is a glistening, irridescent display of images; a rainbow of colours on a blissful rainy day. ~~ from the back o’ the box.Read More »
Three women, a journalist, her French friend and a pop singer, deal with life, career, desire, sex and personal fantasies.Read More »
David (Mario Fische) is the son of a German rabbi during the early days of the Holocaust. The boy is a horrified witness to the burning of his father’s synagogue and the humiliation of his relatives and neighbors. Breaking away from his family, David is able to earn enough money to emigrate to Palestine. The film makes an effort to weed out humanitarians amongst the hellraisers, giving points to a kindly German officer who helps David escape. A long film, David is based on the even longer (but no less compelling) novel by Joel Konig.Read More »
Paris 2022. François is a literary scholar and drinker. His relationships with women are limited to one year, his life is sufficiently happy. Until the day when charismatic Muslim politician Mohamed Ben Abbes becomes president in France, introduces patriarchy and polygamy, and François loses his job.Read More »
“Beauty and decay” is a documentary about three rebels, who shine even brighter than the rest of the vibrating East Berlin boheme of the 80ies: Sven Marquardt, Dominique Hollenstein (Dome) and Robert Paris. All of them being more mystical creatures than real punks. This movie reveals how little the colorful East Berlin punk-scene had in common with the one-dimensional aesthetic of its western counterpart. The uniqueness, authenticity and offhandedness of this subculture was impressive.Read More »
An American film-critic flies to Berlin to investigate about the life of German filmmaker F. W. Murnau. After meeting his former girlfriend, a painter, and finding a statue near Murnau´s tomb, begins a strange mystic journey through time and space: a romantic unification of ancient and modern world, suspicions and memories, art and life.Read More »
This film follows some extremely right-wing teenagers in Leipzig, Germany, over a period of one year (1992/1993). It portrays what they think about belief, love and hope as well as about violence and their country.
Während in (Ost-)Deutschland Asylbewerberheime brennen, zeichnet Voigt im Porträt dreier Leipziger Skinheads das bedrückende Bild einer „Lost Generation“ in einem zerstörten Land. Ein Auftritt des legendären „Baulöwen“ Jürgen Schneider sorgte für einen kleinen Skandal und die zeitweilige Sperrung des Films.Read More »
In a repressive three class-society, Paula, a simple Supporting Character, is about to face the most important test of her life: she has to prove she deserves to be a Lead. She is at the top of her class at the Main Character School – but so far has failed in generating great emotional music. In search of a solution, she finds herself in the abyss of the cinematic world, on the fringes of the storyline and lost amongst the Outtakes.Read More »
“This surrealistic experimental film finds the son of a young nobleman staying with hash-smoking hippies in a seamy section of Munich. He falls for a hippie girl who is involved in shaking down the young man’s parents for money. She falls in love with the young man but the group continues to extract money from the parents in return for their wayward son. When he discovers the shakedown, his rage leads to tragedy for the star-crossed lovers.”
by Dan PavlidesRead More »