Synopsis: Strange psychedelic movie with excellent soundtrack from Amon Duul II. A tragedy based on Friedrich Schiller’s drama “The Bride From Messina”, adapted to the modern scene and played in present-day Israel.Read More »
Germany
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Veit Relin – Chamsin (1972)
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Oskar Fischinger – Kreise AKA Circles (1933)
1931-1940AnimationExperimentalGermanyOskar Fischinger
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Kreise (Circles), 1933-34 by Oskar Fischinger. One of the first color films in Europe, made with the Gaspar Color process.Read More » -
Hao Yu – Uhrmenschen AKA Primitive Times (2023)
2021-2030AnimationGermanyHao YuShort Film
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It seems only natural to exchange labour for reward. But not everyone is satisfied with their work. Had Primitives similar problems as people in modern society? We interviewed five of them, let’s see what they said.Read More » -
Douglas Sirk – Stützen der Gesellschaft AKA Pillars Of Society (1935)
1931-1940Douglas SirkDramaGermanyThird Reich Cinema
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Henrik Ibsen’s 1877 play Samfundets Stotter (Pillars of Society) was the source for this German drama. The plot centers upon a flagrant case of municipal corruption, carried out by the town’s “finest” people. The selfishness of the elite results in widespread tragedy, yet still the perpetrators hypocritically blame everyone but themselves. The director of Stutzen der Gesellschaft was Detlef Sierck, who as “Douglas Sirk” would later expose the peccadilloes of the rich and powerful in such American films as Written on the Wind. The Ibsen original was earlier adapted to the screen in 1915, with H. B. Walthall in the lead.Read More » -
Rolf Hansen – Auferstehung AKA Resurrection (1958)
1951-1960DramaGermanyRolf Hansen
At the end of the nineteenth century, Russia, Prince Nekhlyudov, on the verge of contracting a marriage of convenience, leads a superficial and mundane life. He is appointed juror in the trial of a woman in whom he recognizes Katyusha, a woman he once seduced and abandoned pregnant.Read More »
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Konrad Wolf – Goya – oder Der arge Weg der Erkenntnis AKA Goya, or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971)
Drama1971-1980ArthouseGermanyKonrad Wolf
Considered one of the most significant films of DEFA, the state-run East German film studio, Goya is a monumental 70mm production directed by one of East Germany’s leading directors, Konrad Wolf, who won a Special Jury Prize at the 1971 Moscow International Film Festival for this work which was also nominated for the festival’s Golden Prize. The film is based on a 1951 novel by the German-Jewish exile author Lion Feuchtwanger. Goya is one of ten East German films originally shot in 70mm.Read More »
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Douglas Sirk – Zwei Windhunde AKA Zwei Genies AKA Two Greyhounds (1934) (HD)
1931-1940ComedyDouglas SirkGermanyShort Film
An early short film by Douglas Sirk (Detlef Sierck) which takes a satirical look at dubious business practices during the Weimar Republic.Read More »
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Douglas Sirk – Der eingebildete Kranke AKA The Imaginary Invalid (1935)
1931-1940ComedyDouglas SirkGermanyShort Film
Adaptation of Molière’s comedy “The Imaginary Invalid”, about a hypochondriac, his doctor, his daughter and her lover.Read More »
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Douglas Sirk – Dreimal Ehe [Silent version] (1935)
1931-1940Douglas SirkGermanyShort FilmSilent
