Elegant and educated bachelor, Charles Swann, moves in the most powerful and fashionable circles of Paris in the 1890’s. When he falls in love with Odette de Crecy, a courtesan, his friends warn him against marriage. Proving himself a silly and socially-foul goose, Swann ducks his social responsibilities, Odette ensnares him, and he is gently but firmly cast out of society amidst everyone’s great politeness.

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A young woman’s life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.

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Man on Horseback (German: Michael Kohlhaas – der Rebell) is a 1969 German drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff based on the novel Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist. It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Another film based on the book is scheduled for release at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The made-for-TV western “The Jack Bull” (1999) starring John Cusack is also based on von Kleist’s “Michael Kohlhaas.”

Synopsis: It’s medieval times. Kohlhaas merchants with horses. When going to the local fair to sell his horses, is forced by a noble to leave him part of the merchandise as payment for traveling through his land, promising to give it back when the fair is over. When he returns, the horses are almost dead, and the man refuse to respond, so Kohlhass begins to fight unsuccesfuly against the injustice.

This is your basic revenge story with a bunch of horses and violence. Also, David Warner wears some ridiculous leather pants and gets Anna Karina to walk on his back.

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A man who has spent his life running away from his past. He is forced to finally deal things that he has left unresolved. When fate puts him on a collision course with the life that he reluctantly walked away from.
Voyager was directed by Volker Schlondorff, who’s other notable films include The Tin Drum and Death of a salesman. The screenplay for Voyager was written by Rudy Wurlitzer (Two-Lane Blacktop, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid). The screenplay was adapted from Swiss author Max Frisch’s novel ‘Homo Faber’.

At the core of Voyager is a story about a solitary man. Who is set in ways. Enter fate who then forces him to divert away from his comfort zone. When we first meet the film protagonist Walter Faber he is about to board a airplane going to Mexico. While waiting for his plane to leave he is befriended by a German man, who swears he knows him. Wanting to be left alone. He contemplates skipping his flight. A flight attendant drags him reluctantly on the flight. After the plane that that he is traveling on crashes in the desert. He slowly starts to let others in and he discovers that the German man is the brother of a old friend of his. Shortly thereafter Walter once again alters his destiny. When he decides to go with the German man who is going to see Walter’s friend. Instead of going to New York as he originally planned to do. When they arrive at the German man’s brothers home. They discover that his brother has killed himself. Walter then returns to New York only to discover that a girlfriend who he no longer cares about is not willing to let go of him just yet. Not wanting to have to deal with her. He on a whim gets on a boat for Paris. Shortly after he gets on the boat he meets a young woman named Elizabeth, who he renames ‘Sabeth’. Without giving away to much about the film main twist. Their evolving relationship is put in jeopardy the closer Walter gets to reconnecting with his past.

The opening set up leading to Walter getting on the boat for Paris is flawless. Things start to unravel once the moments he crosses paths with the Sabeth character. One of the things that makes the film from here on out lose the momentum that had been built early on. Is that the characters just seem to be aimlessly going from one moment to the next. Another things that weakens that latter part of the film is that it is not too hard to see where things are going. And by the time that the film’s conclusion rolls around. The final resolution is kind of a letdown. Without a doubt this film greatest assets are its two leads, Sam Shepard (Days of Heaven) in the role of Walter Faber and Julie Delpy (Killing Zoe) in the role of Sabeth.

— Michael Den Boer (10k Bullets)

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Die Stille nach dem Schuss or The Silence after the Shot, known in English as The Legend of Rita, is a 2000 German film about fictionalised exiled West German radical left Red Army Faction members, though the fictional characters all have close parallels to several real-life RAF members. After a brief overview of the initial bank robberies of the 2nd of June Movement with the distribution of chocolate kisses as well as a disastrous prison break at the Westberliner Prison, the group flees, via the Friedrichstraße train station, into the German Democratic Republic.

Notably, the film is shot with a decidedly 1970sesque color scheme, rather than with simply 1970s furniture and effects as most such movies do; this provides an interesting “throwback” visual experience for the viewer considering the movie was indeed made in the 21st century. And although the movie mainly centers around the trials and tribulations of a leftist-activist woman known as Rita Vogt, many motifs in the script reflect Inge Viett’s real life, who really did flee to East Germany along with some others and really did get a new identity to live under.

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Méditerranée is a 1963 French experimental film directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet with assistance from Volker Schlöndorff. It was written by Philippe Sollers and produced by Barbet Schroeder, with music by Antione Duhamel. The 45 minute film is cited as one of Pollet’s most influential films, which according to Jonathan Rosenbaum directly influenced Jean-Luc Goddard’s Contempt, released later the same year.[1] Footage for the film was shot around the Mediterranean, including at a Greek temple, a Sicilian garden, the sea, and also features a fisherman, a bullfighter, and a girl on an operating table.

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By STEPHEN HOLDEN
In its most unsettling scenes, set at a castle being used as a military training school for Hitler youth, Volker Schlondorff’s film “The Ogre” suggests the stirring cinematic equivalent of a Wagner opera.

As you watch hundreds of adolescent boys being hyped with a messianic blend of heroic German mythology and Nazi ideology and participating in torch-lit rituals and athletic contests, you sense of the thrill of being a boy swept up in the demented pageantry and passion of the Nazi cause.

“The Ogre” — made by the director of “The Tin Drum,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and, most recently, the overripe American film noir, “Palmetto” — is just the sort of grand, tortured allegory in which Central European filmmakers have long specialized. Adapted from Michael Tournier’s novel “The Erl King,” the film poses knotty questions about good and evil and innocence and guilt, focusing many of them on an ambiguous (and pathetic) symbolic figure named Abel (John Malkovich) who narrates the movie.

When we first meet Abel, he is a misfit and troublemaker at a strict French boarding school. One day, while on his way to be disciplined for disrupting a chapel service, he prays that the school burns down. As if by magic, fire suddenly breaks out in the chapel, distracting the headmaster and saving Abel from a severe beating but killing his best friend.

As a result of this incident, Abel grows up with an inordinate sense of personal power and the rightness of his own destiny, even though he is consistently treated as an outcast.

When a little girl he has befriended falsely claims he molested her, Abel avoids prison by going to the front in 1939 as World War II breaks out. Captured by the Germans, he becomes a lackey to a group of high-ranking German officers. One of them is Hermann Goering (Volker Spengler), whom the movie portrays as a grotesquely charismatic supermacho caricature, a Prussian giant obsessed with German mythology and with hunting wild animals.

When it is discovered that Abel has a talent for making friends with children, he is sent into the countryside to find young boys and lure them to the castle as military conscripts. Abel’s escapades earn him the nickname “the Ogre” in the neighborhood.

In the film’s climax, the last-ditch Nazi fantasy of a heroic children’s crusade against the invading Russian army collapses in a fiery Gotterdammerung as the Russian tanks arrive at the castle.

Schlondorff treats this fantastical story as an expressionistic fable with some scenes shot in sepia, others in color and still others in black and white.

As Abel, Malkovich gives an understated performance that captures the ambiguity of a character who does monstrous things yet remains a tender-hearted innocent, a kind of idiot savant who identifies with children and animals. Malkovich, who speaks in the soft, halting voice of a man-child, moves through the film with a blankly questioning, slightly cross-eyed stare. What’s odd about his performance, and about the movie in general, is that a film this European, teeming with references to Goethe and German mythology, should have been made in English.

“The Ogre” has strong supporting performances by Armin Mueller-Stahl as a count involved in a plot against Hitler, and Gottfried John, as Goering’s fanatically loyal henchman and chief forester.

But for all its ambitions and moments of brilliance, “The Ogre” doesn’t feel unified or even complete. Episodic and vaguely surreal, it is the antithesis of a Hollywood film that tells us what to feel. Having unfolded an ever-widening series of moral questions, it deliberately leaves them hanging.

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Subtitles:English,Spanish

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