Micha, a young boy being beaten by his abusive father, joins other bullies at school to terrorize people for amusement, including his own brother.

Kinderspiele_1992.avi

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Container:	AVI
Runtime:	1h 46mn
Size:	1.51 GiB
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Codec:	DivX
Resolution:	640x480
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
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#1:	2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps
#2:	2.0ch MP3 @ 128 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/E306E358F9E1277/Kinderspiele_1992.avi

Language(s):German
Subtitles:None

The post Wolfgang Becker – Kinderspiele AKA Child’s Play (1992) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Jan Nebel’s life is quite depressing and just a streak of bad luck. His former girlfriend tells him that she is HIV positive, his sister is married to a disgusting idiot and his father dies with his head on a plate of noodles. Above all, he gets into a street riot between anarchists and the police on the way to his job at a slaughterhouse. Thus, he is fired, but gets to know the mysterious Vera who becomes his new girlfriend. Together with Jan’s weird friend Buddy, they move into his father’s apartment and try to survive their Berlin everyday life…

Das.Leben.ist.eine.Baustelle.1997.576p.DVD.PAL.x264.AC3.5.1-dps.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 50mn
Size: 	1.67 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	704x572 ~> 1016x572
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 443 Kbps
BPP: 	0.143
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#1:  	German 5.1ch AC-3 @ 448 Kbps
#2:  	German 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 Kbps (Commentary by director Wolfgang Becker)

https://nitro.download/view/733B0035C684531/Das.Leben.ist.eine.Baustelle.1997.576p.DVD.PAL.x264.AC3.5.1-dps.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, Spanish, German (muxed)

The post Wolfgang Becker – Das Leben ist eine Baustelle. AKA Life is All You Get (1997) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In this tragicomic road movie, unsuccessful young journalist Sebastian Zöllner (Daniel Brühl) is writing an article on the legendary but almost forgotten painter Manuel Kaminski. As Zöllner misuses the reclusive Kaminski under the guise of helping him reconnect with his lost love, Zöllner’s ulterior motive becomes obvious – the sooner Kaminski dies, the sooner he can cash in on the article and become famous. But misuse can be a two-way street – the elderly Kaminski doesn’t mind having someone pay his way to travel throughout Europe, thus escaping the control of his overbearing daughter Miriam. Based on world-renowned Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann’s novel of the same name, this art industry satire highlights the emptiness of blatant self-promotion while taking the audience on a true adventure.

Ich.und.Kaminski.2015.German.1080p.BluRay.x264-ENCOUNTERS.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 3 min
Size: 	7.19 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1040 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	6 828 kb/s
BPP: 	0.142
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#1:  	German 5.1ch DTS @ 1 509 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/552825E5D2321B9/Ich.und.Kaminski.2015.German.1080p.BluRay.x264-ENCOUNTERS.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, German

The post Wolfgang Becker – Ich und Kaminski AKA Me and Kaminski (2015) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis by Dan Pavlides:
When young Kaja (Lena Boehncke) is found dead, Andi (Bertram von Boxberg) is questioned by authorities. The two had spent time together along the railroad tracks where Kaja was promised by Andi that he would take her to the place where beautiful butterflies congregate. Andi is told that the girl died of injuries suffered in a fall as the police try to discover if Andi was involved. Peter Franke plays the father, with Uwe Helfrich as the police inspector.

Quote:
It won the Golden Leopard at the 1988 Locarno International Film Festival.

Schmetterlinge AKA Butterflies (1988).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	54 min 29 s
Size: 	323 MiB
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Resolution: 	352x264 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	780 kb/s
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#1:  	Akan 2.0ch MP3 @ 48.0 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/699FBB961A000DD/Schmetterlinge_AKA_Butterflies_(1988).mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:None

The post Wolfgang Becker – Schmetterlinge AKA Butterflies (1988) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
If not as dense as Godard’s Masculin Féminin, Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye, Lenin! is an equally playful look at the effects of American globalization abroad. Christiane Kerner (Katrin Saß) is a Communist party supporter who falls into a coma after a heart attack and sleeps through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent invasion of America’s fast food joints. Looking to spare his mother further injury, Alex (Daniel Brühl) concocts an elaborate plan to convince the bedridden woman that Communism is still very much alive: He videotapes fake news programs to explain the “Trink Coca-Cola” banner outside her window and makes her believe that her favorite brands of food haven’t been replaced by cheap—but apparently similar tasting—knock-offs from Holland.Becker’s Berlin is a grungy Art Deco haven that changes overnight with the dismantling of the Wall, and he uses a magical realist swirl of images and flash-forwards (a postmodern trick that isn’t very functional but appropriately out-of-place) to humorously pit the past against the present. How do we guard someone against the threat of globalization? Both Becker and Alex seem to understand the uplift perpetuated by the end of Communism (Germany won the World Cup soon after), but in forcing his main character to ask big questions he awakens Alex to the reality of capitalism’s tactless, personality-free invasion. In the end, Alex’s game becomes a kind of fantasy wish fulfillment, a regressive act of familial restoration. It’s easy to forgive Becker’s too-literal evocation of globalization (Alex is a dreamer cosmonaut and the World Cup is a planetary battle) because the symbolism is hopeful and never overwrought. In the end, Good Bye, Lenin! works so well because Becker playfully likens Germany’s East-West split and political upheavals to the sort of traumas that tear families apart. If the film’s characters are “the children of Lenin and Coca-Cola,” by film’s end Becker has lovingly evoked a happy in between.

https://nitroflare.com/view/DE2509D7A4BCCDF/Wolfgang_Becker_-_(2003)_Good_Bye_Lenin!.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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