Deine besten Jahre AKA Your Best Years
Vera Kemp is a financially secured company heiress. As an art historian she is a public figure. She’s a wife and mother who has found happiness in private life. At her 36th birthday a younger woman claims to be her husband’s mistress. Vera Kemp decides to fight for the first time in her life.Read More »
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A City is Blackmailed
Criminals are blackmailing the city of Leipzig and showing that they’re serious by
pulling off a major attack. The special police squad finds evidence leading to a village
that is scheduled for demolition to make way for open-pit mining. The cops run into a
wall of silence among the townspeople who are fighting to preserve their village…
Directed by renowned filmmaker Dominik Graf, a realistic thriller that pits high-tech
against tradition in the midst of a desolate, ruined landscapeRead More »
Eleven years ago, an 8-year-old girl disappeared from a small German town on the German-Czech border. Although her body was never found, nor were there any traces of blood or DNA evidence, a mentally-disabled man was coerced to confess to the crime. Even though he withdrew his admission of guilt two days later, the forced confession was enough to convince the ruling judge. The responsible investigator Altendorf was discharged so that the investigation could be sped along by another colleague.Read More »
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An unmarried actress in Munich becomes pregnant but decides against marrying the child’s father, and eventually moves in with a more agreeable man she meets on a winter sports holiday.Read More »
This film, set in the 80ies, tells about young people in a big city, their lifes, their desires, their dramas and their dreams. The five episodes, directed by then young german directors who had just graduated from the HFF in Munich, Germany (Hochschule für Film & Fernsehen) are all inspired by french and american genre-movies and throughout free of illusions, which expressed the fashionable trend of the ‘no future’-attitude of these days. The titles and directors of the five episodes:
1. Verliebt, verlobt, BRD-igt – dir.: Gisela Weilemann
2. Star – dir.: Helmer von Lützelburg
3. Running Blue – dir.: Dominik Graf
4. Panter Neuss – dir.: Johann Schmid
5. Disco Satanica – dir.: Wolfgang Büld
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1930s Berlin. Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
4 wins, 12 nominationsRead More »
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Rock ‘n’ roll comes to Germany just ahead of the Berlin Wall in “The Red Cockatoo.” Stylish period piece is weighed down by a too-familiar love triangle, generating nostalgia for a difficult time not nearly as successfully as clear predecessor “Good Bye Lenin!”
Unlike helmer Wolfgang Becker’s “Good Bye Lenin!,” “Cockatoo” will work best for those with some knowledge of the early days of the German Democratic Republic and tension generated by the Wall throughout the country.Read More »
“In this epic-scale saga of life on both sides of the law, Max Riemelt plays Marek Grosky, a Russian Jew who immigrated to Germany in the 1920s. Grosky is one of a large number of Russians who have fled their homeland and settled in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. While Marek has become a police officer in Berlin, his sister Stella (Marie Baumer) is married to a high-ranking crime chieftain, and the cop finds himself caught between two worlds, torn between his devotion to duty and his ties to his family. As a war rages between criminal factions in Charlottenburg, Marek witnesses the death of his brother and falls for a Ukrainian woman who has been brought to Germany to work as a prostitute. Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (aka In Face Of The Crime) was originally created as a ten-part series for German television; it was later re-edited into a pair of feature-length films which were screened as part of the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival. “
by Mark DemingRead More »
