The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna to solve the murder of his father. Step by step he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in Secret-Service machinations and chemical-weapon sales and ends up in mortal danger himself. Meanwhile, he also realizes that there is no connection between his father’s murderess and those dubious activities. Her motive for killing him goes back much further, to a court hearing during the Third Reich.
This film was later remade by Carlo Rola with the same title in 2008.Read More »
Plot and Background
Director Hellmuth Costard asked himself in 1974: “Is it possible to make films in Germany today?”. Benefiting from a television job, he equips himself with his own camera system and films with several cameras in order to make the illusion of filming clear. In 1977 he failed, interviewed colleagues like Hark Bohm (“North Sea is Murder Sea”) and met his idol Jean-Luc Godard, who came to Hamburg for a day but failed at the NDR and left again. Costard is speechless.Read More »
Felix Zeiler doesn’t return after the end of World War II. His wife – alone with 2 little children – meets Hans and they are slowly getting closer.Read More »
A group of rather slapdash builders are rather imaginative at solving what problems come their way. Whatever it is that doesn’t fit the picture, it will be made fit in no time.Read More »
This sensitive long-term documentary portrays the timid archeology student Sven who is one of the first pedophiles to face the camera without a pixelated face and distorted voice to openly talk about his difficult struggle against his forbidden desires. [imdb]Read More »
Plot summary:
Karl Kassbach, age 54, lives in Vienna and is the owner of a grocery shop. He can no longer communicate with his wife and his 18 year old son. He has an affair with the new apprentice, Liesi, and his inclination to brutality becomes more pronounced from meeting to meeting. But it is only among his jovial old friends who, like himself, are involved in the activities of the right-extremist organization, ‘Initiative’ tvonhat he feels really secure, the fascist characteristics which he acquired during his youth are here intensified: Together, the comrades go bowling, practice shooting, carry out attacks on guest workers and democratic clubs. During one of these ‘actions’, Kassbach shoots dead a journalist… The portrait of a petty bourgeois who was exposed to national socialism and is unable to cope with it.Read More »
Three men break into a bank and are pursued by three other men. The burglars have been at this sort of thing for years; the policemen have only been in their jobs for a few months. Two young men chase a girl because they want to learn how to tango, but soon find themselves caught up in a dance for a fortune – even though a million ain’t worth as much as it used to be. Hard work is hardly ever worth it, but it’s always worthwile keeping oneself occupied, says Bruno Markward to Bubi. In order to help his friend, Bubi trains as a bricklayer so that he can knock a hole through the ceiling. But because women are never easy, Bruno the expert winds up in front of the arch-criminal, Lotz, with whom he has already done time not so long ago in the same Nazi prison. Graf the waiter is caught in bed – but not with his wife. Julian, a trainee police inspector who is definitely still wet behind the ears, loses his friend Bubi and his girlfriend Tina, but because he can run faster, he does manage to catch Lubowitz – the fox with the mask. There is a wonderful canary in a supporting role. Berlin, just after the war, between winter and spring, is backdrop for these city-dwellers who find themselves in difficult but also humorous situations.Read More »
The young noblewoman Katharina von Holstein loves the poor painter Johannes. After the death of her father, her brutal brother wants to marry Katharina to the wealthy estate neighbour in order to save his own estate from ruin.
After “Immensee” and “Der Puppenspieler”, “Unsterbliche Geliebte” was the third film adaptation of a Theodor Storm story that director Harlan undertook in his capacity as director and screenwriter. It is a free adaptation of Storms novella “Aquis submersus”.Read More »
