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Realtime, an experimental feature, impresses as an early reflection of the interaction between computer graphics and military technology, of simulation and reality in a world governed by electronic systems and increasing automation. (MUBI)Read More »
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Fresh out of a psychiatric hospital, Pia moves back in with her parents to get her life together. Torn between a new job, lovesickness, psychotropic drugs and social stigmatization, she emerges into a world where everything seems out of control.Read More »
The heroine of the title grows up. Slights, dance school, a cinema of glances, of tender moments, of trivial pop songs. A cinema which takes time, makes observations and which continuously finds or invents opposite picture sequences for loneliness and breaking free… (Written by Sixpack Film (Christian Cargnelli))Read More »
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‘This historical satire, based on Heinrich Mann’s world-famous novel, Der Untertan, is ranked by film critics among the 100 Most Significant German Films of all time. In Mann’s biting critique of conservative Wilhelmine Germany, written during WWI, Diederich Hessling learns an important lesson for an ambitious man: one must first serve power to gain power for oneself. From then on, his modus operandi is to bow to superiors and kick underlings.’
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‘A young German man flees from an unhappy marriage to live on an island in the Adriatic Sea off the Yugoslavian coast. His mother attempts to hire a young girl to bring him back to Germany.’
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Young Sonja is accused of murdering her boyfriend Manfred. The film reveals her background, which remains hidden in court: the half-orphan girl becomes pregnant by Manfred, has an abortion and is sent to a reformatory for it. Manfred gets her pregnant again and then leaves her; desperate and humiliated, she shoots him. In court she remains defiant and silent. On the last day of the hearing, a deus ex machina appears: the figure skater Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, Sonja’s great idol, descends from the sky and floats with her over the roofs of Regensburg.Read More »
Black and white short film with Claudia Skoda and Gerhard Plez as actors.
It is part of Infermental 1, a film that gathers short films of many German directors and lasts 4 hours.Read More »
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Married with a young daughter, a 30-year-old woman yearns to return to her working life as a translator, to the confusion and consternation of her husband, a prosperous engineer. A formally stringent adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.Read More »
A former martial artist hired to train three wealthy Jordanian sisters finds her “dream job” turning unsettling as the isolated young women are under constant surveillance and show no interest in the sport. Why was she really hired?Read More »