German

End of 19th century German ethnologist Hoffmann travels to the former colony “German Southwest Africa” to gather art and skulls for the Berlin Ethnological Museum and slowly begins to lose his moral compass.Read More »

A young couple in Berlin’s “Mitte” district. He’s lying on the sofa, reading. She can’t stand it anymore. In the afternoon the parents come to see the baby. She goes out in the evening. The young man waits desperately. She comes back – but not alone.Read More »

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Documentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her first career as a young actress in mainstream “Unterhaltungskino” (“entertainment cinema”) and her second one as acknowledged European arthouse actress.Read More »

Producer Joe Pasternak was making “Deanna Durbin pictures” long before he’d discovered Durbin – and indeed, long before he’d left Hungary. Pasternak’s 1935 musical “Peter” stars Franciska Gaal as Eva, a 17-year-old gamine who ekes out a living as a street singer. While wandering past an open courtyard, Eva confronts a young burglar, who orders her to change clothes with him so he can make a quick getaway. With nothing but her newfound male garb to her name, our heroine poses as a boy named Peter so that she can obtain a job selling newspapers. In this guise, she experiences all manner of hilarious misadventures, and even finds true love in the form of a handsome doctor (Hans Jaray). Peter was directed by Herman Kosterlitz, who as Henry Koster would later helm several of Joe Pasternak’s Hollywood musicals. (Hal Erickson, Rovi)Read More »

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Christiane from the GDR and Hatem from Syria meet while studying in Moscow. They love each other and have a child together. During their studies they overcome many difficulties together, but now the question arises as to what will become of them afterwards. Hatem explains to Christiane that, as a woman, she has no job opportunities in her profession in his home country. She suggests that Hatem go with her to the GDR. But he refuses – on the grounds that he cannot betray his country. The two separate.Read More »

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In 1802, Alexandre De Humbolt and Aimé Bonpland stayed in Ecuador to study the topography of the country. Their goal is to climb the Chimborazo volcano, reaching 6,267 meters and considered at the time as the highest peak in the world.Read More »

The story of a seemingly settled bank employee who breaks the shackles of his everyday life and becomes a wanderer between worlds. Frederik is an up-and-coming young bank employee who lives an ordinary life. When a bank customer, whom Frederik has denied a loan in the face of the bank crisis, shoots himself in front of Frederik, he snaps. Together with ex-con Vince,he begins to live out a new, dark side of himself. He robs his rich bank customers’ homes and gives the money to the needy. The initial rush of crossing social boundaries soon develops into an addiction to ever greater thrills.Read More »

Erik has is own motorbike workshop in a sleepy little town. He may have the telling word ‘scoundrel’ tattooed onto his lower arm but he nonetheless creates an impression of a well-behaved average Joe. His relationship with his girlfriend Julia is going well and her daughter Linda is very fond of her new Dad. But then all of a sudden the mysterious Henry appears and begins following him about like a sinister shadow. The more Erik tries to shake off his diabolical guest the more Henry intrudes into his life. But then when a violent gangster named Keitel enters the fray and threatens not only Erik but Julia and Linda, Erik’s seemingly ideal world begins to run off the rails.Read More »

Tommie works as mechanic in a garage and loves crazy exhausts. But when he steals the exhaust of the procurer Jupp a lot of trouble starts: Jupp gives Tommie an ultimatum to replace the exhaust and to buy a box of “Ramsdorfer Koelsch”.Read More »