German

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

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Various sexual activities involving a chair, and occasionally, other chairs.Read More »

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.Read More »

In Police Department 1985 (1985), Heise observes the ins and outs of the Berlin People’s Police Department. Fassbinderesque mise-en-scènes of officers watching the USA v. GDR hockey game in a rec room adorned with gaudy floral wallpaper are contrasted with long tracking shots of Berlin-Mitte streets and the recordings of police statements: A woman describes her domestic abuse incident and a man, arrested for trespassing, explains that he just realized that these walls were meant to contain them, not to keep the “others” out.Read More »

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White-collar crime from the perspective of the public prosecutor’s office. The unemployed civil engineer Kaiser (Martin Lüttge) becomes the managing director of the construction company “Zielbau GmbH”. Bankruptcy is foreseeable because the only client, Siegmann (Alexander Radszun), has negotiated a construction price that is far too low. After the bankruptcy, the subcontractors cannot be paid, apparently planned by Siegmann, and Siegmann owns the apartment block. Prosecutor König (Hark Bohm) wants to prove that Siegmann is guilty of fraud. But evidence must not be obtained by illegal means.Read More »

Tells the story of punk in the GDR.Read More »

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Successful actress returns to her family home in rural Austria to visit her ailing father and her sister who spent her whole life taking care of him and her family. The reunion is marked by jealousy, introspection and a secret.Read More »

A former prostitute working at a Swiss reform school meets a girl who reminds her of herself.Read More »

Jim Tudor, screeanarchy.com
Margarette von Trotta found Ingmar Bergman a long time ago. She recollects as much in her new documentary about the iconoclast Swedish filmmaker, Searching for Ingmar Bergman, an excellent, excellent effort which she goes ahead and stars in. She was a young lady, living in late-1950s Paris, when her Nouvelle Vague-obsessed cohorts dragged her to a screening of Bergman’s first internationally acclaimed masterpiece, The Seventh Seal. Read More »