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Talented Anny returns to her struggling family which run a little venue at the town fair. She not only enchants artist Hannes and singer Ordini but also agent Horbes who hires them for the celebrated Apollo theatre in Berlin.Read More »

Synopsis

Family drama and historical truth collide in this film about the painful legacy cast by Hanns Ludin, a prominent Nazi executed for war crimes in 1947. In this documentary, Hanns Ludin’s son, filmmaker Malte Ludin, breaks 60 years of silence and repression, investigating his father’s dark deeds and interviewing his still-denying sisters. The film is an intimate look at the descendants of a Nazi perpetrator, most of whom refuse to accept the history of their family and of Nazi Germany more generally.Read More »

Synopsis:
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 »

The framework action is this time the editorial meeting of a school newspaper. In five episodes, the film describes how school-age young women in search for (physical) love in precarious situations.Read More »

In “Die Nordkalotte”, Peter Nestler shows the transition of space in Lapland after Chernobyl nuclear accident while he continues the shots of river and valley from the top of mountains to sea. Deer and other animals in the vast space disappear gradually, and we see them caught to the space with a narrow cage at the end of this film. There’re rich information and physical sense which viewers can’t recognize on all other media. We should reconsider that Straub says “Operai,Contadini” is a challenge to talk-show on television. Although they’re co-productions with television, they support cinema where we support force of stare and concentration in the dark.Read More »

About a group of young nazi terrorists committing crimes after the end of WW II.Read More »

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A film about a connection between love and death, which is different from ‘Till death do us part’: If love for each other is more important than life, then the common, voluntary death is a possibility to preserve this love. And if life dies inexorably, then death is an attempt to preserve life. A film about an amour fou between a young doctor and a former teacher. She, daughter of German Jews who emigrated to France, returns to Germany one day: she escapes from her external reality (life in France) into an internal past (the memory of her childhood). The locations of this ‘love and death film’: the Rhine, where it is not romantic, but productive: dirty banks, chemical factories, nuclear power plants and hopeless sadness. Shabby hotel rooms in crummy dosshouses; the view of industrial suburbs where one can only die, but not live. A film of a desolate beauty.Read More »

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Die Rebellion (The Rebellion). 1993. Austria. Directed by Michael Haneke. With its silent-era aesthetic of sepia tones and muted color tints, and its interweaving of realism and fantasy, Haneke’s haunting adaptation of Joseph Roth’s expressionistic 1924 novel is an homage to the great Weimar cinema of G. W. Pabst and F. W. Murnau. In a heartbreaking performance, Branko Samarovski plays Andreas Pum, a soldier who loses his leg during the Great War and becomes an organ-grinder to earn a few coins a day. To this loyal citizen of the State, the veterans and firebrands who march in protest against society’s neglect are lazy, insubordinate “heathens.” But when an ugly tram incident condemns Pum to a life of penury and loneliness, his soul is awakened to the bitter waste of a life spent in duty to God and Empire. In German; 90 minRead More »

Description from the University of Massachussetts website:
This two-part drama examines the fate of Haneke’s own generation which came of age after World War II. The first part depicts the generational gap between 1950s teenagers and their parents while the second shows this same group of characters twenty years later as they have grown up to be dysfunctional and suicidal adults. Regarded as the most significant of Haneke’s early works, Lemmings contains incipient treatments of many of the themes he would later elaborate on in his theatrical features.Read More »