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The caretaker of a girls’ school is charged with lewd behavior, and a number of students testify at the trial.Read More »

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Tim is the son of a lighthouse keeper. In his remote home setting, Tim often feels lonely. When Young Pioneers pitch their tents nearby, he is overjoyed. Friendships develop very fast. When Tim is allowed to travel to Sundevit with his new friends he is delighted. Before the journey, however; he has to carry out an assignment – but this takes longer than he hoped it would. On the way, he keeps meeting people in need of his help. And Tim helps them although he becomes increasingly pressed for time.
When he finally returns, the Young Pioneers have al ready left. Tim decides to follow them but, due to carelessless, he exposes himself to danger. Finally, he is picked up in a military exercise area and taken to the police. When he relates his experiences, kind people help him – in the end, he manages to reach his destination Sundevit and to meet up with his friends.Read More »

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The Ruhr, a present heavy with anger: the issue of resistance, of fighting against fascism, of the workers’ movement. There is also the question of the overwhelming rage that can surge up when faced with the reality of defeats, with no consolation or reconciliation. (-cinemadureel.org)Read More »

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King Ludwig II of Bavaria is frustrated, having to accept parliament’s will to join Bismarck, rather he his cultured Habsburg friends, in wars. His love-life being as fruitless, he seeks comfort in art. But building fairytale castles and an even grander opera for his musical idol Wagner proves so expensive, his cabinet ends up resorting to formally challenging his mental health, plausible as his beloved brother Otto contracted schizophrenia earlier. Tragedy now lurks in Ludwig’s prison-castle.
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Lilli and Christl, blonde twins, live in the Upper Bavarian countryside. While Lilli is the prettier of the two and attracts a lot of male attention, Christl is a real country girl.Read More »

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Foreigners Out! Schlingensief’s Container documents an experiment which provoked national political hysteria.

In the summer of 2000, the German performance artist Christoph Schlingensief placed 12 genuine refugees in a container, inside a wire cage of the steps of the Vienna Opera House. He then set up a website and invited Viennese to log on and vote one out each day, Big Brother style, for deportation. 800,000 Austrians did so.Read More »

Synopsis: Professor Ferlach and his daughter Helga undertake an expedition to Ceylon to look for a statue of Buddha with a priceless ruby set on its forehead. They believe the statue is still intact in a temple that disappeared after a massive earthquake…Read More »

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An old man is kidnapped. His interrogation uncovers the biography of a mass muderer: The 80 years old man was a SS leader and responsible for the killing of thousands of people in Russia. He also “invented” an evil technique of eliminating political prisoners: the manipulated suicide. Thomas Harlan reconstructs the history of a burocratic muderer, he also develops a direct connection between the Nationalsocialism and the treatment of prisoners of the RAF terrorists in the Stuttgart isolation prison. Robert Kramer filmed the shooting of Harlan’s Wundkanal: Notre Nazidocuments a social experiment in which the children of Nazis and of victims meet a real culprit. The reality seems to be stronger that the fiction in Harlan’s film.Read More »

Four mediocre existences are on an increasingly desperate quest for love and sexual satisfaction in the urban jungle of West Berlin.
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In this low-budget film, underground director Lothar Lambert explores longings and sexual fantasies that link the main characters – namely, Berlin couple Rüdiger and Helga, their butcher colleague Kurt, and his sister Klara, who is visiting. In a mix of voyeurism, porn flick, and group sex, the film depicts stereotypes and clichés but also questions them. This humorous and provocative look behind the façade of ‘normality’ provides an unvarnished examination of exoticized fantasies and projections about society.Read More »