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1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de force through the glorious dirt of West Berlin ensues. Full of sex, drugs, love and PUNK.Read More »

A group of young co-eds who are away from home at boarding school share intimate stories about their “first-time” in a revealing session of show and tell. This 1970s late-night classic has been remastered from the original film elements and has never looked better! Three classic “nudie cutie” short films from the 1960s and 70s are included for a perfect night of retro erotic fun!Read More »

Wolfgang “Wolli” Köhler is a Fassbinder-like character. A refugee from East Germany—yesterday, porn cinema owner and brothel manager, quoting readily from Marx and Lenin, he defines himself as “a Bolshevik pimp”, and today, a poet and painter—he is one of the atypical fi gures of the German economic miracle much appreciated by the author of Lola. His life course even includes the famous episode of the civil servant in love with a prostitute who is determinedly to set her on the right path. When talking of his fi lm, Gerd Kroske refers to Portrait of Jason.Read More »

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A woman is executed in front of her daughter in a remote parking lot. For Nadja, the detective chief inspector Hanns von Meuffels as a dedicated assistant, the case seems obvious. A family drama about sex, blackmail and custody. But von Meuffels is not a fan of hasty theories. Too many inconsistencies that don’t make sense. He is looking for an exchange with Constanze, his former colleague from Hamburg, who has already assisted him twice in solving cases. Von Meuffels has an ambivalent relationship with her that goes beyond the professional level. And so in his last case he is fighting on two fronts.Read More »

“A provocative and ironic-pamfletteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-‘Hamlet’ (2001). Both a media event and a form of political action Schlingensief let ex-neo-Nazis play themselves. His provocation in so-called Nazi-free Switzerland was not appreciated and when he added fuel to the flames by calling for the local political party SVP to be banned, his media offensive made front-page news far beyond Switzerland.”Read More »

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A bored, aimless 14-year-old girl falls into the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s after attending ‘The Sound’, a modern new disco. In search of acceptance and freedom, she falls in with a teenage boy who is hooked on heroin and eventually develops an addiction of her own.Read More »

Love between cultures and conventions: There is no straight path for Marie Theres and Fa. A heartfelt and clever romantic comedy about two middle aged women who refuse to be pushed to the sideline of life.Read More »

A Swiss-German horror film with Klaus Kinski as the notorious Jack the Ripper. A respected doctor by day, Kinski dismembers London prostitutes by night, until the local Inspector’s girlfriend (Josephine Chaplin) goes undercover to catch him.Read More »

This film, set in the 80ies, tells about young people in a big city, their lifes, their desires, their dramas and their dreams. The five episodes, directed by then young german directors who had just graduated from the HFF in Munich, Germany (Hochschule für Film & Fernsehen) are all inspired by french and american genre-movies and throughout free of illusions, which expressed the fashionable trend of the ‘no future’-attitude of these days. The titles and directors of the five episodes:

1. Verliebt, verlobt, BRD-igt – dir.: Gisela Weilemann
2. Star – dir.: Helmer von Lützelburg
3. Running Blue – dir.: Dominik Graf
4. Panter Neuss – dir.: Johann Schmid
5. Disco Satanica – dir.: Wolfgang Büld
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