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In the late 1970s the German secret service fights against RAF terrorism and searches for constitutional enemies in the public service. A liberal teacher named Brasch “Helmut Griem” takes on V-man Körner “Martin Benrath” and loses his job.Read More »
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Leo, the owner of the stocking product “Discrete”, has driven his company into the wall; the company is virtually bankrupt. (imdb)Read More »
It was made by the revived UFA company and was the veteran director Dieterle’s penultimate cinema film and his last in his native Germany.Read More »
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The land between the Vistula, Volga, Baltic Sea, and Black Sea was known in ancient times as Sarmatia. German documentary filmmaker Volker Koepp travels through the region that is now Moldova, Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine. He follows the course of the great rivers to the Curonian Lagoon on the Baltic coast and paints a detailed picture of a region that has almost disappeared from our consciousness today. In the process, he meets protagonists from earlier films – and follows the poems of a man who explored and experienced the landscape himself: the German poet Johannes Bobrowski, who was born in Sarmatia and knows the country very well. Bobrowski explored the area on many journeys and with open eyes; he incorporated his impressions into his literary work.
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The advertising editor Hannes Lücke spends the Christmas holiday every year with his family in Münster. He has his new girlfriend, Inge, in a hotel waiting.Read More »
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Schmid’s satire on 19th-century class relations is also a thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution. Once a year, an aristocratic Austrian family holds a traditional feast at which masters and servants trade places. A troupe of actors (including cult cabaret artist Ingrid Caven) are hired to entertain the guests, performing fragments from the “cultural scrap heap”: GONE WITH THE WIND, Madame Bovary, Tennessee Williams, Swan Lake. The decadent proceedings take on a dangerous edge when the actors incite the servants to revolt against their masters-but is the Revolution also part of the act?Read More »
The film shows the history of the Neapolitan popular revolt against the invading Germans, during the second world war. During the four days in Naples the revolt turns over in just few hours. Neapolitans slinged on rifles and guns, and they armed themselves with stones, house-objects, gasoline-bottles and everything, anonymous and silent. Gennarino Capuozzo, a ten year old child killed on a barricade while he was fighting against the invasors, is remembered by people as a hero.Read More »
Marianne (Birgit Doll) is driven from her father’s home when she is impregnated by Alfred (Hanno Poeschi), a vagabond loafer who abandons her after he has his fun. She goes to Vienna and takes a job in a strip club to provide for herself and her baby. Her father discovers his daughter’s tawdry vocation when he and his buddies go to the club for a night of leering and drinking. Marianne later has no choice but to go back to the butcher to whom her father promised her in marriage before she fell for Alfred. The story is taken from a play by Oedoen Von Horath and is directed with flair by Maximilian Schell.Read More »
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“To live in Vienna, you either have to be cynical or stupid,” says the director’s alter ego at the end of the semi-documentary feature Slow Summer. A summary as temperamental as the film which deals with personal states of mind, the filmmaker’s very own existential entanglements one of which is crucially the stranger’s view of the semi-familiar city of Vienna but yet aims at an insight that goes beyond the private. This is only one of many self-reflective double entendres in a work rather unusual in Austrian cinema.Read More »