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“There is a time for sewing up and a time for tearing apart. That’s an old proverb of my mother’s”. The wise little saying is nothing less than a piece of “Heimat”. Or not really, since the words of a young woman from the Hunsrück, working as a tour guide in Munich even though she can’t tell the Frauenkirche from the Stadtmuseum, fell victim to the scissors. For Edgar Reitz the time for sewing together has begun again. Eight hours left over from the Heimats have turned up again, the montage film “Heimat –Fragmente” arising from them lasts 146 minutes and had its premiere last weekend at the Venice Biennale. The more work you turn on the lathe, the more shavings you get, and it’s not surprising that they are of good wood. Read More »

Based on Klaus Mann’s 1934 novel “Entkommen zum Leben”. Johanna, a young Berliner, flees the Nazis in 1934. She goes to Finland and begins an affair with a man of similar Radical beliefs. His death encourages her to join the resistance in ParisRead More »

THIS IS NOT THE 24 HOUR VERSION!
IT IS A TV RIP OF THE 110 MINUTES VERSION AIRED ON 3sat FIRST IN NOVEMBER 2009!

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20 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, after euphoria and disenchantment, Berlin is still in search of its identity. 24h Berlin tells the story of this search and documents one day in the life of this extraordinary European metropolis.Read More »

Berlin-based filmmaker Jochen Hick explores the long shadow left by Paragraph 175 in his fascinating documentary My Wonderful West Berlin (Mein Wunderbares West-Berlin)…
“Many victims died before the rehabilitation process started,” Hicks notes. “That is a very sad feeling, that Germany waited until most of them had passed away.”
Drawing on rare archival footage predominantly focusing on West Berlin’s gay male community from the 50s until the late 80s, the film illuminates a vibrant socio-political network that thrived despite police and political harassment. https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/sexuality/mardigras/article/2018/02/22/subverting-paragraph-175-queer-life-my-wonderful-west-berlinRead More »

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Based on an unknown Schönberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a not-quite loveless marriage. A husband and wife return from a party where she has flirted with another man, while he has cast an appraising eye toward an attractive, fashionably dressed acquaintance of his wife’s. Though each dreams, briefly, of leaving the marriage for the excitement and mystery of a new lover, in the end they decide stability and comfort are more important than the fleeting thrill of new romance. Read More »

Two women spend a weekend together at the North Sea. Walks on the beach, fish buns at a snack stand, mobile weather forecasts. Sky, horizon, water. One of them will soon return to her family in Argentina while the other one will try to come a step closer to the ocean. She travels to the Caribbean and the foreign makes her vulnerable. Then, the land is out of sight. On a sailing vessel she crosses the Atlantic Ocean. One wave follows the other, they never resemble. Thoughts go astray, time leaves the beaten track and the swell lulls to deep sleep. The sea takes over the narration. And when the other one reappears in it, the wind is still in her hair while the ground beneath her feet is solid. She returns and the one of them could ask: “Have you changed?”Read More »

Hans Schnier has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother’s fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.Read More »

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In this Austrian exploitation film Udo Kier plays a young thug who falls in love with a prostitute. After she is murdered he wants revenge and start looking for the murderer.
This is the second film by Eddy Saller and was quite a shock to the austrian mainstream used to movies which reminisced about the better days under the monarchy.Read More »

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Frangipani and Friedrich wrestle with the vagaries of married life, while also trying to preserve their own individual personalities. Frangipani’s primary concern, however, is with Friedrich’s job. She’s jealous of the attention he pays to it.Read More »