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A resilient icon, Hildegard Knef’s journey spans triumphs and setbacks across six decades. This film showcases her unwavering spirit and artistic brilliance through rare archival footage, celebrating a truly extraordinary woman’s …Read More »
The Future of Emily (Flügel und Fasseln) is the work of Helma Sanders-Brahms, one of the original New German Cinema directors of the early 1970s. Unlike some of her more caustic films about the German experience, this is a relatively conventional drama of generational jealousy and bitterness, a picture that could well be a stage play. It’s also reminiscent of American movies about strong women in conflict, pitting famous German star Hildegard Knef against French actress Brigitte Fossey. Knef’s big break came with the very first post-war German success The Murderers Are Among Us. Fossey’s best-known picture remains René Clément’s Forbidden Games, where she played a Parisian tot orphaned by the war. The film’s original German title translates as “Wings and Shackles”, which apparently refers to the predicament of its movie star heroine Isabelle, a woman adored by fans but hobbled by family disapproval.Read More »
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Susanne Wallner returns to the ruins of Berlin from a Concentration Camp after WW2 to discover that someone else lives in her apartment: Dr. Hans Mertens, the war made him depressive and he drinks a lot of alcohol. Susanne asks him to go but he doesn’t want to, so they share Susanne’s apartment and even discover their sympathy and then their love for each other. That encourages him a little, of course. But then he hears that Ferdinand Brückner is still alive and also lives in Berlin. Brückner was his Captain during WW2, he gave the order to kill more than 100 innocent people, many children and women among them, on Christmas 1942 in Poland.Read More »
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star whom he tries to lure out of retirement.Read More »
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actionsRead More »