Johanna (Katharina Thalbach), after escaping Nazi Germany, takes refuge on a friend’s family estate in Finland. There, she experiences a passionate erotic romance with her friend’s brother, Ragnar (Jukka-Pekka Palo), who shares her anti-fascist feelings and wants to join the resistance movement in France. Based on Klaus Mann’s novel.

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After resigning from office, the chancellor moved to a small town in the Uckermark with her husband and dog. But initially it is not easy for her to leave the hectic city life and politics behind. But then there is a death. The ex-Chancellor finally has a job again.

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Rebellious young Werther is passionately, but hopelessly, in love with Lotte. Although he knows that she is married to somebody who can offer her a secure future, Werther tries to be near her. Lotte cannot decide between these two men. She eventually rejects Werther, who does not survive her decision. Based on the novel by Goethe. Director Egon Günther and set designer Helga Schütz make cameo appearances.
—DEFA Film Library

The last letters written by Werther, who put an end to his life because of thwarted love, are handed over to a befriended Leipzig publisher by Wilhelm, an intimate friend of Werther’s. The letters conjure up past times and events: Werther receives an invitation to a ball. Before going to the ball, he visits Lotte’s parental home, becomes acquainted with her in the intimate circle of her siblings, enjoys her company at the ball, dances with her, and is henceforth unable to part with her company. He visits her again and again, accompanies her on strolls. Yet he comes to realize that she is unattainable: she is engaged.

Werther strives to separate himself from her. He works – far away from his beloved – in law chambers, experiences the humiliation and conceit of vainglorious aristocrats. And he returns to Lotte, who, in the meantime, has married Albert. Werther is not able to rein in his passion; Lotte puts him in his place. Werther, the unhappy lover, shoots himself with Albert’s pistol. No clergyman accompanies the coffin; Albert is preoccupied with his legal documents. (Source: Progress Film-Verleih)

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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 Paris

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Berlin, 1948/1949. The town is divided into two sectors. The world is close to World War III. West Berlin is kept alive by the biggest airlift in history. While the city is deadlocked, three teenagers set out to fulfil their dreams: Völpel (Hilmar Thate), ex-executioner, receives secret information from Police Headquarters. Gladow (Ulrich Wesselmann), 17 years old, wants to be like Al Capone. Lisa Gabler (Katharina Thalbach) dreams of buying Berlins biggest revue venue the ‘Friedrichstadt Palast.’ But suddenly, the droning of the airplanes ceases? Based on a true story from the times of the ‘Berlin Blockade.’

Der Film erzählt die wahre Geschichte des jugendlichen Chefs der Gladow-Bande Werner Gladow, der zur Zeit der Berliner Luftbrücke sein Unwesen mit Diebesbande in Berlin trieb. Berlin war zu dieser Zeit in einem Ausnahmezustand, so dass die Gladow-Bande weitestgehend ungestört ihre Raubzüge durchführen konnte.
Gladow hat durch den ehemaligen Henker Gustav Völpel Kontakte zur Polizei im Ostteil der Stadt und erhält dadurch lukrative Hinweise über mögliche Ziele seiner Diebestaten. Sobald Gladow mit seiner Bande die Berliner Grenzen der geteilten Stadt erreicht hat, ist er sicher vor der Polizei, da deren Kompetenzen an der Sektorengrenze beendet waren. In den Trümmern des Nachkriegsberlins ist Gladow auf dem Wege zu einer Ausnahmestellung in der Berliner Unterwelt und gibt sich als Gangsterboss nebst dazugehörender Freundin Lisa Gabler. Sein wichtigster Partner Völpel kann dagegen durch diese Taten aus seiner kleinbürgerlichen Ehe und Bedrückung fliehen. Das Ende der Berlin-Blockade zerstört jedoch beider Traum. In geregelten Zeiten ist die Freiheit von Gladow und seiner Bande eingeschränkt. Schließlich wird er von einem Kameraden an die Polizei verraten, erschießt auf der Flucht den Chauffeur seines Fluchtwagens und wird in seinem Kellerversteck festgenommen.

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From timeout.com:
Few film-makers wear their hearts as openly on their sleeves as Margarethe von Trotta, and her fascination with women (their relationships with each other and their definition – often redefinition – of themselves) is as apparent in this, her first solo feature, as it was in the later The German Sisters or Friends and Husbands. Christa Klages (Engel) is a young mother who turns terrorist and bank robber to prevent the closure of a crêche which she helps to run and her daughter attends. On the run with her friend and sometime lover, Christa is pursued by the police, and more mysteriously by a young woman (Thalbach) who was her hostage in the bank raid. What von Trotta has to say about her women is compelling, and she remains one of the few film-makers to portray terrorists convincingly. But the enigma of the hostage runs through the film as elusively as a character in a dream – vitally important at any given moment, but irritatingly meaningless when taken as a whole – and undermines the conviction of this feminist thriller which is otherwise so gloriously rooted in West Germany’s present.

From The NY Times (Vincent Canby):

“THE Second Awakening of Christa Klages,” which opens today at the Film Forum, is a very earnest movie about a young woman who, to finance her day-care center, robs a bank (with two male accomplices) and then finds that her associates at the center will not accept the stolen money.

It’s one of the curious things about this 1977 West German movie, the first to be directed by Margarethe von Trotta, that what happens to the money and, indeed, to the day-care center and the children, never seems very important. The bank robbery turns out to be less a means to an end than a theoretical gesture that, having been made, becomes its own reason for being.

Yet “The Second Awakening of Christa Klages” is a surprisingly involving sort of movie. Though it wanders, it wanders with a certain purpose, the way some intelligent people talk when they are trying to get a fix on complicated subjects. Miss von Trotta, who has collaborated on the screenplays for “A Free Woman” (in which she also acted), “Coup de Grace” and “The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum,” all directed by Volker Schlondorff, her husband, is a feminist of striking movie-making talent.

“Christa Klages” looks and sounds very sober, but it is full of odd associations and images that distinguish the work of a true film maker from that of a well-studied hack. It is never predictable. And while the plot is rather absurd, the film is emotionally and stylistically consistent.

Miss von Trotta has also cast her film nicely with Tina Engel, who suggests a young Hildegard Knef, as Christa, and Silvia Reize as Christa’s longtime friend, Ingrid. In secondary but no less effective roles are Marius Muller-Westernhagen, as an ex-seaman who accompanies Christa on her life of minicrime, and Peter Schneider as a young clergyman, a fellow who preaches the need for action but is unable to act in any unconventional way himself.

“The Second Awakening of Christa Klages” is a didactic film, but it is never smug in the manner of a film that knows all the answers. It’s mostly about uncertainty, and about the need to take risks and to make choices. In this sense, it’s more profoundly political than even the outraged “Katharina Blum,” which was based on the novel by Heinrich Böll and which never allowed the audience to think for itself.

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“Thomas Brasch’s Domino opens with glimpses of the Kurfürstendamm shrouded in snow, scenes of Christmas bustle. Lisa, a successful actress at the Schiller Theater, drops off her daughter at the Bahnhof Zoo and faces the presentiment of holidays to be spent alone. In the week to come, her life will come unraveled, her taken-for-granted security called into question. An undercurrent of the inexplicable and the unexpected will grip the artiste and ultimately sweep her into oblivion. Domino focuses on a woman living in abeyance…. Everywhere she turns the past seems to be on her trail: she confronts visions of her deceased mother (also an actress) while thinking of her own daughter. She learns that the director Lehrter, who seeks to engage her to star in his comeback production of Goethe’s Stella, may very well be her father [and learns also] of his internment in a concentration camp. Encounters on the street irritate and befuddle her. Passersby speak of mass unemployment, worry about pending war, and wander about sobbing, disoriented and confused….

Possessed by a present that has not yet arrived, occupied by a past that constantly poses itself unannounced at the most unexpected turns: Domino is a film about waiting whose protagonist stumbles into a historical vortex. Brasch, in contrast to Alfred Behrens [PFA 4/10/87], allows sites and spaces to become ciphers, symbolic representations of a lurking disquiet and an inexorable paralysis. Berlin acts as a collective storehouse of memories and traumas, a city whose past has been put on ice, a place where history opens up like a black hole to engulf the unwary. Time stands still and we have temps morts, the feeling of sitting in a waiting room, anticipating relief and succor…. To slow things down, to find a way of intensifying the immediate, to gain access to the mystery and magic in everyday objects and occurrences: Brasch’s film in the snow blends moments of impasse and epiphany.” Eric Rentschler for UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

In an extended, two-hour, black-and-white record of the mental disintegration of theatrical-star Lisa (Katharina Thalbach), director (Thomas Brasch) follows her life through a successful performance, a breakdown during another performance, the death of a director friend, constant intrusions into her apartment home, and domino games played against herself — with her mother cast as her imaginary opponent cast. Lisa’s world and the real world mix and mingle, tangled together as stability wanes. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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