Dominik Graf – Der Rote Kakadu aka The Red Cockatoo (2006)

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Der rote Kakadu (2006)

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Rock ‘n’ roll comes to Germany just ahead of the Berlin Wall in “The Red Cockatoo.” Stylish period piece is weighed down by a too-familiar love triangle, generating nostalgia for a difficult time not nearly as successfully as clear predecessor “Good Bye Lenin!”

Unlike helmer Wolfgang Becker’s “Good Bye Lenin!,” “Cockatoo” will work best for those with some knowledge of the early days of the German Democratic Republic and tension generated by the Wall throughout the country.

Helmer Dominik Graf has all the visual materials in place, but story suffers from failing to communicate sparks of either love or social upheaval that made Becker’s pic catch fire.

Thesps are appealing but generally predictable. Young Riemelt employs the same wide-eyed impassivity displayed in “Napola” while Schwarz, last seen internationally in offbeat “Kammerflimmern,” is easy on the eyes. Newcomer Zehrfeld has a fiery combustibility.

Tech credits are slick, with production and costume design taking center-stage. Period tunes keep the feet tapping.

Der.rote.Kakadu.2006.DVDRip-benvolio.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	2h 3mn
Size:	1.70 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	718x552 ~> 1021x552
Aspect ratio:	1.85:1
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 585 kb/s
Audio
German 5.1ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/AF82918FE66D97F/Der.rote.Kakadu.2006.DVDRip-benvolio.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:German

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Dominik Graf – Im Angesicht des Verbrechens aka In Face of the Crime (2010)

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Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (2010)

“In this epic-scale saga of life on both sides of the law, Max Riemelt plays Marek Grosky, a Russian Jew who immigrated to Germany in the 1920s. Grosky is one of a large number of Russians who have fled their homeland and settled in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. While Marek has become a police officer in Berlin, his sister Stella (Marie Baumer) is married to a high-ranking crime chieftain, and the cop finds himself caught between two worlds, torn between his devotion to duty and his ties to his family. As a war rages between criminal factions in Charlottenburg, Marek witnesses the death of his brother and falls for a Ukrainian woman who has been brought to Germany to work as a prostitute. Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (aka In Face Of The Crime) was originally created as a ten-part series for German television; it was later re-edited into a pair of feature-length films which were screened as part of the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival. “
by Mark Deming

Im.Angesicht.des.Verbrechens.2010.01.Berlin.ist.das.Paradies.DVDRip.x264-PTP.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	48mn 49s
Size:	824 MiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Not met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	716x568 ~> 1009x568
Aspect ratio:	16:9
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	2 135 kb/s
Audio
German 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, German hard-subs for the non-german parts

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