Florian Widegger wrote:
‘Goodbye romance – welcome reality’ is the almost programmatic title of one of the songs that accompanies this remarkable film by Siggi Götz and Jess Franco’s former assistant, who died young. The 18-year-old Dave is imprisoned for stealing a motorbike, but fakes a suicide and, chased by law enforcement officers, makes his way through West Berlin, which was surrounded by a wall at the time and is the film’s secret main attraction. First he seeks out his girlfriend, a stripper in one of the city’s hippest clubs, then he settles unfinished business with his ex-client … Schenkel’s official directorial debut – enriched with great punk and new wave music made in West Germany – is a chilly and visually stunning document of the no-future generation. Rightly cult!

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Dave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike thieves and ends up in jail. All for the love of Corinna, his beautiful girlfriend. Refused parole and nearly insane with frustration he makes a violent escape to be with her and strike back.

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He is 18 and his name is David Balko, but everyone calls him Dave. He is in prison for tampering with stolen motorcycles. All hope of early release is dashed – no one from his former gang shows up and his girlfriend Corinna visits less and less often. Dave snaps. He takes off. But his escape costs a human life and turns into a nightmare. The story of a desperate search for happiness escalates into a blind rampage.

Carl Schenkel - 1981 - Kalt wie Eis [Commentary; DVD-PAL].mkv

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Subtitles:English

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A beautiful blonde hooks up with a rock star, and after a night of sex and drugs, he leaves. She, though, has fallen madly in love with him, and sets out with her girlfriend across Europe to track him down. On the way, however, she gets mixed up with everyone from a gang of nasty bikers to a ring of devil worshipers.

Ich.Ein.Groupie.1970.576p.BluRay.AC3.5.1.x264-PTP.mkv

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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-berlin

In West Berlin in the 1960s it was possible to find bars where men could be left to themselves – a fact that was to turn the city into a magnet for young gay men. The protagonists of this film, all still active members of the community today, recall those early years in the city. Theirs are memories of a community that fought steadily for its existence, and of its change, right up to the fall of the Wall. Faced with considerable social repression in the 1970s, a collective gay identity began to emerge, and the ‘West Berlin homosexual campaign’ called for the abolition of paragraph 175 and the overthrow of patriarchy. Ruined buildings become the venues for new ways of living together such as all-male communes or the ‘queer house’. Cottaging, East-West affairs, leather bars, drag performances in the subway – an anarchic kind of joy outshines past suffering. A decade later, AIDS was to hit Berlin. After Out in Ost-Berlin (Out In East Berlin) Jochen Hick explores queer lifestyles in the West of the city and the roots of a fascination that the metropolis still holds as a refuge – and not just for gay men. A fascinating journey through time featuring previously unpublished archive material. https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2017/02_programm_2017/02_Filmdatenblatt_2017_201710598.html#tab=filmStills

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Menus: Untouched
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Runtime : 98 minutes

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, German for the Hard of Hearing

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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.

The soundtrack is quite good and the movie includes a few scenes with bands playing. Even more surprisising is a scene with a Vienna Aktionist style performance that is quite shocking and is quite representative of the bohemian atmosphere in Vienna at the time.

0.99GB | 1h 12m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/BF4BD4F66BF10F5/Schamlos.aka.Shameless.(1968).DVDRip.Esub.mkv

Language:German
Subtitles:English

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