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Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This poetic, semi-autobiographical drama by Iris Gusner, one of East Germany’s few female directors, explores the strength and limits of will and desire. Gusner studied with Mikhail Romm at VGIK, the Russian Institute for Cinematography. Christiane arrives at a Moscow hospital to see her little daughter. While she waits for the child to recuperate, she reflects on her life. Remembering her childhood in East Germany, she thinks about her grandfather...
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Deutsch
Description
After a summer spent with his his best friend Kat to escape his family, Phil goes back to school and starts to question his feelings towards Nicholas, a new classmate. Nominated for Best Director at the **Munich International Film Festival**. Official selection at **Outfest** and **Frameline Film Festival**. "*Erwa's emotional candour ensures his film will strike resonant chords with anybody who spent their formative years extricating themselves from...
83) Kimono
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Looking for something to eat, a homeless woman sneaks into a man’s apartment. When she is almost caught, she hides in his closet. But instead of leaving the apartment, she gets interested in the man and starts to secretly live there and observe him. What she doesn’t realize, however, is that the man has already noticed her presence. Youth Jury Award winner and Best Short Fiction Film nominee at the **Dresden Film Festival**.
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Everything changes for fifteen-year-old Heinz Stielke, a fanatical member of the Hitler Youth, when he learns that his father, who died as a war hero, was actually Jewish. Heinz is forced to leave school, loses his friends, and worst of all, his mother dies in a bombing raid. A kind-hearted police officer tries to get him a place at an orphanage in Thuringia, but on the way there, he is picked up by the SS and sent to a training camp. Based on Wolfgang...
85) The Lost Angel
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Deutsch
Description
August 24, 1937: a day in the life of expressionist sculptor and author Ernst Barlach. Barlach lives in the small town of Güstrow, keeping to himself and wanting to steer clear of politics. One day he learns that the Nazis have dragged his famous 1927 sculpture The Hovering Angel—which bears the features of German artist Käthe Kollwitz—out of the Güstrow Cathedral. Barlach begins to reflect on his life of “inner emigration” and on his work,...
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In order to reconnect his TV satellite, Helmut decides to climb out of his window in a resolute manner. His neighbor Walter misinterprets this action as an attempted suicide. While trying to clear this misunderstanding, the two become friends.
87) Däwit
Publisher
KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A wolf child, a cat, an angel. Animated in woodcut style, the film tells the story of Daewit who is rescued from his violent father and grows up far away from his family among wolves. Embarking on a mysterious journey to find his own identity, he encounters great hardship but ultimately finds peace in forgiveness. Nominated for Best Short Film at the **Berlin International Film Festival**.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This two-part epic traces the development of a manor and farm in Mecklenburg, from the flight of its aristocratic landowners before the advancing Soviet troops in 1945, to just after the East German uprising of June 17, 1953, by which time it has become an agricultural cooperative. Powerful stories and images take place in a context of historical events. 2-DVD set. The story revolves around a peasant girl who is to go study to become an agronomist...
89) Titanic
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Before James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic, the Hollywood Titanic of 1953, the 1958 British film A night to remember, and the 1997 Broadway musical Titanic, there was the Nazi German film Titanic. A Tobis production begun in 1942, this production nearly sank as decisively as the doomed ocean liner. The film's director, Herbert Selpin, infuriated with the slow second-unit shooting in the port of Gdynia, was overheard making remarks damning the...
90) M
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
Deutsch
Description
Suspense based on the exploits of the Dusseldorf child-murderer. Lorre stars as a psychopathic murderer who is hunted by both the police and the criminal underworld.
91) Hotel Terminus
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and epic Academy Award-winning examination of the Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon", HOTEL TERMINUS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KLAUS BARBIE weaves together forty years of footage and interviews culled from over 120 hours of discussion with former Nazis, American intelligence officers, South American government officials, victims of Nazi atrocities and witnesses.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In the summer of 1945, Dresden factory workers send their colleague, Kalle, hundreds of miles north to pick up carbide, which is needed for welding jobs in their factory. His attempts to bring the supplies back through the Soviet occupation zone become a hilarious odyssey full of high jinks and misadventures. A rare classic of German film comedy! Right after WWII, factory worker Karl Bluecher, nicknamed Kalle, sets out from Dresden for Wittenberge...
93) Aimée & Jaguar
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women. One of them, Lilly Wust (NOWHERE IN AFRICA’s Juliane Köhler), married and the mother of four sons, enjoys the privileges of her stature as an exemplar of Nazi motherhood. For her, this affair will be the most decisive experience of her life. For the other woman, Felice Schragenheim (Maria Schrader), a...
94) Duke Ernest
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Young DUKE ERNEST wants to become a good knight, but circumstances are not in his favor. The Emperor—who wants to claim the Duke’s castle and marry his mother—has Ernest wrongfully accused of murder and jailed. The only way to escape death is to enlist and go in search of the legendary Carbuncle Stone. Along the way, Ernest encounters carnivorous rocks, magnetic mountains, the giant bird Roc and many fantastical adventures. Dammbeck worked on...
95) The Last Supper
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Deutsch
Description
On the day Adolf Hitler comes to power, the German-Jewish Glickstein family comes together for a family dinner. Most of them however (like so many other Germans at that time) don't take the Nazis seriously. When young Leah reveals her plans to emigrate from Berlin to Palestine, her family objects. Her father can't see any reason to leave Germany, the country of their ancestors and the country he risked his live for during the first world war. But...
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Peter is being followed by killer bees, Elsa collects exotic flowers from all over the world. To be together, they both have to overcome their fantasies. But what if love itself is nothing but fantasy? Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Directing at the **Denver International Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This historical drama is based on the memoir of Marga Spiegel. In her narrative, published in 1965, she describes how courageous farmers in southern Münsterland hid her, her husband Siegfried and their little daughter Karin from 1943 until 1945, thus saving them from deportation to the extermination camps in the East. Nominated for the Variety Piazza Grande Award at the **Locarno International Film Festival.** Winner of the Audience Award for Best...
98) Tiger Milk
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Best friends Nini and Jameelah are 14 years old. Summer has begun and Berlin is their playground. Sticky lipped and heavy-eyed from drinking tiger milk; a mix of passion fruit, milk and brandy, they flirt and use their innocent charm for fun. This summer, It’s going to happen – sex and true love with Nico and Lukas. But when Jameelah's family is threatened with deportation back to Iraq, the two girls realize that their friendship is more important...
99) Young and Wild
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Teenager Daniela is trapped in a rigid evangelical family until her sexually explicit blog plunges her into a thrilling new world of raw, sensual exploration.
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