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ADRIAN AND THE ROMANS [ADRIAN UND DIE ROEMER]
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Director: Klaus Bueb |
A forty-something struggling unsuccessfully with a "mid life crisis" stumbles from one absurd adventure to the next. Only through a complicated reunion with an ex-girlfriend from his college days and her daughter does he seem to get a hold of his life. |
BAIT [ZERSCHOSSENE TRAEUME]
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Director: Peter Patzak |
A young homosexual police officer is being blackmailed by his ex-boyfriend, a nightclub owner. The policeman had been covering up the former boyfriend's illegal firearms business for a long time. Now threatened by exposure, the officer has no choice but to take up arms against his ex. Exciting milieu crime thriller which takes place in the Viennese underworld... |
BELLA DONNA
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Director: Peter Keglevic |
Fritz, an unemployed saxophone player, falls in love with the married singer Lena. Their relationship becomes a living hell for both of them, but they can´t live without one another any more. A film about Berlin in the 20s, about love and betrayal, played by great actors. |
BOY CRIED MURDER, THE [BOY CRIED MURDER]
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Director: George Breakston |
A little boy witnesses a murder. When he tells about what he has seen, nobody believes him. Only the murderer knows that the little boy is telling the truth and does everything in his power to get rid of the innocent accessory to his crime? Based on a short story by Cornell Woolrich. |
BRIDE OF THE ORIENT [GEKAUFTES GLUECK]
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Director: Urs Odermatt |
Farmer Windleter, in a remote country farm on the mountains, searches for a wife in his area. But his efforts prove to be in vain, young women are not attracted to him, and he is not attracted to the older. In desperation, he asks the owner of a local brothel to find him a farmer girl from Thailand and one day a young and pretty girl arrives. The village is in uproar... |
CAPTAIN AND HIS HERO, THE [HAUPTMANN UND SEIN HELD, DER]
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Director: Max Nosseck |
Since he doesn't want to make a bad impression anymore, the notorious draft dodger, Paul Kellermann, quickly joins the army voluntarily during the last year of the war. But soon after his induction, the troop leader, Captain Eisenhecker, considers him to be the worst soldier of all time. When Kellermann is finally granted the leave that he has been craving for so long, he and his girlfriend promptly end up in an air raid while strolling around. They are able to save themselves in the nick of time. In the ensuing chaos, Kellermann finds a blank certificate for the Iron Cross Award, which he pockets and fills in his name as the recipient. After he returns to his squad, Captain Eisenhecker can't believe his eyes. But Paul Kellermann advances to become the hero of the whole company? ... |
CITY IN THE FOG [FUENF UNTER VERDACHT]
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Director: Kurt Hoffmann |
Criminal film in the school milieu. Janitor Palsberg, employee at the local secondary school in the Danish harbor city Belgesund, is in for trouble. For quite a while now, he has been receiving bribes, in the form of liquor and cigarettes, from the pupils. In return, he has to steal the test questions from the teachers' room for them. This time, however, the stolen questions do not match up with the actual questions, which makes the pupils quite angry. In addition, Palsberg is blackmailing the teacher Dr. Berling, since he had gotten wind of a relationship that Berling was carrying on with one of his young female students. One evening, Palsberg is found murdered in his apartment. The pupils fear that they will be the key suspects. But then, Chief Inspector Thomsen takes on the case and ... |
Comeback [COMEBACK]
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Director: Christel Buschmann |
The story of Rocco (Eric Burdon), who, at the height of his career, breaks out of its confines. Under pressure from a brutal music industry, he leaves the stage, his wife and California. He turns his back on a life which has seemingly given him everything but has cost him his identity. Rocco´s odyssey leads him abroad to Berlin where he has to face other business problems... |
DONUSA
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Director: Angeliki Antoniou |
Stefan comes to a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea. A young woman, Eleni, raped and humiliated by her father, commits suicide. Stefan had been attracted by Eleni?s way of being, her mysterious shyness and finally he will be the driving factor to uncover her secret. A film about the tragedy of women staying inactive in an archaic world. |
EDVIGE SCIMITT-A LIFE BETWEEN LOVE AND INSANITY [EDVIGE SCIMITT]
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Director: Matthias Zschokke |
The odyssey of a poor maid from the country side that leads her through a labyrinthine world of seduction and despair in the time after the turn of the century. Realised as a dream-like journey with elements of musicals, light fiction and comic strips, it is a sensible personality and social study. Hedwig Schmitt became Edvige Scimitt, once she was in Italy... |