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REVERSE SHOT - REBELLION OF THE FILMMAKERS [GEGENSCHUSS - AUFBRUCH DER FILMEMACHER]
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Director: Dominik Wessely |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Werner Herzog. Wim Wenders. Three directors whose names stand for the exodus of the West German cinema from the decades of insignificance of the post-war period. As of 1970, the blossoming of the German cinema began and caused a global sensation with films like FEAR EATS THE SOUL, EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALL or IN THE COURSE OF TIME. For the first time since the golden age of expressionism in the 1920s, German filmmakers, whose new works receive international attention and acclaim, are back. Significantly responsible in part for this departure, is the Filmverlag der Autoren (The Authors' Film Publishing Guild) - a production and distribution cooperative that was founded in Munich in April 1971 by 13 filmmakers. Ranking amongst the first members ... |
LOVES OF PHARAOH, THE [WEIB DES PHARAO, DAS]
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Director: Ernst Lubitsch |
Pharaoh Amenes (Emil Jannings), is to marry Makeda (Lyda Salmonova), the daughter of the Ethiopian King (Paul Wegener). He refuses and instead marries the female slave of the princess, the beautiful Theonis (Dagny Servaes). Deeply humiliated, the Ethiopian king declares war on the pharaoh. Since Theonis has sworn an oath of eternal fidelity to her lover Ramphis (Harry Liedtke), cruel Amenes has her walled in to a dungeon for safe keeping. The Egyptian army, along with Amenes, enters into a crushing defeat. At the last moment, however, brave Ramphis is able to achieve victory, returns as the new pharaoh and frees his lover from the dungeon. But Amenes is not dead; he returns and demands his rights to throne and spouse. Ramphis, however, is unable to separate from Theonis, and offers ... |
HEAD UNDER WATER [FREISCHWIMMER]
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Director: Andreas Kleinert |
Something terrible is about to happen in a small town in Germany. Nobody knows the reason why, except one person: Rico Bartsch. The 15-year old grammar school pupil, an absolute outsider, is in love with the most beautiful girl at his school. What in the beginning is a longing that can never be fullfilled will come true at the end of the story: Beautiful Regine will beg for Rico's love. Until then several inhabitants of the town will die an unnatural death... Rico Bartsch (Frederick Lau) is a looser. He is not successful with girls nor is he athletic: His limited sense of hearing makes him live in his own world. Whenever he is fed up with his surroundings he just switchess off his hearing aid. One day his classs mate Robert Greiner dies because he has eaten poisoned pastry. Rico does ... |
TWO MOTHERS - THE SEARCH BEGAN IN RIGA [MEINE MUETTER - SPURENSUCHE IN RIGA]
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Director: Rosa von Praunheim |
Tracing my two mothers in Riga is my personal history. I was born Holger Mischwitzky in Riga, Latvia, on November 25th, 1942. In 2000, my then 94-year-old mother told me I was not her son and that she had found me in a children's home in Riga during the German occupation. That was all she was prepared to say. She died in 2003. Initially I didn't want to start searching, she had been a loving mother to me. Two years later I did become curious, but not knowing my real family name, I thought searching would be futile. With the help of a Latvian journalist I met Agnese who discovered intriguing things in the national archive. Amazingly enough, I eventually found my real birth certificate in Berlin which stated that I had been born in Riga in the central prison in 1942. I start searching for ... |
SHOESLAPPING IN AFRICA [PLATTLN IN UMTATA - MIT DER BIERMOESL BLOSN IN AFRIKA]
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Director: Peter Heller |
About Upper Bavaria and Zulu warriors, about Harfengstanzel'n (harp dance music), about Schuhplattler (shoe slappers) and Gumboot Dance - a cultural dialogue through music and dance. In a far away land and in the deepes south, in the melting pot of the cultures at the other end of the world the people of Africa meet the satirist artists from conservative Bavaria. The trio of the Well brothers, taking dancing classes and performing Jam sessions, discover, in an astonishing way, the rhythms of the suburbs in the living subcultures of the ghettos and away from all stereotypes and prejudices, they get to know the New and the Other: The rebellious folk musicians and Alpine partisans recognise unexpected parallels down in South Africa: the "Gumboot Dance" of the South African gold miners ... |
THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE [SICHTBARE UND DAS UNSICHTBARE, DAS]
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Director: Rudolf Thome |
Marquand and Maria are painters and lovers who live together. After Marquand wins an important prize, with a considerable amount of money attached, his creativity wanes. As Maria works on series of paintings, Marquand visits his friend Gregor, a horse breeder and philosopher, sleeps with the angelic Angie and visits his daughter Lucia several times. Marquand and Lucia, who have begun a tender affair, spend a few nights in a hotel on the coast where they agree not to speak a word. Maria, who has no idea, knows all the same. Their love is over. She abruptly stops work on her series, starts on a new painting titled 'The Visible and the Invisible', and goes back to her old lover, Gregor. Back from his short trip, Marquand paints a final painting, well aware that the 40 pills in his bottle of ... |
MARIA TO CALLAS [MARIA AN CALLAS]
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Director: Petra Katharina Wagner |
After the death of his beloved wife Maria, the successful product designer Jost discovers that she had been corresponding with an email friend, a woman nicknamed "Callas". She did not admit to her illness in letters to this friend, but pretended that Jost's life as a much-demanded designer was her own. Jost is in deep mourning and cannot bring himself to tell the email friend about Maria's death. Instead, he continues the correspondence by adopting the role of his wife. When he falls in love with the unknown woman and sets out to find her, he realizes that she did not describe her life with complete honesty, either. |
G 8 - FENCED OFF [ZAUN, DER]
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Director: Armin Marewski; Andreas Horn |
"A 13-kilometers long fence shall protect the leaders of the G8 Meeting" that was the news that was spread throughout the media at the end of the last year. A 13-kilometers long fence and an expense of 100 million Euros for a meeting to last 3 days? 16.000 police officers to protect the G8 leaders? Who came up with such an idea? What's up with that fence? Who shall be separated from whom? What danger shall it oppose? Is it really about security or is the fence more like a symbol? And if so, what for? The film makers searched the answers to those significant questions. The concerned parties that they encountered at the fence gave them a clue. And even the police mentioned activities that were interventions of civil liberties. |
I BROKE MY FUTURE (original title)
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Director: Carla Gunnesch |
Hundreds of thousands of Africans head to Europe every year. They flee from poverty, political persecution or war, thereby risking their life. Only very few manage to enter an EU country. Fela, Karim. Rachid and Daren made it to Germany and thought they had reached the destination of their dreams. But instead, they are confronted with restrictive asylum laws and their consequences. On the edge of society, they live and work illegally in Berlin and are subjected almost daily to police identity checks and the subsequent punishments. The only way out for them is to find a German woman to marry. They are slowly realising that they have not only given up their homeland for their life in Europe but are bit by bit also loosing their identity and dignity. Dreams of a normal life seem unreachable ... |
20 CIGARETTES
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Director: Alexander Gornovsky |
Andrey is an art-director in an advertising agency. Andrey's life comes up with multiple unpleasant surprises at the day when his wife bears their first child. First of all Andrey has to go to work to solve some unexpected problems instead of going to the hospital to his wife. He lights up the first cigarette despite the fact that he was going to give up smoking. He confronts a client and finds himself in danger of being fired. From that moment Andrey's day turns into a total nightmare. All the day Andrey drives all over the city trying to solve the problem. On his way he makes mistake after mistake even without noticing it. He has to act against his will for his career and the future well being of his wife and his child, but still cannot reach the goal. However, this film is not about a ... |