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Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1930.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Emil Jannings (The Last Laugh, Faust, Othello), the quintessential German expressionist actor, stars as Professor Rath, the sexually-repressed instructor of a boys' prep school. After learning of the pupils' infatuation with French postcards depicting a local nightclub songstress, he decides to personally investigate the source of such indecency. But as soon as he enters the shadowy Blue Angel nightclub and steals one glimpse of the smoldering Lola-Lola...
2) Fata Morgana
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Footage shot in and around the Sahara Desert, accompanied only by a spoken creation myth and the songs of Leonard Cohen.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Deutsch
Description
An affecting and bittersweet glimpse into the shared connections of a motley group of nightshift workers at a big box store, including the reclusive newbie Christian (Franz Rogowski) and the charming but mysterious Marion (Sandra Hüller). Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and **BFI London Film Festival**.
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
FLYING CLIPPER, directed by Hermann Leitner and featuring narration from Burl Ives, follows the untold adventures of a Swedish sailing ship and its young crew as they navigate the Mediterranean Sea in the early 1960s. This documentary is a stunning travelogue that takes you to the dreamiest destinations of the old world. Under the stewardship of Captain Skoglund, a group of 20 Merchant Marine cadets venture through historical landmarks, such as Tutankhamen's...
5) Bagdad Cafe
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.
6) Eolomea
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Eight space cargo-ships disappear without a trace within three days, and there is suddenly no contact with the orbiting space station, Margot. The space council orders a total flight stop. But one space ship secretly takes off to go to the space station. The scientist in charge, Maria Scholl, sees no other solution than to order a total flight stop to this mysterious sector of space. Her colleague, Prof. Tal, is acting suspiciously, as he knows things...
7) A6/A9
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Concrete reptiles are chasing you and it's 100 metres until the last exit...
9) Birdstrike
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
If an airplane encounters birds, the birds are normally on the losing end. But what if the airplane is smaller than the bird?
10) Cobra Verde
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Portuguese
Description
The feared bandit COBRA VERDE (Klaus Kinski) is hired by a plantation owner to supervise his slaves. After the owner suspects Cobra Verde of consorting with his young daughters, the owner wishes him gone. Rather than kill him,the owner sends Cobra Verde to Africa. The only white man in the area, Cobra Verde finds himself the victim of torture and humiliation. Later, he trains soldiers in a rebel army. Far from home, Cobra Verde is on the edge of madness....
11) Location Hunting
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Filmmaker Rüdiger Stein wants to produce his first meaningful documentary. By chance, he meets Klaus and Manuela, two young teenagers who grew up in difficult social circumstances. They are expecting a child and plan to move in together. It's a perfect, socially important topic for Rüdiger's first film. But Manuela changes her mind and the project threatens to fall apart. Rüdiger feels obliged to intervene so he can save his film, but it seems...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The year is 1826. Ludwig van Beethoven (Tobias Moretti) faces the final stanza of his storied career. Deaf and defiant, he recalls memories of his youth, when as an eight-year-old prodigy he comes under the tutelage of the Bonn court organist, Christian Gottlob Neefe. Years later after an encounter with Mozart, the young "Louis" begins to study under Joseph Haydn in Vienna, but family tragedies and unfulfilled love leave a lasting mark that haunts...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Deutsch
Description
After Dammbeck's original film project Herakles (Hercules) was rejected by the East German DEFA Studios in 1983-84, the artist was still fascinated by the Hercules story. He started experimenting with different media combinations, including overpainting, photography, film clips, collage, painting and movement. These experiments resulted in groundbreaking multi-media collaborations and in the film THE CAVE OF HERCULES, in which Dammbeck explores a...
14) Metamorphoses I
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
For the 1977 intermedia exhibition Tangenten I (Tangents I), Dammbeck and co-organizer, sculptor and painter Frieder Heinze had planned to collaborate on a film that would combine non-camera animation with 35mm footage of a train ride between the two Dresden districts of Radebeul and Pieschen. When Tangents I was banned, Heinze turned to other projects, but Dammbeck continued working on the film by himself. METAMORPHOSES I-the first experimental film...
15) REALFilm
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This multimedia collage, which includes performances by pantomime artist and dancer Fine Kwiatkowski, painter and filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck and musician Robert Linke, is a reflection on the medium of film and its elements: sound, light and movement. Dammbeck's goal is to cleanse these elements of ideology and then commerce and compose a new film out of them. The process is played out in the space in real time. Recorded in Leipzig on May 14, 1986, this...
16) Metropolis
Publisher
Kino International Corporation
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The story of a 21st century city run by a "super trustee" and his collaborators who live in a paradise-like garden. Workers are totally enslaved by machines and condemned to live underground. In the midst of this misery, a young woman, Maria, arises and attempts to inspire the workers to throw off their oppressors.
17) Böse Bilder
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Jonas is living alone with his depressive mother. He is quite isolated. With his only friend he becomes to be more and more violent with a classmate and the situation aggravates. Winner of Best Medium-Length Film at the **Max Ophüls Festival**.
18) Woyzeck
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Everything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But WOYZECK, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices -- the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, WOYZECK is a comic marvel: ignorant but courageous, full of energy to little purpose. To a local doctor, WOYZECK is a curiosity, the object of cruel study. WOYZECK, 40, has a young wife, Marie, and a small child. He dotes on them, but Marie, even though she has periods...
19) Gloomy Sunday
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A hit song during the 1930s, recorded most famously by Billie Holiday, the evocative "Gloomy Sunday" was notorious for allegedly driving people to suicide. Now it's the inspiration for this marvelous film, a love story with a twist. GLOOMY SUNDAY flashes back from the 1990s to the early 1930s in the lush and romantic city of Budapest, where three people are caught in a love triangle.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The distinguished German writer Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) lived for several years in the 1960s on Manhattan's Upper Westside. His publisher, Harcourt Brace, had hired him as a textbook editor for their German-language school book editions, which allowed him to stay in New York and also tend to his own writing. In his spare time he got to know his neighborhood very well, observing the goings on in the streets, cafeterias, and parks. In 1968 German Television...
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