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Hanns Zischler

Hanns Zischler

Hanns Zischler (born 18 June 1947) is a German actor most famous in America for his portrayal of Hans in Steven Spielberg's film Munich. According to the Internet Movie Database, Zischler has appeared in 171 movies since 1968.

Known in Sweden for his role as Josef Hillman in the second season of the Martin Beck movies, though his voice is dubbed.

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John Cranko (2024)

The gifted, charismatic artist John Cranko moves to the Swabian province from London, where he is attacked for his homosexuality, and after many crises becomes the great sensation as the new pop star of the arts: the Stuttgart Ballet Miracle. ...

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Snow White (2024)

"The visual is essentially pornographic", wrote Fredric Jameson, adding that "pornographic films are thus only the potentiation of films in general, which ask us to stare at the world as though it were a naked body". Turning down the Prince's invitation to ...

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Leningrad. Stimmen einer belagerten Stadt (2024)

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the siege and starvation of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht on Hitler's orders lasted. Over a million people fell victim to the blockade, most of them dying o ...

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All Will Be Revealed (2023)

Set in 1964, a man returns to his hometown looking for his childhood sweetheart but discovers a dark and corrupt world. ...

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The Universal Theory (2023)

Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on site. He meets Karin, a mysterious jazz pianist who seems to know more about him than she can know. Suddenly ...

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Black Box (2023)

The exits of a Berlin courtyard are blocked by the police due to an ambiguous event outside and a state of emergency occurs. Among the residents of the building, insecurities start to pump fear. Suspicion takes over panic, prejudices bring polarization and ...

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So Long Daddy, See You in Hell (2022)

Fourteen-year-old Jeanne has lived in a farm commune since she was two years old. Her mother and father live in city communes and rarely visit. This is one of the commandments given by Otto, who rules the commune: children are to grow up without parents. K ...

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No (2021)

Isn't the trajectory of a shared life determined in advance? Get married, have kids, be like everyone else… According to Dietrich Brüggemann, who competed in Vary six years ago, 30-somethings conceivably have it all, yet they fail in their attempts to a ...

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Prince (2021)

Perhaps they should never have met, but fate wanted otherwise. Monika and Joseph. She is a curator, he is an immigrant from Congo, a businessman with an unclear past and present. They meet during a police raid at a bar, when the first of many sparks flies ...

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Black Island (2021)

The dark secrets of a seemingly peaceful island threaten to swallow up an orphaned student when he grows close to a mysterious new teacher. ...

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A Place Called Dignity (2021)

Pablo, a 12-year-old boy, receives a scholarship to attend school in the mysterious and isolated Colonia Dignidad established in Chile by German settlers. It seems to be quite a privilege for a kid like him, and he quickly becomes the favourite of the lead ...

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Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020)

"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German Cinema and one of the most important and influential representatives of contemporary cinema. With never b ...

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Relativity (2019)

The fate of Nora, a supermarket cashier who lives happily with her boyfriend Aron, and that of Natan, a loving father who works as a night watchman, cross paths when misfortune turns their lives upside down. ...

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Professor Wall im Bordell (2019)

Hanns Zischler embarks on a walk to Canossa in "Prof. Wall in the brothel": A law professor desperately wants to make amends, that through his guilt an outstanding student has broken off and now works as a prostitute. With targeted provocations Emilia Schà ...

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Whatever Happens Next (2018)

A road movie about a dropout who leaves himself completely to chance. A parable about freedom, self-determination and the poetry of an undefined life. ...

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Der große Rudolph (2018)

The fact that Rudolph Moshammer is a dazzling figure and the most prominent fashion designer in Munich is no longer enough for his silent partners and financiers. So it happens that he is looking for a seductive woman to sell and - to the horror of his mot ...

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Katie Fforde: Ziemlich beste Freundinnen (2018)

Hasn't every woman ever wondered whether it's best to ditch all the men and just marry your best friend? Paula and Emily are doing just that. Single hotel owner Paula Atkinson and her impulsive friend Emily van Garden have known each other since high schoo ...

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Einen Moment fürs Leben (2017)

In Dublin, Blake Lester breaks Lucy Silchester's dream by preferring an overseas TV show career move over their marriage plans since years. Receiving a mystery letter 'from her life', Lucy seeks consolation with mates Adam, Melanie, Lisa and Jamie. Angrily ...

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Bimbes: Die schwarzen Kassen des Helmut Kohl (2017)

During the donations scandal of 1999/2000, Helmut Kohl gave his legendary "word of honor" not to name any donors. ...

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1917 - Der wahre Oktober (2017)

Television version of 2017 documentary film. ...

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1917: The Real October (2017)

St. Petersburg 1917. The frontline of the global war is coming closer everyday; people are hungry, wor-ried, angry. In February the tsar is overthrown. Many artists are euphoric: Revolution! Freedom, finally? No. Starting in October, the Bolsheviks rule by ...

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Crash Test Aglae (2017)

Aglaé, a young factory worker, has only one focus in life: her job at a car crash test site. When she learns that the factory is going to be relocated abroad, she accepts, to everyone's surprise, to go to India in order to hold on to her job. Accompanied ...

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Axolotl Overkill (2017)

Mifti is a teenager as beautiful as she is reckless. Mentally unstable, fed up with her dysfunctional family, oblivious to the youthful world, and aware of the sexual magnetism she gives off with her peculiar appearance, she wanders through the dark path o ...

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A Prominent Patient (2017)

In 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and he is now a man with no nation; because, as the Czechoslovak ambassador in London, he failed to win the support of the British ...

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So Broad and Big: The Nature of Otto Modersohn (2016)

Already as a student of the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, Otto Modersohn, born in 1865, rebelled against the teachings of his professors and placed his own natural philosophy at the center of his artistic work. He declared himself a landscape painter. His unm ...

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Allmen and the Dragonflies (2016)

Generosity, weakness for expensive pleasures and ruin is a combination that does not bode well. Johann Friedrich von Allmen was a man with a taste for women and the expensive pleasures of life. Unfortunately, his luck has run out, but now a new opportunity ...

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Ein Mann unter Verdacht (2016)

Anja Altmann disappears after a birthday party. When the police ask husband Thomas about her , family attorney and friend Lavinia Bertok manage to dispel any suspicions about him. But soon Thomas is arrested. While the Altmann family start hurling accusati ...

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Traveling Roadshow (2016)

Actors Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler and Lisa Kreuzer reflect on their work in front of the Robby Müller's camera for Wim Wender's seminal road movie KINGS OF THE ROAD (Im Lauf der Zeit, 1976). ...

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Der Bankraub (2016)

Helmut Draeger, director of a German bank, gives the talented bank employee Martin Kreye the opportunity to speculate in New York in real estate. Martins Career quickly takes a high flight. He soon gets under . ...

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All of a Sudden (2016)

Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds. ...

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Chamisso’s Shadow (2016)

A Journey to the Bering Sea in three chapters by Ulrike Ottinger. ...

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What Happens In Your Brain If You See a German Word Like...? (2015)

A surreal trip into the world of an extremely long german word. ...

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Heil (2015)

An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany. ...

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Outside the Box (2015)

Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building event. He and his colleagues will be chased across an outdoor obstacle course while being assessed on leadership qualities and their capac ...

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Brief an mein Leben (2015)

Diagnosis burnout: The successful career woman Toni Lehmstedt can be referred to a psychiatric clinic after a physical breakdown. Urs Egger's free adaptation of the biographical novel of the same name by Miriam Meckel with Grimme award winner Marie Bäumer ...

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Stille Nächte (2014)

Georg and Rita visit Georg's parents every Christmas without telling them that they are no longer a couple. ...

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Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier. ...

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Stations of the Cross (2014)

Maria finds herself caught between two worlds. At school this 14-year-old girl has all the typical teenage interests, but when she's at home with her family she follows the teachings of the Society of St. Paul and their traditionalist interpretation of Cat ...

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Grenzgang (2013)

Once again, the "border crossing" is celebrated, as every seven years in the Upper Hessian town of Bergen. It is really turbulent at this folk festival, when the municipal boundaries are confirmed from old tradition and everything is upside down. For this ...

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Whispers Behind the Wall (2013)

Martin leaves his protective parents' home and comes to Berlin as a law student with high hopes. He finds a tiny, run-down flat in a strange, dark apartment block, from which the previous tenant has disappeared without a trace. Having no luck with social c ...

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King Ordinary (2013)

Thomas Müller is spotted by a marketing agency for his exceptional normality. ...

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George (2013)

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Rommel (2012)

The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. ...

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Zettl (2012)

A social satire in which a chauffeur accidentally becomes the editor of an online newspaper. ...

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Playoff (2011)

In the 1980s, an Israeli refugee, deemed a traitor, coaches West Germany's basketball team. ...

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Bastard (2011)

The nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. The criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert notices contradictions in her conversation with the parents of the missing child. In particular Nikolas' mother appears to be hiding something. When a video of t ...

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In der Welt habt ihr Angst (2011)

Music student Eva has fallen head over heels in love with musician Jo. They have a burning passion for one another and discover that they are able to communicate without auxiliary means, even across great distances. Their love is so great that Eva even fol ...

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Für immer 30 (2011)

For a long time advertising specialist Timo Wittmann was the best in his profession. But he does not want to believe that his star has long since sunk in the fast-paced business. When his boss hires the talented Susanne Andersen as new Art Director, Timo t ...

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The Red Room (2010)

A man and two women are trying their luck in the red room in the countryside. The older (but therefore not wiser) Fred, freshly divorced as a kisser who still desires his ex, meets the self-confident Lucy, who feels called to explore the soul of men in her ...

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Blessed Events (2010)

A few weeks after palliative nurse Hans spends New year's eve completely with new acquaintance Simone, she finds herself pregnant, unplanned. At another surprise meeting, handsome Hannes surprises her by reacting to the news by offering her to move into hi ...

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Aghet (2010)

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other ...

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In the Shadows (2010)

"In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan keeps his audience glued to the increasingly desperate actions of Trojan, a thirtysomething career criminal whose latest j ...

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Voyage to 'Metropolis' (2010)

A documentary about the making of the final version of "Metropolis" by restoring all material from different sources. ...

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Hilde (2009)

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars. ...

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Entführt (2009)

Spring 2008 in a suburb of Munich: Hannah Bergmann and her father Frank are kidnapped. The kidnappers do not just want money, they want to destroy an empire. ...

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A Year Ago in Winter (2008)

A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work. ...

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Die Frau aus dem Meer (2008)

Berlin: Hauptstadt korrupter Populisten, zynischer Journalisten und fieser Gangster. Regisseur und Drehbuchautor Niki Stein hängt sich mit seiner Story weit aus dem Fenster: Im Hals einer Frauenleiche am Husumer Strand steckt ein Papier mit der Handynumme ...

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Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte (2008)

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear. ...

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Flame & Citron (2008)

Gunman Flame and his partner Citron assassinate Nazi collaborators for the Danish resistance. Assigned targets by their Allies-connected leader, Aksel Winther, they relish the opportunity to begin targeting the Nazis themselves. When they begin to doubt th ...

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Overnight (2007)

One day of a Hungarian stock trader. ...

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Tracing Battleship Potemkin (2007)

Documentary detailing the extensive number of shots long lost from constant film re-cutting of 1925's great silent cinema classic Battleship Potemkin in the last 80 years, and how many of those shots have been returned. ...

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Day of Disaster (2007)

In 1978, a serene Spanish beach campground bursts into chaos when a devastating accident shatters a summer getaway for German tourists. As paradise ignites, their lives intertwine, revealing hidden fears and unbreakable bonds amid the flames. ...

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A Perfect Friend (2006)

"Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was he attacked? Or was his head injury caused in an accident? This is only the first of many mysteries Julien h ...

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Eine Krone für Isabell (2006)

King Victor of San Ferino dies without leaving an heir to the throne. Then the Queen Mother and her servant Archibald come across an illegitimate daughter of the regent: the Berlin hairdresser Isabell. ...

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Munich (2005)

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute th ...

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Undercover (2005)

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Wen die Liebe trifft (2005)

The attractive young Franka runs the traditional porcelain manufactory Rhomberg with her father. In contrast to her fun-loving sister Joe, the sensible Franka has no time for men. That changes when she meets the sensitive, good-looking Luca - who unfortuna ...

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Heiraten macht mich nervös (2005)

Competition rider Nina Becker and movie star Niklas Tremsaal are a happy couple without a marriage certificate. Marrying is not an issue for the two - until the little niece India holds cheap plastic jewelry on Nina's finger for an engagement ring and so g ...

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The Ring Finger (2005)

When she is slightly hurt in the factory where she works, Iris quits her job and finds a new one as an assistant in a laboratory of a very peculiar kind. Without fully grasping what is at play around her, she gradually engages in a disturbing love affair w ...

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Woman Driving, Man Sleeping (2004)

Dentist Sue and the philosophy professor Anton have been leading a seemingly intact life, juggling careers and a family with four children. Until one day, however, when their 18 year-old son Thomas has a breakdown. Thomas' situation threatens the stability ...

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The Edukators (2004)

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home. ...

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Für immer im Herzen (2004)

The life of the successful publishing house manager Julia Berger is fully aligned with her job. This attitude not only suffers from the relationship of the career woman to the lawyer Fred, but also the contact with her family. However, one day, when her t ...

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Post Impact (2004)

Meteor Bay-Leder 7 struck earth on October 18th, 2012. Causing earthquakes, tidal waves, and a dust cloud that soon covered most of the Northern hemisphere, it changed the face of our planet forever. ...

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Walk on Water (2004)

Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister Pia. The ...

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Red & Blue (2004)

A long-separated German mother and her half-Turkish daughter are reconciled in a splendidly serene dramatic comedy. ...

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Gate to Heaven (2003)

With the help of airport technician Dak, Alexej breaks out of the holding area for refugees. Dak puts up the Russian, who yearns to become a pilot, in an underground labyrinth of pipes and vents. The young Indian woman Nisha is an aircraft cleaner who drea ...

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Sulla (2003)

The story is set against the background of a bloody civil war in the Roman Empire. Sulla is in the countryside outside Rome and prepares to move into the city, that is in the hands of his enemies. He waits and turns to reflections. And to his lust. ...

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Antonia – Tränen im Paradies (2003)

Antonia lives happily with her aristocratic husband on their Bavarian mansion until a child is abducted and their idyll comes to an abrupt end ...

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Mädchen Nr. 1 (2003)

Pharmacy student Thomas has been in love with his fellow student Denise since the first day of their studies together. But the shy young man doesn't dare to speak to his chosen one. It's only when Denise asks Thomas to give her tutoring that the two come i ...

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Saltimbank (2003)

The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his brother Bruno rejected the position of executive director, and chose to fund a theatrical company. Around them, ...

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Novaks Ultimatum (2003)

Novak's Ultimatum is a Fernsehkriminalfilm from the year 2003 with Mark Keller in the lead role ...

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Small Cuts (2003)

Bruno, a communist newspaper journalist, is suffering a mid-life crisis. Torn between his wife Gaëlle and his young girlfriend Nathalie, his political beliefs battered by the wind of history, Bruno seems to have lost his bearings. ...

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Gelübde des Herzens (2003)

Shortly before the wedding, the fiancé of the young art restorer Sophie Schumacher dies in a tragic car accident. To get some distance, Sophie takes on a job in a Tuscan monastery. There she falls in love with theology student Luca Divalle, without knowin ...

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I'm The Father (2002)

Marco and Melanie, a young married couple, are living a life of passion, chaos, and all the little frustrations of everyday existence. Their love for each other seems like a beacon on heavy seas. But career pressure, burned toast, and dirty laundry are ero ...

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Zwei Seiten der Liebe (2002)

Carola and Dieter Martin have been married for 25 years. After Dieter dies in a car accident, Carola finds out that he was gay and had been in a relationship with the much younger lawyer Tobias Volperius for six years. Deeply shaken by this discovery, she ...

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Ripley's Game (2002)

Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a stu ...

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Southeast Passage (2002)

Places and worlds beyond the interest of the media are at the mercy of the law of forgetting. The spotlight fades and that which urgently needs public attention lies in the dark: poverty, hopelessness, and the population's fear in the face of terror from t ...

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Olga's Summer (2002)

A 16 years old Olga is dreaming about leaving house when suddenly she meets a mysterious man who is ready to join her. ...

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Beck 16 - The Last Witness (2002)

A series of grisly murders where the victims faces have been removed by acid starts to turn up around Stockholm. Detective Martin Beck and Gunvald Larsson are once again drawn into the darkness. ...

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Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball (2002)

Mother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. The boy holds the murder weapon, covered in blood.. ...

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Beck 14 - The Advertising Man (2002)

A man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this seems like an easy crime to solve for Martin Beck and his colleagues but they soon discover that somebody's motivations are far more complex. ...

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Taking Sides (2002)

One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate p ...

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Amen. (2002)

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in g ...

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666: In Bed with the Devil (2002)

Frank Faust is a born loser. At some point it even becomes too much for his great love, Jennifer, who leaves him and flees to Munich. Frank's desperation is the best reason for Mephisto to show up and offer a suitable pact: reconciliation with Jennifer in ...

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Beck 13 - Sender Unknown (2002)

Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an accountant that was found shot to death at the airport parking. At the same time a reporter receives a package from an anonymous source, with information regarding the ...

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Beck 12 - The Loner (2002)

An Asian woman is found dead in the water of Stockholm's archipelago. She has been murdered and everything indicates that she was a prostitute. Meanwhile a series of break-ins has occurred on an island outside of Stockholm. Suddenly a retired old man is al ...

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The Specimen (2002)

When, before the revolution, accidentally arrested, the philistine - a tsarist civil servant of high status - falls in deep, lethargic sleep. 20 years later he wakes up and finds himself in a post-revolutionary, still young Soviet Union. He is stunned. He ...

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Beck 11 - The Cartel (2001)

It's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on the case. ...

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Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker (2001)

When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with bringing the kidnapper to justice. This film is based on a true story. ...

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Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face (2001)

A man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The chocking thing is that his face has been removed. After questioning his wife who described the marriage as happy also told that a mysterious foreign man knocked on their door the day before the murder ...

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Venus Talking (2001)

Novellist Venus lives with her family out of Berlin and moves temporarily to the city where she is starting to write a new book. Her fans can watch her via a webcam. Away from husband and children she begins an affair with Fabrizio... ...

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A Fine Day (2001)

A day in the life of the 21 years old Deniz, who aims to become an actress and makes her living by dubbing movies. After she has split with her old boyfriend she gets to know Diego and spends the evening with him. ...

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Paradiso - Sieben Tage mit sieben Frauen (2000)

What would happen if you gathered all the lovers you have had in your life in a single room and let them interact for a week? For his 60th birthday, a self-absorbed composer, Adam, does just that: he assembles seven of the most influential women from his l ...

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Ben & Maria - Liebe auf den zweiten Blick (2000)

Yuppie prat loses his Ferrari and finds the love of his life with a craftswoman ...

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The Alchemists (1999)

Grant Show (Melrose Place) stars in this fast-placed thriller based on the best-selling novel set in the chilling world of genetic engineering. Ruth Gemmel (Fever Pitch) joins Shaw as employees who put their lives on the line to discover a world in which a ...

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Sunshine (1999)

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century. ...

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Operation Noah (1998)

The Christmas party at the headquarters of an oil company is harshly interrupted by a fax whose author threatens to blow up one of their oil platforms. Unfortunately not only crew members are on board the platform but some kids that wanted to bring their f ...

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23 (1998)

The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspir ...

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Black Sun (1998)

A historical analysis of how groups such as the Nazi's may use language, symbols, and religious connotation in order to come to power. It raises questions that deserve in depth analysis and consideration. Questions include: Where do legends expand our thin ...

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Debt of Love (1998)

Simon Granderath has been found dead in his appartment. His only daughter, Monika Besse, who lives in Luxembourg, arrives to arrange the funeral and settle his estate. She wishes to get back to Luxembourg and to her normal life as quickly as possible. How ...

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Drancy Future (1997)

Director Arnaud de Pallières presents an experimental three-part film designed to stimulate the intellect and inspire reflection on the past. The first part tells the story of the last living Holocaust survivor, who is nearing the end of life and regrets ...

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Requiem for Something Which Is Very Small (1997)

The bourgeois couple Esther and Michael have got themselves caught up in a seemingly ironic game of power, provocation and sexuality. Esther is already on the brink of madness when a young artist arrives. Requiem for something which is very small is a psyc ...

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Der letzte Kurier (1996)

A thriller directed by Adolf Winkelmann. ...

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A Girl Called Rosemarie (1996)

Katja Flint, Hannelore Elsner and Heiner Lauterbach star in this German film about a woman who climbs the social ladder by sleeping with those she encounters on her way to the top. When she's discovered dead in her apartment in 1957, the police try to piec ...

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Adieu, Mon Ami (1996)

Germany, WWII: 10-year old Dagmar has just lost her beloved twin brother Doug and her family through a bomb attack. Together with a young girl who worked in the bakery of Dagmar's parents they escape to Bavaria and find shelter at some far relatives of Dag ...

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Superbrain (1996)

A group of criminals storm into a Berlin Bank and escape through a tunnel, which they built earlier. ...

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Luise knackt den Jackpot (1995)

Luise modestly but happily runs a small travel agency with her husband Matthias. Matthias goes on a travel tour to distant Kazakhstan. Luise becomes a millionaire overnight; she cracks the lottery jackpot. Luise and her daughter buy a villa with a butler f ...

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Das Baby der schwangeren Toten (1994)

A pregnant woman suffers severe head trauma in a car accident. The doctors are unable to help her, but at the request of her fiancé, they decide to keep her body functioning artificially in order to save the unborn child. The ethical issues involved in th ...

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Balle perdue (1994)

Antoine Rethel, a police inspector, meets a young woman to whom he has just prevented a traffic accident.To thank him, she invites him to drink at her house.She commits suicide a few moments later in the bathroom with her service weapon.Antoine swears to h ...

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Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin (1994)

1794, During the French Revolution : Benjamin Constant meets Germaine de Staël and falls madly in love with her. He has the spirit of a young writer, weighed down by the hardships of life. Germaine, daughter of a wellknown figure, is one of the most brill ...

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Gute Referenzen (1994)

Short film about a job interview. ...

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The Violin Player (1994)

This European drama, set in Paris, follows a brilliant musician as he suddenly forsakes his career, to live and love amongst the common populace. Armand is the violinist who yearns to experience that life and to share his music with everyone, not just the ...

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The Blue One (1994)

In this German political drama, an ex-Stasi agent encounters an old friend whom he may have betrayed after his friend tried to escape East Germany. The former East German agent is Otto Skrodt who after many years is about to be promoted in the highest gove ...

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Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen (1994)

Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen is a German children's film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier in 1994, starring Corinna Harfouch. It is a film adaptation of the novel Das doppelte Lottchen by Erich Kästner. ...

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The Open Universe (1993)

The whole world in one film: Robert, a young Dane, is shanghaied in Marseille, and via Acapulco he is abducted into the South Pacific. There he kills his father and seduces his mother. Then he explores the changing world. The end finds him in a Polynesian ...

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Faraway, So Close! (1993)

Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria "Da Angelo" and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more dissatisfied with his destiny as a mere observer of human life and finally decides to take the great leap. As K ...

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The Denunciation (1993)

By 1941, Adolf Hitler had taken personal command of the German military apparatus. His initial successes made this seem like a good idea at the time, but by 1944, after an unparalleled series of military defeats that Hitler refused even to acknowledge, a g ...

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Rotlicht (1993)

A crime movie directed by Michael Lähn. ...

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The Cement Garden (1993)

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficien ...

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Herzsprung (1992)

In the little town of Herzsprung - whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts - almost nothing has changed since German unification, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, becomes one of the unemployed and lives ...

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Salt on Our Skin (1992)

A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They begin a torrid affair despite the differences in their lifestyles. He asks her to marry him but she refus ...

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Abgetrieben (1992)

TV-movie based on the trial of Memmingen gynecologist Dr. Horst Theissen, who was sentenced for illegal abortions. ...

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Manoeuvres d'Élégance (1992)

Two woman live together in an appartment and talk about fashion. Then they meet men. ...

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Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)

The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way from the former East Germany to "the west. ...

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Mise-en-scene (1991)

A film shoot gets out of hand. ...

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Europa Europa (1990)

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. ...

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Die Kinder (1990)

A woman searches for her children, who have been abducted by her ex-husband, a member of the German 'Red Liberation Front'. ...

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Dr. M (1990)

In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis. ...

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Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders (1990)

Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders offers the most penetrating insights and the best overall critique of his work that I have encountered anywhere. Paul Joyce, who directed it, has also made d ...

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Das Haus am Watt (1990)

A thriller directed by Sigi Rothemund. ...

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The Rose Garden (1989)

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer. ...

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The French Revolution (1989)

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. Part one spans the event until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all authority and was ...

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The French Revolution: Years of Hope (1989)

First part that includes the beginnings of the French Revolution. The film begins by recounting the events that led to the convocation of the States General in 1789 and ends with the assault on the Tuileries Palace, which occurred on August 10, 1792. ...

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Francesco (1989)

The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the po ...

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Himmelsheim (1989)

A comedy directed by Manfred Stelzer. ...

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My Dear Subject (1989)

From birth to death every subject remains intact. Three ages, three women. Daughter, mother, grandmother. Each of them before and after still and always. And the men too, those they meet those they love. ...

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The French as Seen by… (1988)

In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The movies have been released for the French revolution bicentenary. Includes: Werner Herzog's Les Gaulois, David Lynch's The C ...

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The Venus Trap (1988)

The 30-years old Max is MD and engaged to the attractive Coco, who jealously keep watch over him. After he heard the lovely voice of an unknown misdialing woman, he starts a restless search ... ...

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Das Treibhaus (1987)

Bonn during the early 1950's: In his exile, idealistic delegate Keetenheuve had high hopes for a better post war Germany. However, he gets quickly disillussioned in the still young Bonner Republik. ...

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Milan noir (1987)

The story of a woman whose past comes back to haunt her after a former lover re-enters her life. ...

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Tarot (1986)

A director, his fiancee, a scriptwriter and a student interact and discuss their emotions, at length. ...

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Douce France (1986)

In this village, French are much more victims of their fellow countrymen than they are of the occupying forces. ...

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Anemia (1986)

A high-ranking officer of the Italian Communist Party discovers he is a vampire and leaves his position, retreating to the abandoned residence of his deceased grandfather. There he finds the diary of his grandfather that gives him the answers he needs. ...

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Afrika am Rhein (1986)

A senegalese man searches for a german woman who bought an important mask from him and who is also his lover. ...

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The Berlin Affair (1985)

What begins as an innocent art class becomes a steamy triangle of erotic passions and forbidden love. A beautiful Japanese girl becomes the object of obsession in a devious relationship between the wife of a German diplomat and her husband. ...

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The Autograph (1984)

The bandoneon player Daniel and the boxer Toni arrive independently from each other in a provincial town in Latin America where they are booked to perform at a folk festival. Both of them are completely apolitical but are forced by external circumstances t ...

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The Horsemen of the Storm (1984)

Marie (Marlene Jobert) is a pretty female physician who attracts the strong romantic interest of two brothers during World War I in this uninspired drama by Gérard Vergez. The brothers meet her when she is on duty in Turkey -- one brother is stationed the ...

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Pharos of Chaos (1983)

A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated barge, when he was 65 years old. An unparalleled portrait, in his own words and without any qualms, of a legendary Hol ...

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System Without Shadow (1983)

Computer operator Faber works on securing computers for big companies and banks. His private life is rather dull until he meets a strange women, Juliet and falls in love. Her friend convinces Faber to exploit his knowledge to rob a bank. ...

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A Woman in Flames (1983)

Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute, teach her the basics and both set out for prey together, until Eva starts an affair with Chris, who turns ou ...

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Doctor Faustus (1982)

A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan ...

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Domino (1982)

A young actress in Cold War Berlin struggles to decide whether or not to accept a new role, working with an old leftist director in a deserted theatrehouse. Caught between her painful childhood - loss of the mother - and the confusing and instable present ...

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Strike Back (1981)

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 ...

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Malevil (1981)

In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise a ...

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Angels of Iron (1981)

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old ...

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Hast du Lust, mit mir einen Kaffee zu trinken? (1981)

A man, alone in Berlin. He sleeps and watches TV, walks through the city. A woman approaches him. Does he feel like having coffee with her? No. ...

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Berlin Chamissoplatz (1980)

An architect is assigned to modernize a squatted house in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. But then he meets a young student who is member of a grassroots initiative trying to preserve the quarter. He falls in love with her, although this puts him into co ...

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The demise of Herman Dürer (1979)

Feature film based on Leon de Winter's book of the same name, in which protagonist Herman Dürer hitchhike south after a stay in a juvenile detention center and ends up stranded in Munich. ...

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David (1979)

Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But several yea ...

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The Meetings of Anna (1978)

On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to their discontents. ...

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The Left-Handed Woman (1978)

Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the s ...

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Kings of the Road (1976)

Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a rep ...

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About Narration (1975)

Interdisciplinary studies put into practice is a plane on which HaF's interests and mine coincide. Ideas of fictional research projects in films emerge very early on, or of film as research device, allowing people from different disciplines to come togethe ...

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Bent or Broken (1975)

A darkly comedic exploration of personal struggle and societal pressure, we follow the story of a middle-aged man named Max, who is trapped in a life of monotony and frustration. After a series of unexpected events, Max finds himself in increasingly absurd ...

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Summer in the City (1972)

After an extensive prison term, a free man wanders into a new reality. ...

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Same Player Shoots Again (1968)

Sequence of five shots, each one with a particular color treatment, in which a man carrying a machine gun runs. He moves fast in the beginning but, as the end comes closer, he starts to walk in zigzag. Is he hurt? ...

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Movies Made By Hanns Zischler (3)

Kafka Goes to the Movies (2002)

While working on a television movie project about Franz Kafka, German actor Hanns Zischler discovered a series of passionate writings in Kafka's journals about his own moviegoing. Zischler, who also wrote a book of the same title, spent the next twenty-fiv ...

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Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)

The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way from the former East Germany to "the west. ...

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