rating
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7.8
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Somewhere in the
future there is a computer project ed Simulacron one of which is able to
simulate a full featured reality, when suddenly project leader Henry Vollmer
dies. His successor Dr. Fred Stiller experiences odd phenomena. A good
friend, Guenther Lause, disappears in the middle of a conversation and a week
later nobody has ever heard of him. And those fits of dizzyness - Stiller
cannot believe himself to be fool. There has to be an explanation for all
this. Could Simulacron have something to do with it?
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[2012]
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6.9
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The Allies ed him
Garbo. The Nazis dubbed him Alaric. Both sides in World War II were sure Juan
Pujol Garcia was their man. In reality, Pujol was a double agent, and his
final allegiance was to the Allies. From the comfort of Lisbon, Garbo fed
false information to the Nazis and fabricated a network of phantom agents across
Europe. Although he never fired a single shot, Garbo helped to save thousands
of lives, most notably by misinforming the Germans about the timing and
location of D-Day.
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2012.
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6.5
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In 1772 Germany,
the young and tumultuous Johann Goethe aspires to be a poet. After failing
his law exams, he is sent by his father to a sleepy provincial court to mend
his ways. Unsure of his talent and eager to prove himself, Goethe soon wins
the praise and friendship of his superior, Kestner. But then Lotte Buff
enters his life and nothing is the same as before. However, the young lovers
are unaware that her father has already promised Lotte’s hand to another man.
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2012, c2010.
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7.4
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A German-born
woman flees from her oppressive marriage in Istanbul, taking her son with
her. She hopes to find a better life with her family in Berlin, but her
unexpected arrival creates intense conflicts. Her family is trapped in their
conventions. They are torn between their love for her and the traditional
values of their community resulting in tragic consequences.
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c2011.
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7.0
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It is the Age of
Plastic. It’s cheap, practical, and everywhere. But is it dangerous? Viewers
are taken on a journey around the globe, from the Moroccan Sahara to the
middle of the Pacific Ocean, from a factory in China to the Alps to reveal
the far-flung reaches of the plastic problem. Interviews with experts in
biology, pharmacology, and genetics shed light on the perils of plastic to
the environment and expose the truth of how plastic affects the body, and the
health of future generations.
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c2011.
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6.9
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"Breathtaking
in its subtle beauty, Harvest is an achingly romantic tale of an innocent but
increasingly passionate affair that develops between two simple farmhands.
Life on a farm is all that sullen teen Marco knows-- leading a perfunctory
and quiet life of working, going to school and avoiding the advances of
girls. However, his self-imposed solitude ends when curly-haired Jakob,
rejecting the banking world, arrives to train on the farm. Although initially
cautious and tentative with each other, it is soon obvious that the unspoken
sexual tension is becoming increasingly hard to resist-- something a
spontaneous trip to Berlin resolves once and for all. Proving that true love
can blossom in even the most unlikely of places, Harvest is as rich and
rewarding as it is heart warming"--Container.
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c2011.
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6.2
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A passionate
cyclist and urban slacker sees his life change in an instant when he loses
his left leg. But through love, willpower, and introspection, he overcomes
the challenge.
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[2011]
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4.9
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On a Berlin Summer
day, a chance encounter brings together two young men whose lives are in
shambles. Alex is coping with a broken heart after his deadbeat boyfriend
cheats on him; Leo is a media professional who can no longer hide the truth
from his demanding, long-term girlfriend: he’s been attracted to men all the
while. So begins a summer of love and self-discovery for Alex and Leo. But
before they can find bliss with each other, Alex must detach himself from his
ex and Leo must unleash his inner lion to convince Alex’s oddball clique of
friends that he’s a worth suitor.
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2011.
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6.5
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In Paris, 1941,
Armenian poet Missak Manouchian leads a motley crew of foreign-born
resistance fighters in clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. An
initially reluctant Manouchian and his team must resort to guerilla tactics
and radical measures in the name of liberty. News of their daring attacks,
including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.
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c2011.
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7.5
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More than any
other historical documents, it is the personal private letters written by a
people to ’their’ dictator, Adolf Hitler, that provide the most intimate
glimpses of the history of the Third Reich. A cache of more than 100,000 such
letters was recently found, hidden in a secret Russian archive.
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2011, 2010.
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7.0
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At the end of
WWII, 60 minutes of raw film in an East German archive was discovered. Shot
by the Nazis in Warsaw in May of 1942, the film became a resource for
historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. The later
discovery of a long-missing reel, including multiple takes and cameramen
staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage. Presented is the
raw footage in its entirety, falsely showing the ’good life’ of Jewish
urbanites. Included is an interview, and more.
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[2011]
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6.8
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Sasha, confronted
with the everyday prejudice of his homophobic immigrant family, struggles
with his urge to come out. When his beloved piano teacher Gerbhard Weber
plans to leave the city, the young man is heartbroken. The only person in
whom he can confide his feelings is his best friend Jiao. After a failed
audition, Sasha swears never to play piano again, but a consoling
telephone from Gerbhard changes his
mind, and causes a chain of events.
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2011.
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6.5
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"A young
couple’s relationship is pushed to the brink while vacationing in the
Mediterranean. On the surface, Chris and Gitti appear blissfully in love
while enjoying the sun and sand of Sardinia. But as they spend more time
together, their silly games and playful teasing begin to unmask hidden fears
and desires. When they accidentally run into another, seemingly happier and
more successful couple, the tensions between them erupt."--Container.
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2010.
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7.2
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When Zinos hires a
gourmet chef for his struggling restaurant, it drives away his low-life
regulars. In the meantime, his girlfriend, Nadine, moves back to China, but a
hip new clientele brings the restaurant back to life. When he goes to China
to get Nadine back, he leaves the restaurant in the hands of his criminal
brother. When Zinos discovers that Nadine has a new boyfriend, and his
brother has gambled away his restaurant, he knows he must work with his
brother if he is to get it back.
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[2010]
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7.3
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Germany in the
1970s: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the
enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German
democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas
Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war
against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who
understands them is also their hunter, the head of the German police force,
Horst Herold.
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[2010]
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7.1
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Tells the story of
a German businessman who rescued more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanking
Massacre in China by courageously negotiating a safety zone to protect
innocent civilians from the Japanese Army. Drawing from John Rabe’s 1937
diaries as source material, Florian Gallenberger has crafted a portrait of a
man revered as a saint in China to this day and yet never rewarded for his
courage during his lifetime.
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2010.
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7.5
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Based on a
real-life experiment that took place in California. A high school teacher’s
unusual experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a
dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a
life of its own.
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2010.
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7.8
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Niko von Glasow
looks for eleven people who, like him, were born disabled due to the
disastrous side-effects of Thalidomide, and who are prepared to pose nude for
a book of photos--to allow those who regularly throw furtive glances at
Thalidomiders and other physiy disabled people, to take a good, long look. In
the process, Niko discovers many fascinating characters who work in such
diverse areas as politics, the media, sport, astrophysics and acting;
extraordinary people who have learned to live with their disability to an
impressive level of "normality".
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2010.
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7.7
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In a north German
village prior to the outbreak of World War I, strange events, accidents, and
deaths are occurring. The village people are beside themselves with worry and
can’t figure out what to do. After the school teacher starts to unravel the
mystery, he discovers that the children of the town may be guilty of the
crimes and have formed a secret society that the local pastor’s daughter
appears to be the leader of.
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[2010]
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5.4
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"December
1944: Berlin lies in ruins and the war is as good as lost. Goebbels is
convinced all the country needs is a re-energizing speech from the Führer.
Adolf, however, is only a shadow of his former self; demoralized and
depressed, he hides in his office. The only man who can help is Germany’s
finest acting teacher, Adolf Grünbaum -a Jew."--Container.
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[2010]
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7.1
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Two years ago,
world-famous dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch selected forty teenagers
who had never heard her name to be part of her dance piece Contact Zone. For
ten months through opening night, the young dancers discover Bausch’s genius
and their own bodies.
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2010.
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7.2
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Copenhagen, 1944.
A young idealist codenamed Flame and tense family man Citron are two
Resistance fighters who become the underground’s most proficient killers of
collaborators and sympathizers. The Nazi SS is hunting them. They trust only
each other. But in a time where fear and mercy must live in the shadows, a
mysterious woman and a new assignment to assassinate the head of the Gestapo
may lead them to the deadliest place of all. Based on the Holder Danske’s
most famous agents.
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[2010]
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6.8
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Hannah Maynard,
prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, is leading a
trial against a former commander of the Yugoslavian National Army who is
accused of the deportation and later killing of dozens of Bosnian-Muslim
civilians. When a key witness commits suicide, it looks like the case will
unravel, but Hannah refuses to give in. Hoping to uncover new findings, she
travels to the witness’ burial in Sarajevo and meets his sister Mira, who she
senses has much more to say than she is willing to admit. Despite threats of
violence, Mira reluctantly agrees to testify at The Hague. She and Hannah
must both risk life and limb to make it to the court, only to discover that
there are traitors among their own ranks.
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[2010]
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7.0
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Olga is a nurse
from the Ukraine who only knows poverty. She searches for a better life in
the West. Paul is an unemployed security guard from Austria who travels to
the East in search of the same. Both are looking for work, a new beginning,
an existence, and life. Olga comes from a place where unremitting poverty is
the order of the day. Paul comes from a place where unemployment doesn’t mean
hunger, but a crisis of meaning and sense of uselessness. Both are struggling
to believe in themselves and to find a meaning in life.
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[2010]
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7.3
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Based on a true
story, a gripping adventure about a competition to climb the most dangerous
rock face in the Alps, the north face of the Eiger. Set in 1936, Nazi
propaganda urges German alpinists to conquer the mountain, and two reluctant
young climbers, Toni and Andi, attempt a daring ascent, closely followed by
two Austrian climbers. All goes well at first, but then the climbers lose
their advantage over the mountain and the race against time and forces of
nature begins.
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2010.
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6.3
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In Vision-- from
the LIfe of Hildegard von Bingen, New German Cineam auteur Margarethe von
Trotta reunites with recurrent star Barbara Sukowa to bring the story of this
extraordinary woman to life. In a staggering performance, Sukowa portrays von
Bingen’s fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of women within
the order, even as she fends off outrage from some in the Church over the
visions she claims to receive from God.
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[2010?]
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|
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7.3
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Germany in the
1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the
enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German
democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas
Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against
what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported
by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to
create a more humane society but by employing inhuman means they not only
spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who
understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force
Horst Herold. And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists,
he knows he’s only dealing with the tip of the iceberg.
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c2009.
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7.0
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Women become the
victims of the Red Army invasion in Berlin in 1945. One of them, Anonyma, a
educated woman, decides to look for an officer who can protect her. A complex
symbiotic relationship develops between her and Russian officer Andrej that
will force them to remain enemies until the bitter end.
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[2009]
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6.3
|
This is the love
story of Pascal and Ricky. Pascal has been in a destructive violent
relationship picking pockets for a living and he meets gentle shy Ricky at a
street cafe.
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c2009.
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7.3
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Two best friends
are forced to leave school and join the army for Hitler, and find themselves
on opposite sides when one becomes an outstanding soldier and the other
wonders why he is fighting a senseless war. Bonus features include
biographies and a short film.
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2009.
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8.0
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"Join
battlefield historian Ellwood von Seibold in his 1943 Dodge Command car as he
takes us on a tour of the American D-Day landings in real time. Llisten to
the men who were there, land in Ste. Mère Eglise with the 92nd Airborne,
scale the cliffs at La Pointe du Hoc with the Rangers, wade through the surf
on Omaha Beach with the 29th Infantry Division and take the guns at Brecourt
manor with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. See the
uniforms thy wore, the weapons they fired and the equipment they carried ...
Revised edition includes new veteran interviews."--Container.
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c2009.
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|
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7.4
|
An overview of the
worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves
footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May ’68 in
Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup
in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel
Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage trims
and neglected reels.
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[2009]
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7.1
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In a Mennonite
community in Mexico, a man betrays his family by having an affair with
another woman, which changes the course of events with both his wife and his
mistress.
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2009.
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6.9
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Nina is a
vulnerable 17-year-old, alone in a world of social workers who run her life.
She finds an ally in reckless Toni, a tough young woman who grabs what she
wants to survive. Together they experience a fleeting moment of intimacy, an
instant of happiness. Meanwhile, Francoise has returned to Berlin where her
baby daughter was kidnapped many years previously. In the street she spots
Nina and becomes convinced that she has found her long-lost child. Includes
featurette and trailer.
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[2009]
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7.1
|
Joseph Stalin -
the supreme leader of the Soviet Union - was a tyrant responsible for the
death of millions. He also had some unlikely relationships during the Second
World War. This ambitious series uses exclusive evidence gained from the
actual conversations and secret meetings Stalin conducted. Dramatic
reconstructions carefully sourced from archive material, reveal how the great
leaders decided the future shape of the post-war world. These decisions had
immediate and often harrowing effects for those on the ground. Their story is
told through documentary footage, dramatic reconstructions and illuminating
interviews.
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[2009].
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N/A
|
"In 1938,
Hitler’s army occupied Austria. All men were ordered to enlist in the
military. Franz Jägerstätter, a farmer and father of four, went into military
training but refused to fight in Hitler’s army, knowing that he would face
execution. His neighbors, pastor and even the bishop tried to convince Franz
to enlist for the sake of his family. But Franz felt his faith and conscience
compelled him to follow the teachings of God and not the decrees of the Third
Reich. He was imprisoned, then executed on August 9, 1943 at the age of 36.
In 2007, the Vatican declared Franz a true martyr, officially placing him in
the process of sainthood"--Container.
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c2009.
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|
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6.8
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"A handful of
people separated by temperament, politics and geography are linked by a
common dream of sharing their love for movies with the world in this
documentary. Anup Jagdale is a movie buff in the Indian village of Shingnapur
who has found a way to turn his hobby into a career by showing the latest
Bollywood hits to eager audiences in an old circus tent. In the small town of
Big Piney, Wyoming, Penny Tefertiller is a longtime community activist who
also runs the Flick Theater, a converted barn where she brings entertainment
to everyone from bored teenagers to lonely elders. North Korean Han Yong-sil
wants to show movies that will deliver positive messages for women and
working people, as well as providing a respite from the monotonal propaganda
that dominates the North Korean media. And Lassane Badiel, Lamoussa Luc
Kabore and Zakaria Gnegnie are film fans and entrepreneurs from Burkina Faso
who take over a shuttered open-air theater to bring the movies to their West
African village. While the common problems of booking the right movies and
getting paying customers to show up are experienced everywhere, filmmaker Uli
Gaulke demonstrates how the love of good movies fuels these six people and
helps keep their dreams alive." -- Mark Deming, Allmovie.com.
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2009.
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7.5
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In a ragged
section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex works in a brothel, where he falls
for Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly
intersect with the lives of a rural cop and his seemingly content wife.
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c2009.
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|
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7.0
|
Based on rare
archives and previously unreleased interviews, this documentary traces the
secret history of post-war Japan. It reveals the contradictions of a people
still confronted with memories of the war and militarism, and the threats to
the values of peace which are at the heart of its modern identity.
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c2009.
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7.5
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Only Trudi knows
that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal illness. She decides not
to tell him and convinces him to visit their family in Berlin. When Trudi
dies suddenly, Rudi vows to make up for her lost life and takes his last
journey to Tokyo in the midst of the cherry blossom festival.
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[2009]
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7.6
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Germany, 1936.
Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives
a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is
arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into
the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills
and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his
arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on a
secret mission. Hand-picked for his unique skill, Salomon and a group of
professionals are forced to produce fake foreign currency under the program
Operation Berhard. The team, which also includes detainee Adolf Burger, is
given luxury barracks for their assistance. Salomon attempts to weaken the
economy of Germany’s opponents. But, Adolf refuses to use his skills for Nazi
profit and would like to do something to stop the operation. Now faced with a
moral dilemma, Salomon must decide whether his actions are ultimately the
right ones.
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c2008.
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7.8
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Six characters are
drawn together by circumstances - an old man and a prostitute forging a
partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in
love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
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2008.
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|
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6.9
|
A look at climbers
Thomas and Alexander Huber as they attempt the speed rock-climbing record by
scaling a portion of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley in less than three hours,
something that normally takes 3 days.
|
2008.
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7.0
|
Set during World
War II, newlywed Lene must watch her new husband go off to war during the
German invasion of Poland. She discovers that she is pregnant and is forced
to take her child on a journey across the war-ravaged countryside. Lene is in
turn brave and foolhardy, resourceful and resilient, facing a bleak future
with fierce determination.
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c2008.
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6.4
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Beautiful and
assured, Miriam seemingly has the perfect life. But when her 15-year-old son
invites his girlfriend to spend the holidays, Miriam grows jealous of the
girl’s brazen sensuality and becomes drawn into an extramarital affair with a
charismatic stranger that threatens to tear her family apart, with possible
devastating consequences.
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[2008]
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7.6
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Leo Kessler, an
American of German descent, visits Germany in 1945. He works as a night
conductor on the Zentropa Railway Line, owned by a Nazi sympathizer. Leo
attempts to remain neutral to the ongoing purguing of loyalists by the Allied
forces, but he falls in love with the railway magnate’s daughter.
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2008.
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7.0
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Looks at the
development of the Bauhaus and at the key figures involved in it, including
the founder Walter Gropius, his successor Mies van der Rohe, Lásló
Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers. The program also sets the history of the
Bauhaus in the context of the political unrest and economic chaos of the
Weimar Republic in Germany. Former students discuss their time at the Bauhaus
and architect Philip Johnson tells how it influenced his work. Contains rare
archival footage of the Bauhaus at Dessau and looks at the architecture of
Chicago, much influenced by Mies van der Rohe, who emigrated there after the
Bauhaus was shut by the Nazis in 1933.
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[2008]
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6.9
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A rebellious young
woman from a small Chinese town transplanted to a politically charged Beijing
University. The country’s social turmoil is witnessed through its disaffected
youth, whose newfound sexuality and activism culminate in violent
suppression.
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2008.
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7.1
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On August 20, 1965,
after 20 months of proceedings, the verdict was announced in one of the most
significant trials in German legal history. The court heard from 360
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp survivors and other eyewitnesses from
19 countries, in a trial against 22 members of Hitler’s S.S. squad. The S.S.
members were accused of taking part in the mass murder of millions. Explore
the investigation, the courtroom drama and the verdict.
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[2007]
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7.6
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At six, Vitus is
both incredibly talented and wonderfully precocious. When it becomes evident
that he has an exceptionally high IQ and can play piano like a young Mozart,
expectations run high. His parents love him, his grandfather understands him,
but no one knows the truth - that his real genius is in his heart.
|
[2007]
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6.0
|
This 30-minute
film is a visual interpretation of Goethe’s Faust part one. Puppetman Steven
Ritz-Barr and award winning director Hoku Uchiyama team up to create their
own inspired version of the fabled medieval scholar"--Container.
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c2007.
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|
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8.5
|
A 1984 East Berlin
simple surveillance assignment: Capt. Gerd Wiesler, a Stasi officer and a
specialist in surveillance, has been assigned to keep an eye on Georg
Dreyman, a respected playwright, and his actress girlfriend, Christa-Maria
Sieland. Though Dreyman is known to associate with blacklisted director Albert
Jerska, a known dissident, Dreyman’s record is spotless. Wiesler discovers
that Minister Hempf has an ulterior motive in spying on this seemingly
upright citizen. Wiesler’s sympathies shift from the government to its people
- or at least to this one particular person.
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[2007]
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6.8,6.2
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"At the age
of seventeen, Romy Schneider became an international star through her
portrayal of Princess Elisabeth (Sissi) of Austria in the first of three
lavish films directed by Ernst Marischka"--Container.
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c2007.
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N/A
|
"A historical
collage about the German Democratic Republic (Communist East Germany), in the
form of stories told by East Germans, both prominent and unknown." --
front of container.
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c2007.
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6.5
|
"Maria
Schell- a beautiful and talented girl born to an exceptional family of
artists, a renowned actress and darling of the public- enjoyed an
unparalleled career for a German speaking actress. Despite a glamorous acting
career with over seventy feature film appearances alongside such legends as
Oskar Werner, Gary Cooper and Marcello mastroianni, and numerous awards and
nominations, Maria Schell’s life was filled with romances, loneliness,
unrequited love, disappointments, debts, depression, suicide attempts, and an
unwillingness to grow old gracefully. Her brother and confidant,
actor/director/co-writer Maximilian Schell, blends interviews with staged
scenes in this examination of their personal relationship, expressing his
great respect for her lifework and the regret he felt at her later
failures"--Container.
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2007.
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6.9
|
College freshman
Michaela suffers a breakdown that looks less like her diagnosed condition of
epilepsy than a form of demonic possession. Seeking a priest’s aid, Michaela
enters a very personal Hell while her family watches in horror.
|
2007.
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7.4
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A look at the life
of Marine Lance Cpl. José Antonio Gutierrez, a "green-card soldier"
(i.e. non-U.S. citizen member of the U.S. Armed Forces) who was the first
American soldier killed in the Iraq War.
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c2007.
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6.6
|
Das Fräulein :
Ana, a new employee in Reza’s cafeteria, has high spirits that thaws Reza’s
joyless life in Zurich.
|
c2007.
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7.5
|
In a series of 22
tableaux set on a soundstage, Syberberg makes use of puppets, props, a
Wagnerian soundtrack, and rear-screen projection to evoke Nazi Germany, the
orgins of the Third Reich, and the aftermath that followed.
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[2007]
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6.8
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"The
adventures of two hapless used-car dealers who take a vintage limousine to
German market tests their friendship and brings up unexpected emotions about
the Jewish past in Germany. This offbeat, funny and touching buddy movie,
starring Israel’s top comedians Avi Kushner and Moshe Ivgi, is a road trip
from hell that should not be missed."--www.sisuent.com.
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c2007.
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|
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6.9
|
Follows players on
the 2006 German national soccer team from training through the FIFA World Cup
tournament. The 18th staging of the World Cup was held June 9-July 9, 2006.
Host team Germany defeated Portugal to finish third (in the final, Italy won
the Cup over France).
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2007, c2006.
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7.7
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Based on the true
story of three armies in the bloody trenches of World War I and the
miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge.
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2006.
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8.3
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Story of Franz
Biberkof, a former transportation worker. When we first see Franz, he has
just been released from prison where he has served four years for an
irrational act of violence. He returns to his Berlin neighborhood resolved to
go straight but forces in his environment, the influences of his cronies, the
grinding poverty, the decay of society overwhelm him and he begins his duel
with fate.
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c2006.
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7.4
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The clash of
communist and capitalist ideologies in Germany since reunification is
represented in the meeting of Hamburg real estate developer Martin Barwald
and farmer (and former communist youth leader) Anna Endrich.
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2006.
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N/A
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A collection of
short films nominated for the 78th Annual Academy Awards, including the
winning live action short and the winning animated short.
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[2006]
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7.5
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Heinz Bösel, a
rude, uncommunicative slob and Kurt Fellner, a very talkative, pushy
Yuppie-type, do not care for each other but are forced to work together
travelling across the Austrian countryside inspecting hotels and inns. Eventually,
the two become friends.
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c2006.
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7.1
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A teenage Jewish
boy from Budapest finds himself in turmoil as Hitler’s Final Solution becomes
policy throughout Europe. Taken from his family and sent to a concentration
camp, his existence becomes a surreal adventure in adversity in order to
survive.
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[2006]
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7.0
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"Fariba,
persecuted in Iran because of her love for another woman, assumes the
identity of a man to gain temporary asylum in Germany. She takes an illegal
factory job where fellow worker Anne takes an interest i the strange
foreigner. As the two become close, Anne begins to suspect Fariba’s true
identity- and both women face danger when authorities tell Fariba she must
return to Iran"--Container.
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[2006].
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7.9
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"Part 1:
Festival of the Nations Riefenstahl shot a documentary that celebrates the
human body by comgining the poetry of bodies in motion with close-ups of
athletes in the heat of competition. Includes Jesse Owen’s sprint races at
the 1936 Olympic games and Adolf Hitler looking on in amazement as Owens wins
an unprecedented four Gold Medals. Part 2: Festival of Beauty Riefenstahl
captures the grace of the athletes during field hockey, soccer, bicycling,
equestrian, acquatic and gymanstic events. Highlights are the Pentathlon and
the Decathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris; it ends with the triumphant
conclusion of the games"--Container.
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2006.
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7.4
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During WW II,
young German boys of privilege or exceptional ability come to special
academies to be trained as future leaders in the Nazi party. In one such
Napola, Friedrich, a working-class 17 year old with exceptional boxing
prowess, becomes friends with Albrecht, the Governor’s son, a sensitive young
writer opposed to Nazi ideology and the war. Before long, Friedrich must
choose between his own bright future in the Third Reich and Albrecht’s moral
imperative.
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c2006.
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6.6
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In Bordeaux,
France, in the early 1800’s, Goya suffers from strange visions and
nightmares. Goya reflects on his tumultuous career: a love affair with the
beautiful Duchess of Alba and the evil crusade of Napoleon’s French army.
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2006.
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7.9
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"One of the
most ciritiy acclaimed films of the year, Head-On follows two young
Turkish-Germans who are forced into a marriage of conveniece which ultimately
blossoms into a bond of mutual admiration. Erotiy charged, darkly funny,
Head-On is a journey you won’t forget"--Container.
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c2005.
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6.3
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"In this
’bruising, moving Altmanesque drama’ (Time Out New York), writer/director
Barbara Albert passionately explores the intersection of chance and fate as
the seemingly unrelated residents of a suburban Austrian community become
linked by a chain of circumstances"--Container.
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c2005.
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6.9
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Le Tour de France
is the toughest bicycle race of all. This film shows the torture and the
pain, the fear and the courage of the riders on the Tour. It also showcases
the supporting casts of managers, masseurs, fans, and more.
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[2005]
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7.4
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"Eyal is a
top assassin in the Israeli secret service. He has killed terrorists before,
but this time hs is sent to eliminate an aging former Nazi war criminal.
During his mission, Eyal meets his targets granddaughter and grandson, who
inadvertently help him uncover his own troubled history and face his demons
while they discover the ugly truth their family has hidden from them for
decades"--Container
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2005.
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8.3
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"...Downfall
takes you into Hitler’s bunker during the brutal and harrowing last days of
the Third Reich. Seen through the eyes of Hitler’s infamous secretary Traudl
Junge, optimism crumbles into grim realization and terror as it becomes clear
that Germany’s defeat is inevitable. As the Russian army circles the city,
the dimly lit halls of the underground refuge become an execution chamber for
the Fuhrer and his closest advisors"--Container.
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c2005.
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N/A
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The hypnotic
oratory of Adolf Hitler is the highlight of this program, which presents four
featurettes originally produced during the Nazi era; One of Hitler’s first
open air public addresses to be recorded on synchronized-sound film shows him
appealing for German unity at an election rally in 1932 (14 min.); The Nazi
leader honored comrades fallen in the party’s abortive 1923 attempt to seize
power by his staging of annual processions in Munich every November 9th (7
min.), One of Hitler’s last bloodless conquests was the take-over of Austria
in March 1938. Hitler’s public address in Vienna and the attending ceremonies
including a parade of the regiment Leibstandarte as well as Austrian army
units are reproduced froman original German newsreel of the time (4 min.);
February 18th, 1943, Nazi leader Goebbel’s most famous speech, in which he
asks his Berlin Sportspalast audience "Do you want a total war?" is
recorded in the Nazi’s ownnewreel coverage. (6 min.) (German with English
subtitles).
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2005.
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7.1
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The story of the
surviving members of the Viennese Hakoah sports club women’s swim team, a
world-dominating competitor in the 1930s. The club was eventually shut down
during Hitler’s reign, though all the women managed to escape capture.
Combines historical footage and contemporary interviews to reconnect the women’s
lives and memories.
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2005
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6.8
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"In the cold
Berlin winter of 1943, hundreds of women stood and waited, in defiance of the
Nazis. While countless Jews were being sent to concentration camps for
execution, Jewish husbands of Aryan wives suffered a different fate; they
were separated from their families and imprisoned in a factory on a street
named Rosenstrasse. On that street these women stood in protest, in the name
of love until they were reunited with their men"--Container.
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[2005], c2003.
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6.6
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When renowned
director Werner Herzog and fellow filmmaker Zak Penn set off to explore the
legend of Scotland’s Loch Ness monster, they uncover much more than they
bargained for. Unexplained sightings of the creature and chaos among the crew
create an uneasy feeling that things aren’t what they seem. But what really
happened on the infamous lake remains a mystery. Poses the provocative
question-- where does myth end and reality begin?
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[2005].
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7.6
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"The film
depicts the last six days (February 17-22, 1943) in the life of Sophie Scholl
from her own perspective: that of a courageous and vibrant young woman who is
willing to face death for her belief in her ideals and those of the White
Rose, an underground resistance movement to which she belongs. Through their
resistance and protest against the Nazi regime, Sophie and her fellow members
of the White Rose become synonymous with civil courage and a peaceful struggle
against the rule of violence and oppression."--Container.
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[c2005]
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7.0
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"...director
Volker Schlondorff creates a moral thriller that ’succeeds in illuminating an
almost unimaginably dark story.’ Inspired by the true tale of a dissident
priest’s temporary furlough from Dachau, The Ninth Day transforms an ethical
crisis into a nail biting showdown and unspeakable guilt into transcendent
redemption"--Container.
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[2005]
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6.9
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Schultze is a
recently retired miner who, like his father before him, entertains polka
audiences with his accordion. When he discovers the fiery energy of Zydeco
music on his radio, the rigid monotony of his daily routine takes a spicy
turn. Schultze learns to play his accordion with a new snap and style. His new-found
fascination ultimately leads him on a life-changing journey to the Louisiana
delta.
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c2005.
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6.7
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"Directed by
controversial Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl, this ’deeply moving
documentary of Catholics at prayer’ consists of successive cinematic tableaux
comprised of individual confessions made inside empty churches. Separated by
nothing but choral music and brief takes from the lives of the interviewed
subjects, these spoken confessions combine the invisibility of direct cinema
with abrupt first-person interviews. Although registered by the camera, the
confessions are invariably addressed to the divine and are uncomfortably
intimate"--Container.
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c2005.
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6.7
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In an ominous
fortress perched high above the clouds, everything seems in order for a
reposing 24 hours. It is the spring of 1942 in Germany and Eva Braun is the
only voice that dares contradict the Fuhrer. Eva is caught up in the
complexities of a man incapable of human intimacy, making her as volcanic as
her beloved Hitler
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[2005]
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6.6
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Christa Klages is
a young mother distraught at the prospect that her day care center is running
out of money. With her lover, Werner, and another friend, she robs a bank.
The friend is captured and Werner is killed while eluding the police, so
Christa flees with her friend, Ingrid, who helps Christa escape to Portugal.
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c2005.
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6.7
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Two sisters share
a complex and compelling relationship. Anna seems dependent, emotionally and
economiy, on Maria. Successive inward turns of the screw, however, make it
unclear who exploits and dominates whom.
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c2005.
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6.4
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Chronicles the
friendship between two very different women. One is a lecturer in literature
and separated from her stage director husband, and the other is the shy wife
of a well-known peace expert. As the two women become closer, their husbands
become annoyed at their own loss.
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c2005.
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7.5
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"Jan and
Peter are the best friends behind the radical and mysterious group The
Edukators, united by their passions to change the world ... When the rich go
on vacation, The Edukators break into their homes. They don’t steal, but
simply re-arranging everything, leaving the message ’Your days of plenty are
numbered.’ When Peter’s girlfriend Jule moves in, she joins them in their
subversive activities. But when a rich businessman catches them in the act,
they rashly decide to kidnap him. Faced with the values of the generation in
power, they will see what kind of revolutionaries they are, if their
friendship can survive, and discover if they truly work in the interest of
the greater good, or just in their own self-interest"--Container.
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c2005.
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6.4
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Young poet
Friedrich Schiller flees from the elite academy of Prince Carl Eugen to
become an acclaimed theater writer in Mannheim. But the influence of Carl
Eugen reaches farther than Schiller thought.
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c2005.
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7.6
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"Danzig,
1924. Oskar Matzerath is born with an intellect beyond his infancy. As he
witnesses the hypocrisy of adulthood and the irresponsibility of society,
Oskar rejects both, and, on his third birthday, refuses to grow. Caught in a
baffling state of perpetual childhood, Oskar lashes out at all he surveys
with piercing screams and frantic poundings on his tin drum, while the
unheeding, chaotic world marches onward to the madness and folly of World War
II." -- Container.
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2004.
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7.8
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Daniel, a young
teacher, decides to spend his summer at home in Hamburg. At the local flea
market, he meets Juli, who is immediately attracted to him, a fact to which
Daniel seems oblivious. On the same day, Daniel meets Melek, a young Turkish
girl, with whom he is immediately smitten. Ignoring his earlier plans, he sets
out in pursuit of her across the Balkans. Along the way he picks up a
hitchhiker, who just happens to be Juli.
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[2004]
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7.7
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Alex’s proud,
socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her
heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen
and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a
major scam.
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[2004]
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7.0
|
Through six
intertwined narratives, Austrian director Ulrich Seidel weaves together
extravagantly sordid tales of everyday people in suburban Austria during a
heat wave.
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c2004.
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6.8
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An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne
(Franco) and the princess of the feuding Irish (Myles) spells doom for the
young lovers.
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c2004.
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5.0
|
Hundreds of years
after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul lead a
force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor
looks to the gay heroes aboard the spaceship Surprise -- Captain Kork, Mr.
Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty, for help.
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c2003.
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7.0
|
The film depicts
this society’s grinding down of Daniel Brenner, an idealistic architect in
his late thirties. Daniel, like many others of his generation, is deeply
frustrated by life under the old Communists but somehow tolerates it. Hired
to design a miniature city on the fringes of Berlin, he fools himself into
thinking that he can counteract the prevailing gloom with a cheerier, more
innovative approach.
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c2004.
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5.6
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"A
porno-political-palooza that makes quick work of the phenomenon of ’terrorist
chic,’ the people who emulate terrorists without necessarily understanding
the moral implications of what terrorism actually means." -- Container.
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c2004.
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7.5
|
"When the
object of his affection off-handedly commented, ’too bad you’re not a girl’
Erwin disappeared to Casablanca and returned as Elvira. Now, adrift and alone
amid the maze of streets of Frankfurt, Elvira revisits the people and places
of his past."--Container.
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2004.
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N/A
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Opera singers
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[2004?], c1995.
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6.9
|
The filmmaker
looks at European colonialism in Africa through the lens of Christian
evangelism as the model for the relationship between Africa and western
countries today. The history of German missionaries in Namibia in the 19th
and 20th centuries is discussed by African and German historians and theologians,
revealing how colonialism destroyed African beliefs and social systems and
replaced them with European ones.
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2004.
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6.8
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Summer, 1954. The
Soviet Union is sending its prisoners of war home. Among them is the father
of a quiet, football-loving 11-year-old, Matthias, who lives with his mother,
sister and brother in a West-German mining town. The boy has long found a
surrogate father in the local football player Helmut Rahn, who has
"adopted" Matthias as his mascot. The return of the boy’s father
Richard casts a shadow over the once-happy family: broken by his years in
captivity, Richard has trouble adapting to life in post-war Germany and
alienates his family through his severity. For Richard, football is
pointless, and so is the World Cup that’s about to be held in Bern,
Switzerland. Matthias, however, longs to be there with his idol, who’s been
chosen to play on the German team. Through his passion for the game and his
fighting spirit, Matthias rekindles a love of life in his dad’s heart. And
so, as the final match of the World Cup begins, a little miracle of love and
generosity leaps across borders to help another miracle occur - the victory
of Helmut Rahn and the German team, the miracle of Bern.
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c2004.
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7.2
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Martha is the chef
who fusses and obsesses over each dish before it leaves the kitchen. The
demands of her job and her natural shyness keep her from meeting new people.
When her sister suddenly dies, Martha adopts Lina, her eight-year-old niece,
completely changing both lives. Martha gets unexpected help from Mario,
Martha’s hunky new sous chef, who is not only a whiz on the chopping block
but knows sundry magic tricks and jokes to keep Lina’s spirits afloat. Just
as Martha starts to grow attached to the girl, Lina’s erratic father shows up
demanding that he take her back to Italy with him.
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[2003], c2001.
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7.4
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In the period of
several days, Katharina’s privacy and her honor are destroyed, first by the
police who terrorize her, and then by the yellow press, which creates in her
name the image of a politicized Bonnie Parker.
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c2003.
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7.6
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"Based on the
autobiography of Solomon Perel, a young German Jew ... puts you in the middle
of war-torn Europe where ingenuity, timing and luck are the key to survival.
Separated from his family at the age of thirteen, Solly (Marco Hofschneider)
takes on various identities to hide his Jewish heritage. First passing himself
off as an orphan and later as one of the ’Hitler Youth,’ Solly carries on his
charade, hoping desperately to keep his identity hidden...and make it through
the war alive"--Container.
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2003.
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N/A
|
The life of Goethe
is presented through the use of letters, memoirs, rare manuscripts,
paintings, etc. Part 1 relates his youth, which brought him the first great
success with the novel "The Sufferings of young Werther." Part 2
describes his first years in Weimar and his stay in Italy. And finally Part 3
presents the classic writer who, in addition to many other literary and
scientific works finished "Faust," which he had begun in his early
youth.
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2003-2004.
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N/A
|
"A series
devoted to the most ambitious architectural creations of the 19th and 20th
century, consisting of remarkable archive material, scale-models, and
interviews with some of the greatest architects of our time"--Container.
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2003.
|
|
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7.8
|
In 1978 Rainer
Werner Fassbinder embarked upon a project to trace the history of postwar
Germany in a series of films told through the eyes of 3 remarkable women. The
3 films would garner him the international acclaim for which he had always yearned
and place his name foremost in the canon of New German Cinema.
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2003.
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|
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7.9
|
Follows
photojournalist James Nachtwey to hot spots including Kosovo, West Bank, and
Indonesia, as he searches for a picture he thinks he can publish. A film
about a committed, shy man, considered to be the most important war
photographer of our time.
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[2003].
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|
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N/A
|
Five years after
unification, Germany is emerging as Europe’s most powerful country. This film
depicts the challenges it is facing through interviews with individuals and
families from both former East and West Germany, as well as with public
officials and experts, including German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
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2003, c1995.
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4.6
|
Goethe’s tragic
tale of young Werther, who in a series of letters to his friend Wilhelm,
details his tragic love for Lotte, who is married to his friend Albert.
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c2003.
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|
|
N/A
|
This documentary
focuses on the trafficking in women in Bosnia, many from the Ukraine and
Moldova, who have been promised real jobs but end up as prostitutes. What the
United Nations and its representatives have done and should do to help these
women is covered.
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c2003.
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|
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8.2
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"When young
Florya willingly joins a group of Partisans fighting the Nazis in
Byelorussia, USSR, he little suspects that he is plunging through the looking
glass. Separated from his comrades during a paratroop attack and struck deaf
by German artillery, Florya-- in the company of Glascha, a beguiling peasant
girl-- wanders a battle-scorched Russian purgatory of prehistoric forests and
man-made slaughter. Florya’s journey takes him and us through a gallery of
exquisitely poetic imagery and brutal human atrocity"--Container.
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c2003.
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7.2
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"In 1942 Traudl
Junge was an apolitical 22-year-old chosen froma clerical pool to work as one
of Adolf Hitler’s private secretaries. Working day-in, day-out for Hitler,
Junge viewed him as a surrogate father figure, private and polite, nothing
like the crazed rhetorician of his speeches. Shielded from the knowledge of
Hitler’s acts of atrocity and convinced she was in the center of information,
she was actually in a blind spot. As the Nazi regime teetered on destruction
and Hitler plunged further into madness, Junge witnessed everything up to the
final chaotic days in the bunker"--Container.
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c2003.
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|
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8.1
|
A tragicomedy
about love, friendship, betrayal, manipulation and lies. Deals with the
conflicts of Yugoslav history of the past fifty years. The story starts from
an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during WWII. The black
marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the
workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they
become suspicious, and break out of their underground
"shelter"--Only to convince themselves that the guy was right: the
war is still going on.
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c2003.
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7.6
|
"Spanning two
continents, it’s the true tale of a Jewish attorney and him family who flee
the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remate farm in Kenya. As the war rages on the
other side of the world, his relationships with his wife and daughter become
increasingly complicated: they struggle between resisting and embracing their
new life, while reaching out to each other"--Container.
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2003.
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N/A
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The
internationally renowned Mozart interpreter Sir Colin Davis conducts the
chorus and orchestra of the Royal Opera House in David McVicar’s production
of Mozart’s last opera recorded live at Covent Garden with Simon Keenleyside
and Dorthea Rochmman.
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c2003.
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8.0
|
A romantic fantasy
about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky
if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film
follows angel Damiel’s path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a
manner that’s comical, touching and entertaining.
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c2003.
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7.4
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When shy,
beautiful Sissi is the victim of a horrible car accident, a handsome
small-time criminal comes to the rescue and saves her life. Once she
recovers, she sets out to find him and discovers that he is a violent man
with a conflicted past and dangerous future. It doesn’t take long for the two
to meet again - during a deadly bank robbery. Now it is her turn to save his
life.
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[2002], c2000.
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7.8
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Historian Klaus
Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals.
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c2002.
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7.5
|
Petra von Kant is
a successful fashion designer who carries on a melodrama of erotic
attractions with two other women in her claustrophobic apartment.
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c2002.
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7.7
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A gay lower-class
carnival performer known as Fox the Talking Head, strikes it rich by winning
a lottery. He then has an ill-fated romance with an elegant upper-class lover
who schemes to take away his newfound money.
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c2002.
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7.5
|
Jonathan Harker,
against the wishes of his wife, departs on a journey over the Carpathian
Mountains to arrange a real estate transaction for Count Dracula, with tragic
results.
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[2002]
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6.1
|
In part one,
Siegfried wins the hand of Kriemhilde by slaying the dragon and defeating
Brunhilde. When Brunhilde learns that magic has been used to conquer her, she
has Siegfried murdered. In part two, Kriemhilde seeks revenge for Siegfried’s
death and marries Attila, king of the Huns, in order to further her purpose.
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c2002.
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6.4
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Abahachi, Chief of
the Apache Indians, and his blood brother Ranger maintain peace and justice
in the Wild West. One day, Abahachi needs to take up a credit from the
Shoshone Indians to finance his tribe’s new saloon. Unfortunately Santa
Maria, who sold the saloon, betrays Abahachi, takes the money and leaves.
Soon, the Shoshones are on the warpath to get their money back, and Abahachi
is forced to organize it quickly. Luckily, he, his twin brother Winnetouch,
beautiful dancer Uschi and the Greek Dimitri each own a quarter of a treasure
map that leads them to ’the shoe of Manitu’. There, Santa Maria already
awaits them to take their new treasure away as well. But he did not think
about the determination of Abahachi’s team. Written by Julian Reischl
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c2002.
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8.0
|
A band of Spanish
conquistadors, led by Pizarro, go up the Amazon in search of gold. As the
soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature and each other, Don
Lope de Aguirre (the self-styled "Wrath of God") is consumed by
visions of conquering all of South America and leads a revolt, but Aguirre’s
megalomania turns the expedition into a death trip.
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2002.
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7.1
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"Franz
Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society,
assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control. Abused and tortured,
both physiy and psychologiy by commanding officers, doctors and his
unfaithful wife, Marie, Woyzeck struggles to hold on to his humanity and his
fragile sanity. In the film’s shattering climax, he is finally driven over
the brink into madness and murder."--Container.
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2002.
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7.0
|
Francisco Manoel
da Silva, 19th century, gun-toting Brazilian bandit known as the Cobra Verde,
is unknowingly hired by the owner of a sugar plantation to keep his slaves in
check, but instead, the Cobra manages to sleep with the landowner’s daughters
and impregnate them. In revenge, the owner sends the Cobra on a dangerous
mission to sail to the West coast of Africa and reopen the slave trade, and
the Cobra wages war with a local tribal king.
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2002.
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7.9
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"My Best
Friend is a film about the love-hate relationship between director Werner
Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski- utterly puzzling to others. It reveals the
deep trust between two exceptional artists and their independently and
simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another"--Container.
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c2002.
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8.0
|
Story of a man
obsessed with a dream to build his own personal opera house in a remote
Peruvian town.
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2002, c1981.
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6.5
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"Siddhartha
is the story of a young Brahmin who leaves his wealthy parents to become a
sadhu, a wandering ascetic. Siddhartha meets and is awed by the Buddha, but
chooses to follow his own path"--Container.
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2002.
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5.4
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A remake of the
film of the same title produced by Fritz Lang in 1933. Criminal mastermind
Dr. Mabuse hypnotizes the director of an insane asylum and has him commit a
series of intricate crimes in order to maintain his underworld empire.
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c2002.
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7.3
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"Tom Ripley
(Dennis Hopper) is an American sociopath who sells forged paintings in
Germany. Jonathan Zimmermann (Bruno Ganz) is an idealistic art restorer dying
from a rare blood disease. But when Ripley arranges for the desperate family
man to carry out a high-paying mob hit, the two forge an uneasy bond steeped
in deceit, corruption and cold-blooded murder..."--Container.
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2002.
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N/A
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The story
encompasses the gruesome detail, horror, passion, and torment that
characterized works of the German Expressionist movement. Wozzeck is an
impoverished soldier driven insane by his manipulative superiors and his
mistress’ infidelity. In a jealous rage, he stabs her, then drowns when he
tries to wash the blood from his hands.
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[2001].
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6.8
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Against the
background of the East German society’s prejudice against homosexual
relationships, Philip, a high school teacher with a pregnant girl friend,
discovers he loves Matthias.
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c2001.
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7.4
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This video is the
adaptation of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera stage production of the
Gershwins’ classic musical drama Porgy and Bess, which portrays the lives of
the occupants of Catfish Row.
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c2001.
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7.9
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Martin has a brain
tumor with no hope for a cure and Rudi is dying of bone cancer. They decide
to leave the hospital, in order to take advantage of the short time left to
them to live out their lives--with intensity, passion and craziness. First
the steal a big car. What they do not know is that there are a million marks
in the trunk, which belong to the gangster Frankie. In the belief that they
have no money, they rob a bank, whereupon they are now being chased by
Frankie and the police.
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[2001]
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7.7
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During World War
II and the Nazi occupation of Czechoslavakia, a couple, Josef and Marie,
decide to hide a young Jewish neighbor in their small apartment. They keep
getting a visit from their neighbor, Horst, who is a German sympathizer and
has his eye on Marie. When she rejects his advances he seeks revenge by trying
to move a Nazi clerk into their home, forcing the couple to tell a lie that
will change their lives forever.
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c2001, c2000.
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7.8
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"They were
billed as the ’Olympics of Peace and Joy’ but became the Olympics of
terror--Munich 1972. An extreme Palestinian group ed Black September held 11
Israeli athletes hostage in the Olympic village while the world looked on, incredulous.
Using extraordinary archive footage, music and interviews with those who took
part (including the only surviving member of the Black September group),
"One day in September" tells the dramatic story of what happened in
Munich during those 21 hours."--Container.
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c2001.
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8.0
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"Fresh from
the triumphant releases of Nosferatu and The Last Laugh, F.W. Murnau was
given carte blanche to direct this epic fable of the supernatural. Freed from
the burden of plausibility by the story’s fantastic permise, Murnau summoned
forth a tempest of cinematic brimstone so that every scene ripples with
reckless imagery. Using the full resources of the UFA Studios...Faust
captures the intensity of a medieval universe steeped in religious fanaticism
and pagan alchemy"--Container.
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c2001.
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8.3
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Through interviews
with participants and newsreel footage, examines the occupation of France by
the Germans during World War II as it occurred in the French city of
Clermont-Ferrand. Concentrates on the themes of collaboration and resistance.
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c2001.
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7.5
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"Leni
Riefenstahl’s classic piece of historical filmmaking, filmed during the 1934
Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Germany, is considered by many to be one of
themost important and controversial films ever made"--Container.
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c2001, 2000.
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8.0
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"After being
released from prison, Berlin street musician Bruno Stroszek finds himself
lost in a world where he simply doesn’t belong. So, along with his prostitute
girlfriend and an eccentric neighbor, Stroszek moves to America,
..."--Container.
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c2001.
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7.0
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This political
thriller, set in the final years of the Cold War, recounts the struggles of a
young West German woman member of a terrorist group (loosely based on the
real Baader-Meinhof gang). When the group disbands, she goes into hiding with
an invented identity in East Germany. She struggles with the realities of a
Communist state while keeping the distant ideal of socialism.
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c2001.
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7.9
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The Marshallin is
romantiy involved with young Octavian, but realizes she will have to
surrender him to a younger woman. When Baron Ochs von Lerchenau arrives
seeking an envoy to Sophie, the young woman he loves, the Marshallin suggests
Octavian.
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c2001.
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7.8
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"Emil
Jannings, the quintessential German expressionist actor, stars as Professor
Immanuel 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 (Marlene Dietrich), commanding
the stage in a top hat, stockings and bare thighs, Rath’s self-righteous
piety is crushed"--Container.
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c2001.
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7.1
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Documentary film
that follows friends Jan Wiener and Arnošt Lustig on a trip to Europe in
1998. Holocaust survivors, Wiener and Lustig met in the United States, where
both had fled from communist Czechoslovakia. The trip recreates the journey
made by Wiener as he escaped from Nazi occupied Prague, through Slovenia and
Italy, on his way to joining the British Royal Air Force before his return to
Prague after World War II.
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c2001.
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N/A
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"Franz
Jägerstätter, the only Catholic layman who was a formal conscientious
objector to entering into Hitler’s German Army and who was legally executed
for his refusal on August 9, 1943, is to be Beatified as a martyr (the step
before Canonization in the Catholic Church) on October 26 of this year by the
decision of Pope Benedict XVI. The best biography of Franz and the spiritual
and emotional struggles he went through to make his decision is the book that
first revealed this unknown Austrian farmer to the world, In Solitary Witness
by Gordan [sic] Zahn. In the 1970s a movie was made for Austrian television
on his life based on Gordon’s book and other materials that had come to
light..."--Container.
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[between 2000 and 2007]
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N/A
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A collection of
six short, award-winning films and excerpts from three others plus
miscellaneous filmwork.
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[2000], c1999.
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7.1
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"Franz
Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society,
assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control. Abused and tortured,
both physiy and psychologiy by commanding officers, doctors and his
unfaithful wife, Marie, Woyzeck struggles to hold on to his humanity and his
fragile sanity. In the film’s shattering climax, he is finally driven over
the brink into madness and murder."--Container.
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2000.
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7.1
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When Cassiel, an
angel, decides to become human and experience life in post-cold war Berlin,
he becomes unknowingly involved in the city’s crime world.
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2000.
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7.3
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Since the earliest
days in her childhood, Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her
parents are deaf-mute, and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the
spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other
people. Getting older and more mature, she becomes interested in music and
starts to play the clarinet very successfully. Since her parents are deaf,
they cannot share Lara’s musical career. The day comes when Lara has to
decide between her parents and her own ambitions.
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[1999?]
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8.0
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"From Richard
Linklater (Dazed and Confused) comes another smartly observed tale of young
people at a crossroads. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy play twentysomethings who
meet on a train in Europe, sense a connection and explore after-hours Vienna
together. The people, places and allure of the city becom their sudden itineraries.
Love is their destination. On the way there’s the mutual sharing of hopes,
jokes, dreams, worry and wonder. It’s a day to linger in their memories. And
a valentine to young love forever"--Container.
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c1999.
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7.5
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Susanne is a
concentration camp survivor who, despite unspeakable experiences, is filled
with a new desire to live. She wants to move back into her apartment in
war-torn Berlin where Hans has taken up residence. He is a former officer and
surgeon in the German army who finds himself unable to deal with the haunting
memories of his role in the war. Through Susanne’s caring, this broken man
gathers new strength and courage, but he realizes he cannot avoid the shadows
of his past.
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1999.
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7.8
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A thrilling
post-MTV, roller-coaster ride about two star-crossed lovers who have only
minutes to change the course of their lives. Time is running out: Lola has
just received a frantic from her
boyfriend Manni, who’s accidentally lost a small fortune he was to deliver to
his mobster boss. If they cannot find a way to replace the money within
twenty minutes, Manni will surely suffer severe consequences.
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[1999]
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7.3
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The tale of
Katerina Ismailova, who is trapped in a loveless marriage. The action takes
place in Mtsensk immediately before the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the
tradition of "Anna Karenina" and "Madame Bovary,"
Katerina’s fatalistic pursuit of passion has disastrous results.
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[1999], c1992.
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8.5
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A psychopathic
murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and
intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The
contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they
both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.
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[1998]
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N/A
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Opera Singers
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c1998.
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7.0
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"Michael
Haneke’s controversial thriller watches an affluent couple, their child and
dog as they arrive at their lakeside vacation home. Settling into their
holiday routine, the family is visited by a pair of clean-cut young men in
tennis whites and gloves, who inexplicably turn ruthless and brutal, forcing
the family into playing their ’funny games.’"--Container.
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c1998.
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7.2
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This film depicts
two journeys. The first is that of a group of wealthy bourgeois German,
Italian and American tourists on a luxury cruise up the mysterious Sepik
River, in the jungles of Papua New Guinea-- the packaged version of a
"heart of darkness." The second journey (the real text of the film)
is a metaphysical one. It is an attempt to discover the place of "the
Other" in the popular imagination. It affords a glimpse at the real
(mostly unconsidered or misunderstood) reasons why "civilized"
people wish to encounter the "primitive."
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[200-?]
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