Torsten Ranft
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Birthday: January 01, 1961
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Schulmeister Spitzbart
1989-12-27
Schulmeister Spitzbart
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-12-27
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The Investigation
2024-07-25
The Investigation
Overview: Peter Weiss’ monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. This ultra-faithful film adaptation builds, across four hours, in its intensity and graphically described detail.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-07-25
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Beyond the Blue Border
2024-10-03
Beyond the Blue Border
Overview: GDR, August 1989: Hanna and Andreas became a target of the secret police and had to give up their plans for their future studies and desired professions. Instead, they face arbitrariness, mistrust and reprisals. Their only chance for a self-determined life lies in fleeing across the Baltic Sea. Fifty kilometres of water separate them from freedom - and only a thin connecting rope around their wrists saves them from absolute loneliness.
Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-10-03
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Naked Among Wolves
2015-04-01
Naked Among Wolves
Overview: Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-04-01
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Erniedrigte und Beleidigte
2019-05-11
Erniedrigte und Beleidigte
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-05-11
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The Young Karl Marx
2017-03-02
The Young Karl Marx
Overview: 26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-03-02
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Für immer ein Mörder - Der Fall Ritter
2014-07-01
Für immer ein Mörder - Der Fall Ritter
Overview: At the beginning of 2000, the young commissioner Yvonne Weber moved from Frankfurt am Main to Eisenach. Together with the local colleague Frank Wolf, she is to review an unresolved murder case from the GDR era. The investigation team encounters inconsistencies in the file and it becomes clear that there is no interest in truth-clarifying the Eisenach department and the prosecutor's office in Gotha.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-07-01
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Mensch Kotschie
2010-03-18
Mensch Kotschie
Overview: A well-placed site manager and father slips into a midlife crisis and recalls promptly to a former lover. Satirical comedy that finds compelling cinematic narrative technique for the feeling of comprehensive alienation and emotional state of emergency worded precisely in images that make over room poetics, dramaturgy and color perspectivization experience the world of heroes transparent. The fact that the terseness is sometimes applied a little thick, weight to a minimum.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-03-18
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Die Todesautomatik
2007-11-26
Die Todesautomatik
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-11-26
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Die Freundin der Tochter
2009-05-15
Die Freundin der Tochter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-05-15
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Berlin Blues
2003-10-01
Berlin Blues
Overview: In October 1989, the part of the West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg called SO 36, had been largely shut off by the Wall from the rest of the city for 28 years. A lethargic sub-culture of students, artists, bohemians and barflys had flourished among crumbling buildings. Part of that microcosm is barkeeper Frank, semi-formally called 'Herr Lehmann' by friends and patrons. He hangs out drinking, sports utter disregard for anything beyond SO 36 and lazily pursues an affair with cook Katrin. His lifestyle is gradually disturbed, when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with Katrin and his best friend Karl starts to act strange. Meanwhile, political turmoil mounts on the other side of the Wall.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-10-01
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The sweetness of strangers
1997-08-27
The sweetness of strangers
Overview: Once upon a time very much alike the twenties in Germany, a little town is frightened to death by an uncaught child murderer. Since somebody has to be blamed the townspeople turn against an inconspicious policeman, a family-man who becomes suspected of the crime and therefore loses his job. Strangely enough, the only work he can find is to distribute candy on children, dressed up as clown. When a bunch of kiddies, including his own son who doesn't recognize the father due to the masquerade, plays a nasty trick to him, things turn really ugly...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-08-27
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Bauhaus
2019-02-13
Bauhaus
Overview: Weimar, 1921. The life of 20-year-old Lotte Brendel seems to be predetermined. Her father sees her as a future wife and mother on the side of a man who is to take over the parental carpentry business. But the idiosyncratic Lotte joins a group of young artists against the will of her family, applies at the Bauhaus and is accepted. The Weimar Bauhaus, under the direction of the visionary Walter Gropius, aspires not only to combine arts and crafts, but also to find the place for the "New Man". In the student Paul Seligmann Lotte finds a supporter and her great love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-02-13
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Four Minutes
2006-06-23
Four Minutes
Overview: Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-06-23
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The Unbearable Lightness of the Revolution
2021-04-28
The Unbearable Lightness of the Revolution
Overview: East Germany, 1988. 19-year-old Franka doesn't really care for politics. She prefers going to the disco and dreaming about seeing Bruce Springsteen and Michael Jackson live in concert. But beneath her carefree façade, she is scarred by the loss of her baby brother. But then she meets Stefan: He's young, idealistic, and part of an environmental activist group. A mix that makes Franka instantly make fall for him – and his group, which welcomes her with open arms. But this wild, revolutionary influence does not stay unnoticed: Her mother, who's with the Party, is worried about Franka. As Stefan's group loses the support of the church, leaving them vulnerable to the state, Stefan and Franka are soon in the government's line of fire…
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-04-28
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Lullaby to my Father
2012-10-30
Lullaby to my Father
Overview: The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give form to this architecture. We follow the journey of Munio, my father, born in 1909 in Silesia, Poland, the son of a tenant farmer of a Prussian junker. At the age of 18, Munio goes to Berlin and Dessau to meet Walter Gropius, Kandinsky and Paul Klee at the Bauhaus. In 1933, the Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis, who accused Munio of treason against the German people. Munio was imprisoned, then deported to Basel. He left for Palestine. Upon his arrival in Haifa, he began a career as an architect and adapted European modernist principles to the Middle East.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-10-30
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