Peter Kern
Biography: Iconoclastic Austrian indie director and former New German Cinema actor Peter Kern isn't just the subject of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala's "Kern," but also the low-fi film's strongest creative force. He appeared in more than 70 feature films and directed a further 25. At his peak, Kern worked with the best directors of his era, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Fox and His Friends, The Stationmaster's Wife), Hans-Jurgen Syberberg (Hitler: A Film From Germany) and Wim Wenders (Wrong Move). “When I yell at you, please do not be immediately hurt. If I insult you, take it as proof of love. Remember, I'm Austrian, insane, hysterical, hypocritical and undemocratic.”
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 13, 1949
Deathday: August 26, 2015
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Die toten Körper der Lebenden
2007-01-01
Die toten Körper der Lebenden
Overview: Two men break out of prison and go on a killing spree.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Wrong Move
1975-03-14
Wrong Move
Overview: Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-03-14
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Despair
1978-09-20
Despair
Overview: Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-20
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Rent Boys
2011-12-07
Rent Boys
Overview: Documentary about the current hustler scene in Berlin. Based on interviews with former and active prostitutes, the realities of male prostitutes in Berlin are treated. The film is objective, and records the hustler scene as a social Submilieu, which is characterized by both tragic fates, as well as everyday things and routines. Not only the direct sale of sexual services is discussed, but also other aspects associated with male prostitution: poverty, drug addiction, AIDS, crime, migration, love and partnership.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-12-07
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Initiation
2009-11-04
Initiation
Overview: 16-year old Axel and his clique are rioting in a residential home. There he meets the 80-year old Gustav who gains interest in the young boy, as he reminds him of his lost love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-11-04
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Die Oma ist tot
1997-01-01
Die Oma ist tot
Overview: Grandma Vera travels by bus from a small Polish town to Pinneberg to celebrate her birthday with granddaughter Linda, her husband Lothar and their two children Jan and Christina. Together with Lothar's stuffy, uptight parents, they spend a fun-filled evening. But the next morning, Grandma is dead. Although Grandma Vera actually wanted to lie next to Grandpa Pyotr in her hometown of Kovalov, the family cannot afford an expensive funeral. So there is only one option: to transport Grandma themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Hitler: A Film from Germany
1978-06-07
Hitler: A Film from Germany
Overview: A structure-free, four-part examination of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Each part explores a different topic, from Hitler's cult of personality in propaganda to how said propaganda was associated with pre-Nazi German cultural, spiritual, and national heritage to the Holocaust and the ideology behind it, particularly from Himmler's point of view.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-06-07
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Erotique
1994-05-14
Erotique
Overview: The sexual fantasies of women are explored by three female directors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-14
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Virgin Machine
1989-02-10
Virgin Machine
Overview: A German woman travels to San Francisco to find her mother, but winds up distracted by the sexually flamboyant culture of the city.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-02-10
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Terror 2000
1992-10-30
Terror 2000
Overview: Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provincial town called Rassau), gets kidnapped just as the family. Chief inspector Koern and his girl-friend start to investigate in this matter in Rassau, exploring a world of obsessive sex, mislead lust and an over-whelming irrational love to the German nation, infiltrating anyone's mind. Rascism doesn't start with shaved hair and boots but rather in the middle of society itself...
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-10-30
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The Island of the Bloody Plantation
1983-01-27
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
Overview: A women's prison on a tropical island is a hellhole where the inmates are raped, tortured and otherwise abused by the evil commandant and brutal guards. However, one of the guards falls in love with a beautiful inmate, and decides to help her and all the other prisoners escape.
Genres: Thriller Crime Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-27
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Burning Life
1994-11-17
Burning Life
Overview: Anna and Lisa, two young women, meet by chance in the vestibule of a bank, and decide after that to go on together leaving a successful trail of bank-robberies through Germany.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-11-17
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Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
1972-06-22
Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
Overview: Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century German figures and traditions are stripped of their mythology and interpreted by the Germany of 1972.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-06-22
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Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
2012-10-23
Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Overview: Rosa von Praunheim is an icon in the scene: gay activist, loving provocateur and a very special filmmaker from Berlin for decades. His curiosity for people and their fates runs through his extensive film work. For his 70th birthday he has now made 70 new short films. In the first part of the big project, he confronts Thilo Sarrazin with the mayor of Neukölln, Heinz Buschkowsky, and the Turkish lawyer and women's rights activist Seyran Ates; shows a homosexual hustler in Bucharest; gossip reporter Andreas Kurtz, who knows everything about Berlin's celebrities; Rosa's neighbors who live with her dependent brother; Esther Bauer, who survived Auschwitz, and the Berlin comedian Ades Zabel. High on the roofs of Berlin, the gay chimney sweep Alain Rappsilber tells him about his fetish leather meeting Folsom.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-10-23
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Die wilden Fünfziger
1983-09-23
Die wilden Fünfziger
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-09-23
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The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977-07-31
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Overview: The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-07-31
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Karl May
1974-10-18
Karl May
Overview: This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. By fusing theater, music, and cinema, Syberberg conjures up Karl May (1842-1912), the immensely popular German author, who set many of his adventure novels in an idealized version of the American Wild West. His tales of the cowboy and the Ubermensch alike were beloved by many, including (Our) Hitler, who supposedly ordered his generals to read May works after defeats in the Russian campaign.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-10-18
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Fox and His Friends
1975-06-06
Fox and His Friends
Overview: Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-06-06
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The Wild Duck
1976-09-01
The Wild Duck
Overview: Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the reception, Gregers meets his childhood friend, Hjalmar Ekdal, who is married to Gina, a former maid of the Werle family. Hjalmar is unaware that Werle had an affair with Gina and that their 14-year-old daughter Hedwig is not his child. Gregers moves in with the Ekdals with the intention of allowing unsuspecting Hjalmar and his family to share in the "happiness of truth". Hedwig is entirely devoted to a wild duck, which lives on a pond outside their house. When Hjalmar learns the truth about his daughter, he wants to leave his family. Gregers advises Hedwig to kill the wild duck so that her father, impressed by this sacrifice, will return home. On the following day, Hedwig's birthday, she doesn't shoot the duck, but shoots herself instead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-09-01
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News from Robber Hotzenplotz
1979-03-09
News from Robber Hotzenplotz
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-09
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The Sternstein Manor
1976-10-19
The Sternstein Manor
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-19
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Group Portrait with a Lady
1977-05-25
Group Portrait with a Lady
Overview: Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the fascist regime of the Nazis.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-05-25
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Malina
1991-01-17
Malina
Overview: An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man named Malina. The woman meets Ivan and falls under his spell. It will be her last great passion. Her feelings are so strong and all-encompassing that Ivan can neither understand nor return them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-01-17
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1975-07-01
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Overview: After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-07-01
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Himmel, Polt und Hölle
2002-11-30
Himmel, Polt und Hölle
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-11-30
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La Paloma
1974-08-28
La Paloma
Overview: Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dying, but soon she is well. She believes her husband's love has cured her, but her efforts to love him begin to fade as she discovers true love with her husband's old school friend.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-08-28
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Seventeen and Anxious
1970-07-31
Seventeen and Anxious
Overview: Zbynek Brynych's forgotten masterpiece "Oh Happy Day" is best described as coming-of-age-psychedelia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-07-31
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Son of Hitler
1979-01-01
Son of Hitler
Overview: The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Rambo Zambo
1984-03-06
Rambo Zambo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-03-06
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Today We're Playing Boss
1981-11-27
Today We're Playing Boss
Overview: Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-11-27
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Johanna d‘Arc of Mongolia
1989-02-01
Johanna d‘Arc of Mongolia
Overview: A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-02-01
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Visionary Filmmaker - Marilou Diaz-Abaya
1999-01-01
Visionary Filmmaker - Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Overview: Potrait of director Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Tonight or Never
1973-02-01
Tonight or Never
Overview: Satire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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The Swing
1983-10-14
The Swing
Overview: Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the days leading to World War I.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-14
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Jakob von Gunten
1971-10-06
Jakob von Gunten
Overview: Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-10-06
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Kern
2012-01-01
Kern
Overview: Two directors shoot a documentary about the controversial director and pugnacious actor Peter Kern. But he cannot be easily rammed into the classical form of a documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Die Geisel
1977-02-20
Die Geisel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-02-20
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Kleinhoff Hotel
1977-10-27
Kleinhoff Hotel
Overview: Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in the adjoining room and Pascale spies him and his ex-girl-friend through a hole. Then she follows him to a questionable place where she is arrested by the police during a revolutionists raid. When she returns to the Kleinhoff Hotel, Pascale finds Karl crying, and enters his room to console him and they have a love affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-27
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Adele Spitzeder
1972-09-18
Adele Spitzeder
Overview: The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates. Initially dubbed the "Angel of the poor", she was arrested for fraud after the whole scheme collapsed.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-09-18
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Flaming Hearts
1978-02-24
Flaming Hearts
Overview: When Peter Huber the proprietor of a Bavarian corner newsstand, wins a free trip to New York City in a magazine contest, he is overjoyed. Filled with romantic ideas from the movies, his actual encounter with the gritty realities of the Big Apple are sobering. Nonetheless, he is in for the adventure of his life. First, he meets Karola Faber, the German wife of a U.S. G.I. who has found life in the States not all it's cracked up to be: she has left her husband and makes her living through prostitution. Peter and Karola visit the local German emigré community's Oktoberfest, and win the festival's King and Queen crown. Their prize is a cow, which accompanies them on their further journeys in New York City.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-02-24
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Berlin Nights: Grand Delusions
2005-05-16
Berlin Nights: Grand Delusions
Overview: Claire, Romy, Magali, Loete, and Jim are typical Brienen’s characters: their excessive lifestyle rhythmed by sex and drugs puts them in the margins of society, refusing to believe in love or any kind of happiness. Lacking a better alternative, they take a trip to Berlin to perform in their own erotic-trash show. But in Berlin, trouble only begins. Styled images of lost souls straying through the night and their humide debaucheries transport us into an universe of the abject where all moral limits are eliminated by the character’s insatiable bulimia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-05-16
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Der wilde Clown
1986-09-30
Der wilde Clown
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-09-30
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Die verrückte Welt der Ute Bock
2010-01-01
Die verrückte Welt der Ute Bock
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Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Bella Donna
1983-03-26
Bella Donna
Overview: This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort recounts the saga of a married torch singer whose numerous lovers are meant to steady her nerves and a saxophone player who loves her but cannot get his own act together. Singing and cinematography are pluses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-03-26
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Das Totenreich
1986-01-01
Das Totenreich
Overview: Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. Two friends, a pastor and a physician, try to awaken his willpower and transcend a journey to Italy. Meanwhile, in the homeland, there are political breakthroughs that make little hope for new times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Street Kid
1991-01-01
Street Kid
Overview: Axel is 14 years old, male prostitute, living in Düsseldorf. His mother drinks and her friends abuses him. He is sent to a bar to pick up customers. There he meets Karl-Heinz, and a loving relationship begins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Monkey Sandwich
2011-08-30
Monkey Sandwich
Overview: Meet Jerry, an obsessive but frustrated director who decides to turn his back on the theatre in favour of a controversial new project. But things soon start to go wrong. As he struggles with the demands of his role as leader, he is plagued by surreal dreams conjured up by his guilty conscience. Monkey Sandwich is a portmanteau film with a captivating tangle of stories involving the search for an unborn child, a disturbing hunting trip, a haunted LP, a screaming piglet and a river gone rogue. The stories in Monkey Sandwich are urban myths or stories created with or by the actors. The film was originally part of a stage performance of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-08-30
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Zischke
1986-11-27
Zischke
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-11-27
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Cinématon XVIII
1982-05-04
Cinématon XVIII
Overview: Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-04
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Belief, Love, Death
2012-02-13
Belief, Love, Death
Overview: When 82-year-old Mary takes her 63-year-old disabled son on a houseboat vacation on Lake Lychen in Brandenburg, things quickly go south as the boat becomes a prison, trapping them within the difficult emotional web of their relationship.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-02-13
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Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
2010-09-02
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
Overview: When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence he came to Berlin in the early 1960s and became part of the new German wave. Schmid worked with, among others, Wenders and Fassbinder, for example as an actor in Wender’s The American Friend. He met Ingrid Caven, who was to play a diva in several of his films. This is a documentation of a part of modern European film history and a good analysis of artistry and how it corresponds to the individual behind the camera. A wealth of archival footage brings us close to many directors and actors in Schmid’s circle. If you’ve never seen a Daniel Schmid film, you are sure to want to after watching this portrait of his life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-09-02
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Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011-04-07
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Overview: Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi Mikesch, who photographed a number of Schroeter’s films and who collaborated closely with him to create his vision, provides us with an intimate insight into Schroeter’s artistic output during the remaining four years of his life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-04-07
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Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020-08-20
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Overview: Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-08-20
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Wenches
1996-08-08
Wenches
Overview: Esther and Sophie are BFF! When it comes to men, they however differ fundamentally . While the career woman Esther is on uncomplicated sex and therefore experienced with her lover Winnie, Sophie is still looking for her prince charming . When she meets Chip , a PC expert , she believes to have finally found this . But then it turns out that Chip is none other than Winnie . From Esther and Sophie are suddenly bitter rivals...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-08-08
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