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Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The German-German border in the late 1950s: The collectivization of agriculture is in full swing in the East German village of Willshagen. Those in charge have to face many obstacles, especially from a large-scale farmer who is unwilling to join the co-op. All of a sudden, mysterious men in a fancy car appear in the village and show an interest in the rundown manor house. Gossip spreads quickly, and some villagers think there will be a re-parceling...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1952.
Language
Deutsch
Description
After years in Soviet captivity, farmer Heinz Weimann returns to the village of Bärenweiler, in West Germany. His joy at returning home is clouded by news that US occupation forces intend to build an airfield on village lands, in preparation for a confrontation with the Soviet Union. The villagers are expected to move out. The villagers turn to the government and local bishop, but receive no assistance. Led by Heinz, they protest peacefully—but...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In 1986, after suffering many obstacles and interference in his work, Lutz Dammbeck moved to Hamburg, West Germany. Two years later, in an attempt to start anew, he explores his decision and tries to sort out his past as an artist. In the process, he interviews artists Cornelia Schleime, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling and Hans Scheib, who had been core members of the alternative art scene in East Germany. They had all worked together in the 8mm-scene and...
84) Dusk
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Berlin in the 1950s: divided, but not yet walled. Young artists, at the start of their careers and seeking a new lifestyle, frequented the East Berlin cafés and bars that were meeting places for intellectuals, as well as Cold War secret service agents and black marketeers. Former East Berlin bohemians gather at Ganymed, the legendary restaurant near Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble. In the early 1990s, soon after the fall of the Wall, they recall...
85) Time of the Gods
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
Deutsch
Description
While working on his Hercules Concept, director Lutz Dammbeck began to study the life and work of the German sculptor Arno Breker (1900-91). How could a highly talented sculptor who had met French avant-garde artists in Paris in the 1920s, and whose works were first labeled as “degenerate art” become one of Adolf Hitler’s and Albert Speer’s preferred sculptors and protégé? In trying to find an answer, Dammbeck met with contemporaries and...
Publisher
Cargo Film & Releasing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Takes a critical look at the history of Western thought by examining the remains of Adolf Hitler’s private library. The dictator and mass murderer owned 16,000 books at the end of his life, 1,200 of which are kept in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C today. The documentary follows American historian Timothy Ryback, who studied these books for almost a decade. While many still confine racism and antisemitism to the ideological extremes in...
87) The Flat
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
עברית
Description
At age 98, director Arnon Goldfinger's grandmother passed away, leaving him the task of clearing out the Tel Aviv flat that she and her husband shared after immigrating from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Sifting through photos, letters, files, and objects, Goldfinger undertook the complex process of making sense of the accumulated ephemera of a lifetime. The result is a moving family portrait and an insightful look at the ways different generations deal...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Originally banned by Communist Authorities, Heiner Carow’s semi-autobiographical film was not approved for final production. Officials argued it focused on an ordinary Nazi follower, rather than an antifascist hero, and that it was “contaminated with modernism.” The film, which includes clips from the Nazi propaganda film Kolberg (1945), was finally reconstructed and released in 1987. As the end of WWII is fast approaching, 16-year-old Günter,...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In this astonishing, searing and vitally important documentary, Oscar–nominated director Michael Verhoeven unearths the long-buried truth - while simultaneously showing modern Germany in the throes of an identity crisis. THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER documents Germany’s controversial Wehrmacht Exhibition, which for the first time ever revealed the personal letters, photographs and film footage implicating the common foot soldier in horrific acts. While...
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
It is not widely known that a handful of prisoners in the Nazi death camps managed somehow to take clandestine photographs of the hell that was being hidden from the world. Director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs.
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Twelve-year-old Isabel and her mother, who was a famous political singer, had to escape Chile after the 1973 military coup. Isabel’s father stayed behind fighting in the underground. For six years, they have lived in a new apartment building in East Berlin. At first, the neighbors made an effort to welcome them, but later became more distant. Isabel does not feel at home in the strange country. Not even her friendship to Philip, the neighbors’...
92) Martin Und Hans
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinz von Twardowski, two German actors, fleeing the Nazi regime, come to Hollywood to find work. Most of the time they are asked to play Nazi officers and are reminded all the time what they fled from. But you can never escape your accent. In a sense, they are ground up in the Hollywood system. Although they were stars who worked on the stage and in movies in Germany, in Hollywood they were minor character actors, completely...
93) Unicorn Town
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An underdog football team in a small German town attempts to keep up in a league that appears to be leaving them behind.
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Deutsch
Description
At the Vienna Art Academy in 1994, an unidentified person painted over 27 works by Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer in black. Rainer had become world-famous for his abstract art and, in particular, for his over-layering of photographs and overpainting of his own and other artists’ works. But who painted over the “overpainter”? Speculation rages: Did he attack his works himself? A year later, an unsigned letter surfaces claiming responsibility...
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"This German vocabulary book will lay the foundations for your child's journey to learn and understand German at school or home. It introduces vocabulary in bite-sized chunks every day to make learning a new language feel less intimidating. Discover the perfect introduction to German for children ages 6-9. It's the ultimate German lesson for kids! Learning a foreign language can be intimidating, but German for Everyone Junior: 5 Words a Day is designed...
96) The Silence
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Deutsch
Description
On a hot summer day, a girl named Pia is brutally murdered in a field of wheat by Peer, as his helpless friend Timo watches. Exactly 23 years later, another 13-year-old, Sinikka, is missing, her bicycle abandoned in the same spot, leading police to suspect the same killer may be at work again. Recently widowed detective David and his colleague Janna struggle to solve the mystery of these parallel crimes with the help of Krischan, the retired investigator...
97) Cherry Blossoms
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A tender, emotionally intense and profoundly moving story of marital love. 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. Then, suddenly, Trudi dies. Rudi is devastated but vows to make up for her lost life. And so he embarks on his last journey – to Tokyo – in the midst of the cherry blossom festival, a celebration of beauty, impermanence...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
About 1000 feature films were made in Germany in the years between 1933-45. Only a few were overtly Nazi propaganda films. But by the same token, even fewer of them can be considered harmless entertainment. What does cinema know that we don’t know? In his world-renowned and groundbreaking documentary, film historian and critic Siegfried Kracauer, developed the idea of cinema as seismograph of its context and origin – a bellwether for the cultural...
99) Forbidden Films
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
1,200 feature films were made in Germany’s Third Reich. According to experts, some 100 of these were blatant Nazi propaganda. Nearly seventy years after the end of the Nazi regime, more than 40 of these films remain under lock and key. Director Felix Moeller interviews German film historians, archivists and film-goers in an investigation of the power and potential danger of cinema when used for ideological purposes. Utilizing clips from the films...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Veidt was a big star in German silent movies after his role as Cesare, the somnambulist in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Like many other artists in Nazi Germany, he fled in 1933. He became a star in British films as well, but when Germany attacked London, he emigrated to the United States, where, for the most part, he wound up playing Nazis—a fate that befell many German refugee actors. Veidt died of a heart attack on a golf course in Hollywood in...
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