Hessischer Rundfunk
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Deutsch
Description
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. Explores the investigation, the courtroom drama and the verdict....
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
Alice: A little girl follows an elusive White Rabbit and so begins this dream expedition into the landscape of childhood, combining techniques of animation, puppet theatre and live action in Švankmajer's surreal version of Alice's adventures in Wonderland.
Darkness light darkness: A man literally constructs himself within the confines of a very small room--a potent allegory of Švankmajer's life in Eastern Europe.
3) Bagdad Cafe
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
An off-beat comedy about a greasy spoon and a rusty gas pump in the Mojave desert, and mismatched characters who find paradise off the beaten track.
4) Baal
Series
Criterion collection volume 914
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Publisher
Project X Distribution
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Together with their adolescent daughter, two former terrorists have been living underground in Portugal for years. Complications arise when their daughter falls in love and the family's secret life is revealed. On the run, they return to Germany where the parents end up robbing a bank.
7) Jonathan
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Twenty-three-year-old Jonathan devotes himself to looking after his father Burghardt, who has cancer. But his father stubbornly sabotages his son's efforts to care for him. When Burghardt's long-lost friend Ron appears, his health visibly improves. Jonathan and his aunt see Ron as an intruder until Jonathan discovers that many years ago, his father and Ron were deeply in love.
8) Bagdad cafe
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A mysterious German woman named Jasmin comes across a dilapidated motel and diner in the American desert. The diner's owner, Brenda, is initially taken aback by Jasmin's appearance and demeanor; but eventually the women find that there is a chemistry between them. Gradually, by using their unique individual skills, Jasmin and Brenda turn the once-fledgling diner into a thriving desert oasis.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Germany's Third Reich made 1,200 feature films. According to experts, some 100 of these were blatant Nazi propaganda. More than 40 of these films remain under lock and key. Director Felix interviews German film historians, archivists and filmgoers in an investigation of the power, and potential danger, of cinema when used for ideological purposes. Moeller shows how contentious these films remain, and how propaganda can retain its punch when presented...