Top Cast
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Charles Willy Kayser
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Esther Carena
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Anna von Palen
Overview
German silent film
Rating
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The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred.
Finsterworld
In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
The German Lesson
A man attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye.
Film
Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick corner, the team tumbles out into the woods as their car pulls away. Now they must make their way through the thick of nature and thick gunfire to accomplish their mission. Not a single word of dialogue is spoken throughout the entire film. Instead, the music, sounds, images and deeply truthful acting turn a simple plot into an intense experience. Passion and intrigue keep building to the very end.
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In revolutionary Iran, as fundamentalists tighten their grip on society, a professor secretly gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to read and discuss forbidden classics of Western literature, including Lolita and Pride and Prejudice. Based on the bestselling memoir by Azar Nafisi. A film by Eran Riklis starring Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson), Zar Amir (Holy Spider), and Mina Kavani (No Bears).
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
The Poker House
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
The Girl in the Book
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Come Sunday
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
A Corner in Wheat
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.