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Physicist Karjoli’s death leads his pupils, Harry and Friedbert, to discover a process for transferring life experiences. They test it on a fisherman, Borkentin, hoping he’ll learn to swim. The drama reveals that true progress requires personal learning.
Two surveyors come under the spell of the beautiful Vampira. Vampira then celebrates occult magic rites with her new companions in her castle with the Alder Queen Belladonna, a sorceress, a hunchback, and a werewolf.
In the fight against the impending bankruptcy of his business, a Hamburg chemist relies on total adaptation to the prevailing circumstances.
An adaptation of Franz Xaver Kroetz's play by the Theater of Courage, Vienna.
A series of episodes around sexual themes are framed by a central sex education plot, showing the viewer the "dangers of love".
In search of happiness, a young man named Ferdinand does not flee from the countryside to the city, but in the opposite direction. He rents a room from the operators of a small gas station and discovers the scrap parts of an old airplane. From then on, he dreams of flying and enlists the help of his friend Ike. Together, they manage to get the wreck of the old biplane back into working order.
Psychological thriller that focuses on the intense conflict between a university professor and a blackmailer.
When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece.
The impact of new documents from the international conflict that shook the world is enormous. Never-before-seen footage has emerged for the first time from previously secret archives. The murderous encirclement battles in Russia, the Battle of Britain, and the heroic deeds of countless lone fighters in Potsdam complete the circle of horror, from the Polish campaign to the harrowing images of refugee treks in the winter of 1944/45.
Legend has it that a brisk wind called the "Faun" delivers vigor to the men of Falklenhousen - accounting for the town's satisfied wives and high birth rate. Truth is, when the men are away, their voluptuous wives play!
A funny story about fifth grader Ottokar who is always ready to fight for justice.
Returning from his imprisonment in Russia during the First World War, Franz Ferdinand Trotta, a young KuK officer, discovers how much the defeat has transformed Vienna and his people. He is stunned by the new order of things. Having lost his entire fortune and his wife, who is having a sapphic relationship with a Hungarian artist, he tries to regain his place in a world that appears devastated.
At nine, Miroslav flees the Eastern Front alone after his mother’s disappearance. In postwar Germany, the Czech boy drifts between zones, lands in reform schools and prisons, and suffers a crippling accident. Rejected by society and facing deportation, he joins Berlin’s underworld, is arrested for murder, and confronts whether society or he is to blame.
A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ibsen, this is a video recording made for German television.
Mondo Cane and the Schoolgirl Report series stand as obvious influences on this occasionally amusing but generally rather tedious exploitation film that alternates between documentary, fake documentary and docudrama. The theme is Satanism and the linking thread is a recreation of what is supposedly the real-life case of a murder and attempted murder of two Munich teenage men by a quartet of girls who had been dabbling in devil worship. During the ensuing trial, the lawyer resorts to dilatory tactics while the hearing is frequently interrupted by the girls breaking into incantation, temper tantrums or shivery fits ostensibly bearing on demonic possession. When the subject of the Manson killings is brought up, the most obnoxious of the defendants breaks in indignantly, claiming that Sharon Tate’s “execution” was justified as she posed dangers to the Satanic community.
Armand seduces one woman after the other. However, he is supposed to consolidate his family's finances by marrying Amelie, a bankers daughter.
The young Robert looking for work and room in Bavaria. Because Robert dares to take a young girl with him to his place, he loses his apartment and the job as an assistant to a bookseller.
An encounter exploring how people can fail to communicate even when they are talking by either not saying anything, not listening or simply evading.
Hansel and Gretel is a Swiss short fairy tale movie by Rudolf Jugert from 1971. It is based on Grimm’s fairy tale Hansel and Gretel.
Burgtheater recording, based on Shakespeare's play.
Europe, 1620: The well-known astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler, who teaches as a professor in Linz, receives the message that his mother is prosecuted as a witch in Württemberg. The truth behind the allegations is rather simple: His mother has been denunciated by a former friend after an argument with the authorities. Kepler tries desperately to convince the prosecutors of the absurdity of their allegations with rational arguments.
A biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.
A scientist who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates an undefeated chess program. But the Russian world champ beats Tommy Rosemund's masterwork in a televised match. So the West German mathematician becomes a top chess pro himself, which the West German media boast will prove the superiority of Germany and democracy. The jowly, white-faced Rosemund believes that the entire Red Communist bloc is out to stop him from vanquishing their atheist pretty boy, Stefan Koruga, to become the next Bobby Fischer and a symbol that capitalism is preferable to socialism.
Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.
Documentary of a 1970 rock concert held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
A fur-trapper battles the elements and robbers when a gold shipment is ambushed - leaving a boy in urgent need of medical attention.
Educational film about variants of sexuality.
The scientist Prof. Dr. Franz Hergarten has to leave his playmate, the blonde Lisa, at home, because he is supposed to bring highly explosive and important documents from Germany to New York as an important secret bearer and courier of a certain organization. An ocean liner is chosen as the means of transportation. German security forces are to accompany him and shield him from unwelcome strangers. Soon Hergarten realizes that some agents of hostile powers, who are also keen on the secret papers, are on him, using every trick and weapon imaginable - including women.
Maria Kunz, a barmaid and hostess, is found strangled in her apartment on Helvetiastrasse. Gaudenz Moser is seen at the scene of the crime as he drives away on his motorcycle. He has an accident and is arrested. All the evidence points to him. His brother Vinzenz Moser calls on Iseli, the pastor of his home parish in Graubünden, for help. Iseli immediately sets off for Zurich, where the case has already been closed by the police because a confession has been made. Pastor Iseli, who has a keen sense of criminal investigation, does not believe that Gaudenz Moser is guilty and begins his own investigation in Zurich's underworld.
A portrait of a relationship between a physically disabled man and an able-bodied woman.
Walter Felsenstein's staging of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann at the Komische Opera Berlin.
German film.
Three pretty schoolgirls of marriageable age giggle and cackle while lying naked in bed as they read from the erotic notes of one of them, which are compiled in a notebook called "My intimate diary". One day, the author of these late-pubescent outpourings, Monika Hannemann, daughter of a town councillor, leaves her erotic fantasies in the classroom, whereupon these lines fall into the hands of the slippery teacher Miss Stubentreu. She reads them and learns from the lines that Monika must have become a village mattress and slept with half the men in Bumburg. Soon the erotic content is making the rounds, becoming the talk of the small town, and the conjectures and insinuations about who had or could have had what with whom in Bumburg run rampant. Even a reporter named Waltraut Henze, who has few scruples, arrives because she senses a sensational story behind the scribblings.
Robert Lamoureux plays a General in the Resistance. With an unlikely team of French patriots, he easily outwits the buffoonish Germans and steals the master copy of their plans to invade England. By doing so, he prevents the invasion and makes it more likely that the Allies will win the war.
1974 French TV film
A young and an old man meet in a lonely, remote house. Who is who? What about the body that is on the first floor? Both distrust each other. A tough duel begins between them that ends fatally ...
The film deals with the revolutionary actions of Max Hölz during the March battles in central Germany in 1921.
Commissioner Brockmann's criminal investigation is prompted by the body found by the cleaner Erna Pieper, which turns out to be very mobile! She disappears and reappears, causing considerable confusion among the survivors. The inspector and the cleaner get into a fierce competition to solve the case. The expert and the naively clever dilettante engage in a veritable battle of applied detective story logic. Which professionally proud expert likes it when a "little woman from the street" keeps messing up his work with her uneducated, "common sense" - and is successful at the same time...
Robert Zenker would rather spend his next vacation at home, which annoys his wife Ilse. Ilse finally decides to go away to a quiet place on her own, leaving her Robert to prove himself as a househusband. After all, he didn't want to go away. So Robert waters the flowers, empties the neighbors' mailboxes, looks after the pets and stacks the coal in the cellar for the winter. When brother-in-law Gerd visits Robert, he finds a strange naked young woman in the bedroom and neighbor Doris hiding in the laundry box. But Robert and the two women are able to explain the situation when his wife returns from her short vacation. She sees that her husband is also made for housework and wants them to share it more in future.