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Detailed conversations with 16 to 17 year old female students in the 10th grade of a Munich 'Realschule' secondary school. They speak freely in front of the camera with admirable ease, naturalness and openness. They talk about the constraints they are subject to, their relationship with their parents and about possibilities for emancipation.
After fleeing from Nazi Germany, Josef and Helen Schwarz arrive in Portugal's capital in 1942, where a ship to America awaits them. But on the evening before the ship departs, Helen dies in the hotel. She had concealed the cancer from her husband so as not to burden their last days together. Deeply affected and disillusioned, Josef is drawn to the port of Lisbon. There he meets a penniless exile to whom he is willing to give the ship's tickets and visas, which have now become worthless to him, if he accompanies him that night and listens to his story.
Criminal police and antitrust officials arrive at the headquarters of a plastics raw materials factory. They pored over files, seized materials, and discovered price lists, which were, of course, encrypted. Their suspicions of illegal price-fixing with apparent competitors, driven purely by greed, grew stronger and were ultimately confirmed, but they were unable to prove them. Bernd Schiedel, the company's sales manager and caught in the conflict between loyalty to his employer and the company, had initiated the operation himself by providing information.
The composer Kristian Wernher is supposed to transport uranium-containing rock samples from Brazil to Austria, specifically to Lake Wörthersee, for his father, the head of “Internationale Berg AG”. Everything is carried out in the strictest secrecy, but soon two agents are after Kristian. But that is not his biggest problem. An unpleasant surprise awaits Kristian at the delivery point.
A German Film Award winning short feature.
Documentary short by Ottokar Runze.
A parallel of the life and work of two Volkswagen workers, one in Brazil and the other in Germany, who perform identical functions in assembling the VW Beetle.
Frank Boyd comes to Hong Kong to visit a friend, but unfortunately he was murdered a few days ago. The father of his fiancee puts $ 10,000 reward for the capture of the murderer and Frank wants to earn this money.
In 1923, Judge Böhnsdorf and Inspector Dumke convict 22-year-old Fritz Bondersen of treason, accused of selling military secrets on the testimony of General Director Gotthardt, and sentence him to 15 years in a Zuchthaus. Despite his protestations of innocence, Bondersen can’t produce proof. Two years later, his fiancée Edith Volkmann, aided by journalist Günther Borchert, tracks down a French officer whose eyewitness account could discredit Gotthardt’s statement. Their quest to expose a massive fraud offers Bondersen a final hope for justice.
The little, prickly hegdehog is very sad. Nobody wants to dance with him because of his prickly spikes. So he decides to go to the hairdresser and get a curly hairdo. Although he looks very pretty, he is not able to protect himself. When the fox tries to catch him, his friends save him.
A television reporter reports in an episode film about the magazine "St. Pauli News".
This film painstakingly documents the ways in which women are devalued as workers in a patriarchal society.
A diary of a lonely 30 year old man who works as a butcher in a supermarket. The movie shows his daily life between the supermarket and his flat. His ability to communicate is limited. From time to time his mother visits him. But his relationship to her is rather reserved. Constantly he's waiting for his girlfriend which is not visiting him anymore after they had a fight.
A documentary with some fictional scenes.
Zbigniew Rybczynski's experimental short film of a bottle of wine, a parrot in a cage, and a television with news.
Rediscovered fragment of a Super 8 film by Ulrike Ottinger about Lil Picard's birthday party at the Werner Kunze Gallery.
This Harun Farocki film shows the creation of a picture on which the artist worked for nine weeks. Sarah Schumann lives in Berlin and is a pioneer of the feminist scene. 1977 together with several other artists she organized the first large exhibition in which only work by women was shown. Sarah Schumann paints figuratively, that is to say she has developed a technique using layers of collage and painting worked on top of and into one another. Regarding a picture becomes an adventure. (harunfarocki.de)
The down-and-out private detectives Rudi and Moritz join Karin and Gerda on the hunt for an inheritance million. According to the testator's will - Aunt Trude from Buxtehude - the money must be received by Gerda within a week.
A farming village in the mountains is developing into a fitness center thanks to word of mouth. Young and old, pretty and not so pretty, are making pilgrimages into nature to experience the new "well of health"...
Young Sonja is accused of murdering her boyfriend Manfred. The film reveals her background, which remains hidden in court: the half-orphan girl becomes pregnant by Manfred, has an abortion and is sent to a reformatory for it. Manfred gets her pregnant again and then leaves her; desperate and humiliated, she shoots him. In court she remains defiant and silent. On the last day of the hearing, a deus ex machina appears: the figure skater Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, Sonja's great idol, descends from the sky and floats with her over the roofs of Regensburg.
Short film against the oppression of women. At first, differences in education are presented and then how the relationship between women and men looks like in the professional world.
Documentary film about the structural anchoring of racism in West Germany.
During the October Revolution in 1917 the Bolshevik Party appointed a woman commissioner of the “Free Anarchist-Revolutionary Section”. This regiment emerged from an anarchist division of the ship of the line “Imperator Paul I.”
Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big things again with his friends. Fatally, he is always preceded by some gentlemen from better circles who are developing amazing criminal activity in their old days. They are led by Oberlandesgerichtsrat a. D. Herbert Zänker, whom it still hisses, that he could bring in his term Bruno never behind bars.
Friedrich is a wealthy, handsome German soldier fighting in World War II. His unit is stationed in Poland and occupies the estate of Countess Elzbieta. Forced to remain in her presence, Friedrich begins to pursue Elzbieta out of boredom.
"This idyll was made for a Dracula film project by Ernst Schmidt of Vienna, who wrote to various European filmmakers in order to produce a bigger film with their participation." (HHK)
With a critical eye, the film wanders through the streets of Kreuzberg and captures the voices of workers who report on their difficult working conditions and the lack of kindergartens. The film is the result of a collaboration between DFFB students and the Kreuzberg-Nord neighborhood group. It provides interesting insights into the struggles of the neighborhood group with the Senate for funds and rooms to accommodate the children.
Film deals with the life and work of Sigmund Freud.
Opera written by inmates of a Nazi concentration camp in 1943 before their murder in Auschwitz.
Karl Maiwald, a Dortmund auto mechanic, struggles amid neighbor disputes and family tension. Discovering his company’s clandestine bugging, he exposes management, expecting union backing. Yet the union’s hidden ownership of the firm stuns him, as he realizes the very workers leading protests are its members.
Dóra Maurer once said that the central theme of her work is "movement and the conceptual and factual effects of shifts". As her extensive oeuvre since the late 1960s shows, movement and displacement are always related to systemicity and structurality. The starting point of a certain, previously established system and the subsequent discovery of unforeseen deviations and breaks in this double characterizes the process that Maurer has realized in a variety of ways from her early graphic works to what she calls shifts to the "quasi-pictures" of the 1980s and 90s, developed from spatial painting.
Hell breaks lose in a remote farm in the Bavarian alps where the family of a ruthless patriarch goes on a killing spree when their mentally challanged brother accidently murders a gypsy girl.
A judge opens an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an MP.
A successful author, who was educated by private teachers in his home instead of being sent to school with other boys, realizes he missed out on a lot fun in his younger years. He decides to make up for this and attends school classes disguised as a pupil.
Before going to bed, Jana plays a lullaby on her violin for the little star. In the girl's imagination, the star dances happily and falls from the sky. The star has to be back in its place before sunrise otherwise it will become blind. Jana is not able to help with the star's return. The birds are also not successful. However, a cosmonaut brings the star home.
Ritter Blaubart is a DEFA studio recording, commissioned by East German television, of Walter Felsenstein's production of Jacques Offenbach's operetta Bluebeard in three acts at the Komische Oper Berlin. The operetta was recorded in color at the DEFA Studios for Feature Films in Potsdam-Babelsberg. The film was first shown in theaters on April 27, 1973, in a gala preview at the Kino International in Berlin.
Jack White throws a big party at which many of the artists he has produced perform. He has had an eventful life in which he has always remained true to his ideals, first as a footballer, then as a pop singer and then as a producer, even in the face of fierce opposition from others.
Admiral Dagobert von Kattnig develops a rescue system for the German Navy. The mountain troops are to test the device in Upper Bavaria and Dagobert sends his son and his staff boatman there. Instead of testing the device, however, the two marvel at the cozy country life. When an inspection is due, the mountain troops are fortunately mistaken and escape the initial chaos. But when they all meet up, chaos is inevitable.