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George, an aging elderly gentleman, finds himself in the middle of a mid-life crisis. An affair with a younger woman makes him blossom. However, his wife soon finds out what her husband is up to without her and takes this as license to have an affair with a younger man. Turbulent complications are the result, because everyone tries to keep everything a secret from the other. That can only go haywire.

The story of François Perret-Latour, a formerly successful banker and member of Parisian high society. His exciting life is long gone, and despite having a large family, he now spends most of his time alone in his Paris apartment on Place Vendôme. But then, within a very short time, a series of events breathe new life into the old, lonely man. His 16-year-old granddaughter, who turns to him in desperation because she is pregnant, plays a key role in this...

A moose has been spotted on the Elbe. It has strayed into Germany from the far north. Two city boys are after the animal. One of them just wants to photograph the moose, the other wants to kill it. Without knowing about each other at first, they travel all over Germany in pursuit of the moose. At some point they meet and, realizing that the moose is hopelessly at the mercy of an unknown world, the two tentatively become friends. Finally, after the animal has strayed as far as the highway and Frankfurt airport, they decide to give the animal the coup de grace...

Three young people, one Jewish and two Christian, set out to search for traces of Jewish life and Jewish history in Germany.

Adrian Belew augments the band on this 50-minute performance from the Westfalenhalle, in Dortmund, Germany, on December 20th, 1980, for the Rockpop TV show. Set List: Psycho Killer Cities I Zimbra Once In A Lifetime Animals Crosseyed And Painless Life During Wartime The Great Curve

Based on the many observations made during his extremely interesting and far from dull life, Dr. Döblinger relates four episodes in which he wants to give us a picture of the loneliness and incomprehensibility of mankind.

Volker Koepp documents life in the Dorotheenstadt in Berlin-Mitte, which was called "Feuerland" in the 19th century.

Shortly after the end of World War II, young carpenter Achim is sent to a remote farm to do some repair work. Three women from different generations administer the farm on their own: Daughter, mother, and grandmother. There are no men around since grandmother Hanna has lost her husband in World War I, and mother Gertrud’s husband died in World War II. Although daughter Heidi is old enough to marry, she is neither engaged nor married. Thus, hardworking, yet shy Achim is the only man around.

A documentary directed by Harald Reinl, finished by Theo Maria Werner.

Second of four "musical arabesks".

After a man comes into possession of a mysterious wooden chest, he is killed by diabolical demons. Years later, his son Bob tries to destroy the chest and in turn gets to deal with all sorts of undead creatures.

The last of the five films in the original film series is composed of footage from Ebel shot between 1979 and 1982 and most closely reflects the original concept of Hübner and Voss.

Part 2 of "3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein"

Fashion designer Rüdiger falls in love with Italian countess Vera, who was injured by him in a car accident. Just before their wedding they find out they are brother and sister. The wedding is cancelled, and Vera returns to Florence in a state of shock.

Before shearing, done with electric devices and hand shears, lambs are separated from the flock. The lambs are not yet shorn but dipped in a disinfectant, parasiticidal liquid prescribed by law. For the auction, held in autumn, the sheep for sale are loaded on special trucks and transported from the pasture to the public sale.

Short directed by Dorothee Müller

Hartmann, a first-time film director is trying to find an actor for the Role of Casanova. Wenn he meets Alfred Edel, the actor's colourful personality spoils Hartmann's vision of a glorious Casanova epic. In the end, the director realizes that all the time he wanted to make this movie to please his mother, so he decides instead to join Edel's way of having fun.

The flight and feeding customs of the most important sea bird species of the Galapagos Islands are described. Some characteristic body and wing measurements are used to describe the flight of these species. The species which are able to forage furthest out at sea and deepest in the water are the most successfull on the Galapagos Islands, measured by their abundance. The least abundant bird is the lava-gull, a shore bird and surface-feeder.

The worker Frank Raban lives with his wife and young daughter in a room in his mother's apartment. He builds his own home and sometimes procures materials illegally. When an after-work bricklayer wants to be paid in forum checks, Frank strikes outraged and ends up in front of the public prosecutor. His brigade vouches for him. His two West Berlin brothers Markus and Olaf help him out with money, but the price is high. Markus runs an antiques business - with stolen art treasures from the GDR. He uses the family ties to the East for his burglaries. When a museum guard is murdered by Markus and Olaf, Frank tells his wife everything. She tries to convince him to turn himself in to the police.

In November 1831, the 51-year-old Prussian Major General Carl von Clausewitz burns the first chapters of his autobiography, which he had begun to write at the insistence of his wife Marie. Shocked by the sudden death of his friend Gneisenau, he is forced to realize that at his friend's deathbed he has finally said goodbye to the hopes and plans that had once determined his life and that of his friends...

Flug durch die Nacht, shot during Ilona Baltrusch's studies at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin - DFFB, explores the relationship between language and image. The film follows the two protagonists, Gretel Kemeny and Martin Peter, through 1980s nocturnal Berlin.

Depicts the world of bourgeois entertainment when vaudeville shows, operetta, theater, cabaret and so-called "Tingeltangel" was launched. The focus of the show is the beautiful and young Leda d'Ambre.

Documentary about the German-American entrepreneur Adolphus Busch.

Short film about inuits

Short film by SCHMELZDAHIN

Documentary film.

Short documentary about the Arctic

There is also dancing in this tape but this time it's about the lyric dance of youth and is depicted by Bódy in an unconventional way. Walzer is a poem written by Novalis, the German romantic poet (1772-1801) to mark the premature death of his fiancée Sophie von Kühn. The text of Walzer is recited and appears in a spiral - the spiral of life? Lyric-Clip reflects the transience of youth as borne out by the macabre, dancing skeleton that appears on screen.

Documentary material and reenacted scenes reveal the previously undisclosed extent of government surveillance.

Walter Harrer, an engineer, is on the night shift and returns home in the morning to find his wife lying unsconscious in the garden. She is sent to hospital were a loss of memory is observed. Dr. Bogner, a young psychiatrist, is interested in the case and tries to help Mercedes. He talks to her husband, her former lover and her friends to see if he can get some clue as to why she can't remember who she is. She confesses that she killed Lona Logan, her rival. But Dr. Bogner isn't sure that she's telling the truth. Did she really do it or is it pure fantasy?

Short film by SCHMELZDAHIN

Rare music documentary chronicling the 80s New Wave scene in Berlin, Germany. Features performances from PVC, Z, Ideal, Insisters and Tempo.

A portrait of Maria Lang's mother, which is also a family portrait of the filmmaker. The film shows an excerpt from the Lang family's everyday life. It follows the parents as they go about their daily chores and small rituals.

Mrs. Ahrens is preparing for her trip to the Maldives by trying out her XXL diving suit when she collides with the gay couple living on the same floor for an improvised Xmas Eve gathering starring a special guest, the famed singer Boris.

One day, a mysterious stranger shows up at a farm. The farmer's wife succumbs to the charms of the seemingly mute stranger. When she can no longer resist him, disaster strikes.

Depiction of the short life of the influential, troubled playwright Christian Dietrich Grabbe. Impoverished and suffering from illness, Grabbe returns to his hometown of Detmold in 1823 seeking peace and reconciliation. His final days are marked by rapidly deteriorating health, an intense struggle with alcohol, and complex, strained relationships with his sister and friends who attempt to care for him.

Influenced by the world of cinema, an 18-year-old escapes from everyday life in the big city and sees his own realization in the world of myths that the films seem to offer him.

With a heavily pregnant empress at the altar, a completely new history begins: the Bishop of Vienna declares the pregnant Sissi and Emperor Franz Joseph to be husband or wife. This is followed by the painless birth of the heir to the throne, his abduction to Hungary and the revelation of an astonishingly momentous love affair between the empress and Ludwig II.

Europe along the 10th longitude from Carrara to Hirtshals is the subject of this experimental film.

Hans Engler is a reserved man from Hamburg with no family or partner. When his acquaintance Agnes asks him to assume paternity for her daughter Martina, he cannot refuse her the favor. When Agnes dies a short time later, Hans Engler is drawn into a violent conflict with Martina's biological father, which quickly becomes life-threatening for him.

When her lesbian affair with Regine hits the rocks, Anna needs to escape her job as a photographer, her home, her friends and everything that reminds her of the past and so she aims a borrowed Volkswagen van for the south of France and steps on the gas pedal. As she travels, her daydreams take on the force of reality as she fantazises about the past with Regine, yet the change in color tonalities of her imaginings and other camera tricks contrast her make-believe world with the scenic countryside and picturesque villages she passes on her way. As the road unspools before her like a role of film, images from her mind's storehouse of reels flash by - and the parallels between traveling away and mentally going back become clearer, for as the title suggests, she has to "depart to arrive."

Katharina Pfister, a witty cleaning lady, disrupts a complicated murder investigation led by her former school crush and current police captain, Heiri Koller, as she hilariously uncovers the truth behind the mysteriously disappearing–and reappearing–corpse of her boss Lukas Manz.

On the last voyage of the Italian ocean liner EUGENIO C. from Genoa to Rio de Janeiro, Zurich-based ethnologist Roger Wiedmer meets Brazilian Zaira Gelbert. He wants to repeat the journey to the Indians of the Amazon described by Claude Lévy-Strauss in "Tristes Tropiques" some forty years later and begins with the first chapter: "La fin des voyages." Zaira Gelbert returns to her roots in her homeland after a two-year stay in Europe. The love story between the two—which lasts the eleven days of the crossing—becomes a dialogue between two cultures. The encounter with Zaira opens Roger's eyes. Now he perceives the sea, the ship, and above all the passengers with their stories. He meets emigrants, poets, first-class passengers, tourists, crew members, priests. A stowaway is also traveling with them.

After 25 years of marriage, a farming couple want to go on vacation for the first time, but not together - the farm care would not allow it. So each spouse takes a Mediterranean cruise every six months. After the wife's departure, the husband falls victim to well-known male weaknesses as a "straw widower" and even wants to take on a former travel acquaintance as a comforting girlfriend.