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Directed by Walter Felsenstein in 1969, this production of Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera chronicles the tragic tale of Othello, a Moorish general whose inability to control his feelings of mistrust and jealousy lead to his dramatic downfall. The Berlin Komische Oper Chorus and Orchestra provide musical accompaniment throughout the live performance, which stars Hanns Nocker, Christa Noack and Vladimir Bauer.
Beppo Bastelmann and his dog Bolli Spürnase track down Wattfraß. He is hiding in a kitchen where numerous electrical appliances are switched on. When Beppo and Bolli find him here, the electricity devil flees on the streetcar and escapes into the room of a thoughtless employee who has surrounded himself with numerous heaters and lamps. Wattfraß feels at home here and sings his little song of joy. But Beppo and Bolli track him down and don't let him escape again.
A documentary about the building and commissioning of VAK Kahl, the first commercial nuclear power plant in the FRG – gleaming images of a bright future. Oscar nominated documentary short from West Germany, 1961.
This dialogue-free short is edited to music and the rhythms of change in a small town in the Ruhr region, shot a few years after the first mining pits were closed in the area. Nestler takes his audience on a journey through mining pits, coal heaps, cold stores, and to workingmen settlements and pubs of Mülheim.
The six members of the Julian Böll brigade have been working well together for years. One day, the brigadier is missing a 100-mark bill from his pay box. Ashamed of his own doubts about his colleagues, he remains silent. Böll investigates the question of why his colleagues in the brigade have not been able to get to know each other personally despite working well together, and why he does not have the confidence to resolve the matter collectively. He recognizes omissions and decides to have a clarifying discussion. It turns out that the money was not stolen.
Short documentary about the Munich film scene of the 1960s.
The dance troupe 'Tiller Girls' travels to Rome for a guest performance and has some adventures there.
Short stop motion animation by Franz Winzentsen.
Documentation of the 1960's which demonstrates the attractions of the new world between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego as a colorful tourist picture book.
Magda wants to work as a nanny and asks her former teacher Miss Malleson for a commendation. The teacher refuses due to a dark secret in Magda's past. Magda abruptly proceeds to smear the teacher's reputation to get what she wants.
A short documentary in the form of a mock-info-travelogue of Hitler’s mountain retreats Berghof and the Eagle’s Nest at Obersalzberg in Berchtesgaden.
Documentary about a couple who lives on the fringes of German society.
Documentary on the design and choreography of Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943), an artist and teacher associated with the Bauhaus. After a discussion of his artistic philosophy and goals, illustrated by his drawings, reconstructions of his choreographic works are seen in action, each with a brief introduction.
Poetic documentary about the vanished culture of the Maya.
The Tunnel chronicles how three West Berlin university students organized the escape of 26 friends and family members by digging a tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall from a former factory in West Berlin into the Communist East.
A documentary film created using authentic footage that shows the terrifying effects of nuclear weapons, using Hiroshima as an example.
The Bodendieks' pension is not enough for them. So the couple decide to rent it out. What they hadn't planned, however, was that they let out the good room twice - he to the young Lisa, she to Klaus, who is almost the same age. As business-minded as the Bodendieks have become, they believe they have double the income when they realize that Klaus works nights. But things only get tricky when Klaus is in bed during the day and Lisa's boss comes to visit...
A young German climber and Gino Soldà, a well-known mountain guide from Recoaro, meet in Lavaredo to repeat one of the most difficult routes on the north face of Cima Ovest, known as the Direttissima by the Swiss and the Scoiattoli di Cortina. The film manages to document the entire difficult ascent.
11/65 Bild Helga Philipp is an optical abstraction of an optical abstraction: Kren has simply intercut filmed movements and sections from an Op painting by Helga Philipp - the result is motion opticals.
A highly tendentious, but also unmasking, documentary about a shooting club and its traditions in the German province.
On November 3, 1918, a group of Austro-Hungarian officers in a makeshift hospital of the Austro-Hungarian Army, somewhere in the Karawanks, is completely cut off from the outside world by persistent snowstorms. A machinist's mate manages to reach the trapped men and bring them the news that the war is lost and the monarchy will be divided. Initially, they plan to shoot him as a deserter. But when the news is confirmed, everyone wants to return to their homeland. For Colonel von Radosin, his world collapses, and he shoots himself.