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A policewoman is put on a man with organized crime connections to gain access to a trafficking ring. However, she does not know that he is a hit man for this ring and so they start an affair that can mean many problems for both of them.
In an unspecified war-torn European country, two young girls, aged about 8 and 4, struggle to survive, the older girl having to find food and shelter. When a truckload of soldiers, having gang-raped a discarded naked woman, spots them in a house, the girls are forced up into the attic, but there appears to be no escape. Then the older girl tears their clothing, smears red muck over them, and orders the 4-year-old to lie still. This has the desired effect of convincing the men the girls had been raped and murdered, and they leave.
A portrait of the class of 1978–1982 at the Munich University of Television and Film.
The passion of Christ, based on J. S. Bach's "Johannes-Passion". Its mix of music, speech, dancing and singing re-creates the style of antique Greek tragedies.
Explores the influence of propaganda on religion during Hitler's reign as well as his representation as the new Messiah.
Anita de Winter loves crime novels, to which she devotes all her free time. Her neighbor Max shares her enthusiasm, as long as he doesn't pursue his own hobby: he restores vintage cars. One day, after years, Anita meets Else again, a friend from her old days. And just a few hours later, Anita is headfirst into a murder story...
A long-term film documentary about the Vietnamese Do Sanh, who lost his parents as an eight-year-old boy in the Vietnam War and was critically injured by a grenade. Grabe accompanied and filmed him from 1970 until his death. This film is the fifth and final documentary in this series.
New York, 1941. Shortly before his joint suicide with Lotte, Stefan Zweig meets up once more with his first wife Friderike in order to write his last work, "The world of yesterday". Flashback: farewells that anticipate something.
The skyline of San Francisco. It is about the filming of a friend, Inga, and of myself sunbathing and playing with the camera.
Interviews with the filmmakers from the film Die Kinder von Golzow.
Drama about the life of a few working class Germans.
A schoolgirl from Hamburg spends a riding vacation on a farm in Schleswig-Holstein and casually explores her own feelings and those of other young people.
A collection of commercials from 1960s DDR (GDR).
To avenge his murdered best friend, top agent Max Zander slips into the role of the "clown". Hunted by the police, he fights crime under the cover of his mask. Max is supported by his friends: journalist Claudia Diehl and helicopter pilot Tobias "Dobbs" Steiger. The three of them are constantly involved in new cases and help people in need.
Documentary short about fashion for young people in the GDR, filmed in 1989.
Jeff Buckley live concert in Frankfurt (1995)
"We Lived in Grass" (1995) is a student film and Hykade's first part of The Country Trilogy. The set of the film is a place just two streets away from the end of the world. The film is told from the point of view of a little boy. "All women is whore and all men is soldier," the father of the boy says. "So go into Grass and kill a tiger for the best tits you can find." As the father gets testicular cancer, a journey into Grass for the young hero begins. We lived in Grass won numerous awards including the German short film Price.
Documentary about the owner of a small museum of mechanical music instruments in rural East Germany
Because the people of Mecklenburg are also blessed with an alert spirit for the cheerful, they have tracked down a descendant of an old Low German noble family in Fröllein Sophie, who has been celebrating her 90th birthday for 25 years with four faded gentlemen. In their native language, of course. Without her stumbling and staggering servant Franz, of course, nothing works.
For over thirty years, Lynyrd Skynyrd have carried the torch for southern rock with a fever pitch, all-out guitar assault. Great songs. Fearless attitude. Even after all these years, Free Bird remains one of rock and roll's most enduring anthems. This film, recorded live on December 15 1999, captures all the hits and more, and includes songs that were never aired on the original TV broadcast.
Flori and Lucy are on holiday in Turkey. By accident they meet their class mate Ali, who is visiting his grandfather. Ahmet, a genie, sends the three kids on a treasure hunt near an old castle. They find real jewels and the hunt turns into a real adventure when it becomes apparent that a German gangster duo is looking for the treasure as well.
Eight short episodes about the psychological and sexual hardships and joys of people in Berlin at the time: two old-school bourgeois women chat with each other on the street while watching the Christopher Street Day parade. A girl tries to solve her equally young boyfriend's sudden potency problems in bed. One by one, a woman calls her entire circle of acquaintances because she wants to meet someone. An elderly German meets a young Oriental by chance in front of his house. In an inhospitable urban area, a woman tries to escape from a man who apparently wants to rape her. A woman is harassed in her apartment by a pushy salesman. A woman and her young son experience something mysterious at Marlene Dietrich's grave. A woman reports on her dealings with men in prison.
Christoph Hansen, 16 year old son of a well-to-do Hamburg family is shocked when is father is arrested as a suspect in the murder of a male teen prostitute. Resolved to find the real killer on his own to clear his family name, he starts his investigation in the seedy part of town around the central station, where the street kids hang out - only to find that there's a whole different world that normal people like him don't usually see.
This "music magazine" is a montage of visually alienated historical film clips of tanks and soldiers (First and Second World War), pictorial reminiscences of Russian avant-garde art, and excerpts of interviews with Heiner Müller accompanied by heavy metal music (the "death & grind" music of the groups Abhorrence, Acrostichon, Toxaemia, and Disgrace).
A short documentary about a Turkish schoolgirl in Cologne who, alongside her high school graduation preparations, trains as a boxer in a gym – the only woman among countless men. The young woman, who wants to work in Turkey after completing her studies, demonstrates that it is possible to lead a self-determined life beyond all Muslim stereotypes without having to give up family ties and tradition
Bruno S., musician and actor in several films by Werner Herzog (Kaspar Hauser, Stroszek), leads us round along the former front lines in Berlin. A film about the division of a city.
Conny visits me when she is eight months pregnant. She takes a bath; she is very happy about the upcoming birth of the baby.
Katja moves with her mother from a small village to Essen. At first she has problems settling into the rough city life, but then she meets the “Fun Gang”, a wild group of girlies. Although Katja succeeds in impressing the four members of the “gang”, the cool “fun gang” has an iron rule: they only accept “real women”. This means that Katja must first lose her virginity.
Documentary film.
In a German city, horror strikes as a mad killer with a hedge trimmer murders everyone in sight. He carves them up left and right. How many will he kill? Is there any hope to stop him? Some zombies rise from their graves as well. What will they do?
Juanita is shot in the back two days before the victory of the revolution in Cuba. She decides to become a guardian angel, because she has always enjoyed working with people. Günther Lohmann works as an insurance agent in London. He is desperate, because nothing has been going right since his girlfriend kicked him out. His life is unjustifiable. He starts smoking and is determined to gain a zest for life, even if it means losing his health. Then he dies—twice.
From a girl's perspective, the film shows how men and women coped with modern city life at the end of the 1980s. The women seem to be in charge; at any rate, they are allowed to do everything that only men were allowed to do in the past: they fight, they give orders, they play dangerous games. The men, on the other hand, spend hours in the bathroom, take the children to kindergarten, and otherwise keep a low profile.
Make-up and cleats are not mutually exclusive for the soccer players from "Agrispor". In "Mädchen am Ball", Aysun Bademsoy accompanies five young Turkish women on their way up in a women's soccer team in Berlin.
Paris in the 17th century: Harpagon is an old miser. He is constantly obsessed with the fear that someone will steal his money box buried in the garden. The old man, who is completely indifferent to his children's wishes, wants to marry his daughter Élise to an unattractive old man without a dowry. His son Cléante is to marry a rich widow, whose death he hopes will come soon so that he can inherit her fortune. For himself, however, the miser has chosen a young girl named Mariane, with whom his son is in love. Confusion ensues, and when Harpagon's beloved money box is stolen, the situation reaches boiling point...
In a German village in 1942, farmer Heinrich Marten is conscripted, leaving behind his wife Kathrin and sister Frieda. As the two young women cannot manage the farm alone, they are given help by the state: a prisoner of war. The Russian Alexei is emaciated and has to be nursed back to health by the women. Working together in the fields and on the farm, Kathrin and Frieda inevitably get closer to the Russian. The resolute Frieda is courted by the local farmer Otto Lange and is at the same time dependent on him. A love affair develops between Kathrin and Alexei. They make love in a shed. But the couple is discovered by a soldier and Alexej flees. He is caught by young Nazis and taken away.
A telephone conversation between father and son.