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Lonely pensioners are looking for foster families on a TV show.

Iris is an Elvis fan and part of a group of unemployed women who, in the scope of the first West German retraining program for women, are being trained in Essen in the "male professions" of electrical and metal work. Monika Held and Gisela Tuchtenhagen accompany the group for five weeks. The women report sexism, low self-esteem and the multiple burdens they must bear. To make any progress, they need support and one another – the regular weekly meeting where they share their experiences is moved to the pub.

Begun in 1971 in Essaouira, Morocco; continued during the filming of “The Birth of a Nation” in 1972 near Erfoud, Morocco; flickering parts based on a score called "PIXTURES - Basic Motion Picture Analysis - Part One - Camera Parameters," in which focal length, focus, aperture, exposure time, and filtering were permuted by a computer program, in 1975 in Brooklyn and Puerto Rico.

A feature-lengh documentary, shoot on super-8-footage, about the "Umweltfest", a six week long, alternative environmental festival in West Berlin in 1978.

In Canadian-born John Cook’s restless documentary of an Austrian couple, I JUST CAN’T GO ON, the husband Petrus, channeling “Cassius Marcellus Clay,” takes up boxing to supplement the income from his day-job burnishing frames. His companion, the much older Gisi, works as a janitor. They are an odd couple, scavenging at the bottom of the Viennese social ladder. But there is nothing patronizing or exploitative in Cook’s treatment of the couple and their eccentricities as they try to make ends meet. In one of the film’s key aesthetic choices, Cook eschews synched sound in favor of a stream-of-consciousness soundtrack pitting Petrus and Gisi’s unfiltered remarks in relief against the harsh material world.

A German Film Award winning short documentary.

Drama by Walter Bockmayer.

German film.

A performance of Hermann Nitsch's "7th Abreaction Action", which was initially banned by police, is put on the following morning instead. The action consists of gutting a lamb, pouring the innards over a recumbent woman, mating with a dildo, crucifixion and a concluding scuffle. The action is accompanied by electric organ, percussion and recorded music.

A cinematic portrait of Maria, a 13-year-old girl who has been living in Hamburg, Germany, with her family from Spain for several years. The filmmaker observes Maria in her everyday life and her relationship with the people around her - her parents, her neighbor (the filmmaker's mother) and Nina, a German girl about the same age.

This short educational film focuses on canteen catering in larger industrial companies, presents a model company and appeals to other companies to remedy existing shortcomings and improve canteen catering for workers. The VEB Zahnradwerk Pritzwalk is presented as an exemplary company.

"The Lord created the world and in it’s centre he set the Alpenland (alpine country), the paradise on earth." – The Tyrolean version of the history of creation begins roughly like that, in which Pirchner is entrusted with keeping the alpine Garden of Eden clean. If he isn’t up to the task, a deadly leap into a mountain lake awaits him… DER UNTERGANG DES ALPENLANDES is an Austrian short film and a satire on the „Heimatfilm“-genre films which has gained cult-status. The same is true of Pirchner’s music which plays an important role in the film.

A man's head is seen in silent close-up using single-frame shooting and time exposure.

Drama set in Berlin concerning the marriage of a foreign worker with a German woman.

A documentary which looks at Heartfield primarily as a political activist working in a specific historical context. It demonstrates this relationship by the use of documentary material, such as archive footage of inter-war Germany, in juxtaposition with Heartfield's works.

Documentary about the German railroad system and it's trains

Zebra finches and Japanese gulls are shown, as well as the rearing of young zebra finches by Japanese gulls. Despite considerable differences in the appearance of the nestlings, the gulls provide their own and the foreign young with food equally. The male zebra finches raised by the foreign species later direct their courtship behavior exclusively towards the stepparent species, i.e. they are sexually imprinted on the foreign species.

The events that lead a man to commit suicide.

A movie against drug use, based on the memoirs of a young man who renounces drugs. His former partner then drives him and his girlfriend to their deaths with relish in an evil revenge ritual.

A documentary about mixed-race Afrogermans.

The Deutsche Staatsoper Unter den Linden is presented together with some of its best and most popular singers. A program of famous opera arias and scenes: Among others, Theo Adam sings Philipp's aria from Verdi's "Don Carlos", Peter Schreier the cavatina of Almaviva from Rossini's "Barber of Seville". Ute Trekel-Burkhardt and Isabella Nawe present a scene from Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier". The chorus and ballet also make their appearances. Between the numbers, the artists make statements about the opera house against the backdrop of the opera and its magnificent interiors.

A German Film award winning documentary.

Portrait of director Roberto Rossellini and his films.

Short film directed by Wolfgang Kiepenheuer

Comedy by Walter Bockmayer.

A Marxist-Leninist space opera.

Documentary film.

Crowds of people storm through the streets with red flags, to come together sometime in the middle of the picture. An insert promotes a Revolutionary German Workers Party.

Kurt Kren short

A few couples initiate inquisitive sex techniques in complicated positions while a scientific commentary provides the cultural-historical background.

Documentary about a self-managed glass production company in Immenhausen (Hesse). In March 1970, around 250 workers and employees took over the run-down and bankrupt glassworks of entrepreneur and owner Richard Süssmuth.

Short film about the human body

In soccer, No 1 is the position of the goalkeeper, a human body in continuous, unbelievable motion - diving, leaping, bouncing, sprinting, hurtling through space.

A documentary about the children's area of the AFA (Active Leisure Activities Altona e. V.). For years, this leisure center was the fixed meeting place for children and young people. A meeting place in the Altona-Altstadt district, which is designated as a redevelopment area. The film describes the atmosphere and work in a sub-area of the AFA. The film is history, the AFA was dissolved in 1982.

This filmed documentary of the modern Olympic Games begins with the 1896 games and continues through the 1972 Munich games. The movie makes it clear that the original intent of the Olympic movement has long since been subverted to nationalistic and commercial ends.

Two high school seniors who are bored with school and decide to skip class one day to go to the train station cinema, which causes some trouble. They are happy that they will soon be leaving school and have illusions about working. One of them is seen at the beginning of an automotive apprenticeship.

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

Straschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties of the revolution" in a biting and witty way.

UNREACHABLE HOMELESS is particularly lost on the eye, at times changing color, focal length, or focus with every other frame. Its staccato rhythms are not unlike those of Paul Sharit's flicker films, though the use of continually recognizable imagery creates compelling effects within the picture's deep space as well. Wyborny's shots are brief but filled with interior motion. He varies his exposure so that background areas suddenly materialize, or uses single framing to scurry occasional cars or barges across the screen.

A writer researching an international partisan group during World War II meets with a contemporary witness. Together, they visit the sites of the events in Poland, which bring back memories for the woman. Television film based on the novella of the same name by Kurt David.

Heinz Badewitz makes a film about himself. In fragmented takes, he depicts himself as a pensive funster, indulges in free association, then tells a love story that could just as well be freely invented as true. Like all love stories, it ends unhappily. Briefly inserted clapperboards bear the title ‘Screwings’.

Short educational film warning teenagers about the dangers of smoking.

An innovative short documentary that uses new editing techniques to complement Stravinsky’s violin concerto with some unique choreography from George Balanchine.

Documentary on the work of a theater group and two music groups in the youth recreation center "Weiße Rose" in Berlin-Schöneberg over the course of six months in 1978.