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'At the end of the day, it remains a secret why some can conduct and others can’t', Sir Georg Solti once said. CONDUCT! explores this secret. The struggle of five young artists for success at the International Conductors Competition in Frankfurt provides real-life drama that tests not only musical abilities but, above all, characters. CONDUCT! explores the secret of conducting with a unique intensity that culminates in a great showdown at Frankfurt’s Opera.
A group of friends, having been told of a strange hermetic hippie-like society in the Swedish wilderness, set off on an adventure to find it. As they are drawn deeper into the forest, mysterious events start to unsettle the dynamics of the group, reality begins to shift in ways none of them could have imagined, and relations between the friends become volatile.
Singer July relies on a donor kidney from her father. But first she has to reconcile with him, since she has been hopelessly at odds with him for a long time.
Documentary about the rising german football club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.
After turning away from her Turkish family, young Ayla works as a kindergarten teacher and enjoys the liberties of being single. When she meet photographer Ayhan, she ignores all qualms and falls head over heels in love with him. Then Hatice, the mother of one of the kindergarten kids, is desperately seeking Ayla′s help: Hatice is living in fear since she has decided to divorce her husband, thereby enraging her strict Muslim family. Ayla takes her and the kid in, only later realizing that Ayhan is one of Hatice′s brothers.
Like every year, Maike and her husband Sören invite family and friends over for New Year's Eve. This time, however, the raclette dinner turns out differently than the meticulously planned Maike had hoped: In addition to the cheese, all three couples sitting at the table reveal hard-to-digest truths and intimate secrets.
Rather than reinventing the wheel, Ulu Braun re-envisions the structural potentiality of the brick, in this revisionist fable of mankind's urbanization of our planet. Employing playful and visually dense digital collages, Braun's associative tableaux collate an 'alternate' vision of our world, where nature invades the urban (and vice-versa). We're transported by a comforting narrator through post-apocalyptic, post-capitalist habitats, where the material co-exists with the metaphysical, the literal alongside the figurative (soap-bubble buildings stand alongside ruined churches turned car dealerships). Architektura echoes our civilization's childlike ingenuity in creation and destruction, as we question the inheritance we pass on to our future generations.
The Barenboim-Said Music Academy in Berlin is an experiment. Its main aim is to bring together young musicians from the Middle East: Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Daniel Barenboim wanted to create a safe space for them.
After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is the fourth installment of the exclusive, multiyear partnership between Deutsche Grammophon and the Bayreuth Festival, in which the Yellow Label is the exclusive audiovisual partner of the mythical Wagner festival, releasing each edition's new production on Blu-ray. This year, we are proud to release on Blu-ray the celebrated production of Lohengrin which was premiered on 25 July 2018, featuring an illustrious cast including Piotr Beczala and Anja Harteros in their house debuts, as well as the acclaimed return of Waltraud Meier to the Bayreuth Festival. The New York Times praised Piotr Beczala’s Lohengrin as “outstanding”, Anja Harteros [making] her impressive Bayreuth debut” as Elsa, and Ortrud “played with dominant presence by the incomparable Waltraud Meier”.
The 3D audio video documentation shows new recordings by Kraftwerk from 2012 to 2016 in breathtaking HD 3D visuals and state-of-the-art audio, including in the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Tate Modern London and of the New National Gallery Berlin. Worldwide there were fantastic reactions from audiences and critics and unanimous enthusiasm for the multimedia performances by Ralf Hütter, Henning Schmitz, Fritz Hilpert and Falk Grieffenhagen.
Artists, vernissages, TV interviews - Dieter, a printer and publisher with universal acclaim, is a workaholic jetting through the world. Loneliness, unrequited love, a half-empty double bed - that's where photographer Marge points her lens.
In her loneliness, the young masseuse Camille experiences an everyday life, determined by rules and constraints. Not able to accept herself, she retires in isolation. Camille's controlled life changes only by the secret observation of her neighbor, who awakens her sexual fantasies, and gives her the courage to change.
The film documents the life and political career of Angela Merkel. It shows archive images and interviews with contemporaries, including Franz Müntefering, Edmund Stoiber and Norbert Blüm, as well as an exclusive interview with Angela Merkel.
Ever since their childhood Anne is secretly in love with her best friend, Kathrin, who is going to get married the next day. An unexpected occurrence during the Hen's Night celebration is bound to shake up their friendship.
A giant kraken has been spotted in the middle of Wilhelmsburg. Two fearless protagonists follow the trail...
Turn your TV into an ultra-sharp aquarium. Shot in 4K Ultra High Definition! Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of aquaristics. In the world's largest pet shop - at Zajac Zoo in Duisburg - we have selected 9 highlights for you from over 1,000 saltwater aquariums and presented them at the highest technical level. This Blu-ray Disc was produced with RED EPIC cameras in 4K Ultra HD, in a resolution 4 times higher than Full HD. The recordings offer unprecedented brilliance and stunning plasticity, created for the latest generation of UHD, plasma, LED and OLED TVs. Enjoy picture quality in perfection, pin sharp, indescribably plastic and ultra-realistic. Perfect for presentation on 4K UHD TVs!
The documentary follows Chilly Gonzales from his native Canada to late '90s underground Berlin, and via Paris to the world's great philharmonic halls. Diving deep into the dichotomy of Gonzales' stage persona, where self-doubt and megalomania are just two sides of the same coin.
Graffiti is variegated. As much variety as the styles does have the people doing it. Still one thing connects them all – the love of their art. From illegal street and train graffiti over classical style writing and time-consuming Murals till events, exhibitions, photography and media. Through 15 short profiles you will be introduced to some of the greatest and most outstanding players of the German scene. They give insights into their work and talk about their motivation. Every part represents an important aspect of the scene, while every protagonist was chosen because of its special history, orientation, technique and style. LIFE uses climbing equipment to reach places nobody else can reach.
Felix is a young student, a seemingly ordinary guy that has been working as an escort for six months to earn the money he needs to pay his studies. More than once a week he meets elderly men and has sex with them. However this time something different happens: a 250-kilo man is waiting for him in his hotel room. Instead of having sex with him, he tells Felix his fascinating story.
A narrative presented non-chronologically of Jonas Mekas's time in German forced labour camps and displaced person camps from 1944 to 1949, in which he quotes his diaries, as well as the German wartime writer Wolfgang Borchert.
Documentary about Marilyn Monroe.
Felicitas Woll lives through the ups and downs of a relationship: Eva and Luis exchanged only a fleeting glance in hot summer Lisbon and knew - this is the real love! They threw themselves headlong into a passionate liaison, got married and had their first child. Everything was perfect. But now the two are on their way to the divorce lawyer. The big feelings have long since expired - at least that's how it seems ...
For the first time ever Rico has a friend coming over for a sleepover! After weeks of not seeing each other, Rico and Oskar are reunited again and start their adventure with the weekly bingo at the retirement home. But although Tanja even wins two handbags Oskar seems suspiciously grumpy and Tanja oddly sad. On top of things Oskar's dad leaves a bag in front of the door because he needs some distance from his son. So much heart affliction is too much for Rico!
Mikail had to flee Chechnya for being homosexual. Unexpectedly meeting his old childhood-friend Daud in Germany, Mikal is not only faced with a renewed friendship, but a recurring fear of persecution.
Benny, an Israeli living in Berlin is called back home following his grandfather death. He arrives to Israel with his girlfriend Sara and his family can't wait to meet her. But suspicions arise. The family realizes that Benny and Sara haven't actually met in a synagogue but in front of a synagogue and that the right pronunciation of her name is Zahra. Zahra Abdulla to be precise. Zahra was born in Germany to a German mother and an Egyptian father. As tension rises, the members of the family discover that Benny and Zahra were not the only ones who tried to lead a quiet life while keeping secrets.
Whoever wants to die goes to the Grimmelstein. But Naomi is the only one there all by herself - she is desperately looking for her boyfriend Max. Her calls go unanswered, her screams are swallowed up by the fog, Max is nowhere to be found. Didn't they want to do it together? Naomi slowly begins to doubt whether love is really stronger than death.
Fussel, the friendly monster, finds the beginning of a red string. This sparks his interest and he heads out to find out what's at the end. On his journey he meets different looking monsters, of which everyone has its own theory about the end of the string. Curiously they join Fussel on his journey. Being different isn't a problem in this group and together they head out to face challenges on their way to becoming friends.
Three people, who didn't know each other bevore, are driving together through Germany in a small car...
Two family owners of important horse stables living faced by old rivalries. When one of them asks the help of a doctor of horses to treat the disorder one of the most outstanding equine, the conflict passes into the field of the personal.
A portrait of the artist Andreas Gursky and his work „Hamm, Bergwerk Ost“. It follows the genesis of the image from conception to construction to contraction and reaction – until it finds its home in a worthy collection holding many of its „siblings“.
The Bokelberg photographic collection brings to life the Paris of the Belle Époque (1871-1914), an exhibition of workshops and stores with extremely beautiful shop windows before which the owners and their employees proudly pose, hiding behind their eyes the secret history of a great era.
It's about a little village in Switzerland, and about one guy who lives there since 32 years and doesn't know anyone there...
At the Paris airport Orly, a woman falls for a stranger, a family heads to a funeral, a couple lose touch, a wife reads her husband’s break-up letter. All wait for their planes. Absorbed in their immediate fates, they move through the impeccably structured space, unaware of a looming threat outside.
'Art may change the inner as well as the external world' That's how our protagonist Ksenia experiences it. The street artist George lures her into his magic world of art illusions. An artistic dance about the realization of your dreams. Paris, you got me.
Hans and Anna – together they make the Hannas: A hefty couple who love to cook. They meet sisters Kim and Nicola, both anorexic and excitingly different. Opposites attract, however, and anything goes, so the Hannas each wind up having an affair without the other’s knowledge. But Kim and Nicola have a secret of their own in store.
At the beginning of 2000, the young commissioner Yvonne Weber moved from Frankfurt am Main to Eisenach. Together with the local colleague Frank Wolf, she is to review an unresolved murder case from the GDR era. The investigation team encounters inconsistencies in the file and it becomes clear that there is no interest in truth-clarifying the Eisenach department and the prosecutor's office in Gotha.
The local theater in Armstadt has to take a step back; the budget gets cut due to less audience. However, the actors try their best to prepare for a new piece.
Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image. Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness. In this stop-motion film, identical figures try to perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice, like archivists. The repetitive movements reanimate the animals captured inside the blocks.
It is one thing to survive the Holocaust, but quite another to deal with the lasting impact of this experience. This film portrait of Ruth Klüger, an American literary scholar from Vienna, deals with these issues by revisiting four significant places in her life: Vienna, California, Göttingen and Israel. Ruth Klüger also shares her thoughts on very personal topics: her childhood in anti-Jewish Vienna, her life in the States, her motherhood of two American sons and the culture of commemoration.
The siblings Joel and Jeanne are connected in a peculiar intimate way. Their relationship is put to a crucial test when they meet the charismatic Manuel at a wedding party.
She is the youngest and the first female mayor of Cizre. A town located in the southeast of Turkey, where Kurds form the significant part of the inhabitants.
The Thai Lamai had imagined “the beautiful piece of earth” differently when she arrived at Joe, her newlywed husband, in snowy Upper Bavaria. Instead of a warm reception, father-in-law Hans wants to chase her from the farm. It gets even worse: After a passionate night of love, Joe still has a smile on his face, but unfortunately he is dead - a heart attack. Now the young widow, who to everyone's surprise is the sole heir to the entire property, has to deal with the odd Hans, who has been given the right to live there for life in his last will.
Way up in the far northwest of the Russian Tundra lies the picturesque village of Krasnoschchelye. Its inhabitants, indigenous Sami people, live from the ancient tradition of reindeer husbandry. Once a year the reindeer herders are celebrated for their labors in a festival that features a reindeer sleigh race where they can display their skills. But the Kolkhoz is insolvent and it looks like the festival might have to be cancelled - a symbol of the Sami tradition and culture in Russia, currently threatened with extinction. 30 years old Sasha, a member of the newly found Sami parliament in Russia fights for the festival and the survival of her village.
A deaf butcher decides to get a functional hearing implant, that provides him with the ability to hear. Soon he gets a complete new awareness of what his job is really about.
One day before Waldemars big birthday party, the excitement rising in Mullewapp. Waldemar may withhold the chocolate-creamy strawberry pie that is to give it to celebrate, to eat up already, but then appeared unexpected walk on the quiet farm on barely. The rude boar bristle Horst and his gang have his eye on the birthday treats and take Mollywoop residents hogging. The three friends Waldemar, Franz von Hahn and Johnny Mauser guessed immediately: Here's wrong! But they are tricked by windy boar chief Horst and with a trick he sends them thereby unintentionally on a particularly adventurous bike tour. How can they now liberate their beloved home only by the invaders?
In a tranquil village, the two students Kerstin and Selina disappear one after the other. Both are 16, have unstable parents and were undergoing therapy at the “Herzland” riding stable. While the residents don't believe there was a crime, Julia Durant suspects the kidnapper is among them.
Lusatia - the former energy production center of the GDR, today a landscape depleted by lignite mining. Large lakes have been created in which you can "rust" while swimming, and landscape formations reminiscent of the Grand Canyon of the Wild West. Native wolves and many exotic species of international flora and fauna are inexorably conquering new habitats. The people who have remained persevere like settlers. They appear in the film as narrators of their sometimes bizarre stories. We see how they try with imagination and commitment to wrest a re-inhabitable piece of earth from their battered landscape. For Lusatia harbors the old dream of Prince Pückler: the dream of a landscape for people. More is happening in Lusatia than we dare to dream.