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Europa Europa

  Jewish teenager Salek (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family when they flee their home in Germany after Kristallnacht. He ends up in a Russian orphanage for two years, Read More

Dog Days

  Summer in Vienna is the backdrop for intersecting anecdotes about six locals. Anna (Maria Hofstätter), a compulsive hitchhiker, travels to shopping malls with strangers. A widower (Erich Finsches) asks Read More

Falling

  In Barbara Albert’s Falling, five independent women are reunited for the funeral of a beloved teacher. As the five women reconnect, a day of sober mourning turns into a Read More

Your Unknown Brother

  After being released from a camp for political prisoners in 1935 Nazi Germany, Arnold Clasen returns to Hamburg to lead a quiet life.  He contacts Renate, with whom he Read More

Gun-shy

  A loner who spends his time volunteering for meals on wheels meets an intriguing girl who becomes his best friend. But what he initially considers to be a romantic Read More

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

  The Final Days is the true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The Read More

The White Rose

  During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany’s Nazi government. The students form a resistance Read More

Rumpelstilzchen

  As a result of miller Kinz’s boasting, his daughter Marie has become a prisoner in the King’s castle. Kunz had claimed that she could spin straw into gold, and Read More

The Architects

  The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. Read More

A Munich Man in Heaven

  A Münchner (Aloisius) dies and goes to heaven where he’s forced to sing and play the harp and do all sorts of angel things which don’t suit him at Read More