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The Blue Angel

  Germany 1924. Middle aged Dr. Immanuel Rath is a literature professor at a boys college. Most of his students don’t much like him, often calling him “unrath” – German Read More

A Berlin Romance

  The film is a love story about a seventeen-year-old East German saleswoman named Uschi (Bürger) and an unemployed auto mechanic named Hans (Thein) from West Berlin. She leaves her Read More

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

  Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. It is the annual fair in Holstenwall. Francis and his Read More

Go Trabi Go

  Udo Struutz (Wolfgang Stumph), a teacher in the East German town of Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, is a great fan of Goethe and wants to visit all the places described in Read More

A Woman in Flames

  Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute, teach her the basics and both set Read More

The Joyless Street

  Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid’s clients is arrested. Read More

Virgin Machine

  Dorothee, a would-be writer and journalist, leaves Germany for the Oz of San Francisco, searching for her long-lost mother and a cure for the malady of love. Installed in Read More

Heart of Glass

  The setting is an 18th-century Bavarian town with a glassblowing factory that produces a brilliant ruby glass. When the master glass blower dies, the secret of producing it is Read More

Jacob the Liar

  Based on the lauded novel by Jurek Becker, this dark comedy focuses on Jakob Heym (Vlastimil Brodský), a Jew living in a Polish ghetto. When Jakob is temporarily detained Read More

Journey of Hope

  The movie tells of a family that leaves its secure life in a hill village of Turkey, and travels by rail, ship, car, truck, and finally on foot toward Read More