Bettina Böhler

Bettina Böhler

Nacimiento : 1960-06-24, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

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Bettina Böhler

Películas

Not a Word
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On a barren island, a mother and son confront years of silence and misunderstandings in writer-director Hanna Slak’s formidable fourth feature film starring Maren Eggert, scored by Amélie Legrand, and shot by Claire Mathon.
Afire
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A hot, dry summer, like so many in recent years. Forest fires are uncontrollable. Four young people meet in a holiday home on the Baltic Sea not far from Ahrenshoop. Slowly and imperceptibly they are enclosed by the walls of flame. A red sky arches over them. They doubt, they are afraid – not because of the fires, it is love that scares them.
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
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Anna is 60 and her acting heyday is now behind her. She lives on her own but has a friend and confidant in her downstairs neighbour Michel, who is also single. Reluctantly, Anna accepts a job as a language coach for 17-year-old Adrian who has a speech impediment and is something of a misfit. She recognises him as the boy who recently snatched her handbag in the street.
Prince
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Perhaps they should never have met, but fate wanted otherwise. Monika and Joseph. She is a curator, he is an immigrant from Congo, a businessman with an unclear past and present. They meet during a police raid at a bar, when the first of many sparks flies between them. An understated love story, a melodrama without pathos, a fragile story about the ambiguous nature of love and the impossibility of overcoming it through reason.
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
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Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Writer
Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Director
Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.
Ondina. Un amor para siempre
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Undine trabaja como historiadora dando conferencias sobre el desarrollo urbano de Berlín. Pero cuando el hombre que ama la abandona, el antiguo mito la alcanza. Undine tiene que matar al hombre que la traiciona y volver al agua.
Ondina. Un amor para siempre
Sound Designer
Undine trabaja como historiadora dando conferencias sobre el desarrollo urbano de Berlín. Pero cuando el hombre que ama la abandona, el antiguo mito la alcanza. Undine tiene que matar al hombre que la traiciona y volver al agua.
Ondina. Un amor para siempre
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Undine trabaja como historiadora dando conferencias sobre el desarrollo urbano de Berlín. Pero cuando el hombre que ama la abandona, el antiguo mito la alcanza. Undine tiene que matar al hombre que la traiciona y volver al agua.
A Regular Woman
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Hatun "Aynur" Sürücü, a vibrant young Turkish woman and mother is murdered at 23 by her youngest brother in an honor killing. Forced into an abusive arranged marriage with a cousin in Istanbul at 16 by her devout Muslim family, Aynur escapes to Berlin and gives birth to a son. She is considered a disgraceful burden by her parents and siblings, so Aynur soon leaves her family and attempts to start a new life.
Entendiendo a Ingmar Bergman
Co-Director
Un sentido relato de la vida personal y professional del gran cineasta sueco Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) que explora su legado cinematográfico, con entrevistas a sus colaboradores más cercanos y a una nueva generación de cineastas.
Entendiendo a Ingmar Bergman
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Un sentido relato de la vida personal y professional del gran cineasta sueco Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) que explora su legado cinematográfico, con entrevistas a sus colaboradores más cercanos y a una nueva generación de cineastas.
En tránsito
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Un hombre se va a Francia tras la invasión nazi y adopta la identidad de un escritor muerto del que tiene los papeles. Atrapado en Marsella, allí conocerá a una joven que busca desesperadamente al hombre a quien ama.
Western
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Una cuadrilla de obreros alemanes sienta campamento en un pueblo búlgaro para levantar una central hidráulica. Molesta el descaro zafio de su despliegue, ofende la saña eficiente con que desarraigan el paisaje, y agravian con sus sudores masculinos de beberse la paga y silbar agudo al paso de las chicas. Va a estallar el conflicto...
Axolotl Overkill
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Mifti is a teenager as beautiful as she is reckless. Mentally unstable, fed up with her dysfunctional family, oblivious to the youthful world, and aware of the sexual magnetism she gives off with her peculiar appearance, she wanders through the dark path of several bohemian adults with questionable lifestyles.
Wild
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An anarchist young woman breaks the tacit contract with civilization and fearlessly decides on a life without hypocrisy or an obligatory safety net.
Meister des Todes
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Based on explosive investigations, the thriller "Meister des Todes" ("Master of Death") tells of a German arms manufacturer and their questionable weapon exports to Mexiko.
El mundo abandonado
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Cuando Paul Kromberger y su hija Sophie descubren por Internet la foto de una cantante de ópera estadounidense que es clavada a Evelyn, padre e hija se van a estremecer. Evelyn era la difunta mujer de Paul y la madre de Sophie. Sophie decide viajar a Nueva York para encontrar a la cantante, cuyo nombre es Caterina Fabiani. Tratará de buscar respuestas a este misterioso parecido.
Patong Girl
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German family Schroeder is spending their Christmas holidays on the Thai island, Phuket. Of all the things, deep within the sleazy tourist bars and alleys of Patong, the youngest son Felix falls in love with a gorgeous Thai girl Fai who in return appears to mutually attracted to him.
Phoenix
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Una cantante es traicionada y enviada a un campo de concentración. Al finalizar su calvario, vuelve con la cara totalmente desfigurada y pide a un eminente cirujano que se la reconstruya para que sea lo más parecida a como era antes. Recuperada de la operación empieza a buscar a su marido, un pianista. Pero el reencuentro no es lo que ella esperaba.
Rosie
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Lorenz Meran, a successful gay author suffering acute writers' block, has to leave Berlin and return to eastern Switzerland to provide care for his aged mother, Rosie. But it is not only his mother's battle against being dictated to and losing her dignity that he is struggling with. It's also his own midlife crisis.
Gold
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Canadá, verano de 1898. Un grupo de colonos alemanes viajan hacia el norte en carros cubiertos, con caballos de carga y sus pocas pertenencias a cuestas. Los siete viajeros partieron desde Ashcroft, la última estación de ferrocarril. Junto a su líder, el extravagante empresario Wilhelm Laser, esperan encontrar una fortuna en las minas de oro de Dawson, descubiertas recientemente. Sin embargo, ignoran los peligros a los que deberán enfrentarse a lo largo de un viaje de 2,500 kilómetros. Víctimas de la incertidumbre, el frío y el cansancio comienzan a menguar sus ánimos y no dejan de producirse conflictos. Su viaje los conduce hacia las profundidades de un desierto amenazador. (FILMAFFINITY)
Hannah Arendt
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Gira en torno a la figura de la filósofa judío-alemana Hannah Arendt, que trabajó como reportera cubriendo el juicio a Adolf Eichmann, el nazi que organizó el genocidio contra los judíos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Bárbara
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Estamos en el verano de 1980, en Alemania del Este y la doctora Barbara se ve obligada a vivir y trabajar como médico en una pequeña ciudad de provincia, como castigo por intentar emigrar a Occidente. Sólo tiene un objetivo: escapar y para ello, tiene que esperar pacientemente. Su estancia allí es muy difícil por la vigilancia y las inspecciones de la Stasi, hasta que André, su supervisor en el hospital, la saca de su rutina diaria. ¿Sus motivos son el amor o el deber con las autoridades? La simulación diaria, y la vigilancia permanente lentamente se cobran su peaje a medida que la tensión aumenta.
The Look
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Documental y estudio biográfico sobre una de las actrices más influyentes de su generación, la mujer de mirada enigmática, Charlotte Rampling.
The Edge
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Jew Suss: Rise and Fall
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This intricate historical drama tells the story of actor Ferdinand Marian (Tobias Moretti), who is ordered by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to star in the 1940 anti-Semitic film Jew Suss. Despite his cooperation, Ferdinand's actions have unexpected costs. Ferdinand's Jewish wife, Anna (Martina Gedeck), is sent to a concentration camp, and as World War II intensifies, he rebels against the Nazis, leading to the destruction of his career.
Blessed Events
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A few weeks after palliative nurse Hans spends New year's eve completely with new acquaintance Simone, she finds herself pregnant, unplanned. At another surprise meeting, handsome Hannes surprises her by reacting to the news by offering her to move into his fine home. While Hannes devotes himself further to terminal hospital patients, Simone lazily renovates the house, but somehow gets jealous of the neighbors and compromises everything.
Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
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Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.
Lulu and Jimi
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About sweeping love, rock & roll and getting rid of all that stale air of the fifties. You've got the good guys - that's Lulu and Jimi - and the bad guys: Lulu's mother Gertrud, her secret lover Schultz, the chauffeur, and a wicked old shrink, Von Oppeln, crouching in his gloomy office like a spider waiting to pounce on his prey Lulu. Light and darkness, bright garish colours, hot rock & roll and wild dance numbers mark this road movie about lovers fleeing from the evil powers of a deeply bigoted society. A drama about the relationship between a young black man and a rich German girl.
Jerichow
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Fuera de los caminos trillados se produce el fatídico encuentro entre tres personajes. Thomas, joven y fuerte, ha sufrido una deshonrosa expulsión del ejército. Ali, un afable hombre de negocios turco, ha atravesado momentos difíciles pero ahora su principal preocupación es asegurarse de que los empleados de sus bares no le engañen. Laura, una atractiva mujer de oscuro pasado, parece encontrar refugio a la sombra de su matrimonio con Ali. Thomas, Ali y Laura se vigilan mutuamente y guardan celosamente sus secretos. Quieren amor pero también seguridad y además se consideran independientes. Sin embargo, lo que desean sólo puede conseguirse mediante la traición.
Yella
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Yella decidida a no renunciar a sus sueños, abandona a un marido violento y posesivo para buscar un trabajo más prometedor y una nueva vida. Las cosas empiezan a irle bien cuando Philipp, un joven ejecutivo, le da la oportunidad de ser su ayudante. Aunque no conoce en absoluto el mundo de las finanzas, empieza a triunfar entre los despiadados hombres de negocios. Las armas que explican su éxito son su belleza y su extraordinaria sangre fría.
Vivere
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On Christmas Eve, Francesca sets out for Rotterdam in order to find her little sister, who has run off with her musician boyfriend. On the way, she picks up Gerlinde, a heartbroken older woman at the end of her rope.
Afternoon
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A family spends three summer days in a beautiful lake mansion close to Berlin. Together with her new lover, Irene visits her brother Alex, who still inhabits the house with Irene's writer son Konstantin. Konstantin's girl-friend pops in, too, and all of them drift away from each other more and more.
Punish Me
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Angelina Maccarone's intense drama deals with the obsessive relationship between a confused teenager and an elder woman. Elsa Seifert successfully works as probation officer, but the relationship to her longtime companion is in trouble since their common daughter moved out. Then she gets to know Jan, a 16-years-old offender, who frankly offers to submit himself sexually to her. Although being shocked in the beginning, Elsa gets more and more attracted by the young man...
Longing
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An average, everyday metalworker and volunteer firefighter content in his marriage to his childhood sweetheart finds his emotions unexpectedly stirred when he falls for a pretty waitress from a nearby town.
Lucy
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A young teenage single mother (Maggi) struggling to raise her baby daughter (Lucy) finds the weight of responsibility bearing down on her shoulders. Maggy was forced to grow up before her time. Thankfully for Maggi, her mother is always willing to help though Maggy still lives at home with her mother, it's obvious that she longs to gain some independendence. Meeting Gordon at a local club, who is a few years older, makes a living and has his own apartment. One night, after a heated argument with her mother, Maggi makes the decision to move in with Gordon. Though the pair subsequently make a sincere attempt to be good parents.and do what's best for Lucy, they soon find that taking on the responsibilities of adulthood aren't so easy when you've barely moved past childhood yourself.
Unveiled
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Fariba es perseguida en Iran por ser lesbiana y para escaparse de esta persecución, vuela a Alemania. Pero su formulario para conseguir asilo político en Alemania es rechazado. Su desesperación por salir del país la llevan a robar la identidad de un conocido llamado Siamak, quien recientemente se ha suicidado y a quien le han dado un permiso temporal de residencia antes de su muerte. Ya en Alemania Fariba comienza a trabajar ilegalmente en una fábrica donde conoce a Anne. Las dos comienzan a acercarse y pronto Anne comienza a sospechar sobre la verdadera identidad de Fariba. (FILMAFFINITY)
Fantasmas
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Un hombre viaja de París a Berlín para buscar a su mujer. Cuando la encuentra en un sanatorio, la lleva consigo a París. Su esposa va a Berlín cada año porque está buscando desesperadamente a su hija, que fue secuestrada cuando tenía tres años. Un día, descubre a Nina (Julia Hummer), una vagabunda que deambula con otra muchacha llamada Toni (Sabine Timoteo). La mujer cree que Nina es su hija. (FILMAFFINITY)
Marseille
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Marseille describes an interlude in the life of young Berlin photographer Sophie. Wanting a change, Sophie does an apartment swap, so she can go photograph the city of Marseille, and most of all get away from Berlin.
Farland
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Axel and Karla are an ill-matched couple in a borderline situation. The two meet in the hospital. Axel is keeping watch at his son′s bedside and Karla is waiting for some sign of life from her sister. None of the doctors can tell them whether the young couple will come out of their comas after their serious accident. As the weeks of uncertainty, fear and tedium pass by, a peculiar relationship develops between Axel and Karla, sustaining both of them.
My Friend Henry
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When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her room. She tells her mother about it, but she does not believe her. At the local supermarket Elsi meets Henry, who seems to spend his time returning shopping trolleys. Elsi does not know anything about the boy, who has an irritating habit of appearing from out of nowhere, only to disappear again, as if into thin air. Nevertheless, the children become friends.
Sehnsucht
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German film.
Zwischen Nacht und Tag
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Close
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Jost roams through the streets of Berlin. He opposes the world enraged, aggressively and furiously in a self-destructive way. He continuously provokes situations proving to himself that everybody hates him. He is convinced he does not need anybody and does not let anyone get close to him. Anna is walled in by her fear and unable to leave her apartment. She manages to keep this situation from all the others in a system of lies. Her reserves draw to a close. She heads for a catastrophe. One day, Jost shows up at her door.
Wolfsburg
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Philipp Wagner, un vendedor de coches, tiene un carácter más bien depresivo. Su jefe, que es el hermano de su novia Katja, lo desprecia. Un día, mientras está conduciendo, Philipp choca con la bicicleta de un niño y se escapa. Tiene muchos remordimientos y entra en contacto con Laura, la madre del niño pero no consigue confesar que es el responsable del accidente. Su existencia se vuelve cada vez más dolorosa, como la de Laura.
El silencio del agua
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Año 1979, en Charkhi, un pueblecito del Pendjab pakistaní. Aïcha es una mujer alegre de unos cuarenta años que nunca habla de su pasado. Desde la muerte de su marido, su hijo de 18 años es el centro de su existencia. Salim, buen chico, dulce y soñador, está enamorado de Zoubida. En Pakistán, el general Zia-ul-Haq acaba de tomar el poder y de instaurar la ley marcial. El país se introduce en la vía de la islamización. Salim empieza a frecuentar un grupo de fundamentalistas musulmanes. Zoubida es abandonada poco a poco por su enamorado, mientras Aïcha se preocupa por ver a su hijo cambiar tan brutalmente. Los acontecimientos se precipitan con la llegada de los Sikhs venidos de la India para su peregrinaje. Uno de ellos comienza a buscar a su hermana, una tal Virou, que los musulmanes capturaron en 1947. El pasado sale bruscamente a la superficie... (FILMAFFINITY)
Something to Remind Me
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El abogado de mediana edad Thomas (André Hennicke) conoce a Leyla (Nina Hoss), una bella joven rubia distante y reservada, en una piscina suburbana. Thomas se enamora y, después de cruzarse con ella algunas veces, junta el valor para invitarla a salir. Para su sorpresa, ella acepta pero llega tarde a la cita y el restaurante ya está cerrando. Van al apartamento de Thomas a comer algo improvisado y, después de unos tragos, Leyla se queda dormida en el sofá. A la mañana siguiente Thomas despierta y encuentra que Leyla y su portátil han desaparecido.
Passing Summer
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Dos jóvenes mujeres sentadas en una cafetería un día de verano. Situaciones que se encuentran todos los días unas mil veces. Pero, ¿qué ocurre cuando intentas describir esa normalidad?
Heidi M.
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Heidi M. is in her late forties and has a small store in the pulsating center of Berlin. She goes out in the evenings with her friend Jacqui, but when she is unexpectedly confronted with romantic love, old wounds are opened.
The State I Am In
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Clara y Hans, dos terroristas de izquierdas, huyen de la policía desde hace quince años. Cuando su hija Jeanne, una adolescente cada vez más rebelde, se enamora de un muchacho desconocido, se convierte en una amenaza más para la seguridad de sus padres.
Vertrauen ist alles
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Places in Cities
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Mimmi is a very lonely girl, not knowing what to do with her life. On the search for friends and boyfriends, she wanders around alone in different cities.
Fogi es un cabrón
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Un chico de 15 años (Beni) se enamora de Fogi, una cantante de una banda de Rock. Fogi lo seduce y Beni está dispuesto a seguirlo a donde él quiera. Pero Fogi es un adicto a las drogas y tira de Beni más y más en el infierno de la adicción a las drogas.
The 120 Days of Bottrop
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An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.
Cuba Libre
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Tom is constantly running into problems and gets beaten up time and time again.
Der Blaue
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In this German political drama, an ex-Stasi agent encounters an old friend whom he may have betrayed after his friend tried to escape East Germany. The former East German agent is Otto Skrodt who after many years is about to be promoted in the highest government ranks. He is anxious to maintain a squeaky clean image. His daughter is Isabelle. The young and friendly Kalle returns after spending many years in jail for his escape attempts. He doesn't know exactly who blew the whistle, but his friend Skrodt is definitely under suspicion. Kalle returns to ostensibly renew the friendship and to see Isabelle whom he loves. The duplicitous friendship between the two men becomes the main focus of the story which features interesting plot twists at the end.
Novalis - Die blaue Blume
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Passages
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A rehabilitation center for physically handicapped children and youth is the focus of this docudrama. Long corridors, offbeat characters and passions.
Terror 2000
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Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provincial town called Rassau), gets kidnapped just as the family. Chief inspector Koern and his girl-friend start to investigate in this matter in Rassau, exploring a world of obsessive sex, mislead lust and an over-whelming irrational love to the German nation, infiltrating anyone's mind. Rascism doesn't start with shaved hair and boots but rather in the middle of society itself...
Eastern Cross
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OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.
The Grass is Greener Everywhere Else
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A man migrates from Poland over Germany into the US.
Superbia – The Pride
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Pride is the first of the seven deadly sins. The introduction is made through early allegorical forms and figures (triumphal procession, dance of death, Baroque tragedy etc.) The triumphal procession of the giant haystack as a symbol of human vanities becomes a military parade of abrupt, functional and arrogant gestures. The most diverse musical fragments and rhythms intone the montage of details in the staged triumphal procession, juxtaposed with documentary images, including marches, ticker-tape parades and military review.
You Love Me Too
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Julia and Romeo are two disenchanted lovers who want to break up but are unwilling to suffer the pain. After a nasty fight, Romeo storms off and unsuccessfully vents his frustration with a black prostitute. While visiting the ramshackle brothel, he sees a strange man, who may be a government official, handing over a huge wad of money. Later, he and Julia reunite and go to an upscale golden anniversary party. There a handsome American flirts with Julia. After yet another row, Romeo and Julia retire to the balcony for a love scene. Unfortunately, their making up is interrupted by a sudden power outage. When the lights go back on, Romeo finds the knifed corpse of the party's hostess at his feet. Naturally, he's accused of the crime, but before the other partygoers can get him, he and Julia flee into the Berlin summer night. Their strange series ensuing adventures comprise the rest of the film.
Seven Women, Seven Sins
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Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amongst the world's most renown: Helke Sander (Gluttony), Bette Gordon (Greed), Maxi Cohen (Anger), Chantal Akerman (Sloth), Valie Export (Lust), Laurence Gavron (Envy), and Ulrike Ottinger (Pride). Each filmmaker had the liberty of choosing a sin to interpret as they wished. The final film reflected this diversity, including traditional narrative fiction, experimental video, a musical, a radical documentary, and was delivered in multiple formats from 16, super 16, video and 35mm.
Zagarbata
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Dilettantishly cruel scenes from the "scene": A skinhead loves a dance girl and dreams of a petty-bourgeois future. When he is deprived of the wages of a robbery by his landlady, an impoverished princess, he kills her. His girlfriend sinks to being a prostitute and is also killed. It all ends in the prison cell with a dream vision of a white wedding in Berlin's Memorial Church. First film shot on Super-8 and blown up to 16mm by Tabea Blumenschein, who became known as a performer in underground films and as a costume designer.
Zwei Bilder
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