Stefan Carow

Through all the years, someone was watching over him but he never knew.

1993 drama film.

It is 1988. Jacob (Gottfried John), from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth (Angelica Domröse) in East Germany. When they secretly meet in East Berlin, it seems the Stasi (secret police) knows about it. When Jacob visits her village, someone informs on him and he is deported. Elisabeth knows who begrudges her this love and takes her revenge. Critics note that in this film, director Heiner Carow revisits the themes of his 1972 smash hit, The Legend of Paul and Paula, which became a cult film throughout Germany.

Berlín Oriental. El joven maestro Philipp conoce más de cerca a su colega Tanja tras un accidente en la escalera de la escuela y ambos comienzan una relación. Un antiguo amigo de Tanja, Jakob, al que llama cariñosamente Redford, resulta ser un amor de juventud de Philipp. Los padres de Philipp habían terminado la relación, regalando a Jakob una caja de compases y una bicicleta como compensación. Tras el reencuentro, Philipp entra en crisis, huye hacia un bar gay, se emborracha y finalmente dos desconocidos lo llevan a casa. Uno de ellos, el joven Matthias, lo encuentra de nuevo poco después frente al teatro y comienza un escarceo amoroso con él. Philipp tiene que enfrentarse a su propia orientación sexual, pero no tiene las fuerzas para ello. (FILMAFFINITY)

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The year 1933: Successful actress Maria Rheine is in love with her Jewish colleague Mark Löwenthal. When the Nazis implement the racist Nuremberg Laws, their relationship is severely endangered. Defiant Maria decides to stay together with Mark and ends her promising career: She assumes a Jewish identity and continues to work under the name Manja Löwenthal. She and Mark perform at the Jewish Theatre in Berlin, until they become victims of an intrigue: Their colleague Judith, who has a crush on Mark, denounces them to the secret police.

Karin, a well-known and loved midwife in her early forties, receives a high-order decoration from the state. While still overwhelmed with happiness about this honor, she is faced with a difficult decision when she encounters a young women who claims to be her daughter.

The tale of young Gritta who lives with her father, an unsuccessful inventor. When her new stepmother tries to put her away in a convent she discovers some dark secrets there.

"This was my first student documentary. I shot it over the Easter vacation in 1980 on 16mm, black-and-white reversal film. Apart from two five-minute exercises, it was destined to be the only film I ever finished at the College of Film and Television of the German Democratic Republic (Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen der DDR, HFF) in East Germany’s Potsdam-Babelsberg. It was quickly banned from being shown publicly and it remained in storage until the end of 1989. The film tells the story of a mother and her sons having coffee and cake while they try to remember –in vain– when the first time was that they tangled with the police. The reason it was banned was the casual way the film portrayed those young men living their lives untouched by ideology, including taking their careers as petty criminals for granted, meaning the film’s author accepted their existence, as is, and simply wanted to explore it.”