Manfred Durniok

German two-part miniseries about the westerns staying at a popular hotel in Shanghai as the Japanese invasion of China also known as the Second Sino-Japanese War begins in 1937 as a precursor to WWII.

Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Berlin to study in the 1880s and falls in love with a German ballet dancer.

Tragedia inspirada en una obra de teatro de John Osborne que, a su vez, se basa en hechos reales. Segunda película de una trilogía sobre el imperio Austro-Húngaro: la primera es ’Mephisto’, y la tercera, ’Hanussen’. Mientras se produce la desmembración del imperio Austro-Húngaro, el joven Alfred Redl ingresa en el ejército y asciende de forma meteórica. Redl llega a alcanzar el grado de coronel y realiza un impecable trabajo dentro de los servicios de contraespionaje. Su homosexualidad, que trata de mantener oculta, será el detonante de su estrepitosa caída en desgracia.

Un ambicioso actor de teatro (Brandauer) no duda en concentrar todos sus esfuerzos en adular el nazismo con tal de lograr el éxito en su profesión. Llega incluso a casarse con la hija de un importante prohombre del régimen para poder medrar.

Kirsten Kosinski (Anna Kristina) leaves her provincial town to work in the big city. After getting a job as a secretary, she finds herself occasionally "sellin her charms." Eventually, she becomes a full-time prostitute and feels the need to ensure the protection of a pimp to survive in this environment.

Composition by Oskar Sala.

Manfred Durniok (1934-2003), German film director and producer, shot his first short documentary films in the 1950s and 1960s. At the end of the 50s he got to know Oskar Sala (1910-2002) and took advantage of the composers electro-acoustic and musical skills in many of his subsequent black and white motion pictures. Thus, Durniok could concentrate on images and editing sequences of his movies without having to worry about live sound. The soundtrack subsequently created by Sala has always been a free, electronically-abstract composition with a strong rhythmic and tonal reference to sequence and image content.

Germans on the Mondo Cane tour, meaning an overview of "our bizarre world" in more than 30 revealing fragments with commentary that twists and turns to give things a universal, and in some places even cosmic, meaning.

Germans on the Mondo Cane tour, meaning an overview of "our bizarre world" in more than 30 revealing fragments with commentary that twists and turns to give things a universal, and in some places even cosmic, meaning.

Manfred Durniok (1934-2003), German film director and producer, shot his first short documentary films in the 1950s and 1960s. At the end of the 50s he got to know Oskar Sala (1910-2002) and took advantage of the composers electro-acoustic and musical skills in many of his subsequent black and white motion pictures.