Jane Seitz

Celebrated West German director Alexander Kluge presents this drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II, minorities, and the elderly. A side plot follows a meeting between former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and East German leader Erich Honecker.

1327년 이탈리아 북부에 있는 베네딕트 수도원에서 그림 그리는 채식 수사 아델모의 시체가 발견되면서 수도원은 술렁이기 시작한다. 당시 교회의 청빈을 주장하는 프라시스코 수도회와 그를 반박하는 교황청 및 다른 교단들의 반목이 심화되자 이를 해결키 위해 이 수도원에서 각 교단이 모여 토론을 하기로 함으로써, 프란시스코 수사인 윌리엄(William of Baskerville: 숀 코넬리 분)은 수련 제자 아조(Adso of Melk: 크리스찬 슬레이터 분)를 데리고 이곳에 들른다. 뛰어난 두뇌의 소유자 윌리엄이 수도원이 심상치 않음을 간파하자 수도원장(The Abbot: 미쉘 론스데일 분)은 윌리엄에게 이 사건을 해결해 달라고 요청한다. 그러던 중 그리이스어 번역사가 다시 살해되고 요한 계시록의 예언대로 수사들이 죽음을 맞자 수도원은 악마의 역사가 시작됐다고 극도의 불안에 떤다. 서고를 은밀히 지키던 두 사람은 심야에도 서관에서 누군가가 책 한권을 훔쳐 달아나는 것을 목격하고 뒤를 밟았지만 그들이 발견한 것은 주방에서 정사를 벌이고 있는 마을처녀와 수도승. 가난한 마을 처녀는 그렇게 해서 식량을 구하고 있는 것이었다. 윌리엄은 사서와 보조사서의 행동을 수상쩍다고 느끼던 중 암호가 적인 양피지를 발견, 사서외엔 아무도 못들어 간다는 도서관에 비밀의 열쇠가 있다고 판단, 잠입을 시도하지만 실패한다. 한편 죽은 수사마다 혀와 손가락 끝에 검은 잉크자국이 베어 있는데. 그러던 사이에 이단 심문에서 유죄로 선고된 두 수도승, 여기에 마녀로 선고된 마을처녀도 함께 묶여서 세사람의 발아래 장작이 쌓이는 순간 윌리암은 범인을 알아내고 서고탑 안으로 들어가는데.

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

어머니가 돌아가신 바스티안(Bastian : 바렛 올리버 분)은 상상력이 풍부하고 몽상을 좋아하는 국민학생이다. 등교길에 못된 아이들에게 시달리게 되자 어느 서점에 숨게 됐는데 거기서 '끝없는 이야기(The Neverending Story)'라는 아주 이상한 책을 발견하게 된다. 바스티안은 그 책을 가지고 나와 학교 다락에서 읽기 시작한다. '환타젠'이라는 환상의 세계에 나씽이라는 괴물에 의해 점차 호수와 산들이 하루 아침에 없어지고 있었다. 이곳에 살고 있는 수 많은 종족들이 공포에 떨고 있고, 이것을 여왕 '천진한 소녀'에게 보고키 위해 요귀와 난쟁이가 길을 떠난다. 하지만 여왕은 이름 모를 병에 죽어가고 있는데, 여왕의 병을 고칠 방법을 찾기 위해 소년 아트레이유(Atreyu : 노아 해서웨이 분)가 단신으로 구세주를 찾아 기나긴 여행길에 오른다. 근심의 늪에서 애마 알텍스도 잃고, 펠콘(Falkor)이라는 행운의 용을 타고 마침내 거울문에 당도한다. 그곳에는 진실된 인간의 아이 바로 책을 읽고 있는 바스티안의 모습이 비친다. 그리고 여왕의 병을 고치기 위해서는 인간 세상의 아이가 여왕의 새로운 이름을 지어주어야 된다는 비법을 알게 된다. 아트레유는 환타젠을 구할 수 있는 인간의 아이를 데리러 가기 위해 환상의 나라의 끝으로 날아가지만 폭풍에 휘말려 펠콘에서 떨어진다. 아트레유는 동굴 속에서 나씽의 부하 괴물을 처치하지만 결국 환타젠을 구할 임무를 완수하지 못하는데...

주인공 크리스티안은 어린 시절 아버지의 가정폭력에 시달려왔으며 이후 아버지와 이혼한 엄마와 여동생과 살고 있다. 그녀는 학교에서 반 친구에게 이끌려 디스코클럽에 가게되고, 이후 그곳에서 그녀는 마약을 하는 데틀레프를 만나며, 그녀는 점점 이런 상황에 깊이 빠져들게 되는데...

In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.

While on an automobile tour of Italy with his mother, the German publisher in this story has an accident which results in her death. He decides to stay and look for work in Italy, rather than return to his responsibilities, and takes a job working on a construction site. His co-workers are similarly displaced men: one is a Greek exile, the other a Basque terrorist. The elaborate house they are working on is to be the home of a wealthy local man.

A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.

In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.

Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the young man had taken part in a bank robbery. A "heroic deed" which earned him six years in prison. Once behind bars, he was treated with ruthless inhumanity by the guards. And little by little - but inexorably - Franz turned into an insurgent...

Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also cheating him. When he meets a girl, Monica, he realizes that there are people out there whose lives are even more desperate than his. So he's trying to help her (and him) by planning a great robbery on a supermarket's money transporter.

Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also cheating him. When he meets a girl, Monica, he realizes that there are people out there whose lives are even more desperate than his. So he's trying to help her (and him) by planning a great robbery on a supermarket's money transporter.

In this comedy, Iris Berben plays a mysterious, supernaturally beautiful girl from another planet, who confuses and flusters the men on earth, where she has landed. The men follow her wherever she goes. Marquard Bohm is no exception here - he leaves his wife in a lurch and travels with the Supergirl to Spain. The girl doesn't tell much about herself; she reports, though, about an impending threat from outer space.

After pulling off a bank robbery two bandits meet in a deserted mining town to divide their loot but an old miner tries to steal it from them.

The title refers to the Feuerzangenbowle punch consumed by a group of gentlemen in the opening scene. While they exchange nostalgic stories about their schooldays, the successful young writer Dr. Johannes Pfeiffer realizes he missed out on something because he was taught at home and never attended school. He decides to make up for it by masquerading as a student at a small-town high school. At the school, he quickly gains a reputation as a prankster. Together with his classmates, he torments his professors Crey, Bömmel, and Headmaster Knauer with adolescent mischief. His girlfriend Marion unsuccessfully tries to persuade him to give up his foolish charade. Eventually, he falls in love with the headmaster's daughter and discloses his identity after provoking the teachers into expelling him from school.

Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big things again with his friends. Fatally, he is always preceded by some gentlemen from better circles who are developing amazing criminal activity in their old days. They are led by Oberlandesgerichtsrat a. D. Herbert Zänker, whom it still hisses, that he could bring in his term Bruno never behind bars.

Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.

A strange case baffles the police and the citizens of a German small town. A two-year old girl has disappeared. There are suspects, innocents, guilty ones and a web of lies. It's saturday afternoon, and Achim's parents are invited for a topping-out ceremony. The neighbour's daughter, Monika (Renate Roland), is the babysitter for Achim (Sascha Urchs) and his little sister Kathrin, but Monika doesn't take the job too serious. She'd rather go for a ride with her boyfriend. Through a unforeseen row of circumstances, Achim becomes the murderer of his sister, and hides the body in a wrecked car on the scrapyard. When the parents return home, a frantic search for the little child begins. Only the father (Sieghardt Rupp) seems to know the truth…