Isolde Barth

Isn’t the trajectory of a shared life determined in advance? Get married, have kids, be like everyone else… According to Dietrich Brüggemann, who competed in Vary six years ago, 30-somethings conceivably have it all, yet they fail in their attempts to achieve their set ideals. Nö delivers a critique of contemporary values, while also highlighting the struggle to find and nurture love.

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, nobody suspects this brazen young rebel to become one of the most important post-war German filmmakers. Despite early setbacks, many of his films breakout at the most renowned films festivals and polarise audience, critics and filmmakers alike. His radical views and self-exploitation, as well as his longing for love, have made him one of the most fascinating film directors of this time.

The siblings Bebe and Mikhail leave their country of Moldova to apply for asylum in Germany. Their flight turns into a modern odyssey.

A tangled drama of cruelty and manipulation, attraction and love.

The true story of a journalist who investigates the backgrounds of the Oktoberfest terror attack of 1980.

A family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea.

This absolutely top-notch documentary by Robert Fischer is a fascinating look back at not just the film in question, but Fassbinder's meteoric career which ended all too soon with his untimely death. Archival footage of Fassbinder is utilized (including several fascinating snippets culled from interviews he did at the disastrous Cannes premiere of Despair), as well as many others involved in the film and its release. Even if you're not a particular fan of Despair, or even in fact of Fassbinder, this is stellar documentary film making and is an intriguing look at one of the most enigmatic masters of the New German Cinema.

A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.

When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena's story. How will it affect Hannah?

Anna, married to the lawyer Rainer, despite all remorse, begins a liaison with the charming pharmaceutical representative Lars - fortunately the husband of her friend Bettina. Their meeting in a luxury hotel has fatal consequences: Anna and Lars are ear-witnesses of a supposed murder on the head of a call girl ring. Mistakenly, Anne's brother Max was suspected of doing something. Bettina, who has useful contacts due to her thriving wellness center, ensures that Max is released on bail. However, to acquit him they need Anna's statement - which would inevitably reveal her affair with Lars. So there has to be another solution...

With a pounding heart, the horse madman Martina Kilian awaits the wedding with the glamorous jumping rider Arndt Graf Solm-Weltingen. When the Count hangs up the cavalry just before the marriage to enter the catering business of his future parents-in-law, Martina painfully notes that Arndt is not the man of their dreams. While the wedding preparations are in full swing, Martina falls in love with sympathetic veterinarian Erik.

Linda is a successful art director, but not only her career but also her bad experiences with men have left her lonely. Linda's gay colleague Donald is her best "friend," but at the moment he needs help himself. He is in love with the agency boss Peter König but Peter doesn't dare openly admit to this relationship.

Mika is the wife of celebrated pianist Andre Polonski and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his sixth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned that she was almost switched at birth with Guillaume whilst in hospital. Also a pianist, Jeanne harbors a suspicion that she may be Andre's daughter. Andre undertakes to continue her piano tuition, but, on entering the Polonski family, Jeanne begins to notice the icily controlled Mika behaving strangely. Her suspicions aroused, Jeanne begins the dangerous task of unraveling Mika's dark past of secrets and lies...

In the eleventh film in the series, in December 1916, Indy, still stationed in Africa, is promoted to Captain and then ordered to cross the jungle with Remy and Captain Boucher to pick up a shipment of weaponry. Along the way, Ubangan Sergeant Barthélèmy picks up the sole surviving child from a disease-ravaged village despite Boucher's orders against it. On the way back, Indy and company succumb to disease themselves, and are picked up by Albert Schweitzer and the orderlies from his jungle hospital. At first resistant to being treated by a German, Indy soon begins to realize that Schweitzer is not interested in war, only attempting to cure people against all odds.

Time of darkness. Time of fire kindled against cold and fear. During the Holy Night, the seven year old Micha has to escape with his young mother Marianne from the violence of his drunken father... During their one week odyssey through frozen Germany, mother and son meet people to offer them shelter... Crushed by their own poverty, or dominated by their feelings of being lost, these people just hurt them deeper and they can be nothing other than stations of their continuous escape

Living and loving in a small village in the south of Germany. People and their conflicts with morality, manners, and society.

The passion of Christ, based on J. S. Bach's "Johannes-Passion". Its mix of music, speech, dancing and singing re-creates the style of antique Greek tragedies.

A complex and enigmatic plot that evokes the life of Bachmann. The story develops around an unusual triangular relationship, a threesome between a woman of unknown name, a man named Malina and a Hungarian, Ivan, with whom she falls in love. Ivan will be his last great love, but their need for exclusivity in love is so strong that it can not be understood or matched. Malina is a struggle, a confrontation between two worlds strange and hostile.

In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.

Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.

A decadent Cabaret in Hamburg (Germany) is near closing down. The owner decides to make a last effort to save the place: produce a male striptease show. Many candidates answer to his newspaper ad. No matter how weird were the rehearsals, the owner would have no regrets.

In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he sacrificed himself for his pedagogical theories. Five years later, the project of the idealistic educator failed after bloody attacks of the French. In retrospect, the disappointed Pestalozzi experiences the last few months with "his" children.

A detective with the highest clearance rate in the country, gets involved in a case with a young woman arrested for having killed her child. The detective falls under the spell of the young woman.

Three former school friends, reunited at a school reunion, decide to embark on a camping trip into the woods.

Based on the actual case of Marianne Bachmeier from 1981, the film tells the story of a mother who in a calm and determined manner shoots the murderer of her daughter seven times in the court room.The man dies at the crime scene. The media jumps at this tragedy and Bachmeier′s action is even spontaneously applauded by some. But soon, the attractive woman is cast under a pall when the media starts to look for "disclosing" details from her private life.

위험한 매력의 선원 조르주 케렐이 탄 배가 브르타뉴의 브레스트에 도착한다. 조르주는 선원들이 즐겨 찾는 매음굴에서 달갑지 않게도 형 로베르를 만난다. 로베르는 술집 주인 노노의 부인이자 창부 리지안과 만나는데, 조르주 역시 그녀를 원한다. 한편, 조르주는 아편을 팔려다 사람을 죽인 뒤 쫓기게 되는데, 동성의 동료로부터 성적 학대를 당하다 살인을 저지른 질과 우연히 만나 함께 도망친다. 분방하고 대담한 표현으로 전위적이고 논쟁적인 작품들을 썼던 작가 장 주네의 1947년작을 영화화했다. 독일 영화의 새 시대를 열었던 파스빈더의 마지막 작품이기도 하다.

Bored with their stuffy village life, teenagers Rolf and Susanne decide to run away and spend their future together in Frankfurt. But since Rolf has to do his military service first, Susanne travels alone to the metropolis, where she finds shelter with her uncle Ossi. He gets her a job and Susanne quickly takes a liking to the pulsating nightlife. Then she meets the handsome Johnny, who promises her a rosy future, but has completely different plans and wants to make her the whore of the city. Caught in the swamp of drugs, prostitution, violence and human trafficking, Susanne experiences the dark side of the big city and it gets worse when Rolf suddenly appears in town.

서른 여섯 해라는 짧은 생애에 만든 마흔 한편의 논쟁적인 영화들 중 파스빈더의 최고 걸작이라고 말할 수 있다. 세계 2차 대전이 끝나고 경제 기적을 만들어낸 독일사회의 병폐를 온 몸으로 겪으면서 자라난 파스빈더는 이 시기 자본주의가 빚어낸 모순과 타락한 인간상을 다수의 영화에서 다룬 바 있다. 조셉 폰 스텐버그의 에서 이야기의 뼈대를 가져온 에는 살아있는 색깔, 한 씬 내내 원을 그리며 도는 특이한 카메라 움직임, 팬으로 길게 움직이는 등이 멜로드라마의 틀 안에서 우화적으로 사용된다. 반자본주의적인 조악한(?) 영화형식과 너무나 염세적인 결말은 내내 영화를 보고 마지막 화면을 맞이하는 관객으로 하여금 가슴 서늘하게 한다. 그러나 파스빈더의 말대로 세상은 여전히 타락해 있고 가난한 자와 힘없는 자들이 설 자리는 여전히 없다는 점에서 파스빈더가 염세적인 것이 아니라 세상이, 인간이 시니컬하다는 것을 새삼 다시 절감하게 한다. 마음이 아프다. 안톤 체홉의 ‘푸른 천사’와 장 르노와르의 ‘게임의 법칙’을 인용한 풍자극이다

An abstract look at the changes in a woman's inner self. Married to a down-and-out writer, she is forced into a liaison with a book thief.

An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train.

A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop – just to get her coffee-machine.

마리아는 부푼 꿈을 안고 헤르만과 결혼하지만 남편 헤르만은 곧 전쟁터에서 행방불명되고 만다. 남편의 친구인 빌에게 남편의 사망 소식을 전해듣고 허전해진 그녀는 빌과 깊은 관계로 발전한다. 그러던 어느 날, 죽었다던 헤르만이 살아 돌아온다. 헤르만은 마리아와 빌의 정사 장면을 목격하고 흥분과 분노에 휩싸여 마리아를 고발하는데...

1978년 여름 프랑크푸르트. 여장남자인 엘비라는 강가에서 심하게 얻어맞고 상처투성이로 집에 돌아온다. 집에서는 말다툼 끝에 애인이 짐을 싸 떠나버리고, 애인을 쫓아나가다 거리에서 쓰러진 엘비라를 창녀 조라가 구해준다. 엘비라는 그녀에게 자신의 인생에 대한 이야기를 들려주는데, 한때 그는 에르빈이라는 남자였지만 사랑 때문에 성전환 수술을 받았다.

1978년 여름 프랑크푸르트. 여장남자인 엘비라는 강가에서 심하게 얻어맞고 상처투성이로 집에 돌아온다. 집에서는 말다툼 끝에 애인이 짐을 싸 떠나버리고, 애인을 쫓아나가다 거리에서 쓰러진 엘비라를 창녀 조라가 구해준다. 엘비라는 그녀에게 자신의 인생에 대한 이야기를 들려주는데, 한때 그는 에르빈이라는 남자였지만 사랑 때문에 성전환 수술을 받았다.

A copywriter gets famous with his first book. When asked to write a new novel about love for his publisher, he urgently needs tutoring since he doesn't know the first thing about it. His way through the beds leads him to the very young Orli. In her he discovers the true meaning of love, which makes him forget all the wrong paths of the past decades and feel young again.

20년대 말 경 베를린. 망명 러시아인 헤르만 헤르만은 아직도 자작나무, 말 썰매, 늑대 꿈을 꾼다. 그가 다닌 초콜릿 공장이 사양길에 접어들며 아내의 행동이 점점 그의 성질을 돋구게 된다. 그러던 어느 날 헤르만은 자기 자신의 존재감을 잃어버리고 남처럼 자신을 느끼게 된다. 헤르만이 술집에서 알게 된 돌팔이 정신과의사는 생명보험증서를 보여준다. 그는 완전 범죄를 시행하기로 결심한다. 그는 사람을 죽이고 스위스로 도망가고, 경찰이 결국 산간 마을에 있던 그를 체포한다.

1923년 서커스단에서 형 맥스와 함께 공중 곡예사로 있던 아벨은 맥스가 손목을 다치게 되자 서커스를 포기하고 독일의 베를린까지 흘러 들어와 술로 세월을 보내고 있습니다. 그 시절 베를린의 분위기는 극심한 경제난 때문에 아주 음습하고 무거움 그 자체이다. 독일 국민들은 육체적, 정신적으로 피폐해져 있고 마르크화의 가치는 종잇장보다 못했으며 나치즘과 파시즘을 비롯한 여러 공포정치 때문에 아주 어지럽고 복잡한 시절이었다. 그러던 어느 날 맥스가 갑작스럽게 자살을 하자 아벨은 큰 상실감에 빠지게 된다. 더군다나 자신과 아주 조금씩이 나나 관련이 있던 7명의 사람들이 시체로 발견되자 큰 충격과 공포 그리고 의문에 휩싸이게 되는데.. 이에 정신적인 고통에 시달리는 아벨은....

1920년의 바이에른 주의 소도시. 소도시의 역장인 크사비 볼비저는 맥주 공장집의 딸 하니와 결혼하여 행복과 존경을 얻었다고 생각하며 만족스런 나날을 보낸다. 어느날 하니는 우연히 프란츠 메르클과 불륜의 관계를 맺게 되고 소문이 퍼지지만 볼비저는 이를 확인하려 하지 않는다. 한 명예훼손 소송에서 볼비저는 아내를 위해 위증을 한다.그러나 볼비저와 하니의 관계는 점점 멀어져가고 볼비저는 폭음을 하기 시작한다. 볼비저는 하니에게 개처럼 달라붙고 하니는 남편을 점점 무시하며 그러는 사이 하니에게는 이발사 애인이 생긴다. 결국 볼비저의 위증이 드러나게 되고 그는 직장과 아내를 잃고 감옥에 들어간다.

1920년의 바이에른 주의 소도시. 소도시의 역장인 크사비 볼비저는 맥주 공장집의 딸 하니와 결혼하여 행복과 존경을 얻었다고 생각하며 만족스런 나날을 보낸다. 어느날 하니는 우연히 프란츠 메르클과 불륜의 관계를 맺게 되고 소문이 퍼지지만 볼비저는 이를 확인하려 하지 않는다. 한 명예훼손 소송에서 볼비저는 아내를 위해 위증을 한다.그러나 볼비저와 하니의 관계는 점점 멀어져가고 볼비저는 폭음을 하기 시작한다. 볼비저는 하니에게 개처럼 달라붙고 하니는 남편을 점점 무시하며 그러는 사이 하니에게는 이발사 애인이 생긴다. 결국 볼비저의 위증이 드러나게 되고 그는 직장과 아내를 잃고 감옥에 들어간다.

The story follows the life of a regular German women Leni Gruyten during the 1930s and 1940s. Through her interactions with friends, family and other people she knows, the regular folks' perception of the Nazi era is shown.

Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican telenovelas to silent French art films.