Die Unberührbare (No Place to Go)
Available on DVD Flanders, a famous female author, travels to the German capitol in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall. She is deeply depressed by the events because she saw the Communist states as a very good thing that has now ended. During these joyful days, she cannot find anyone who understands her, […]
Deutschländersiedlung (Germany in Turkey: Gated Communities)
Several years ago, the filmmaker, Aysun Bademsoy, came across the “Deutschländersiedlungen” (“German settlements”) in Turkey, which have arisen in the last 10-20 years along the connecting roads between the major coastal cities. “Deutschländer” (roughly translated “people from Germany”) is the name given in Turkey to Turks who have lived and worked many years abroad, mostly […]
Yugotrip
Der 26-jährige Bosnier Dejan lebt als Kriegsflüchtling in Köln. Traumatisiert von den furchtbaren Ereignissen in seiner Heimat, wird er von Halluzinationen und Wahnvorstellungen gequält. Auch als er die 20-jährige, aus behüteten Verhältnissen stammende Anna kennen lernt und sich in sie verliebt, kommt sein Seelenleben nicht zur Ruhe. Um Frieden zu bekommen, muss Dejan einen Weg […]
Heimat – Chronik einer Zeitenwende (Heimat – Chronicle of a Changing Time)
With actors Jörg Altmeyer and Jutta Altmeyer Available on DVD This is not only a sequel to the “Second Heimat”, but also a chronicle of a very decisive decade for Germany (1989 to 200). The main couple of the mini-series released in 1992, Hermann Simon and Clarissa Lichtblau (played by the same actors), reunite after […]
Schussangst (Gun-Shy)
With actors Fabian Hinrichs and Lavinia Wilson “Gun-Shy” is a poetic thriller, depicting the desolation and disintegration of Lukas, a misfit. His life takes a strange turn for the worse when he becomes involved in an unrequited love affair with Isabella. Lukas is doing civil service, delivering “meals on wheels” to the old and sick. […]
Milchwald (This Very Moment)
With actors Miroslaw Baka and Horst-Günter Marx Available on DVD This is the story of Sylvia, who looses her stepchildren on a shopping trip in Poland. For fear of loosing her husband’s love, too, she is unable to tell him what has happened and returns home, pretending everything is fine. Upon realising his children are […]
Madrid
With actors Kathrin Angerer and Jutta Keil Links: IMDB, Filmportal Genre(s): Drama, Melodrama;
Karamuk
With actors Julia Mahnecke and Adnan Maral Johanna, a feisty 17-year-old German girl with dreams of becoming a fashion designer, discovers her biological father is Turkish. Without telling him of their relationship, she gets a job at his elegant restaurant and disaster follows. Links: IMDB, Filmportal Genre(s): Comedy;
Ghetto-Kids (Ghettokids)
Produced by Bernd Burgemeister, Dieter Graber, Harald Wigankow With actors Ioannis Tsialas, Toni Osmani, Barbara Rudnik, Günther Maria Halmer available on DVD in Germany Christian Wagner’s Ghetto-Kids is a tale of two brothers from a family of Greek migrants living in a poor foreigner’s quarter in Munich. The story begins with the two youngest brothers […]