Der geteilte Himmel (The Divided Heaven)
With actors Paul Berndt and Renate Blume Die Büroangestellte Rita Seidel aus Halle findet durch die Liebe zu dem zehn Jahre älteren Chemiker Manfred Herrfurth die Kraft, aus ihrem Beruf auszubrechen und zu studieren. Nach einem Besuch in Westberlin kehrt die DDR-Bürgerin Rita Seidel freiwillig in ihre Heimat zurück, wo sie einen Nervenzusammenbruch erleidet und […]
Katzelmacher
Produced by Peer Raben With actors Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Elga Sorbas available on DVD in the US and Germany Katzelmacher documents life in a seemingly lifeless Munich and the sudden arrival of a Greek worker, played by Fassbinder himself. The majority of the film consists of inert sequences in which the […]
Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern (Hunting Scenes from Bavaria)
With actors Martin Sperr and Angela Winkler Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people’s suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard. (Summary from imdb.com) Links: IMDB Theme(s): Exoticism or Orientalism; Migration and Mobility;
Pane e cioccolata (Bread and Chocolate)
With actors Nino Manfredi, Johnny Dorelli, Anna Karina A comic but poignant portrait of an Italian immigrant working odd jobs in prosperous Switzerland and trying desperately to fit in. Though his work becomes increasingly degrading, he tenaciously refuses to give up and go home. This hapless Everyman is eternally rejected yet ever-hopeful. Links: IMDB Genre(s): […]
Dar Ghorbat – In der Fremde (Far from Home)
With actors Parviz Sayyad, Cihan Anasai, Muhammet Temizkan, Hüsamettin Kaya Der Türke Husseyin kommt nach West-Berlin, um sich hier, “in der Fremde”, eine neue Existenz aufzubauen. Er findet eine Stelle als Fabrikarbeiter und lebt gemeinsam mit einigen türkischen Kollegen in einer heruntergekommenen Wohnung in Kreuzberg. (Summary from filmportal.de .) Links: IMDB Genre(s): Drama, Melodrama; Theme(s): […]
Otobüs
With actors Tunç Okan, Tuncel Kurtiz, Björn Gedda The film is about a handful of Turkish people from rural areas who are driven to Stockholm where they will find a job. They are deceived by the driver and left all alone trapped in the bus in an open area in Stockholm. The rest of the […]
Stroszek
With actors Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and […]
Aus der Ferne sehe ich dieses Land (I See This Land from Afar)
color, Germany, Thomas Arslan, 89 Min, 2006 With actors Pablo Lira, Anibal Reyna, Valeria Villarcel A family of Chilean socialists living in West Germany, refugees from the coup which toppled Salvador Allende, attempt to survive on the few jobs which are open to them. In the story, the father has just been fired from his […]
Deutschland im Herbst (Germany in Autumn)
With actors Wolfgang Bächler Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann, Joachim Bissmeier The collaborative film entitled Deutschland im Herbst from Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge and a host of other directors from the New German Cinema is an amalgamation of short films that detail the prevailing sociopolitical sentiments in the Federal Republic of Germany during the immediate […]
Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)
With actors Mario Adorf and Angela Winkler Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War […]