Alfred Edel
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Terror 2000 - Intensivstation Deutschland
Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provincial town called Rassau), gets kidnapped just as the family. Chief inspector Koern and his gi...
100 Jahre Adolf Hitler - Die letzte Stunde im Führerbunker
On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out their final hour in the Führerbunker.
Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit
A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.
Klassenverhältnisse
A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.
Die Patriotin
Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical approach to 'uncovering' the past, quite literally digging with the spade and dissecting books with hammers and drills.
Stroszek
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 and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.
Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland
Hitler's rise and Nazism are depicted in a theatrical, experimental style, using actors, puppets, and projections to explore his historical role and enduring myth in German culture.
Angst vor der Angst
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.
Supermarkt
A drifting teen slips from petty crime into exploitation on the streets of Hamburg, courted by a self-serving journalist and a predatory pimp, before a doomed romance pushes him toward a desperate armed-robbery scheme he can’t outrun.
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.
Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin
Roswitha is forced to work as an abortionist in order to has the possibility of having more children and to support her student husband, Franz. But the police takes part in the situation and Franz is under arrest. After being freed from prison, Roswitha decide to take part in politics and social work.
Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos
A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.
Abschied von gestern
Yesterday Girl is an acerbic, deliriously fractured, incisive, and darkly comic satire on a young German woman (and archetypal embodiment of the postwar generation), Anita G.'s (Alexandra Kluge) search for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery