A film that was reportedly over ten years in the making, Männersache represents the long-awaited onscreen pairing of two...
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Rudi
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2009
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This lavish, broadly scaled feature from director Kai Wessel dramatizes the life of Hildegarde Knef (1925-2002), arguably the...
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Karl Gröhn
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2009
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2009
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A family's divided loyalties serves as a mirror of the struggle toward a reunified Germany in this drama from director Roland...
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2008
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With his bittersweet, German-language tragicomedy The Elementary Particles, writer-director Oskar Roehler brings to the...
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2006
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German writer-director Til Schweiger's romantic comedy Barefoot (Barfuss) concerns itself with the plight of Nick Keller...
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2005
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A dedicated young German boy pulls off an elaborate scheme to keep his mother in good health in this comedy drama from...
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Principal Dr. Klapprath
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2004
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One of the key political events of the late 20th century fails to distract a man who is having a row with his parents in this...
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2004
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Two lonely people find each other without meeting face to face in this romantic drama. Gregor (Ben Becker) is a disc jockey...
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2001
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Peter Fratzscher directs this slick, ironic werewolf movie. Likeable struggling novelist Thomas (Jan Josef Liefers) is...
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Bernbeck
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2000
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Opening with a brief glimpse of the childhood friendship between Nils and Turkish-German Tayfun, Freunde quickly cuts to the...
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2000
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Opening in remote Kurdistan, Eine Hand Voll Gras introduces us to the impoverished family of 10-year-old Kendal (Arman Inci)....
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2000
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Oskar Roehler directs this bleak look at a down-and-out writer's alcohol-drenched final days. Though the central character is...
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1999
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter, Martin
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1998
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The heroes of Andreas Dresen's metropolitan elegy become dreamers when confronted by harsh reality. A farmer dreams of...
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Henrik Peschke
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1998
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This interesting German psychological thriller is set during the fall of the Berlin Wall. Just before the fence comes down,...
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1995
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This German drama is centered upon the conversation between a grieving widower and a former Stasi (East German secret police)...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Heiner
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1994
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A super straight-arrow Swiss-German town becomes obsessed with upholding the law in this grim drama set in 1964. The cop is...
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1994
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In the 18th century, the King of Prussia graciously sponsored the creation of a room in one of the palaces of Tsar Peter I...
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Costello
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1992
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1992
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This drama appears to have been oriented to citizens of the former East Germany and other former Iron Curtain countries. In...
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1991
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In the old East Germany, all sorts of otherwise innocent activities could earn the unwary a prison term. In this story,...
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Hans-Peter Dallow
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1991
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The litany of the horrors of the Naza era in Germany is extended in this drama, based on a true story. Sixteen-year old...
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Lawyer
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1991
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Friedrich (Uwe Bohm) manages to escape from East Germany to the West in the 1950s. On his arrival, he is greeted with the...
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1990
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It seems like a good thing when Philip (Mathias Freihof), a high-school teacher, bumps into Tanja (Dagmar Manzel), starts a...
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Achim
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1989
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In this remake of Marriage in the Shadows, one of the first and most successful postwar East German films, the life of a...
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Mario Montegasso
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1989
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The time is the French Revolution; the place is the village of Travers, ensconsed in neutral Switzerland. Prussian aesthete...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1989
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When a factory night watchman is found murdered, his delectable daughter and a local detective investigate what happened, in...
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1988
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It is difficult these days to imagine that elementary school education was instituted by anyone at all. In fact, Swiss...
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1988
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In this German and Turkish romance, a cocky young man joins a judo class and bets his male classmates that he can get any...
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1988
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Konig is a very minor cog in a huge piece of legal machinery, a low-level state prosecutor. He would like to be a bigger cog,...
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Wuttke
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1987
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1987
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Germany's lyric poet Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) is the subject of this informative re-enactment of the 12 years between...
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Gontard
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1985
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This docudrama by director Hark Bohm is about a famous murder case in West Germany during the early 1980s (the Marie...
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Martin Birkhoff
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1984
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This propaganda film from East Germany about a corrupt society in West Germany goes to such extremes that it may offend many...
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Dr. Werner Michelsberg
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1984
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Based on the satire of the same name by Guenter de Bruyn this film humorizes the dilemma of a pompous university professor...
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1983
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Filmed in 1983, but not released until 1985, this East German drama is set in Germany immediately after the end of World War...
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Henry Wolters
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1983
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1981
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1978
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In the confusion of events during World War II, a young woman marries one young man, receives an official report of his...
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Michael
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1975
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1974
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1974
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1968
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