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Aug. 25, 2008 11:26 AM ET (AP)
Actors: Campino, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Dennis Hopper, Milla Jovovich, Inga Busch
Synopsis: Die Toten Hosen front-man Campino headlines iconic German filmmaker Wim Wenders' drama about a world-renowned photographer who finds a new life and a new love while being targeted by a tenacious trigger-man. Finn (Campino) is a successful shutterbug who leads a hectic life, gets precious little Read More
Actors: Henry Huebchen, Udo Samel, Hannelore Elsner, Golda Tencer, Anja Franke, Sebastian Blomberg, Steffen Groth
Synopsis: A man gets in touch with his spiritual side for a very material reason in this comedy from Germany. Jacob Zuckermann was a young man living in Eastern Germany when the Berlin Wall divided the nation in 1961. Jacob's mother escaped to West Berlin with her other son, Samuel, in tow, but Jacob was Read More
Synopsis: Joseph Goebbels has often been cited as the man who did the most to help Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rise to power; he was the architect of the party's propaganda machine and helped to craft the public image of Hitler as he became one of the most hated and feared leaders of his time, and Read More
Actors: Josef Hader, Simon Schwarz, Joachim Krol, Peter Streimelweger, Maria Kostlinger
Synopsis: A lively cast brings Waltz King's beloved comic operetta to life in this performance headlined by Pamela Armstrong, Thomas Allan, and Ragnar Ulfung, and featuring The Glyndebourne Chorus and London Philharmonic Orchestra performing under Vladimir Jurowski. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar
Synopsis: How far is a man willing to go to be with the woman he wants? Erika (Isabelle Huppert) is a veteran piano instructor at a famous music conservatory in Vienna. Erika is highly respected for her remarkable talent and strong discipline, but she's also known to be a harsh taskmistress and does not Read More
Actors: Nina Hoss, Meret Becker, Christian Nickel, Udo Samel, Sylvester Groth
Synopsis: Nina Hoss stars in this adaptation of a novel by Klaus Mann as Marion von Kammer, a singer who leaves Germany for Zurich as the Nazis rise to power. However, she finds life in Switzerland dull and suffocating, so she journeys to Paris, where she works at a pirate radio station broadcasting Read More
Actors: Ralf Wolter, Udo Samel, Leonard Lansink, Marc Richter
Synopsis: Safe sex just got a lot more dangerous in this purposefully outrageous comedy from Germany. A college professor, Mr. Smirnoff (Ralf Wolter) lures an attractive female student, who is willing to do just about anything to improve her grade, to New York's Hotel Quickie, where he avails himself of one Read More
Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Matthais Habich, Udo Samel, Dugrun Gabriel, Katharina Zapatka
Synopsis: In the former East Germany, Anna (Barbara Sukowa) suffers a nervous breakdown and enters a sanitarium. Her 23-year-old daughter Maria (Katharina Zapatka) visits but fails to get her to come home. Missing her train, Maria accepts a ride from businessman Robert Kunze (Udo Samel), who rapes and kills Read More
Actors: Katharina Thalbach, Christiane Horbiger, Harald Juhnke, Udo Samel, Theresa Hubchen
Synopsis: Movie-making cliches are parodied in this German comedy which features to warring actresses, meddling producers, indulgent directors, and an ignored writer. Not only must they contend with each other, they must also deal with the bankers who have the power to shut them down at any moment. The Read More
Actors: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grunmandl, Anne Bennent, Udo Samel
Synopsis: This cerebral Austrian mystery, by avant-garde director Michael Haneke, will disturb those viewers with the patience to wade through it. The film begins with a grisly mass killing. It was Christmas eve 1993 and a 19-year old student inexplicably murders several people and then kills himself. The Read More
Actors: André Eisermann, Udo Samel, Jeremy Clyde, Hermann Beyer, Cecile Paoli
Synopsis: Director Peter Sehr offers here another version of the origins of Kaspar Hauser, one of the most enigmatic characters in German history. According to this film, the title character is the real son of Duke Karl of Baden. Karl's brother Ludwig wants the throne for himself so he secretly orders a Read More
Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Martin Benrath, Tina Engel, Eva Mattes
Synopsis: In this resonant drama, decades after the fact, Paul fondly recalls his grandfather's monomaniacal obsession with his craft of "telling" the stories of silent movies with his violin, occasionally supplementing the violin with his storytelling voice. When talkies newly appear on the scene, his Read More
Actors: Horst Buchholz, Otto Sander, Peter Falk, Nastassja Kinski, Heinz Rühmann, Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Lou Reed, Willem Dafoe
Synopsis: Wim Wenders revisits his masterpiece Der Himmel Uber Berlin in this film which picks up several years after the original left off. Cassiel (Otto Sander) is an angel who watches over the lives of the people of recently reunified Berlin with Raphaella (Nastassja Kinski). Damiel (Bruno Ganz) Read More
Actors: Helmut Griem, Sabine Sinjen, Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Walter Schmidinger, Hans Quest
Synopsis: This dramatic presentation is the story of the landscapes that inspired Caspar David Friedrich. Narrated by Friedrich's friend and pupil, Carl Gustav Carus (played by Helmut Griem) this takes place on location throughout Europe. Mr. Friedrich's will not appear, except with his back to the camera Read More
Actors: Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel
Synopsis: Three members of a middle-class family are followed as their lifestyle slowly disintegrates. Nothing spectacular happens: it's just the dreary un-ending grind of a go-nowhere existence. The film's final scene emulates Fassbinder, as the threesome bid auf wiedersehn to everyone and Read More
Actors: Otto Sander, Katharina Thalbach, Udo Samel, Rolf Zacher, Helmut Krauss
Synopsis: Otto Sander plays a German film director who shows his films to a skeptical panel of censors in this satire. He unspools the reels of his work in front of officials and religious leaders who make up the censorship board. Many filmmakers' and celebrities' faces familiar to German audiences appear Read More
Actors: Angela Schanelec, Udo Samel, Peter Franke
Synopsis: This somewhat superficial historical drama is about the 1525 Peasants' War in Germany when the lower classes rebelled against oppressive conditions imposed by the clergy and nobility and then committed many acts (including atrocities) that did not morally set them far apart from the people they Read More
Actors: Udo Samel, Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Daniel Barrilly, Michaela Widhalm, Mireille Geisler
Synopsis: Udo Samel plays Franz Schubert in this film biography that is a grim look at the darker side of the legendary composer. Schubert is released from a hospital-asylum after being treated for a sexually transmitted disease. After visiting his strict father, he goes to live with his wealthy friend Read More
Actors: Greger Hansen, Stefan Reck, Jean-Paul Raths, Ernst Stoetzner
Synopsis: The tense drama Klassenfeind takes place inside one classroom, as the students express themselves with growing degrees of animosity and polarization, until the schoolroom itself suffers as much damage at their hands as they have suffered internally. The issues that cause trouble among the students Read More
Actors: Edith Clever, Gerhard Bienert, Tina Engel, Johanna Hofer
Synopsis: Gross und Klein is a respectable four-hour drama based on a play by Botho Strauss about a woman, Lotte (Edith Clever), and her relationships with a wide range of characters in Saarbruecken. Lotte interacts with liberal artists and a conservative elite, and along the way, the sorrows and joys of Read More
Actors: Udo Samel, Heinz Hoenig
Synopsis: Jimmi (Thomas Kufahl) is an 18-year-old street hustler from West Berlin with no social skills and a bad attitude towards everyone and everything. Although he wants employment and self respect, his illiteracy and temper reduce him to selling himself for homosexual sex. He is taken in by a Read More
Actors: Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans-Christian Blech, Heinz Honig, Hans Brenner
Synopsis: Despite the film's English title Knife in the Head, Hoffman (Bruno Ganz), a scientist, is shot in the head by the police while he is trying to pick up his wife from a political rally. Upon awakening, Hoffman finds that he has lost all memory of who he is and why the police were after him. At Read More
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