The Tobacconist
Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the...
See moreShirley: Visions of Reality
A series of snapshots from the life of a fictional actress named Shirley serves to weave together thirteen paintings by Edward Hopper (e.g. "Office...
See moreThe Secret of the Black Trunk
A series of knife murders have an odd feature about them; the victims find that their luggage has been packed for them just before their deaths...
See moreThe Farewell
A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home...
See moreHanna's Sleeping Dogs
When Johanna's blind grandmother Ruth tells her the secret about their Jewish past, the “sleeping dogs” of the family history awake.
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The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher.
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Eden
Fat German star restaurant chef Gregor shows romantic interest in waitress Eden Drebb. She's happily married to hunky Xaver Drebb, but feels...
See moreThe Happy Years of the Thorwalds
The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident. Miss Thorwald takes over the raising of...
See moreThe Reunion
Luisa returns to her parents' home when her father becomes bedridden. She's expected to help her mother deal with the drudgery of caring for him...
See moreDouble Game
Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen
This film is based on the actual events referred to as the "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" (Hare-hunt in the Mühlviertel) which occurred in February 1945...
See moreDie Spur der Leidenschaft
Strangers
In a bomb explosion in a parking garage, the architect's wife Anna is buried together with the writer Robert. The two seriously injured people are...
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Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti
This first film adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play about class distinctions was made in 1955 in the Vienna Rosenhügel studios, but it was only...
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A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor.
See moreThe Wollands
Horst Wolland is a welder in Berlin who tries to move up the career ladder to better provide for his family. He is on the verge of being promoted...
See moreDie Kinder aus Nr. 67
The "Our Gang" type adventures of German working class kids from a Berlin apartment building (number 67) during the early 1930s. With Nazism's rise...
See moreMadame Bovary