Titles: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W-Y Z East German Cinema from the DEFA Studios Silent Films For a complete listing of German language videos in MRC (including documentaries), use the MELVYL catalog: F FORM VIDEO AND LANG GERMAN AT UCB Movies by Director videography War Propaganda Bibliography of books about German cinema and German filmmakers in the UC Berkeley library Resources for German Cinema Collection Development and Scholarship 08/15 (Null-acht funfzehn) (1954) Director, Paul May. Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, O.E. Hasse, Gustav Knuth, Hans Christian Blech, Peter Carsten, Mario Adorf, Emmerich Schrenk. This finely crafted look into life in a German military barracks shortly before WWII is the story of a rebellious young trainee who launches a mutiny against his superiors. Although the film focuses primarily on the tribulations of the new recruit it also presents a fascinating look at the lives of other soldiers, officers and civilians (most of whom are played by non-professional actors). The film's title refers to a particular type of German military pistol. Contents: pt. 1. In the barracks -- pt. 2. At the front -- pt. 3. Back at home. PAL format; in German. 332 min. 999:3125 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database 38--auch das war Wien (Austria / West Germany, 1987) Director, Wolfgang Glück. Cast: Sunnyi Melles, Tobias Engel, Heinz Trixner, Ingrid Burkhard. Follows two lovers--one Jewish, one Aryan--in pre-war Vienna who are blind to the inhumanity which surrounds them. In German without subtitles. 94 min. DVD 7693 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database 40 qm Deutschland (1986) Director, Tevfik Baser. Cast: Ozay Fecht, Yaman Okay, Demir Gokgol. The tale of a young Turkish woman who, after an arranged marriage, follows her much older husband to Hamburg, where he had been working for some time. Instead of allowing his wife to experience for herself life in this German city, the husband anxiously shields her from any contact with the host culture and keeps her a prisoner in their apartment. PAL format. In Turkish with German subtitles. 76 min. 999:2995 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006) Ab morgen wird sich alles andern Presents five short Austrian films made accessible for the first time to a broader public. Ab morgen wird sich alles andern / Andreas Gruber (1980) -- Freistadt / Fritz Lehner, Heinz Scheiderbauer (1976, 60 min.) -- Jugendliche / Peter Patzak, Heinz Scheiderbauer (1972) -- Wochenend / Wolfram Paulus Jr. (1981, 31 min.) -- Der Ball / Ulrich Seidl (1982, 50 min.) In German without subtitles. DVD 7749 Abschied von gestern (Anita G.) (West Germany, 1966) Director, Alexander Kluge. Cast: Alexandra Kluge, Gunther Mack, Eva Maria Meinecke, Hans Korte, Josef Kreindl, Alfred Edel. Recognized as a cultural icon of the sixties in West Germany, this film tells the story of a young East German woman who comes to West Germany in hopes of a better life. She has trouble adjusting to life in a new society and becomes her employer's mistress, but leaves when she is wrongly accused of theft. She becomes a wandering gypsy, confused and unable to deal with either the communist regime or a free-market economy. PAL format; in German. 88 min. DVD 8160; vhs 999:3119 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Schlüpmann, Heide; Daniel, Jamie Owen . ""What Is Different Is Good": Women and Femininity in the Films of Alexander Kluge." October, Vol. 46,(Autumn, 1988), pp. 129-150. UC users only Abschied von gestern (Anita G.) & Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin Two feature films and six shorts created by the noted German producer and director Alexander Kluge. Cast: Alexandra Kluge. Disc 1. Abschied von gestern / Yesterday Girl / starring Alexandra Kluge (84 min.), 1966 -- Nachricht vom Filmfestival in Venedig 1966 / News from the 1966 Venice Film Festival (1 min.), 1966 -- Brutalitat in Stein / Brutality in Stone (11 min.), 1961 -- Ein Liebesversuch / An Experiment in Love (13 min.), 1998 -- An Vertov / For Vertov (1 min.), 1998 -- Disc 2. Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin / Part-time Work of a Domestic Slave / starring Alexandra Kluge (87 min.), 1973 -- Lehrer im Wandel (11 min.), 1963 -- Sam remembers Papa Kong (1 min.), 2006. Abschied von gestern (Yesterday Girl): tells the story of a young East German woman who comes to West Germany in hopes of a better life. She has trouble adjusting to life in a new society and becomes her employer's mistress, but leaves when she is wrongly accused of theft. She becomes a wandering gypsy, confused and unable to deal with either the communist regime or a free-market economy. Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin (Part-time Work of a Domestic Slave): Roswitha Bronski is a married mother of three at the center of the protest movement who finds her plans for social change are easier to realize outside family life. DVD 8160 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Affaire Blum (Blum Affair) (1948) Directed by Erich Engel. Cast: Paul Bildt, Hans Christian Blech, Klaus Becker, Gerhard Bienert. A film based on a true case which occured in the 1920's. An accountant responds to an advertisment and gets murdered for his money. Mr. Blum is blamed for the murder because the accountant was about to give evidence about a tax fraud involving Mr. Blum's company. A dramatic presentation about pre-Hitlerite Germany which relates the story of a Jewish businessman falsely accused by anti-Semitic police. 100 min. 999:299 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre Wrath of God) (1972) Directed by Werner Herzog. Cast: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra, Peter Berling, Cecilia Rivera, Daniel Ades. A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Aguirre, self-styled "Wrath of God," travel up the Amazon in search of gold, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a death trip. 94 min. DVD 377; VHS 999:7 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf) SEE Fear Eats the Soul Alice in den Städten (Alice in the Cities) (1974) Directed by Wim Wenders. Cast: Rudiger Vogler, Yella Rottlander, Lisa Kruzer. Phillip, a footloose 31-year old journalist on the road from the United States to Europe, suddenly finds himself with a new traveling companion: a 9-year old girl named Alice. 110 min. 999:138 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Der Alte. Kalt wie Diamant. (1982) Director, Theodor Gradler. Cast: Siegfried Lowitz, Michael Ande, Gustl Halenke, Doris Kunstmann. The armed robbery of a jewelry store and the murder of its proprietor, a marriage on the rocks and a million dollar insurance policy test the skills of an experienced detective. In German 67 min. 999:3189 Der Amerikanische Freund (The American Friend) (1977) Directed by Wim Wenders. Cast: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gerard Blain. Story about a Hamburg picture framer who is perfectly ordinary except that he is suffering from a rare and fatal blood disease. His peace and sanity are upset when an insistent Frenchman offers him money to assassinate a Mafia figure in Paris. 127 min. DVD 1557; vhs 999:320 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Der Amerikanische Soldat (The American Soldier) (1970) Written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George, Margarethe Von Trotta. Story about a charismatic hit man (Ricky) who always wears a gun bulging from his shoulder holster, sports a soft fedora hat and white suit. Ricky carries out his assignments without knowledge or emotion and the final shoot-out is one of the most startling of Fassbinder's off-beat endings. 80 min. DVD 1724; vhs 999:3285 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Angeschwemmt (Washed Ashore) (Austria, 1994) Nikolaus Geyrhalter's first full-length documentary, focuses on a place called "Friedhof der Namenlosen" (The Cementary of Unknown Dead), a place, where all those nameless suicides, washed ashore on the Danube-riverbanks have been buried. The film gets the old grave-digger and other people talking about their lives alongside the river and creates a very special athmosphere: you almost get to sense the fog and the dampness of the Danube-meadows. In German with English subtitles. 86 min. DVD 7738 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die ubrige Zeit & Vermischte Nachrichten(1967-2006) Two feature films and seven shorts created by the noted German producer and director Alexander Kluge. Disc 1. Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die ubrige Zeit = The blind director (106 min), 1985 -- Blinde Liebe: Gesprach mit Jean-Luc Godard (24 min.), 2001 -- 16 Minutenfilme (17 min.), 1970 -- Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten Nachtstunde (1 min.), 2006 -- Disc 2. Vermischte Nachrichten = Miscellaneous news (96 min.), 1986 -- Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt (13 min.), 1967 -- Ein Arzt aus Halberstadt (29 min.), 1970 -- Besitzburgerin, Jahrgang 1908 (11 min.), 1973 --Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer (1 min.), 2006. Cast (Blind director): Jutta Hoffmann, Armin Mueller-Stahl ; (Miscellaneous news): Marita Breuer, Rosel Zech. Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die ubrige Zeit (The blind director): In this "film essay," director Alexander Kluge handles two different stories with both fictional and documentary aspects. In one story, a foster parent cares for a traumatized young girl who is now an orphan after witnessing a car crash that killed both her parents. After the foster-parent does the right thing and takes the girl to her aunt --her court-appointed guardian -- she is shocked to see that neither the wealthy aunt nor her servants are very interested in the girl. An unusual decision follows. In the other story, a director goes blind in the middle of a film project but has to be kept on because of his contract. This situation leads to some philosophizing on the nature of film and art in the modern world. Vermischte Nachrichten (Miscellaneous news): This drama strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II, minorities, and the elderly. A side plot follows a meeting between former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and East German leader Erich Honecker. DVD 8177 Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick) (West Germany / Austria, 1971) Director, Wim Wenders. Cast: Arthur Brauss, Erika Pluhar, Kai Fischer. Josef Bloch, a suspended soccer player, picks up a girl in Vienna, strangles her, and escapes to a small town where he passively waits, reading newspaper accounts of the police dragnet that is slowly closing in on him. Based on the novel by Peter Handke (PT2668.Ha5 A8 Main Stack) - 101 min. 999:347 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Angst Essen Seele Auf (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul) (West Germany, 1974) Directed by Rainer Fassbinder. Cast: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A Moroccan immigrant in Munich comes up against social and racial prejudice when he marries a sixty-year-old charwoman. 94 min. DVD 1725; vhs 999:622 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Angst vor der Angst (Fear of Fear) (TV, 1975) Directed by Rainer Fassbinder. Cast: Margit Carstensen, Ulrich Faulhaber, Brigitte Mira, Irm Hermann, Armin Meier, Adrian Hoven. A pregnant middle-class housewife, living an ideal, comfortable life, begins to experience moments of uncontrollable undirected fear. Her anxiety grows and becomes more frequent. After giving birth, she turns to drugs and alcohol, but nothing seems to alleviate her tempestuous nerves. 88 min. DVD 1652 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Vicari, Justin. "Better Living Through Chemistry? On Fassbinder?s Forgotten Masterpiece, Fear of Fear." Bright Lights, August 2006 | Issue 53 Ansichten eines Clowns (1975) Director, Gunther Witte. Cast: Helmut Griem, Hanna Schygulla, Eva Maria Meineke. The place is the Federal Republic of Germany, 1960, under the blue skies of the German economic miracle. Hans Schnier for years has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. Disgusted by the insincere moral standards of the middle class he "drops out" along with his girfriend from the proletariat, Marie. PAL format. In German. 111 min. 999:3005 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Antares (Austria, 2004) Directed by Götz Spielmann. Cast: Petra Morze, Andreas Patton, Hary Prinz, Susanne Wuest, Dennis Cubic, Andreas Kiendl, Martina Zinner. Tells three stories of passion, jealousy, routine, and violence, in which love is the cause of and driving force behind each character's emotional and physical experiences. Alex and Nicole are divorced, but Alex cannot let go of what has passed. Sonja is facing tough times because of her pregnancy and becoming wildly jealous of her husband Marco. Eva, a loyal wife and mother, has her life turned upside-down by a fling with Tomasz. 115 min. DVD 6303 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database April 2000 (Austria, 1952) Directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner. Cast: Hilde Krahl, Josef Meinrad, Waltraut Haas, Judith Holzmeister, Hans Moser, Curd Jurgens. A comic satirical science-fiction film, as much as a document of a rather short period of Austrian history, namely the ten years from 1945 to 1955 when the four occupying powers were here. The film takes a look into the future year 2000 where some things changed radically but most things are just the same as they were. The Big Four are still in the country and the new president suddenly claims that Austria is independent. The occupying powers immediately call the "World Protection Commission" that should decide whether Austria is endangering the world peace or not. If so, they will destroy the country or at least evacuate the population into sparsely populated regions of the world. In German without subtitles. 101 min. DVD 7748 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Aprilkinder (April Children) (1999) Directed by Yüksel Yavuz. Cast: Erdal Yildiz, Inga Busch, Bulent Esrungun, Serif Sezer, Senem Tepe, Hasan Ali Mete, Cemal Yavuz, Kaan Emre, Ozgur Ozata. The story of a Kurdish family in Hamburg. The brothers Cem and Mehmet live with their sister Dilan and their immigrant parents in Germany. Mehmet drifts off into a world of crime while Cem works in a meat factory and falls in love with a German prostitute before obeying his father's will and marrying a relative from his faraway Kurdish village. The "Aprilchildren" are the descendants of a generation torn between two worlds: they have lost their former native country, its traditions and its values, but are still alienated in their new country. 85 min. 999:2796 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos & Die unbezähmbare Leni Peickert Two feature films and four shorts created by the noted German producer and director Alexander Kluge. Disc 1. Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos = Artists in the big top: Perplexed (100 min), 1968 -- Hinrichtung eines Elefanten (15 min.), 2000 -- 5 Stunden Parsifal (1 min.), 1998 -- Disc 2. Die unbezahmbare Leni Peickert = Undomitable Leni Peickert (33 min.), 1970 -- Reformzirkus (127 min.), 1970 -- Die traurige Nachricht (1 min.), 2006. Cast (Artists in the big top: perplexed): Hannelore Hoger, Curt Jurgens, Sigi Graue ; (Undomitable Leni Peickert): Hannelore Hoger, Bernd Hoeltz. Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos (Artists in the big top: Perplexed): Tells the story of a circus beset with financial woes. Leni, the director of a circus, has just lost her father in a trapeze accident. She tries to keep the circus out of debt and vows to continue the performances under the big top. Helped by a small and unexpected inheritance, Leni has high hopes of keeping the circus operating. She must decide if her dedication to the show is realistic or merely wishful thinking. Curt Jurgens appears as the animal trainer Mackensen in this symbolic but slow-moving feature. Die unbezahmbare Leni Peickert (Undomitable Leni Peickert): Continues the drama above as Leni continues to pursue her activities to keep the circus afloat. DVD 8178 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Aschenbrödel: Die schonsten Marchenfilme (1954) Six films by the early German experimental animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger, presenting animations of well-known fables and fairy tales. Lotte Reiniger developed the art of using silhouettes in film during the 1920s. These current films were developed in Great Britain where she had immigrated prior to World War II. Contents: Aschenbrodel (Cinderella) / Brothers Grimm -- Daumelinchen (Thumbelina) / H. C. Andersen -- Hansel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) / Brothers Grimm -- Der Heuschreck und die Ameise (Grasshopper and the ant) nach "Grille und die Ameise" / Jean de Lafontaine -- Die drei Wunsche (Three wishes) / Brothers Grimm -- Das tapfere Schneiderlein (Brave little tailor) / Brothers Grimm. PAL format. In German without subtitles. 60 min. Video/C 8416 Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen (Even Dwarfs Started Small) (1969) Director, Werner Herzog. Cast: Helmut Doring, Gerd Gickel, Paul Glauer, Erna Gschwendtner, Gisela Hertwig, Gerhard Marz, Hertel Minkner, Alfredo PPiccini, Gertraud Piccini, Brigitte Saar, Marianne Saar, Erna Smolarz, Lajos Zsarnoczay. The inmates have taken over an institution in a bleak and savage world in which everyone's a dwarf in this brutal allegorical film about the consequences of imprisonment and rebellion. In this land of reversed proportions, as one of the institution's directors holds a rebel hostage while issuing orders for calm, the other inmates run amok, smashing equipment, setting fires, fighting for power and tormenting two blind prisoners. 96 min. DVD 977 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Aufzeichnungen zu Kleidern und Städten (Notebook on Cities and Clothes) (1989) Directed by Wim Wenders. Cast: Yohji Yamamoto, Wim Wenders. Focuses on issues of identity -- how individuals see and define themselves based on clothes, where they live, how they see their place in the world. Profiles/interviews fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto as he and his staff prepare for presentation of a seasonal collection. Director/writer Wim Wenders compares the film and fashion industries, illustrating how they parallel one another. 81 min. DVD 1556 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Die Ausgesperrten (Austria, TV, 1982) Directed by Franz Novotny. Cast: Rudolf Wessely, Emmy Werner, Paulus Manker, Ursula Knobloch, Alexandra Curtis, Christine Kaufmann. Two young characters in this story of rebellious youth are named after two Germans, brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl who were imprisoned and executed for their anti-Nazi stance during World War II. In this film, the rebels do not have such a clear-cut enemy but nevertheless, they cannot accept the way life is heading in Austria of the 1950s and they revolt by stealing, mugging, and trying out terrorist methods (bombs). Their future seems to be inexorably heading on a collision course with the forces that have locked them out. In German without subtitles. 93 min. DVD 7709 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Baader (Germany / UK, 2002) Directed by Christopher Roth. Cast: Frank Giering, Laura Tonke, Vadim Glowna, Birge Schade. A fact-based drama that conveys a lot about the life, thinking and hopes of those who became known as terrorists in the RAF, people who thought of themselves as terrorists when they were still only a group of bourgeois youngsters looking for their way. Non-US Format DVD (PAL, Region 2.) 110 min. DVD 4569 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Baron Muenchhausen (Münchhausen) (1943) Directed by Josef Von Baky. Cast: Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Brigitte Horney, Michael Bohnen, Ferdinand Marian, Hans Brausewetter, Hermann Speelmans, Marina von Ditmar, Andrews Engelmann, Kathe Haack, Waldemar Leitgeb, Walter Lieck, Hubert von Meyerinck, Jaspar von Oertzen, Werner Scharf. The famous Baron Munchhausen is called to the court of St. Petersburg. He becomes a favorite of the Tsarina, duels with a jealous Potemkin and receives the gift of eternal youth from the diabolical Cagliostro. This lavish, impudent, adult fairly tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting, and a rich color palette. DVD special features: Making of documentary with comments by director of the F.W. Murnau Foundation ; original theatrical trailer ; animated short film, "Die Abenteuer des Baron Munchhausen: eine Winterreise" (1944) ; photo gallery ; examples of Afgacolor restoration: Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten (1941) ; excerpt from the Agfacolor film Die Fledermaus (1944) ; pop-culture gallery of Munchhausen images. 111 min. DVD 2870; vhs 999:328 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Rentschler, Eric. "The Triumph of Male Will: "Münchhausen" (1943) Film Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 3. (Spring, 1990), pp. 14-23. UC users only Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (Confessions of Felix Krull) (1957) Director, Kurt Hoffmann. Cast: Horst Buchholtz, Liselotte Pulver, Susi Nicoletti. Felix Krull, an opportunist, full of charm, and a "goodly amount of larceny in his soul," is at the helm of every adventure from imperial Germany at the turn of the century to a Paris hotel and an eccentric Professor Cuckoo's household in Lisbon. 105 min. 999:2914 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bella Martha (Mostly Martha) (2001) Directed by Sandra Nettelbeck. Cast: Martina Gedeck, Maxime Foerste, August Zirner, Ulrich Thomsen, Sibylle Canonica, Katja Studt, Idil Uner, Sergio Castellitto. Martha is the chef who fusses and obsesses over each dish before it leaves the kitchen. The demands of her job and her natural shyness keep her from meeting new people. When her sister suddenly dies and Martha adopts Lina, her eight-year-old niece, she finds unexpected help from Mario, Martha's hunky new sous chef, who is not only a whiz on the chopping block but knows sundry magic tricks and jokes to keep Lina's spirits afloat. Just as Martha starts to grow attached to the girl, Lina's erratic father shows up demanding that he take her back to Italy with him. 107 min. DVD 1657 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Benny's Video (Austria / Switzerland, 1992) Directed by Michael Haneke. Cast: Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Muhe, Ingrid Stassner. Benny likes to watch violent movies, including a home-made video of a pig being slaughtered. Benny soon loses his mind, killing a girl and filming the murder with his video camera. 106 min. DVD 5587 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Berlin Alexanderplatz (1982) Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Gunter Lamprecht (Franz Biberkopf), Hanna Schygulla (Eva), Barbara Sukowa (Mieze), Gottfried John (Reinhold), Ivan Desny (Pums). Story of Franz Biberkof, a former transportation worker. When we first see Franz, he has just been released from prison where he has served four years for an irrational act of violence. He returns to his Berlin neighborhood resolved to go straight but forces in his environment, the influences of his cronies, the grinding poverty, the decay of society overwhelm him and he begins his duel with fate. Based on Alfred Doblin's novel (PT2607.O35 B5 1930 Main Stack) Disc 1. Part I, The punishment begins ; Part II, How is one to live if one doesn't want to die? -- Disc 2. Part III, A hammer blow to the head can injure the soul ; Part IV, A handful of people in the depths of silence ; Part V, A reaper with the power of our lord -- Disc 3. Parts VI, Love has its price ; Part VII, Remember- an oath can be amputated ; Part VIII, The suns warms the skin, but burns it sometimes too -- Disc 4. Part IX, About the eternities between the many and the few ; Part X, Loneliness tears cracks of madness even in walls ; Part XI, Knowledge is power and the early bird catches the worm -- Disc 5. Parts XII, The serpent in the soul of the serpent ; Part XIII, The outside and the inside and the secret of fear of the secret -- Disc 6. Epilogue Special features (Disc 7): "Notes on the Making of 'Berlin Alexanderplatz'" Hans-Dieter Hartl's 1980 documentary (44 min.) ; "Berlin Alexanderplatz remastered" notes on the restoration (32 min.) ; "Berlin Alexanderplatz" 1931 film adaptation of the novel from a screenplay co-written by the author himself (84 min.); Interview with author and Berlin Alexanderplatz scholar Peter Jelavich. Program notes on container insert include an essay "He who lives in a human skin" by filmmaker Tom Tykwer, "The cities of humanity and the human soul" reflections by Fassbinder on Doblin's novel, an essay "You've no right to exist" by German author Thomas Steinfeld on the novel, "Black and white in color" an interview with Schwarzenberger, film chapter titles, and notes on the digital transfer process. 940 min. DVD 9281; vhs 999:430 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Berlin Alexanderplatz: die Geschichte Franz Biberkopf (1931) Director, Piel Jutzi. Cast: Maria Bard, Heinrich George, Margarete Schlegel, Bernhard Minetti Ex-convict Franz finds he cannot escape the infuence of his old criminal cohorts. When he refuses to pay "hush money" to the mob, his faithful wife is killed. Franz resigns himself to a life of crime, ultimately descending into madness. PAL format. In German without subtitles. 83 min. 999:3124 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Der Bettelstudent (1956) Directed by Werner Jacobs. Cast: Cast: Gerhard Riedmann, Gunther Philipp, Waltraut Haas, Elma Karlowa, Gustav Knuth. In revenge for being jilted by Laura, the daughter of a Countess, a Polish General arranges for a humble begger student to pretend to be a wealthy gentleman. When Laura falls in love with the student intrigue and confusion follow. 93 min. 999:3002 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Der Bewegte Mann (The Most Desired Man) (1996) Director, Sönke Wortmann. Cast: Til Schweiger, Katja Reimann, Joachim Krol, Rufus Beck. A comedy in which heterosexual Axel, having been thrown out by his wife for one more sexual escapade, ends up being taken in by two homosexuals, Norbert and Walter, who promptly begin competing for his favors. This leads to a number of comical misunderstandings, which play with heterosexual and homosexual stereotypes. PAL format. 93 min. 999:3115 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Darke, Chris. "The Most Desired Man/Der Bewegte Mann." Sight and Sound. Mar 1996. Vol. 6, Iss. 3; p. 46 (2 pages) Hansen, Eric. "Der Bewegte Mann." Variety Review Database. Oct 1994. UC users only Bildnis einer Trinkerin (Ticket of No Return) (1979) Directed by Ulrike Ottinger. Cast: Tabea Blumenschein, Magdalena Montezuma, Nina Hagen, Eddie Constantine. A drunken sightseeing tour of Berlin presented through a portrait of two extremely different women in an exploration of the complexity of female identity. This drinkers' geography of Berlin is complemented by people who live in Berlin or are visiting, including rock singers, writers, taxi drivers and an artist. 108 min. 999:3431 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bis ans Ende der Welt (Until the End of the World) (1991) Director, Wim Wenders. Cast: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Sam Neill, Max Von Sydow, Rudiger Vogler, Ernie Dingo, Jeanne Moreau. Sam Farber portrays an uneasy traveler in this futuristic 21st century adventure. He is pursued by a killer, and a government who would do anything to acquire his invention. He and a woman, who will do anything for his love, share an adventure that takes them around the world. 158 min. 999:3011 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bis zum Horizont und weiter (1999) Directed by Peter Kahane. Cast: Corrina Harfouch, Wolfgang Stumph, Nina Petri. The love of Henning Stahnke's life, Katja, has been sentenced to three years in prison. A desperate Henning kidnaps the woman judge responsible for sentencing Katja, hoping to secure Katja's release. Unknown to Henning, Katja has escaped from prison with the help of her cellmate, and is hitchhiking her way back to Henning's village. The police follow in close pursuit of both the escaped convict and the kidnapper. In German. 90 min. DVD 1426 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bittere Ernte (Angry Harvest) (1985) Directed by Agnieszka Holland. Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Kathe Jaenicke, Hans Beerhenke, Isa Haller, Margit Carstensen, Wojciech Pszoniak, Gerd Baltus, Kurt Raab. A wartime story [1943] that is both a character study and a mesmerizing cat and mouse game between a Polish Catholic farmer and a Jewish woman who has escaped a train bound for the Nazi death camps. Set in Silesia during WWII, the drama unfolds with the concealment of the woman by the wealthy, sexually repressed farmer, and moves through various stages of power and powerlessness on both sides. The battle between the two is dispassionate yet haunting in its portrayal of this ill-fated relationship. 102 min. DVD 6834; vhs 999:618 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Brunette, Peter. "Lessons from the Past: An Interview with Angnieszka Holland." Cineaste, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 15-17, 1986 Crnkovic, Gordana P. "Inscribed Bodies, Invited Dialogues and Cosmopolitan Cinema: Some Brief Notes on Agnieszka Holland." Kinoeye, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. [no pagination], November 2004 Jaehne, Karen. "Angry Harvest." Cineaste Vol XV nr 1 ( 1986); p.39-40 Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant)(1974) Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Eva Mattes, Gisela Fackeldey, Irm Hermann. This haunting melodrama concerns a woman who divorces her husband when she realizes that she no long loves him and that she is sexually attracted to her secretary. It explores the lesbian relationship and finds that just as many of the games that exist in a heterosexual relationship (love/hate and jealousy) are present an homosexual one. 124 min. DVD 1651; vhs 999:553 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) (1930) Directed by Josef Von Sternberg. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Hans Albers, Rosa Valetti. One of the early sound masterpieces of German cinema, this film made Marlene Dietrich an international star and helped assure director Joseph von Sternberg a place in cinematic history. The story is a gripping portrait of a middle-aged professor who is degraded by his obsession with a tawdry cafe entertainer. Presents two versions of the film: The original German and original English versions. Special features: Audio commentary (German version only) ; Marlene Dietrich's "Blue Angel" screen test ; Dietrich interview footage ; original trailer ; Dietrich concert footage ; photo gallery ; filmmaker/cast bios. ; production history. Adapted from the novel by Heinrich Mann. Disc 1. German version with English subtitles (106 min.) -- Disc 2. English version (94 min.) DVD 951; vhs 999:27 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Das Blaue Licht (The Blue Light) (1932) Directed by Leni Riefenstahl. A love story/fantasy set in the Italian Tyrol, about a painter who defies a local legend by climbing a mountain. 70 min. DVD 3851; vhs 999:336 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Rentschler, Eric. "Mountains and Modernity: Relocating the Bergfilm." New German Critique, No. 51, Special Issue on Weimar Mass Culture. (Autumn, 1990), pp. 137-161. UC users only Leni Riefenstahl bibliography Die Blechtrommel (Tin Drum) (West Germany / France / Poland / Yugoslavia, 1979) Directed by Volker Schlondorff. Cast: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski. A story set in Danzig in the 1920s and 1930s about the life and times of Oskar Matzerath the son of a local dealer, 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 II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. Special features: Video essay featuring original set designs, costume sketches, storyboards and behind-the-scenes photographs; audio commentary by director Volker Schlondorff; Maurice Jarre's score isolated on alternate audio channel; gatefold essay by Annette Insdorf. 141 min. DVD 554; vhs 999:624 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Die Bleierne Zeit (Marianne and Julianne) (1981) Director, Margarethe von Trotta. Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Jutta Lampe, Rudiger Vogler, Doris Schade, Verenice Rudolph, Luc Bondy. Based on true events this film presents the relationship between two sisters caught up in the turmoil of Germany in the 1970s. The details of the personalities of the two main characters and their development parallels the personal history of the Ensslin sisters: Gudrun (Marianne in the film) who was imprisoned as a terrorist in the Stammheim prison where she died, supposedly a suicide, in the Fall of 1977 ; Christiane (Julianne in the film) who worked for some time as an editor of a women's magazine, "Emma," and was determined to prove that her sister did not kill herself. 102 min. 999:2902 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bolwieser (The Stationmaster's Wife)(TV, 1876) Director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Elisabeth Trissenaar, Kurt Raab, Bernhard Helfrich, Udo Kier, Volker Spengler, Karl-Heinz von Hassel. Set in a small Bavarian town in pre-Hitler Germany, this is the story of stationmaster Bolwieser, a man who is sexually enslaved by his beautiful wife, Hanni. Bored with life at the train station, Hanni embarks on a series of adulterous affairs as her deluded husband grows progressively sullen. Based on the novel by Oskar Maria Graf. 111 min. DVD 6636; vhs 999:2908 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Das Boot (The Boat)(1982) Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge. This gripping tale follows the daring patrol of U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves". Prowling the North Atlantic, they challenged the British Navy at every turn. Delivers an amazingly accurate account of Germany's elite U-boat crewmen, as it hammers away at the tragic waste of war. 154 min. DVD 96 - Remastered DVD in German with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish; VHS dubbed in English - 999:296 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Das Boot ist voll (The Boat is Full) (1981) Director, Markus Imhoof. Cast: Tina Engel, Curt Bois, Gerd David, Renate Steiger, Mathias Gnadinger, Michael Gempart, Hans Diehl, Martin Walz, Simone, Laurent. In the summer of 1942 the Swiss government, alarmed at the numbers of people fleeing Nazi Germany, set up stringent immigration policies. But when a Swiss inkeeper's wife finds a group of refugees hiding on her property, she looks the other way and takes them in. When the local authorities are alerted, the woman, her husband and the townspeople have a decision to make... ignore the callous policies of their government or send the refugees back to certain death? 104 min. 999:2907 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Die Brücke (The Bridge) (1959) Director, Bernhard Wicki. Cast: Fritz Wepper, Volker Bohnet, Michael Hinz, Volker Lechtenbrink, Cordula Trantow. Young German boys suffer senseless deaths during the final days of World War II. Betrayed and urged on by unenlightened leaders, they come to believe that a small and meaningless bridge is worth any risk to their lives. 102 min. DVD 1288; vhs 999:2911 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Brudermord (Fratricide)(Luxembourg / Germany / France, 2005) Directed by Yilmaz Arslan. Cast: Xevat Gectan, Erdal Celik, Bulent Buyukasik, Nurettin Celik, Yusuf Gectan, Taies Farzan, Oral Uyan, Xhiljona Ndoja. Amidst hopeless squalor, four young exiles -- two Kurds, two Turks -- meet in Germany, unleashing a nightmarish cycle of violence they believed they had left behind. 92 min. DVD 7262 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Buddenbrooks (West Germany / France, TV, 1979) Directed by Franz Peter Wirth. Cast: Ruth Leuwerik, Martin Benrath, Volkert Kraeft, Reinhild Solf, Gerd Bockmann. Film adaptation of Thomas Mann's story of the Buddenbrooks family from Lubeck, Germany and how they struggle to maintain their status as one of the city's most wealthy and respected families. 638 min. DVD 7428 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Burning Life (1994) Directed by Peter Welz. Cast: Anna Thalbach, Maria SChrader, Max Tidof, Jaecki Schwarz, Dani Levy. The story takes place after the first euphoria of unification in Germany has evaporated. Lisa, the daughter of a man who had committed suicide when he realized that he had missed out on a fabulous real estate deal, goes on wild crime spree with her friend Anna, taking advantage of the unsettled and uncertain times, which have also left the guardians of public order confused. The two soon become famous as 'Robin Hood's daughters', but eventually the law catches up with them. 105 min. 999:3126 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Carl Peters (1941) Directed by Herbert Selpin. A docu-drama of the life of Karl Peters, the German Commissioner in East Africa during World War I. It tells of the founding of Deutsch Ostafrika, which covered parts of present-day Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. In German without subtitles. 110 min. 999:2740 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Charleys Tante (1963) Director, Geza von Cziffra. Cast: Peter Alexander, Maria Sebaldt, Peter Vogel, Rudolf Vogel. In this comedy of errors and misunderstandings, a young man is forced by circumstances to dress up as a middle-aged women. Dr. Otto's friends Charley and Ralf, are expecting female visitors but the girls won't show up without a chaperone, so Otto is inveigled into disguising himself as "Charley's Aunt." 81 min. 999:2993 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Chinesisches Roulette (Chinese Roulette) (West Germany / France, 1976) Director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Anna Karina, Ulli Lommel, Macha Meril, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira, Alexander Allerson, Volker Spengler, Andrea Schober. A German businessman pretending to go on a business trip heads for his country estate with his French mistress where he runs into his wife and her own lover. When their teenage daughter, a young teen who walks with crutches, arrives she angrily confronts them with their hypocrisy and compels everyone to rigorous truth-telling, revealing the latent hatreds within the family, culminating in a shocking climax. 96 min. DVD 1653; vhs 999:2912 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Cobra Verde (Ghana / West Germany, 1987) Directed by Werner Herzog. Cast: Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, Jose Lewgoy, Salvatore Basile, Peter Berling, Nana Agyefi Kwame II of Nsein. Francisco Manoel da Silva, 19th century, gun-toting Brazilian bandit known as the Cobra Verde, is unknowingly hired by the owner of a sugar plantation to keep his slaves in check, but instead the Cobra manages to impregnate the landowner's daughters. In revenge, the owner sends the Cobra on a dangerous mission to sail to the West coast of Africa and reopen the slave trade, and the Cobra wages war with a local tribal king. 110 min. DVD 2696 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Prager, Brad. "The face of the bandit: racism and the slave trade in Herzog's Cobra Verde.(Critical Essay)." Film Criticism 28.3 (Spring 2004): 2(19). UC users only Herzog bibliography Danton's Tod (1983) Directed by Fritz Bornemann. Cast: Friedo Solter, Carl-Hermann Risse, Uwe Kockisch, Volkmar Kleinert, Winfried Wagner, Joachim Siebenschuh. A chronicle of the aftermath of the French Revolution and the ideological struggles between two of its leaders, Danton and Robespierre. A production adapted for German television by Fritz Bornemann. PAL format. In German. 133 min. 999:2799 David (1979) Directed by Peter Lilienthal. Cast: Mario Fischel, Irene Vrkijan, Walter Taub, Eva Mattes. Based upon a true story this film focuses on the everyday life of an orthodox rabbi and his close knit family trying to survive during the Nazi persecutions. It begins when David is a small boy in Liegnitz in 1933 and follows him to his escape in 1943 as one of the last Jews to leave Germany. Based on David: Notes of a Surviver by Joel Konig. 106 min. 999:2583 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dealer (1999) Director, Thomas Arslan. Cast: Tamer Yigit, Idil Uner, Birol Unel, Hissi Kutlucan. Can is a small time drug dealer in a Turkish "guest worker" community in Berlin. He is not happy with his situation, constantly trying to reconcile the irreconcilable elements in his life: drugs, family, street violence and love. When his boss Hakan promises to make him a bar manager his hopes are raised but then Hakan is killed and Can is eventually arrested and condemned to four years in prison. PAL format. In German and Turkish. 80 min. 999:2997 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006) Despair: eine Reise ins Licht (1978) Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Andrea Ferreol, Klaus Lowitsch, Volker Spengler, Bernhard Wicki. In Germany in the 1930's Hermann Hermann, the bored owner of a Berlin chocolate factory, is suffering from progressing schizophrenia. To solve his business and personal problems he needs a double. Then he meets a drifter and decides to murder the man in order to exchange identities. In German; PAL format tape. 114 min. 999:3515 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fassbinder bibliography Deutschland bleiche Mutter (Germany, Pale Mother) (1979) Director, Helma Sanders-Brahms. Cast: Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek, Angelika Thomas, Rainer Friedrichsen, Anna Sanders. Love story set during and after the Nazi era. Explores the private lives of a young bride and her Nazi soldier husband, and her parents, by-standers who tolerated Hitler. While not excusing the actions of its protagonists, it uses them to show how easily the unthinkable can happen. 123 min. 999:2177 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Deutschland im Herbst & Die Patriotin Two feature films and four shorts created by the noted German producer and director Alexander Kluge. (Directors for Deutschland im Herbst include: Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Alexander Kluge, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rup?, Volker Schl?ndorff, Peter Schubert, and Bernhard Sinkel. Disc 1. Deutschland im Herbst / Germany in Autumn (119 min.), 1978 -- Nachrichten von den Staufern (22 min.), 1977 -- Neonrohren des Himmels (1 min.), 1998 -- Disc 2. Die Patriotin / The Patriot (118 min.), 1979 -- Die Menschen, die das Staufer-Jahr vorbereiten (39 min.), 1977 -- 100 Jahre deutscher Rhein (1 min.), 1988. Deutschland im Herbst (Germany in Autumn): Film von Boll, Brustellin, Sinkel, Cloos, Rupe, Fassbinder, Kluge, Reitz, Schlondorff. Cast (Germany in Autumn): Hannelore Hoger, Helmut Griem ; (Patriot) Hannelore Hoger, Dieter Mainka. Two feature films and four shorts created by the noted German producer and director Alexander Kluge. Deutschland im Herbst (Germany in Autumn): A collective film chronicling seven weeks of political terrorism by the Red Army Faction and political repression in Germany during the fall of 1977. It begins with the kidnap and murder of industrialist Hans-Martin Schleyer and ends with the deaths of three imprisoned Baader-Meinhof terrorists. Includes the work of many of Germany's top directors. Die Patriotin (The patriot): Various aspects of German history are explored from several angles in a series of odd sequences. Gabi Teichert (Hannelore Hoger) is both a history teacher and a patriot. One day she goes out into the winter landscape carrying a shovel (digging for the truth?) and comes across a dead soldier killed at the battle of Leningrad, whose symbolically disembodied knee speaks to her. Next, Gabi scans the landscape with a telescope, looking for evidence. Later, she is at a convention of the Social Democrat Party and tries to find information there. The scenes continue at different venues and with different people as this history teacher tries to piece together history. DVD 8166; Deutschland im Herbst also on vhs 999:1799 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Deutschland im jahre null (Germany, Year Zero; Germania, anno zero) (Italy, 1947) Directed by Roberto Rossellini. Cast: Edmund Moeschke, Franz Kruger, Barbara Hintz, Werner Pittschau, Erich Guhne. This film tells the story of a 12 year old boy who works with increasing desperation to support his family in war-torn Germany. He kills his sickly father, and then, unable to live with such a deed, kills himself. Filmed shortly after WWII in Berlin, a place filled with starving people, rampant crime, and a generation confused by the role their fathers played in one of history's greatest tragedies. Rossellini took people off the streets of Berlin to play the characters in this, his last Neo-Realist film, which poignantly captured the impoverished state of Berlin at that time. Based on a story by Roberto Rossellini. In German with English subtitles. 75 min. 999:2790 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bazin, Andr?. "Film Chronicle: Three Italian Realists." North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 96-108, Winter 1994 Byg, Barton. "Nazism as Femme Fatale: Recuperations of Cinematic Masculinity in Postwar Berlin." In: Gender and Germanness : cultural productions of nation / edited by Patricia Herminghouse and Magda Mueller. Providence [R.I.] : Berghahn Books, 1997. (Main Stack PT111.G46 1997) Camilleri, Tina Marie. "Roberto Rossellini's Germany, Year Zero: A Child's Journey through the Crumbling Skeleton of War-Torn Germany." Senses of Cinema, vol. 11, pp. (no pagination), December 2000 Carrigy, Megan. "Beginning Again from Zero: Post-War Reconstruction." Senses of Cinema, vol. 26, pp. (no pagination), May 2003 Torriglia, Anna Maria. "'Time Is No Longer the Same': Ambivalence and Denial or the Uneasy Relationship with the Past in Pietro Germi's Giovent? perduta and Roberto Rossellini's Germania anno zero." Forum Italicum, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 86-107, Spring 1998 The war trilogy [di] Roberto Rossellini. Edited and with an introd. by Stefano Roncoroni. Translated from the Italian by Judith Green. New York, Grossman, 1973. (Main Stack PN1997.A1.R6131) Deutschstunde (1971) Directed by Peter Beauvais. In this dramatization of the novel by Siegfried Lenz, a young juvenile offender in a Hamburg prison, Siggi Jepsen, is forced by his teacher to write an essay. In it he remembers the years 1943-54, his childhood in Schleswig-Holstein, his strict father, the policeman Jans Jepsen and a friendly painter Max Ludwig Nansen. Jens Jepsen tries to implement a prohibition against Nansen and destroys his pictures but the small Siggi saves some of them from destruction and at the end of the war is accused of stealing them and is sent to prison. In German, no subtitles. 225 min. Video/C 8134 Doktor Faustus: Bilder aus dem Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkuhn (1982) Director, Franz Seitz. Cast: Jon Finch, Andre Heller, Hanns Zischler, Marie-Hel`ene Breillat, Siemen Ruhaak, Marie Lebee, Lothar-Gunther Buchheim. The tale of a composer who sells his soul to Satan to ensure his own creativity, but finds he cannot keep to his bargain to refrain from all close human relationships and his closest friends die as a result. Based on the novel by Thomas Mann. 177 min. DVD 7426 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse (1984) Director, Ulrike Ottinger. Cast: Tabea Blumenschein, Irm Hermann, Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, Toyo Tanaka, Barbara Valentin, Veruschka von Lehndorff. Dr. Mabuse, the president of a multinational press conglomerate, has an unscrupulous plan to increase circulation. She wants to use her company to create a human being that she can shape and control according to the corporation's requirements. Enter Dorian Gray, a wealthy and handsome young man whom Mabuse leads on a nightmare journey through the Berlin underworld. "We shall let him experience everything the reader does not dare to dream," she explains. 150 min. 999:3344 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Drachenfutter (Dragon Chow) (1987) Directed by Jan Schütte. Cast: Bhasker, Ric Young, Buddy Uzzaman. In this moving story an Asian political refugee arrives in Hamburg and finds himself in a land of welfare hotels and con men. He manages to land a job at a Chinese restaurant where he joins forces with a friend in an attempt to open their own restaurant and storm the citadel of Western capitalism. 75 min. 999:3057 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Die Dreigroschenoper (3groschenoper)(The 3 Penny Opera) (1931) Director, G.W. Pabst. Cast: Rudolph Forster, Lotta Lenya, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schunzel. Highwaymen and thieves stand for the great lords and powerful public officials of Georgian England, in this spoof of the corrupt politics during that time. Depiction and intimation of crime and vice in all strata of society make it universally appealing. Based on John Gay's Beggars' Opera (see Video/C 1755) Disc. 1. Dreigroschenoper (105 min.) -- Disc 2. Lopera de Quat'sous (98 min.) In German with English subtitles (Disc 1); In French with English subtitles (Disc 2) 113 min. DVD 8381 (Criterion); DVD 3593; 999:1098 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Die Dritte Generation (The Third Generation) (1979) Director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Volker Spengler, Bulle Ogier, Hanna Schygulla, Harry Baer, Vitus Zeplichal, Udo Kier, Margit Carstensen, Gunther Kaufmann, Eddie Constantine, I Sa Lo, Ra`ul Gimenez, Hark Bohm, Claus Holm, Lilo Pempeit. An inept group of middle-class German radicals plot to kidnap the director of a multinational company. Their position is compromised by the arrival of two mysterious strangers, yet still they persist with their controversial strategy. 127 min. DVD 6475 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fassbinder bibliography Echo Park (USA / Austria, 1986) Directed by Robert Dornhelm. Cast: Susan Dey, Tom Hulce, Michael Bowen, Christopher Walker, Shirley Jo Finney, Heinrich Schweiger. A struggling actress, an insecure musician and a professional body-builder pursue their dreams of making it big in Los Angeles. Dubbed in German. 86 min. DVD 7698 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Effi Briest (1974) Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Karl-Heinz Bohm, Lilo Pempeit, Herbert Steinmetz, Ursula Statz, Irm Hermann. Effi Briest is a radiant beauty, a vivacious blend of naivete and intelligence, forthrightness and willful self interest. She is married when very young to a much older Prussian diplomat and carried away to a remote Baltic port where she drifts into a brief, passionless affair with a local womanizer. The full effects are felt only later, in a chilling manifestation of the Prussian legal code. 135 min. DVD 1608; also VHS 999:607 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Die Ehe der Maria Braun (Marriage of Maria Braun) (1979) Director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Lowitsch, Ivan Desny, Gisela Uhlen. Fassbinder's allegorical story of post-war Germany revolves around a young woman as she strives for material wealth while ignoring human values. 120 min. DVD 1944; vhs 999:245 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Das Einhorn (1978) Director, Peter Patzak. Cast: Peter Vogel, Gila von Weitershausen, Christiane Rucker, Isolde Barth, Anton Diffring. Anselm Kristlein, a married 42 year old publicity man, has written a sexually explicit book and now is being pressured to write a second book. In German without subtitles. 111 min. DVD 7699 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Emilia Galotti: ein Trauerspiel (1984) Director, Thomas Langhoff. Cast: Sunnyi Melles, Rolf Boysen, Doris Schade, Michael Konig, Edgar Selge, Otto Kurth, Jorg Hube, Rainer Goernemann, Margit Carstensen, Peter Herzog, Karl Renar, Fred Klaus, Willy Berling. Virginia is portrayed as a young Italian woman about to be married to her fiance, Count Appiani. Trouble befalls her when the Prince, learns of this and devises a way to kidnap her. When her fiance is killed in the abduction, her moralistic father, Odoardo, takes it upon himself to kill her to prevent the deflowerment of her virtue and her wish for suicide, which would mean religious condemnation. Videorecording of premiere performance of February 22, 1984, by the Munchner Kammerspiele. PAL format. In German without subtitles. 130 min. 999:3003 Europa, Europa(Hitlerjunge Salomon) (1991) Directed by Agnieszka Holland. Cast: Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Hanns Zischler. A dramatization of the true story of a Jewish teenager who survived World War II by living as a Nazi for 7 years. Through quick wittedness, the oddest twists of fate, and sheer luck, the young Jewish boy escapes from a Polish ghetto, lives in a Communist orphanage, hides out in an elite school for Hitler's youth and fights as a Nazi soldier without the Germans ever knowing the truth. Based on the autobiography of Salomon Perel titled Eropah Eropah. 115 min. 999:1424 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Der Ewige Jude (Eternal Jew) (1940) Directed by Fritz Hippler. Period An anti-Semitic propaganda film produced in 1940's Nazi Germany which explores Jewish practices as viewed through the eyes of wartime Germany, presenting them as evil, corrupt and intent on world domination. The climax and resolution of the film is Hitler's 1939 announcement that the Jewish race will meet its "annihilation." DVD 3854 (without English subtitles); vhs Video/C 1351 (partially subtitled in English); vhs 999:295 (without English subtitles) Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Exit -- nur keine Panik (Austria, 1980) Director, Franz Novotny. Cast: Hanno Poschl, Paulus Manker, Isolde Barth, Eddie Constantine, Kurt Krenn. Hanno Poschl stars as a young thug who steals cars and has just one dream: to own his own coffee house. But tumbling through the Viennese underground, he is keeping himself busy with trouble...an incredibly funny and at the same time disturbing and at times depressing look on 1980's Vienna. 97 min. DVD 7764 Credits and information from the Internet Movie Database Das Experiment (2001) Director, Oliver Hirschbiegel. Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Maren Eggert, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Andrea Sawatzki. A dramatization of the infamous "Stanford Prison experiment," conducted in 1971 which studied the effects of prison life and the chronology of normal into abnormal behavior. A makeshift prison is set up in a research lab, complete with cells, bars and surveillance cameras. For two weeks 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards. In the beginning the mood between both groups is insecure and soon quarrels arise as the wardens employ ever more drastic sanctions to confirm their authority. In German without subtitles. 114 min. DVD 1372; vhs 999:3326 Credits and information from the Internet Movie Database Falsche Bewegung (Wrong Move) (1975) Directed by Wim Wenders. Cast: Rudiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Nastassia Nakszynski, Hans-Christian Blech, Peter Kern, Ivan Desny. A would-be writer drives across Germany in search of a first-hand experience. Along the way, he meets an ex-Nazi and his mute companion, a wandering poet and an actress who together challenge him to become a writer. 103 min. DVD 6949; vhs 999:247 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fata Morgana (1971) Director, Werner Herzog. Herzog brings his cameras to the Sahara desert in order to film mirages. He combines the apocalyptic, often hallucinatory images of the desert with passages from the Mayan creation myth, the PopolVuh, set to songs of Leonard Cohen. (Also on DVD: "Lessons of Darkness".) 76 min. DVD 993 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Herzog bibliography Faust (1960) Director, Peter Gorski. Cast: Cast: Will Quadflieg, Gustaf Grundgens, Ella Buchi, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Eduard Marcks, Heinz Reincke. In 1957 Gustaf Grundgens staged a new production of Goethe's Faust in which he once again played Mephisto, a part he had played since 1932. Here in his directorial debut, Peter Gorski captures on film the performance at the Deutsches Schauspielhus in Hamburg of the classic tale of a man who sells his soul to the devil. In German. 122 min. 999:3019 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dr. Faust - Ein Puppenspiel (Dr. Faust - a puppet play) Here the Faust story takes the form of showing the difficult art of working puppets by hand rods, which also includes figures from the traditional puppet play, such as those by Hans Wurst. Originally produced for television broadcast in 1953. 16 min. Video/C 8577 Faust im Film (Faust in Film) A documentary of early film treatments of the story of Faust in three parts: 1. Faust and his pact with the devil. 2. Faust and the people around him. 3. Faust and magic. The accompanying textbook contains descriptions of well-known Faust films. In German with English commentary. 1999. 36 min. Video/C 8578 Faustrecht der Freiheit (Fox and His Friends) (1975) Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karl-Heinz Bohm, Harry Baer. Fassbinder directs and stars as a gay lower-class carnival performer known as Fox the Talking Head, who strikes it rich by winning a lottery. His new found wealth attracts an upper-class lover, with whom he begins an ill-fated romance. 123 min. DVD 1195; vhs 999:1158 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fitzcarraldo (1982) Directed by Werner Herzog. Cast: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale. Story of a man obsessed with the ambition to make his fortune and build his own personal opera house in the Peruvian jungle. 150 min. DVD 659; VHS 999:239 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Das Flötenkonzert von Sans-souci (1930) Directed by Gustav Ucicky. A depiction of the life and times of Frederick the Great at Sanssouci. 85 min. 999:302 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Förster Vom Silberwald (1954) Directed by Alfons Stummer. Based on the book by Gunther Schwab. 87 min. 999:323 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Four (4) Short Films by Werner Herzog (1968-1977) Directed by Werner Herzog. "How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck": Series of hilarious interviews set at the annual World Championship of Livestock Auctioneers in the Amish region of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County. "La Soufriere": Record of an ardent and unfulfilled journey Herzog made to the island of Guadalupe. "The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner": Studies Walter Steiner, a woodcarver who explores the shapes, knots, grain and forces in a piece of wood and sculpts it in a way to release the hidden tensions and energy. The film also shows Steiner, a world championship ski jumper, preparing for the World Ski Jumping Championships. "The Flying Doctors of East Africa": Shows an independent group of physicians in remote areas of East Africa, and the difficulties they encounter in treating the African patients, who prefer local traditional remedies. 167 min. Video/C 8714 Das Fräulein (Germany / Switzerland / Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2006) Director, Andrea Staka. Cast: Mirjana Karanovcic, Marija Skarcic, Ljubica Jovic. Tells the story of two Balkan refugees. Reza owns a restaurant and has lived in Switzerland for 25 years. Ana is a Bosnian who breezes into Reza's life and injects both joy and discontent. 81 min min. DVD 8071 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fuchsjagd: Ein Fall für zwei (Horse Play) (1981) Directed by Reinhard Schwabenitzky. Cast: Gunter Strack, Claus Theo Gartner, Hannelore Cremer, Dietmar Schonherr, Kerstin Lohde. In this fast paced drama of dishonesty and greed an Olympic horseman's midlife crisis costs him more than his marriage. As his celebrity status fades, the former Olympian saddles up for a new career but despite his top form, he's reined in. Who wants to harness his life? Is it a jealous competitor? Has his daughter got more in the stable than horses? Or is his wife tired of following in the hoofsteps? Videocassette release of a segment of the German television program, "Ein Fall fur zwei." In German without English subtitles. 60 min. 999:2787 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Führer Ex (Germany / Italy, 2002) Directed by Winfried Bonengel. Cast: Christian Blumel, Aaron Hildebrand, Jule Flierl, Luci Van Org, Harry Baer, Dieter Laser. The chilling allure of neo-Nazism is exposed in this unflinching portrait of a young man's transformation from a sensitive teenager living in Germany in the 1980s to a hate-filled fascist thug. Based on the autobiographical experiences of co-screenwriter and ex-neo-Nazi Ingo Hasselbach, this harrowing drama looks at the still vibrant underworld of the neo-Nazi movement in Germany. 105 min. DVD 3375 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Funny Games (1997) Director, Michael Haneke. Cast: Suzanne Lothar, Ulrich Muhe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski, Doris Kunstmann, Christoph Bantzer. Michael Haneke's controversial thriller watches an affluent couple, their child and dog as they arrive at their lakeside vacation home. Settling into their holiday routine, the family is visited by a pair of clean-cut young men in tennis whites and gloves, who inexplicably turn ruthless and brutal, forcing the family into playing their 'funny games.' 103 min. DVD 2054 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Für immer und immer (For Ever and Ever) (1997) Director, Hark Bohm. Cast: Johanna Ter Steege, Jeanette Arndt, Lili Bohm, Heinz Hoenig, Robert Giggenbach, Angela Roy, Hark Bohm, Ulrike Kriener. Five years ago, the unmarried mother Melanie Brunnhauser had surrendered her daughter Maria to foster parents. Now, she is married and demands the return of Maria, whom she has never seen again since her birth, regardless of the relationship which has built up between the child and her fosterparents in the meantime. 89 min. 999:3006 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Geboren in Absurdistan (Born in Absurdistan) (Austria, 1999) Director, Houchang Allahyari. Cast: Cast: Julia Stemberger ; Karl Markovics, Meltem Cumbul, Ahmet Ugurlu, Josef Hader. In the hospital the new-born babies of an Austrian couple and a Turkish family of immigrant workers are mixed up and go home with the wrong parents. By the time the mistake comes to light, the Turkish family has been deported so the Austrian couple begins a confusing odyssey through Turkey to track down the family to their native village in order to exchange their children. 104 min. DVD 2122 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006) Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky (2002) Directed by Wim Wenders. Cast: Udo Kier, Otto Kuhnle, Christoph Merg, Nadine Buttner, Lucie Hurtgen-Skladanowsky. A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema. The film tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers, the German-born duo who invented the "bioskop", an early version of the film projector at the same time as the Lumieres and Edison were working on their inventions. The footage is shot with a 1920s handcranking camera, in the style of silent films. 76 min. DVD 6951 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Wenders bibliography Gebürtig (Austria / Poland / Germany, 2002) Directed by Robert Schindel, Lukas Stepanik. Cast: Peter Simonischek, Ruth Rieser, August Zirner. The past catches up with two men, the Jewish emigrant composer Hermann Geburtig and the German journalist Konrad Sachs. Geburtig testifies against a former concentration camp supervisor, and Sachs faces the reality that his father was an SS-Doctor. 100 min. DVD 2960 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Gegen die Wand (Head-On) (Germany / Turkey, 2004) Directed by Fatih Akin. Cast: Sibel Kekilli, Birol Unel, Guven Krac, Meltem Cumbul, Catrin Striebeck. A melodrama of a Turkish man and woman living in Germany, torn between two cultures, tradition and modernity, survival and death. 118 min. DVD 4315 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006) Fachinger, Petra. "A New Kind of Creative Energy: Yad? Kara's Selam Berlin and Faith Akin's Kurz und schmerzlos and Gegen die Wand." German Life and Letters, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 243-60, Spring 2007UC users only Reading, Alan. "Immigration, live, on screen." The New York Times Jan. 24, 2005 Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin Directed by Alexander Kluge. SEE Abschied von gestern & Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin DVD 8160 Georg Elser einer aus Deutschland (West Germany / USA, 1989) Directed by Klaus Maria Brandauer. Cast: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Rebecca Miller, Brian Dennehy, Elisabeth Orth, Nigel le Vaillant. Georg Elser, a solid citizen of 1939 Berlin who is loyal to the Fatherland despises Hitler and the Nazis. A few weeks after the start of World War II, he begins cooking up a scheme to assassinate Der Fuehrer at a reunion for the participants of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. All he needs is seven minutes. All he doesn't need is the unwitting intrusiveness of innocent barmaid Anneliese. Based on true events. In German without subtitles. 93 min. DVD 7716 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Geschwister Kardesler (1997) Director, Thomas Arslan. Cast: Tamer Yigit, Savas Yurderi, Serpil Turhan, Hildegard Kuttlenberg, Fazlt Yurderi. A film about three young siblings from a German-Turkish family living in Berlin. 17-year-old Leyla only wants to escape from her family while her brother, called to military service in Istanbul intends to accept enlistment, against the advice of his mother and brother Ahmed, who is just about to graduate from high school and having difficulties with his girlfriend and his cultural background. PAL format. In German and Turkish. 82 min. 999:2998 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006) Die Geschwister Oppermann (The Oppermanns) (1983) Director, Egon Monk. Cast: Wolfgang Kieling, Till Topf, Michael Degen, Peter Fitz, Eberhard Fechner, Rosel Zech, Ilona Grubel. "From a novel by Lion Feuchtwanger." Produktionsleitung, Horst Meyer ; Redaktion, Helmut Rasp ; Drehbuch und Regie, Egon Monk ; narrator, Bernard Hepton. Cast: Wolfgang Kieling, Till Topf, Michael Degen, Peter Fitz, Eberhard Fechner, Rosel Zech, Ilona Grubel. The story of a Jewish family in Berlin during the period 1932-1933, after Hitler has become the leader of Germany's strongest political party. Martin Oppermann must find a non-Jewish frontman to shield the family business in this dramatization of the fear and oppression experienced by Jewish businessman and professionals at the onset of the Nazi regime. 235 min. 999:3024 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Die Geschwister Scholl und der Film Die Weiße Rose: Ein Spielfilm im Unterricht Deutsch als Fremdsprach... (1982) Director, Michael Verhoeven. Cast: Lena Stolze, Wulf Kessler, Oliver Siebert, Ulrich Tukur, Werner Stocker, Martin Benrath. A dramatization of the true story of a Munich University student group that spread anti-Nazi propaganda between the years of 1942 and 1943. After gaining widespread support and almost causing a full student uprising, the Gestapo was able to hunt down the members of the White Rose and have them executed for treason. Contents: 1. Teil: Sophie kommt nach Munchen -- 2. Tiel: Die Flugblatter -- 3. Teil: Der Krieg an der Front und zu Hause -- 4. Teil: Das Ende. Based on Inge Scholl's book, 'Die Weisse Rose'. In German without English subtitles. 120 min. 999:2845 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Die Goldene Stadt (The Golden City) (1942) Directed by Veit Harlan & Alfred Braun. Cast: Kristina Soderbaum, Eugen Klopfer. In Czechoslovakia a German farmer's daughter, bored with the country, leaves her father to go to Prague, where she falls among evil companions, is seduced and abandoned by her Czechoslovakian cousin. 104 min. 999:2916 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Good News: Von Kolporteuren, toten Hunden und anderen(Austria, 1990) Ulrich Seidl's documentary debut looks at the lives of young men from India and Egypt, from Pakistan and Turkey --Mohammedans from the third world who sell newspapers on the roads of Vienna: a view into the world of the newspaper salesmen and the world of newspaper readers in Austrian living rooms. In German without subtitles. 1990. 126 min. DVD 7739 Good Bye Lenin! (2003) Directed by Wolfgang Becker. Cast: Daniel Bruhl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon, Florian Lukas. Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam. 121 min. DVD 2833 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Böhn, Andreas. "Memory, Musealization and Alternative History in Michael Kleeberg's Novel Ein Garten im Norden and Wolfgang Becker's Film Good Bye, Lenin!" In: Memory traces : 1989 and the question of German cultural identity / Silke Arnold-de Simine. Oxford ; New York : P. Lang, c2005. (Main Stack DD290.24.A76 2005) Falcon, R. "Good Bye, Lenin!" Sight & Sound v. ns13 no. 9 (September 2003) p. 51-2 Yacowar, Maurice. "Ostalgie on film." (analysing Good Bye Lenin!)(Critical Essay) Queen's Quarterly Winter 2003 v110 i4 p587(5) Götter der Pest (Gods of the Plague) (1969) Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Margarete von Trotta, Harry Bar, Gunther Kaufmann. Fassbinder's third feature about the alienated, aimless post war generation in Munich. A flashy nightclub singer, whose petty criminal boyfriend has left her for another woman, betrays him to a police detective. 88 min. DVD 2492 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fassbinder bibliography Grafin Mariza (1958) Directed by Rudolf Schundler. Cast: Christine Gorner, Rudolf Schock, Renate Ewert, Gunther Philipp, Hans Moser. To avoid her amorous neighbor Countess Mariza pretends to be a simple gypsy girl while visiting her estate and falls in love with the manager. Set in the beautiful Hungarian countryside this fast paced musical is based on Kalman's famous operetta, with all its gypsy music and hit songs. In German. 103 min. 999:2801 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Der Große König (The Great King) (1942) Director, Veit Harlan. Cast: Otto Gebuhr, Kristina Soderbaum, Paul Wegener, et. al. Portrays the Prussian hero Frederick II during his struggle for victory in the Seven Years War. 116 min. 999:304 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Der große Verhau & Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte Two feature films and five shorts created by the noted German producer and director Alexander Kluge. Disc 1. Der grosse Verhau / The Big Mess (90 min.), 1971 -- Triebwerk-Husten / Engine Cough (11 min.), 1996 -- Lernprozess mit todlichem Ausgang / Learning Process with a Deadly Outcome (1 min.), 1998 -- Disc 2. Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte / Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet (78 min.), 1972 -- Der Tag ist nah / The Day is Nigh (15 min.), 1997-- Raumfahrt als inneres Erlebnis / Spaceflight as an Internal Experience (15 min.), 1999 -- Das gab's nur einmal (1 min.), 2006. Cast (Big mess): Sigi Graue ; (Willi Tobler and the decline of the 6th fleet): Alfred Edel, Kurt Jurgens. Der grosse Verhau (The Big Mess): In the first century of the third millenium, a galactic civil war is raging between governments, industrial giants and space pirates. Features space captain Douglas, the pirate couple Sterr, a space admiral and countless other characters trying to eke out a living in the cosmos. Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte (Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet): Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilstic galactic battles rage by taking a job at the center of power. But it's the wrong side that he takes in this civil war. DVD 8159 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database La Habanera (1937) Director, Douglas Sirk. Cast: Zarah Leander, Karl Martell, Ferdinand Marian. Working at Germany's famed UFA Studios under the very noses of the Nazi authorities that would later force him into Hollywood exile and eminence, Sirk transformed a glossy musical vehicle for UFA's "new Garbo" into a dark and intimate anti-colonial melodrama. Desperate to escape the "cold Swedish minds" of her homeland, beautiful Astree falls under the enchanting spell of the Caribbean love serenade La habanera and into the arms of Puerto Rican land baron Don Pedro de Avila. But ten years later, when Astree's old flame arrives in Puerto Rico, all is far from heavenly. 93 min. DVD 2456 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bonnell, Andrew G. "Melodrama for the master race: two films by Detlef Sierck (Douglas Sirk)." Film History Vol X nr 2 (1998); p 208-218 Nadar, Thomas R. "The Director and the Diva: The Film Musicals of Detlef Sierck and Zarah Leander: Zu neuen Ufern and La Habanera." In: Cultural history through a Nazi lens : essays on the cinema of the Third Reich / edited by Robert C. Reimer. Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2000.(Main Stack PN1995.9.N36.C85 2000) Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (Merchant of Four Seasons) (1972) Director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Irm Hermann, Hans Hirschmuller, Hanna Schygulla. Hans, a fruit peddler, watches his unexceptional life disintegrate. Seduced and rejected to the point of a nervous breakdown, Hans drinks himself to death as he toasts his loved ones at the dinner table. 88 min. DVD 1221 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fassbinder bibliography Hanussen (Hungary / West Germany / Austria, 1989) Directed by Istvan Szabo. Cast: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Walter Schmidinger. In 1920's Berlin, Erik Jan Hanussen is a charismatic magician and clairvoyant whose compelling stage show turns him into a star. His uncannily accurate predictions make him a celebrity. Soon, when he looks into the future, he can see a rising storm of hate, destruction and war. When the Nazis seize power, he is forced to choose between joining them and standing alone. 117 min. 999:2885 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (Captain from Koepenick) (1956) Directed by Helmut Käutner. Cast: Heinz Ruhmann, Martin Held, Hannelore Schroth, Erich Schollow. A lower class man's life changes dramatically when he finds an old captain's uniform and poses as a military offical in Prussia. 88 min. 999:306 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Ein Haus für Uns (TV, 1974) Director, Wim Wenders. Cast: Thomas Brandt, Nicolas Brieger, Elisabeth Kreuzer, Helga Trumper, Katja Wulff, Hansjoachim Krietsch. Contents: Aud der familie der panzerechsen (22 min.) -- Die Insel (22 min.) Ute, an 8-year-old girl, keeps running away from home and the Youth Center in order to spend hours at the zoo standing in front of the crocodile pond, which gradually dominates her life. Monika, from the Youth Center, tries to enter the little girl's world, sensing that Ute's escape to the crocodiles is an escape from her parents and the grown-up world. Monika convinces her parents their daughter needs professional help and eventually Ute manages to break out of her isolation. Originally broadcast in 1974 as 2 segments on the German television program Ein haus fur uns. PAL format tape. In German without subtitles. 999:3506 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Wenders bibliography Heidenlöcher (Austria, 1986) Directed by Wolfram Paulus. Cast: Florian Pircher, Albert Paulus, Helmut Vogel, Joanna Madej, Rolf Zacher. In this drama an Austrian village experiences the tragedy of war on several different levels. Within one family, the younger son is jealous of the praise his father gives to a Polish POW who is working for them under very difficult conditions. Within the village as a whole, the French, Polish, and Russian POWs are kept under guard by Nazi soldiers, creating a tense situation all around. But more importantly, the village has conspired to hide an Austrian deserter in a cave up in the mountains. This act of rebellion on the part of the deserter and the village hangs in a precarious balance that could be upset by a single traitorous comment to the Gestapo. In German with optional French subtitles. 96 min. DVD 7757 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Heimat: a Chronicle of Germany (Heimat, einie Chronik) (1984) Director Edgar Reitz. Cast: Marita Breuer, Gertrud Bredel, Willi Burger, Rudiger Weigang, Johannes Lobewein, Kurt Wagner. A massive chronicle of life in Germany, from 1919 to 1982, as reflected in the fluctuating fortunes of the members of one family, initially peasant-farmers, in the fictitious village of Schachbach in the Rhineland. Heimat is an extraordinary succession of mostly ordinary events and characters - history seen from ground level - vividly acted by a huge cast of both professional and nonprofessional actors. 925 min. DVD Version (6 discs): Disc 1: Pt.1. Fernweh (The call of far away places, 1919). Disc 2: Pt.2. Die mitte der welt (The centre of the world, 1929); Pt.3. Weihnacht (The best Christmas ever, 1934). Disc 3: Pt.4. Reichshoherstrabe (The highway, 1938). Pt.5. Auf und davon und zuruck (Up and away and back, 1938); Pt.6. Heimatfront (The home front, 1943). Disc 4: Pt.7. Die liebe der soldaten (Soldiers and love, 1944); Pt.8. Der Amerikaner (The American, 1945). Disc 5: Pt.9. Hermannchen (Little Hermann, 1955). Disc 6: Pt.10. Die stolzen jahre (The proud years, 1967); Pt.11. Das fest der lebenden und der tot (The feast of the living and the dead, 1982). 925 min. DVD 5295 Videotape version (9 parts): Tape 1. Pt.1. Fernweh (The call of far away places, 1919); Tape 2. Pt.2. Die mitte der welt (The centre of the world, 1929); Tape 3. Pt.3. Weihnacht (The best Christmas ever, 1934); Tape 4. Pt.4. Reichshoherstrabe (The highway, 1938). Pt.5. Auf und davon und zuruck (Up and away and back, 1938); Tape 5. Pt.6. Heimatfront (The home front, 1943). Pt.7. Die liebe der soldaten (Soldiers and love, 1944); Tape 6. Pt.8. Der Amerikaner (The American, 1945); Tape 7. Pt.9. Hermannchen (Little Hermann, 1955); Tape 8. Pt.10. Die stolzen jahre (The proud years, 1967); Tape 9. Pt.11. Das fest der lebenden und der tot (The feast of the living and the dead, 1982). 925 min. 999:1428 (parts 1-9) Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Heimat 3 (Heimat 3: Chronik einer Zeitenwende) (Germany / UK, TV, 2004) Director Edgar Reitz. Cast: Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Peter Schneider, Antje Brauner, Larissa Iwlewa, Michael Kausch, Mathias Kniesbeck. [Disc 1.] Episode 1. The happiest people in the world ; Episode 2. The champions -- [Disc 2.] Episode 3. The Russians are coming ; Episode 4. Everyone's doing well -- [Disc 3.] Episode 5. Follow me ; Episode 6. Goodbye to Schabbach -- [Disc 4.] Bonus features. Television mini-series set against the backdrop of Germany from 1989-2000. In this sequel to Heimat 2, Hermann and Clarissa, the star-crossed lovers of Heimat II meet in a hotel on the eveing of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Caught up in the euphoria over the reunification fo their country, the couple reunites as well. Bonus features: Introduction to Heimat 3 by Marc Silberman; Schabbach is everywhere, a cinematic portrait of the fictional village of Schabbach; interview with director Edgar Reitz; original trailer; photo gallery. 680 min. DVD 8896 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Heimkehr (1941) Directed by Gustav Ucicky. Cast: Paula Wessely, Peter Petersen, Attila Horbiger, Ruth Hellberg, Carl Raddatz. In this Nazi propaganda piece, ethnic Germans suffer from the cruel Poles until they are finally rescued by their German liberators. In German without subtitles. 100 min. DVD 3858 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Heimkehr de Jäger (Austria, 2000) Directed by Michael Kreihsl. Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Julia Filimonow, Nikolaus Paryla, Johannes Silberschneider, Sophia Gorgi, Justus Neumann. In this thought-provoking drama, Franz is a recently divorced man who has a keen appreciation for beauty. He's an artist who loves the paintings that hang in the gallery where he works, and he takes comfort in the unspoiled vistas of the countryside. But Franz lives in the city, where pollution, noise, construction, and urban sprawl are a familiar part of the landscape. One day, Franz snaps, and he begins lashing out violently at the world, plowing into a bus full of tourists in his car and firebombing a supermarket that's put a number of smaller local shops out of business. Franz gains a comrade in arms in a young girl who shares his love for nature and distrust for the trappings of modern life, but he soon discovers that they're risking their lives in a battle they cannot win. In German without subtitles. 80 min. DVD 7750 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Helden wie wir (1999) Directed by Sebastian Peterson. Cast: Drehbuch, Thomas Brussig, Sebastian Peterson, Markus Dittrich ; musik, Ingo Frenzel ; kamera, Peter Przybylski. Story highlights the absurdities of everday life in the former German "Democratic" Republic, centering on the comic life and loves of a rookie secret policeman who must keep his fellow citizens under close surveillance, while never quite sure what he should be looking for. Based on the novel by Thomas Brussig. In German. 93 min. DVD 1427 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Heller Wahn (Sheer Madness)) (1985) Director, Margarethe von Trotta. Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler, Peter Striebeck, Christine Fersen. Chronicles the friendship between two very different women: one a lecturer in literature and separated from her stage director husband; the other the shy wife of a well-known peace expert. As the two women become closer, their husbands become annoyed at their own loss. 106 min. DVD 5400 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Herz aus Glas (Heart of Glass) (1974) Director, Werner Herzog. Cast: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Guttler, Clemens Scheitz. Set in the pre-industrial past, the story tells of a German village that looses the secret of making its unique Ruby glass. The townspeople turn to madness, murder, and magic in a desperate effort to recover the pure ingredient they have lost. During the filming, Herzog hypnotized his actors in order to help convey the atmosphere of hallucination, prophecy and the visionary. 94 min. DVD 990 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Herzog bibliography Himmel oder Hölle (Austria, 1990) Directed by Wolfgang Murnberger. Cast: Adi Murnberger, Fabian Weidinger, Johannes Habeler, Lukas Habeler, Ines Ledwinka, Simon Scharf. A beautiful presentation of director Wolfgang Murnberger's childhood, spent in a small Austrian village, where his family owned a cinema. The sequences are put together in a non-chronological order and thus create a kaleidoscope of colorful childhood images, impressions of cinematographic history and life on the country side. This is Murberger's debut film and graduation project from film school that earned him a special Austrian film prize. 71 min. DVD 7782 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire) (1987) Directed by Wim Wenders. Cast: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk. Romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal. Set in modern-day Berlin, the film is not only a love story, but also serves as a reminder of just how good it feels to live. 130 min. DVD 1726; vhs 999:342 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Hinterholz 8 (Austria, 1998) Director, Harald Sicheritz. Cast: Roland Duringer, Nina Proll, Rudolf Rohaczeck, Wolfgang Bock, Reinhard Nowak, Herwig Seebock, Karl Ferdinand Kratzl, Eva Billisich. With the help of a smarmy banker, the family Krcal purchase an old, run-down farm house which they intend to renovate. Problems develop and the family keeps falling more and more into debt. In German without subtitles. 105 min. DVD 7715 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Hitler, ein film aus Deutschland (Hitler, a Film from Germany; Our Hitler, a film from Germany) (1977) Director, Hans Jurgen Syberberg. Cast: Harry Baer, Heinz Schubert, Peter Kern, Hellmut Lange, Rainer von Artenfels, Martin Sperr, Peter Moland, Johannes Buzalski, Alfred Edel, Amelie Syberberg. Highly experimental film providing a panoramic view of the sources which helped shape early twentieth-century Germany through the Nazi period. Contents: Cassette 1, Part 1. Der Gral (The grail); Cassette 2, Part 2. Ein Deutscher Traum (A German dream); Cassette 3, Part 3. Das Ende eins Wintermarchens (The end of a Winter's tale), and Part 4. Wir Kinder der Holle (We, the children of Hell). 3 videocassettes (420 min.) DVD 8899; vhs 999:2971 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Hotel (Austria, 2004) Director, Jessica Hausner. Cast: Franziska Weisz, Birgit Minichmayr, Marlene Streeruwitz, Peter Strauss, Rosa Waissnix. Irene is hired as a desk clerk at a luxury hotel in Austria following the disappearance of Eva Stein, who had previously held the position. Having moved to the city to take the job, Irene takes a room in the hotel for the meantime, and is eager to learn more about her new home and business, though her boss Kros seems curiously guarded about what goes on at the hotel. Though Irene makes friends with some of the staff members, she still spends a great deal of her time trying to uncover the mysteries of the building, and when she discovers a pair of Eva Stein's glasses, she begins to wonder if the girl ever went missing at all or if she might still be on the premises somewhere. 73 min. DVD 7755 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Hundstage (Dog Days) (Austria, 2001) Director, Ulrich Seidl. Cast: Maria Hofstatter, Alfred Mrva, Georg Friedrich, Christine Jirku, Viktor Hennemann, Claudia Martini, Viktor Rathbone. Through six intertwined narratives, Austrian director Ulrich Seidel weaves together extravagantly sordid tales of everyday people in suburban Austria during a heat wave. 122 min. DVD 7756 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Ich denke oft an Piroschka (1955) Director, Kurt Hoffman. Cast: Liselotte Pulver, Gunnar Moller, Wera Frydtberg, Gustav Knuth, Rudolf Vogel. A German exchange student on his way to Hungary falls in love with a girl he meets on the way and also for the station master's daughter, who takes his attentions more seriously than he intends. Eventually the fur flies when the two girls find out about each other. In German without English subtitles. 92 min. 999:2994 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Ich gelobe (Austria, 1994) Directed by Wolfgang Murnberger. Cast: Christoph Dostal, Andreas Lust, Andreas Simma, Leopold Altenburg, Elisabeth Lanz, Pia Baresch This film explores the dreams and philosophical musings of a young Austrian soldier as he wrestles with an obsession with sex and his romantic ideals. Berger, like other young Austrian men must complete his required service in the army. He is a quiet sort and an indifferent soldier. Most of his time is spent daydreaming in the latrine where he carves an elaborate medieval scene on the back of the door. Like most young men in his unit, Berger is looking to get laid as frequently and as impersonally as possible. But in his strange recurring dreams he longs for romance and chivalry. 110 min. DVD 7782 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Ich Klage An (1941) Directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner. Cast: Heidemarie Hatheyer, Paul Hartmann, Mathias Wieman, Margarete Haagen, Charlotte Thiele, Christian Kaysler, Harald Paulsen, Albert Florath. In this feature film, a doctor whose wife suffers from multiple sclerosis kills her with her consent. The Nazis used this film to justify killing the mentally ill and retarded. Adapted from the novel "Sendung und Gewissen" by Hellmuth Unger and Jdee von Harald Bratt. 119 min. German without subtitles DVD 3862; also vhs 999:316 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Ich will doch nur, das ihr mich liebt (I Only Want You to Love Me) (1976) Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Vitus Zeplichal, Elke Aberle, Alexander Allerson, Ernie Mangold. A hardworking, young Bavarian bricklayer, after an upbringing by unsympathetic parents, marries and struggles to provide his wife and baby with consumer goods beyond their means, but gets deeply in debt and eventually commits a senseless murder. Originally produced for television. 110 min. 999:2886 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Im Juli (In July) (2000) Directed by Fatih Akin. Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtulus, Idil Uner, Jochen Nickel, Branka Katic, Birol Unel, Sandra Borgmann, Ernest Hausmann, Gabor Salinger, Cem Akin, Fatih Akin. Daniel, a young teacher, decides to spend his summer at home in Hamburg. At the local flea market, he meets Juli, who is immediately attracted to him, a fact to which Daniel seems oblivious. On the same day, Daniel meets Melek, a young Turkish girl, with whom he is immediately smitten. Ignoring his earlier plans, he sets out in pursuit of her across the Balkans. Along the way he picks up a hitchhiker, who just happens to be Juli. 96 min. DVD 2849 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006) Im Kreise der Lieben (1991) Director, Hermine Huntgeburth. In this murder mystery made for television, three women live off the exploitation of gullible men and find that crime pays. PAL format. In German without English subtitles. 79 min. 999:2987 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Im Lauf der Zeit (Kings of the Road) (1976) Directed by Wim Wenders. Cast: Rudiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schundler, Marquard Bohm, Dieter Traier, Franziska Strommer, Patrick Kreuzer. Depicts the experiences of two young men in Germany. One repairs cinema equipment, the other cannot face the world from which he came. Together they set off on a rambling trip across Germany, listening to rock'n roll, visiting closed movie theatres, meeting strangers and learning what it means to be living in today's Germany. 176 min. 999:310 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Im Weissen R&ou