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- DirectorKnut HoffmeisterBy the end of the seventies Tanzclub Dschungel moved from Winterfeldplatz, Berlin-Schöneberg to Nürnberger Straße, Berlin Schöneberg/Charlottenburg. A more glamorous venue.
- DirectorKnut HoffmeisterStarsLuciano CastelliZazie De ParisUdo JünemannA reportage from the Dschungel in Berlin West.
- DirectorPeter MüllerThe last day in the tanzclub "Dschungel" at Winterfeldplatz, Berlin-Schöneberg. It documents with single frame automatic one night from evening to dawn. Sounds from The Doors and Iggy Pop.
- DirectorMieczyslaw WaskowskiStarsJanusz ZakrzenskiEwa SzykulskaBarbara BrylskaJan Bard is a Polish intellectual and writer, who decides to stay in West Berlin and publish a new novel there. Things get complicated when he falls for his publisher's wife.
- DirectorLena MüllerDragan von PetrovicStarsRolf EdenDragan WendeDragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the 1970s and has seen the city change throughout the years. His nephew comes to live with him and Dragan remembers the "good old days" he lived as a Yugoslavian immigrant in the divided city.
- DirectorJörg A. HoppeHeiko LangeKlaus MaeckStarsAndiBela B.Blixa BargeldMusic, art and chaos in the wild West-Berlin of the 1980s. The walled-in city became the creative melting pot for sub- and pop-culture. Before the iron curtain fell, everything and anything seemed possible. B-MOVIE is a fast-paced collage of mostly unreleased film and TV footage from a frenzied but creative decade, starting with punk and ending with the Love Parade, in a city where the days are short and the nights are endless. Where it was not about long-term success, but about living for the moment - the here and now.
- DirectorBurkhard von HarderTHE SCAR.Westberlin (West) features a Helicopter ride following in real time (76 minutes) as closely as possible the entire length (156 km) of the former Wall that divided the city. The original soundtrack is by FM Einheit (former member of Einstuerzende Neubauten), including some pieces by Klaus Wiese (former member of Popul Vuh). Both sound researchers underline the magical aerial views of the city under snow with a definite uneasiness, permanently reminding us of the past and of our longing for resolution. When the helicopter reaches Wannsee, the city turmoil runs into a more meditative rhythm.
- DirectorJochen HickStarsMabel AschennellerWolfgang CihlarzRolf EdenToday's hip image of Berlin is based on the city's vibrant and subversive subcultures, which originally emerged within the grey walls surrounding West Berlin. The queer scene played a major role in creating that subculture, with its sexual diversity and its wild and unconstrained party culture, ranging from the notorious clubs to CSD. Many of the scene's actors, such as the Gay Museum, the Teddy Award, AIDS help organizations, and the queer magazine Siegessäule originated before 1989. Yet gays in West Berlin suffered greatly under an incongruous provision in German law - the infamous 'Paragraph 175' - that made homosexual acts between men a crime up until its reform in 1969. Raids and arrests in bars were common, yet ultimately failed in suppressing gay life in West Berlin. Instead, the city turned into a gay capital. The late seventies in particular were a period of great sexual and political freedoms and more intense social intermingling between the gay-, hetero-, and transsexual worlds. Then AIDS struck, wrecking greater havoc in Berlin than in any other German city. After OUT IN EAST BERLIN (2013), MY WONDERFUL WEST BERLIN describes gay life in the western half of the city in the dynamic period between the end of WWII and the fall of the Berlin Wall, all the while referencing current social issues. The stories and experiences of political activists, party-goers, hedonists, club owners, musicians, fashion designers, a DJ, and a make-up artist paint a vivid picture of the gay scene in that period. The use of never before seen archival film footage completes the picture by allowing viewers to travel through time to a hitherto unknown West Berlin. MY WONDERFUL WEST BERLIN explores the historic roots of the fascinating city, that is a dream destination and a place of refuge for gay men form across the world to this day. The film is the second part of filmmaker Jochen Hick's Berlin trilogy, the final part of which will focus on the period after the fall of the Wall, up until today.
- DirectorInga WolframStarsJasper JosephHorst KrauseMatti KrauseOn the morning of June 8, 1962, 13 young East Berliners kidnap the excursion steamer "Friedrich Wolf". Under constant fire from the GDR border police, they managed to escape across the Spree to the west in just 15 minutes.
- DirectorOliver HalmburgerStarsClayton NemrowAndrew SolomonClifford V. JohnsonFor 28 years, the Berlin Wall split a city and a whole nation. While the notorious dangers frightened many GDR citizens, there were others who tried to overcome it. Families fly across the border in a home-made hot air balloon or swing over the Wall hanging from a makeshift pulley. The Wall still works but Communism is crumbling behind it. Suddenly, the borders are open, and the Wall comes down.
- DirectorUli EdelStarsNatja BrunckhorstEberhard AurigaPeggy BussieckA teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
- DirectorRobert van AckerenStarsMyriem RousselHorst Günter MarxSonja Kirchberger30-year-old Max works as an emergency doctor in a Berlin hospital. He has been in love with the attractive Coco for a long time, with whom he shares a well-kept apartment. Coco jealously defends the relationship, while Max feels restricted in his freedom. One day Max dials the wrong number and falls in love with a voice on the other end of the phone that says only one word: "Hello". On nightly forays through the city, Max looks for the woman who owns the voice and hopes to escape the close proximity of Coco. In a billiard salon he finally meets Marie, who is accompanied by her partner Kurt. Shortly afterwards, Marie and Max are involved in a car accident that causes them to hug each other and make love in the rain on the street. When Max and Coco later have a party, Marie and Kurt are guests at the door. As a result, Max and Marie try to couple their respective partners together.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsEddie ConstantineHanna SchygullaVolker SpenglerA wildly anarchic satire of urban guerrilla warfare in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
- DirectorOskar RoehlerStarsTom SchillingWilson GonzalezEmilia Schüle1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de force through the glorious dirt of West Berlin ensues. Full of sex, drugs, love and PUNK.
- DirectorWieland SpeckStarsSigurd RachmanRainer StreckerAndy LucasFelix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationship going by regular visits from Felix, but the curfew forces him to return every evening. When the East-German authorities become suspicious, Thomas decides to try and flee to the West.
- DirectorRicardo FrancoStarsJulia MigenesKeith BaxterJose CoronadoThe lure of the spotlight is pitted against the rivalries of the heart in this romantic tale set against the beauty of snow-covered Berlin.
- DirectorEberhard ItzenplitzStarsPetra RedingerChristine DierschDagmar BienerThe film criticizes the authoritarian methods of home education in a girls' home. In the course of the action, there is a revolt against the oppressive structures.
- DirectorHeinz ThielStarsManfred KrugDietlinde GreiffMarita BöhmeCarolin lives in the East and works in a West Berlin bar. After the building of the wall she tries to persuade Georg, a soldier of the border regiment, to let her cross over. He falls in love with her and defends her against a West German pimp with a punch to the jaw. This film is written by Manfred Krug, who also plays the lead role.
- DirectorRudolf ThomeStarsHanns ZischlerSabine BachWolfgang KinderAn architect falls in love with a student who engages actively against urban speculation in her neighborhood, for which he is jointly responsible.
- DirectorFrank RipplohStarsFrank RipplohBernd BroaderupOrpha TerminFrank Ripploh is a rascal: he is a shaggy-haired, bearded teacher who is gay and has a very active sex life plus an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life separate from his personal life, though sometimes he corrects student papers in public toilets as he waits to score. He cruises constantly. One evening, he meets Bernd and they become lovers. Bernd is attentive and caring, but Frank gets bored with him and continues his polymorphous perverse ways. How long will Bernd and Frank tolerate each other's habits, and how long can Frank keep his sexual orientation outside of the classroom? Things "come to a head" (no pun intended) during Berlin's annual Queen's Ball and the morning after.
- DirectorCarl SchenkelStarsDave BalkoHanns ZischlerRolf EdenDave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike thieves and ends up in jail. All for the love of Corinna, his beautiful girlfriend. Refused parole and nearly insane with frustration he makes a violent escape to be with her and strike back.
- DirectorCaspar HarlanStarsThomas AhrensDelia BehpourMiriam BehpourYoung folks from different groups of early 80s subcultures (Punks, Rockers, Poppers) are heading for Wannsee, a local recreation area in West Berlin, where they are getting in conflict with middle-class-citizens. The movie is a collection of short sketches leading to a crazy pursuit and a lunatic struggle of nearly everybody against nearly everybody.
- DirectorRoland KlickStarsDennis HopperTerrance RobayRamona SweenyA rock music reporter and his view of the angry excited punk generation.
- DirectorHelmut BergerAnja FrankeDani LevyStarsAnja FrankeDani LevyJens NaumannA Swiss guitar player and a female saxophonist from Berlin live and work together. They perpetually discuss about staying together or separating and look up to couples who live together permanently.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsBruno GanzSolveig DommartinOtto SanderAn angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
- DirectorReinhard HauffStarsThomas AhrensHark BohmClaus-Peter DamitzA young girl travels to Berlin, searching for a rock-star who got her pregnant in a one night stand. She gets stuck on the subway, and she meets a vast array of different characters.
- DirectorCynthia BeattStarsTilda SwintonIn 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle, accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. Starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate, Swinton leads us on a journey that is by turns idyllic, surreal, whimsical and depressing.
- DirectorVolker LüdeckeStarsZazie De ParisJoachim LünenschloßRüdiger MatzzeitA taxidriver and a serial killer are looking for a parking space to leave their cars in the street there in the morning. There is only one free place and they start to fight against each other. The taxidriver wins the struggle by destroying the car of the killer, but then he has lost the parking space, because the wreck of the gangsters car is filling the space. He is tired from the job, but the killer offers him a great job. Driving him around for to do his job. The taxidriver is willing to earn some extra money, so he drives the killer around, not knowing about, what kind of job his passenger is doing. After some adresses the taxidriver wants to get rid of his passenger, but he was told that the job has not been finished yet. The killer remembers his driver of the destroyed car, and that he was responsible for the damage. But the taxidriver is too tired from his own job to drive furthermore. He fell asleep and dreams a surrealistic crime story, that finally leads him to prison.
- DirectorHari SamaStarsLumi CavazosMarina de TaviraXimena RomoIn the 1980s, an outsider gets invited to a mythical nightclub where he's unleashed to punk, sexual liberty and drugs.
- DirectorWolfgang BüldSissy KellingStarsJochen ArbeitBlixa BargeldSprung aus den WolkenBERLIN NOW, by Wolfgang Büld, takes a trip through the bizarre tapestry of what was once West Berlin - a city riddled with empty lots and free space and surrounded by a wall. Berlin embodied a culture of its own, one which resisted the whitewash that politicians and city officials are so fond of administering in the name of "cultivation". BERLIN NOW is a documentary, a musical journey and an exploration of underground culture in 80s West Berlin - a trip, a whirl of images, a celebration of the music beyond the mainstream. With Blixa Bargeld, Einstürzende Neubauten, Mona Mur, and FM Einheit. This was a city with a singularly strange attraction to the "rubble aesthetic" that was perhaps a last echo of Romanticism's preoccupation with ruins. The camera takes in some of West Berlin's most well known landmarks, some of which are truly grotesque. For example the ICC center for trade fairs, whose space age aesthetic tries to be groovy but ended up square - a style that to this day typifies the "new" Berlin. Sometimes the camera lingers on a well known city trademark and makes it look like a wonderful new discovery. The film comes back again and again to the Berlin sounds and musicians who make them, and rightly so. For they accurately describe the old "West" - inhospitable and raw as it was - as a space where living and creating could exist side by side. BERLIN NOW delivers what the title promises, a slice of time, a snap shot of Berlin during the wall. With Blixa Bargeld, Einstürzende Neubauten, Mona Mur, and FM Einheit.
- DirectorRolf LambertStarsDanielle de PicciottoLaurent GarnierDimitri HegemannDepicts how in 1989 East and West Berliners in the shadow of the political upheaval establish a new culture: the techno. At illegal parties, everyone dances together to thunderous basses, opposites no longer count.
- DirectorManfred O. JelinskiJörg ButtgereitStarsDie 4 Unsichtbaren 5Nina C. AliceArmin AnderschA documentary about the now abandoned and very influential punk club S.O.36. A punk music club on Oranienstrasse near Heinrichplatz in the area of Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany.
- DirectorHerbert KiperA cross section of our life. Private silent film documents of the reconstruction in the district of Berlin Schöneberg.