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- The young Sandor comes to Timisoara and immediately takes on the pig farmer Zsupan to help the gypsy girl Saffi. As a result, he has bad cards when he spontaneously falls in love with Zsupan's daughter Arsena. In the castle of the Barinkays, which fell in Ungande, Sandor meets a group of gypsies. The old Czipra realizes that Sandor is the son of the Barinkays. Sandor is looking for the family treasure and has to choose between Arsena and Saffi.
- A darkly comic look at the life of an actress and the types of Middle Eastern roles available to her in a post-9/11 culture. Sarita is up for the coveted role of an Iraqi rape victim's ghost in a new film. No one's seen the script or knows whether it's a serious drama or a cheap horror movie, but everyone seems to think it's perfect for her.
- A beautiful young woman is abducted from her place of work and held as a sex slave. Two years later, frightened and confused, she manages to escape and begins to use meditation to recapture her sensory memories of captivity. Finally, she achieves a mental picture of her abductor and, realizing that he is close at hand, decides to confront him even if it means putting her life in danger.
- The 1983 theatrical film of the same name reedited into a three part mini-series.
- A surreal, dark humored portrait of the outsider; a music driven celebration of uncertainty.
- Noga Erez performs "Views" from the album "Kids (against the machine)" (2021) published City Slang. Noga Erez is an Israeli singer, songwriter and producer. Her first single, "Toy", received a rave review from The New York Times: "the Israeli singer and electronic-music producer Noga Erez gives 'Toy' a beat that jitters and heaves, ratchets across the stereo field, speeds up fitfully and stops for a moment of dead silence halfway through the song; the melodies are brief modal phrases hinting at Middle Eastern origins... It's a sparse, thorny, unstable track - and haunting, too.
- The documentary seeks to trace the recipe for success of Scandinavian crime literature, introduces leading representatives and looks for the basic structures of crime novels, which usually emphasize the social aspect of the story. It itself becomes a crime thriller, as its protagonist, a director who wants to make a feature film, is confronted with a mysterious murder case that the best Nordic crime writers Maj Sjöwall, Leena Lehtolainen, Leif Davidsen and many others help solve. An amusing and enlightening examination of crime literature that also provides insights into the creation process.
- A portrait of the Dire Straits - a British rock band formed in London in 1977, now visiting West Germany for the first time, performing at prestigious Rockpalast in Cologne produced by WDR, promoting their second album "Communiqué" released in June 1979. This short documentary tries to get close to the band and what music that inspires them.
- It's 1973, the scene is New York, there's a strange virus, a penis transplant, a saw and a stick of leeks: Adam is not successful with women and has a rather tiny penis, but his friend Dick is a very successful lover, owning "the largest cock in town". When Dick suddenly dies of the virus, Adam sees his chance for a better genital area. But does the shady Dr. Cockburn really know what he's doing? Why does poor Adam change into a sex maniac?
- "Corpus delicti": object that materially proves the existence of a criminal offense, a crime. Filmmaker Léolo reverses the perspective and asks in this docufiction what society does with the bodies of those who break the rules and resist power. The film successively gives a voice to the mutilated victims of police brutality and to a young fictional gay activist, carried by both his love and his devotion, but crushed by the legal system and prison. The film asks essential and necessary questions about the difficult intersection of art and politics, expression and action, justice and violence.
- Horst, the 18-year-old son of a factory owner, and 17-year-old Karin dream up their future together in the most beautiful colors. Newly married, however, they don't float on cloud nine as they had hoped, but sink into the dreary everyday life of marriage. While Horst ends his school career prematurely, Karin seeks help from her father-in-law.
- Childish scrawl, devilish cartoon figures and black and white photography compete to represent the woman in what's been described as a literal battleground, with animator and animated fighting over the editing machine and fantasising each other's murder. Nothing is taken for granted, including the authority of representation itself - a restitution of the phallus which masculanises even feminist film into daddy's neatly sprocketed long legs?
- The innocent life of an eleven-year-old girl is transformed as her idyllic summer vacation spent with her family and cousins turns into a nightmare that changes her forever.
- Two brothers born and raised in Germany can't cope with the new circumstances when their family returns to Turkey.
- A widowed landlady in East Prussia, who, despite his acquittal by the court, believes the forester to have murdered her husband, opposes her son's marriage to the forester's daughter and even wants to sell the farm because of it. The exposure of a border smuggler as the perpetrator turns everything around for the better.
- The Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) did not know that a former member of the West German 2 June movement, Norbert Kröcher, resided in Sweden. Kröcher had planned to kidnap Anna-Greta Leijon, the Swedish minister responsible for the deportation of Kommando Holger Meins. Together with a group of 15-20 people, he mapped out Leijon's life, equipped a gas-proof "people's prison", and amassed explosives to be used at a Jewish center and at the offices of Stockholm tabloid newspaper Expressen, unless the government complied with his demands. His goal was the release of the embassy hostage-takers from West German prisons and a ransom of one million U.S. dollars in exchange for Leijon's freedom.
- A guy takes the wife and kid to "rural Mesquite" where they buy a motel.
- While her son Chester lectures on monkeys and human consciousness as a university assistant, Countess Donna Konquistadora awaits at her castle for the appearance of her long-dead husband Prof. Hicks, who will only find peace when he has killed the very last Indian.
- From the beginning, German dictator Adolf Hitler had a lot of women around him who helped him. They prevented him from committing suicide, payed his debts, but most of all they worshiped him.
- About two journalists whose lives begin in Eberswalde, Brandenburg and lead through 80 years of German history. After World War II they became political opponents, one in the west and the other in the east of Germany. Gitta Nickel already described her first encounters after the fall of the Wall in the film "The Year of 1914" (1994); "It began in Eberswalde" continues the confrontation and rapprochement as a journey into the past.
- A UFO spoof in the "mocumentary" style.
- Steve Vickery delivers a 13-minute tribute to the star beyond stars, Marlene Dietrich. What could have become a feature documentary ended up as a short pastiche of the filmmakers ambition. The film end up in the odd genre of dramatized fictionalized reality. Where the the elevated object of the tribute is the only thing we can relate to.
- Tells the story of a Soviet family that lives in the former GDR in 1991, but will return to the USSR that same year: The father is a first lieutenant in the Red Army, which is gradually clearing out its garrisons in Germany. The marching orders lead him and his relatives into an uncertain future.
- Paranormal beliefs and associated phenomena like clairvoyance are of substantial interest to the scientific community. About those that claim ability to gain information about an object, person, location, or physical event through extrasensory perception.
- On April 15, 2000, on the day ten years after Greta Garbo's death, a cardboard containing about fifty letters was opened at the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia, USA. The letters were written by Greta Garbo and addressed to her friend Mercedes de Acosta. She was a playwright and screenwriter. But in Hollywood, she came to be best known for her love affairs, with some of the biggest female stars of the film and theater.
- A documentary that reviews the lives of the couple Alice and Gerhard Zadek and touches on eight decades of German history. Based on their memoirs, he describes their work as convinced young Zionists and socialists in a resistance group against the Nazi regime, their escape to England, and their work to build the socialist state of the GDR, which was characterized by hopes and utopias.
- The opera "Freax" is based on the film "Freaks" (1932) by Tod Browning from the story "Spurs"(1923) by Tod Robbins. Hannah Dübgen wrote the libretto. Christoph Schlingensief made an attempt of the project at Bonn Opera House in 2007, that resulted in a concert version. Here, at Theater Regensburg, on Jan. 21, 2017, was the official premiere of the opera. With a somewhat different interpretation of the original history "Spurs" (1923) by Tod Robbins, turned into the feature film "Freaks" (1932) by Tod Browning. A recorded live performance.
- The human experiments of the Nazi criminal Josef Mengele went down in history as medicine without humanity. These experiments did not end with the Second World War, and some of them continued to this day. On behalf of the military and secret services, people were subjected to experiments with plague pathogens, anthrax or hypothermia, and criminal scientists were able to continue their careers during the Cold War. The documentary features shocking examples and asks about conscience and responsibility for medicine that has gone out of control.
- One of the most profound writers to follow Jung in the field of Analytical Psychology, Marie-Louise von Franz was born in Munich in 1915 and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Zurich. She began analysis with Jung at eighteen, and worked with him on research until his death in 1961. Her first major publication, Aurora Consurgens, is the companion volume to Jung's last major work, Mysterium Coniunctionis.
- PAARTHERAPIE - NOW OR NEVER accompanies four couples who want to actively address the challenges of their relationships by seeking support by a couple therapist.
- Documentary which interweaves the life of the actress-singer Zarah Leander, with that of her greatest fan, Paul Seiler, who has devoted his life to her.
- Marie Helvin was one of the world's top supermodels, and she never forgot her roots when she was discovered as a teenager and became an international model. This special documentary follows Marie as she returns to the city of her birth, as she finds out how one of the world's oldest cultures and most modern metropolis mix together in a memorable and personal film.
- Portrait of the actress and chanson singer Ingrid Caven, who was considered her husband Rainer Werner Fassbinder's muse in the 1970s, had contact with Andy Warhol as well as first-generation RAF members and became a celebrated stage star in France in the 1980s. The portrait of an eventful life that, although shaped by the past, is free from preserving the past at all costs.