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Geschichtsunterricht
Straub & Huillet, after Bertolt Brecht. Opinions on this masterpiece vary from ‘political cinema at its most advanced and provocative’Published on: -
Playing Men
After watching Playing Men, men and women will want nothing more than to wrestle or play cards. This ode to games reveals the sense inPublished on: -
Das Kongo Tribunal
Through an unofficial tribunal, theatre-maker and filmmaker Milo Rau exposes the mechanisms behind the mass murders in the Congo. Tribunal participantPublished on: -
Lamaland (Teil I)
In the jungle of Paraguay live the Schweikhart brothers, descendants of the Aryan colony Nueva Germania, once founded in Paraguay by the sister of NiePublished on: -
Amateurs
A slick marketing film or two teenagers messing with a smartphone and selfie sticks: how do you pitch the colourless Swedish town of Lafors as…Published on: -
Der Schurke Robert Otto
Rigorous portrait of Swiss writer Robert Walser who in 1956 was found dead in the snow during a winter walk from the psychiatric institution wherPublished on: -
Windspiel
Atmospheric, almost wordless feature debut about a boy aged 13 who runs away from a children’s home and flees into the forests of Brandenburg. OPublished on: -
Raw Chicks.Berlin
Portraits of 11 international, female electro pioneers from Berlin by club organiser Beate Kunath. With infectious enthusiasm they express their lovePublished on: -
Der rote Schatten
The productive master filmmaker Graf made this long version of a thrilling Tatort production for the cinema. Forty years after shocking events surrounPublished on: -
Kirmes
Staudte, never unwilling to stir stinking still water, directed this FRG classic in 1960 about a corpse that is found during construction of a fairgroPublished on: