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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Cargo (2009)


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Synopsis: Year 2267. The ecosystem of Earth has been destroyed and mankind is forced to live in orbit. The story of CARGO takes place on the derelict spaceship KASSANDRA on its 8 year journey to a remote freight-station in deep space...

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Run Lola Run (1998)


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Synopsis: Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manny. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manny. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Russland - Im Reich der Tiger, Bären und Vulkane (2011)


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Synopsis: No synopsis available.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Metropolis (1927)


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Synopsis: Sometime in the future, the city of Metropolis is home to a Utopian society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life. One of those is Freder Fredersen. One day, he spots a beautiful woman with a group of children, she and the children who quickly disappear. Trying to follow her, he, oblivious to such, is horrified to find an underground world of workers, apparently who run the machinery which keeps the above ground Utopian world functioning. One of the few people above ground who knows about the world below is Freder's father, Joh Fredersen, who is the founder and master of Metropolis. Freder learns that the woman is Maria, who espouses the need to join the "hands" - the workers - to the "head" - those in power above - by a mediator or the "heart". Freder wants to help the plight of the workers in the want for a better life. But when Joh learns of what Maria is espousing and that Freder is joining their cause...

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Faust (2011)


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Synopsis: A version of the German legend in which a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

The Lives of Others (2006)


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Synopsis: In the early 1980s, Georg Dreyman (a successful dramatist) and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland (a popular actress), were huge intellectual stars in (former) East Germany, although they secretly don't always toe the party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Pina (2011)


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Synopsis: Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009. Pina is a film for Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders. He takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch ensemble, he follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal – the place, which for 35 years was the home and centre for Pina Bausch’s creativity.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Mass Destruction (2012)


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Synopsis: The martial arts is not about all kinds of special agent Michael receives personally embarrassed by his boss ordered to infiltrate a gangster syndicate is suspected of acting to a large scale war with illegal weapons. So it is good that the daughter can make good use of a businessman just a bodyguard. Michael saves her life unselfishly and is promptly hired as a bodyguard. It turns out that his protegee is being blackmailed. Whether that has anything to do with the weapons?

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

The Silence (2010)


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Synopsis: 13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods (2011)


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Synopsis: When does the little Vicky finally a real Viking? This question can his father Halvar no rest. But when the terrible Sven kidnapped the chief of Flake, has to prove himself unexpectedly Vicky: As deputy chief, he leads the strong men and it gets support from the fearless Svenja. Take course for the Cape Fear to free Halvar from Sven's castle - but the biggest problem is the Vikings still to come ... On stormy seas, tropical beaches and Valkyries by dangerous icy wastes before they fight their way to a secret location to be due to the hidden treasure of the fabled gods. The terrible Sven does everything it can to get him - and only Vicky can stop him with his clever ideas...

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

My Best Enemy (2011)


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Synopsis: The film seems to start as a bromance, with the return of the prodigal friend Rudi to Victor’s social circle. Victor, a Jew, is surprised to learn that his friend has joined the nascent Nazi party, but Rudi promises to help him and his family. When it’s revealed that Victor’s wealthy family has something the Nazis want, Rudi’s loyalties become muddied and, through a misunderstanding, their friendship reaches breaking point.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

3 (2010)


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Synopsis: A Berlin-set drama centered on a 40-something couple who, separately, fall in love with the same man.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Warning Shadows (1923)


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Synopsis: During a dinner, given by a wealthy baron and his wive, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Poll Diaries (2010)


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Synopsis: In the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda von Siering (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. The von Siering family home is a character in its own right, a hulking, neoclassical manor that hovers on stilts above the sea. Oda arrives there bearing her mother's coffin and a gift requested by her surgeon father: a jarred, two-headed fetus to add to his laboratory of gruesome curiosities. Ebbo von Siering (Edgar Selge) sees himself in his daughter when she calmly and expertly learns to suture the corpse of a cat. What he fails to recognize - and what Oda luckily understands - is that their interest in science is their only similarity. His dedication to experimentation is linked to an appalling obsession with power and destruction, while Oda is genuinely curious about life. Her quick, quiet intelligence complements her humanity and her lucid understanding of right and wrong...