10대 소년 마이클은 우연히 30대 여인 한나를 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 마이클이 책을 읽어주는 것을 좋아하던 한나는 어느 날 홀연히 자취를 감춘다. 한나에 대한 그리움을 간직하고 살아가던 마이클은 법대생이 되어 8년 후 우연히 피의자 신분으로 법정에 선 한나를 보게 된다. 무기징역을 선고 받은 한나와 또 다시 20년의 이별을 맞아야만 한다. 그 후 10년간 한나에게 책을 읽은 녹음 테이프를 보내면서 인연의 끈을 놓지 않으려 한다. 하지만 인생을 송두리째 흔들어 놓은 사랑은 너무나 큰 비밀을 감추고 있었는데…
피도 눈물도 없는 킬러들의 비극적 종말. 경악으로 세계를 마비시킨 최악의 테러사건을 영화화한 작품.
1988년 8월 은행에 들이닥친 2인조 무장 강도가 벌인 인질극. 이들은 54시간 동안 독일 경찰의 접근을 막는 데 성공했으며, 총격전 끝에 3명이 목숨을 잃었다.
A beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom.
독일 대표 감독들이 공동연출한 "독일의 가을"은 뚜렷한 플롯이 없다. 이 영화는 다큐멘터리와 극영화 장면들을 혼합하여 1977년 붉은 여단으로 알려진 두 명의 좌파 테러리스트에 의해 납치되어 살해당한 한 사업가의 2달간의 행적을 좇는다. 붉은 여단의 지도자였던 바데르, 엔슬린, 라스페는 그들을 석방시키려는 납치와 비행기 공중 납치 시도가 모두 실패하자, 감옥에서 함께 자살을 감행한다. 이 세 사람은 실제로는 국가에 의해 살해되었다는 믿음이 좌파 공동체 사이에 팽배하였다. 이 영화에는 거장 감독 파스빈더가 당시 독일의 정치적 상황에 대해 어떻게 생각하는지에 대해 논하는 장면들이 포함되어 있으며, 그가 촬영한 장면들은 모두 실제 다큐멘터리 장면으로 느껴지지만, 사실은 모두 연출된 것들이다. 이 영화에는 이 세 붉은 여단 지도자들의 영결식 장면을 촬영한 다큐멘터리 장면들도 포함되어 있다
East Germans abduct a U.S. coed (Linda Blair) and throw her in a women's prison run by a brutal inmate (Sylvia Kristel).
Ruud Gullit, Marco van Basten, The brothers Koeman… These were some of the superstars from Holland whose blazing talents made the European Championship of 1988 so memorable and one to log indelibly in the whole recent legend of outstanding international football.
Eight teams qualified for the tournament finals, including England who scored more goals than any other side, 18, to reach the final stages – and the Cinderella side from the Republic of Ireland, managed by Jack Charlton.
But most of all Euro ’88 had a winning side who swept all before them in a colourful and passionate series of displays that will be viewed again and again by anyone fascinated and intrigued by the way the world’s most popular game is so sumptuously developing as it enters its second organised century. It is a must for fans and serious students alike.
The 1974 finals in West Germany saw the emergence of "Total Football" in the shape of the classy Dutch led by the legendary Johan Cruyff. The Dutch swept all before them until they came up against the solid hosts in the final. Beckenbauer led West Germany to a tense 2-1 victory.
When Chris Gueffroy becomes increasingly disillusioned with his life in 1980s East Germany, he hatches a plan with his friend, Christian Gaudian, to escape the isolated Eastern bloc state without telling his mother, Karin. The pair believe that the standing order to shoot anyone who crosses the Berlin Wall, as ordered by the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party, Erich Honecker, has been lifted due to the state visit of Swedish PM Ingvar Carlsson. The young men seize their chance and attempt the fateful escape to the west.
May 27th, 1971 was a rainy day. In the small town Radevormwald, the world seems to be still in order.
But on this day, 46 people die in a train crash, amongst them 41 schoolchildren. Since then, Radevormwald has been connected with one of the worst railway catastrophes of Germany. The touching documentary reconstructs the tragedy and shows how much the event still influences the life in the town until today.
오랫동안 소식이 끊어졌던 첩보원 레미 코숑은 실은 동독의 지방도시에 은둔하고 있었다. 베를린 장벽 붕괴 이후 그는 오랫동안의 은거에서 벗어나 서쪽으로 향하는 여행을 시작한다. '역사의 고독'을 주제로 한 고다르식의 영화 에세이.
Four inseparable friends from childhood struggle in the best years of their lives when one grows up to become a prize fighter, second a police detective, third a nightclub runner and the fourth sets them all at loggerheads.
Endless beaches, dunes, heath and the Wadden Sea characterize the landscape of Sylt. Germany's largest North Sea island is also a paradise for numerous animal and plant species. Around half of its area is under landscape or nature protection. In spring and autumn, thousands of migratory birds stop here on their way between Siberia and East Africa. Sheep graze on the dike meadows, female seals give birth to their young off Sylt. And the Sylt Wadden Sea is one of the last large wilderness areas in Europe. But in winter storms hit the island. If the “Blanke Hans”, as the storm on Sylt is called, causes the North Sea to rage, it hits the island with tremendous force. Only a few places on the German North Sea coast are as exposed to the force of the sea as the west coast of Sylt. The documentary shows Sylt's nature in fascinating images. People who are particularly connected to the island and its nature are accompanied in their everyday lives.
This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich, and Heidelberg. Included are scenes of World War II destruction that lingered at the time.
During the donations scandal of 1999/2000, Helmut Kohl gave his legendary "word of honor" not to name any donors. This documentary explores the question of what this word of honor was really all about
Kraftwerk's vision of a keyboard-driven world of clicking metronomic rhythms and digitised sound bites may have been the stuff of avant fantasy in the 1970s (the decade that saw the band's first groundbreaking albums), but it is a reality in the new millennium. Their visionary style is explored in KRAFTWERK AND THE ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION, a study of the group, their career and their emergence as the most influential electronic band in the world.
Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.
A film about and with Max Ernst.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary intended for secondary schools exploring the three distinct geographical regions of Germany from a British perspective.