From Tom Tywker's recent international hit "Run Lola Run" to epic submarine tragedy "Das Boot" to Fritz Lang's seminal classic "Metropolis", German filmmakers offer a rich contribution to the world of cinema.
Das Boot - Das Boot review. Jurgen Fauth reviews Wolfgang Peterson's classic submarine film "Das Boot."
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex - Uli Edel's Der Baader Meinhof Komplex chronicles the rise and fall of Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s. Martina Gedeck and Moritz Bleibtreu star.
Revanche - Nominated for an Academy Award Gotz Spielman's Revanche is a story about guilt and revenge set against the backdrop of Vienna's demimonde and rural Austria. Starring Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Ursula Strauss, Hannes Thanheiser, Andreas Lust, Hanno Poschl
Hard-working German actor Jürgen Vogel plays the serial rapist Theo in Matthias Glasner’s almost unbearably grim The Free Will (Der Freie Wille), now out on DVD from Benten.
Directed by Fatih Akin (Head-On, Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul), "The Edge of Heaven" tells the story of six fragiel people connected on emotional voyages toward forgiveness and reconciliation in Germany and Turkey.
Stefan Ruzowitsky's "The Counterfeiters" tells the story of a counterfeiting plant run by prisoners in the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen during World War II.
Christian Petzold won the Silver Bear at last year’s Berlinale with the moody tale of a rootless woman who joins forces with a roving venture capitalist. Yella is a richly textured allegory of lust, greed, loneliness, and desire set in the rural East of Germany. It also features a mesmerizing lead performance by Nina Hoss (also awarded with a Silver Bear) and the most obvious, superfluous, and all-around maddening trick ending in memory.
With "And Along Come Tourists", writer-director Robert Thalheim has made an understated film about a particularly sensitive place where past and present collide with unforgotten atrocities: the present-day town of Oswicim, Poland, site of the Auschwitz extermination camp.
Sandra Nettelbuck's romantic comedy "Mostly Martha" about a chef who finds the recipe for love and happiness will turn your stomach. Catherine Zeta Jones stars in the unfortunate remake "No Reservations."
Sandra Nettelbuck's romantic comedy "Mostlly Martha" about a chef who finds the recipe for love and happiness will turn your stomach.
A review of the Kino DVD of Paul Wegener's 1920 silent film, The Golem
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's "The Lives of Others" is set in 1984 East Berlin, five years before the downfall of the East German government. After a brief run in December for Oscar consideration, the film will open February 9th, 2007.
Requiem, directed by Hans-Christin Schmid, is scheduled for release on October 20, 2006
Lust, gambling, adultery, blackmail, prostitution, and murder: Louise Brooks epitomizes an era of delirious decadence in G.W. Pabst's 1929 film about a dancer without morals. Like the mythical Pandora, Brooks and her iconic haircut wreak havoc with the lives of everyone around her. To mark the Louise Brooks centennial, Pandora's Box will be showing at New York's Film Forum for a two-week engagement starting Friday, with live piano accompainment at select screenings.
In writer-director Oskar Roehler's farce Agnes and His Brothers, Cologne is populated with freakishly exaggerated characters. With Moritz Bleibtreu, Martin Weiss, Katja Rieman and Herbert Knaup.
In 1924, years before "Metropolis" and "M," director Fritz Lang created a silent epic based on the quintessential German legend: "Die Nibelungen," the ancient folk tale of heroism and revenge that also served as basis for Richard Wagner's Ring cycle.
Nominated for an Acamedy Award for Best Foreign Film, Marc Rothemund's "Sophie Scholl: The Last Days" is a traditional and competently made film; Julia Jentsch's steely performance as the title character is brilliant.
Dani Levi's farce about a Jewish family was a huge hit last year in Germany, but the film's serious subtext and heavy-handed attempts at edification undermine the humor. With Henry Hübchen and Hannelore Elsner.
A very German thriller with a theme: whatever happened to the rebellious spirit of 1968? Daniel Brühl ("Goodbye Lenin") joins a subversive commune and gets involved with lovely Julia Jentsch and a botched kidnapping.
Oliver Hirschbiegel's Oscar-nominated “Downfall” breaks new ground for the war film, taking us into the Führerbunker, Adolph's Hitler's underground fortress where the architects of the Holocaust met their grim end. Bruno Ganz's impersonation of history's most cursed monster is uncanny. Read Jürgen's review.
Fatih Akin's thrilling "Head-On," an unlikely romance between two Turkish-Germans, won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Festival. Stars Birol Unell and Sibel Kekilli give exhilerating performances.
Lang, Wenders, Schlöndorff, Fassbinder, Herzog: the great German directors explore everything from claustrophobic World War II submarine warfare and mischievous dwarves to expressionistic visions of the future and angelic dreams of immortality.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder updates Douglas Sirk weepies for 1970's Germany in this compelling love story.
Max Färberböck's film is passionate, true-life chronicle of lesbian lovers in Nazi Germany.
"Das Boot" on DVD: a review of Wolfgang Petersen's seminal submarine movie in the uncut directior's version.
Perhaps the most famous of Werner Herzog's romantic allegories.
Moritz Bleibtreu, Germany's hottest leading man, stars in a powerful blend of action thriller, psychological drama, and cautionary tale about the monster in all of us.
A thoroughly depressing experience, Barbara Albert's "Free Radicals" traces the impact of a freak accident on the lives of a community of Austrians.
Wolfgang Becker's warmly satirical new film "Good Bye, Lenin!" starring Daniel Bruehl,is the biggest grossing film in Germany's history.
Rolf Schübel's award-winning love triangle, set in Budapest during the Second World War, tells the story of a melancholic song that drives listeners to suicide. Starring Joachim Krol, Ben Becker, and Erika Marozsan as the delectable Ilona.
A multi-cultural German road movie slash romantic comedy sounds like it could lead to a serious accident, but Fatih Akin's film, starring Lola's boyfriend Moritz Bleibtreu, is fresh Euro fun.
Volker Schlöndorff and Margarete von Trotta's take on Heinrich Böll's polemic against the power of the state and media, "The Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum," is as pressing now as it was in 1975.
Directed by István Szabó, this tale of a stage actor who finds unexpected sucess in pre-WWII Nazi Germany stars Klaus Maria Brandauer.
Fritz Lang's 1926 masterpiece.
IMBD's page for this Rainer Werner Fassbinder classic. You never knew how much one marriage could take.
Sandra Nettelbeck's romantic drama "Mostly Martha" about a world-famous chef who finds the recipe for love will turn your stomach.
Michael Verhoeven wrote and directed this drama about a young woman who decides to do some research into life during in her small village during World War II.
A Jewish family escapes the horrors of the Third Reich to Kenya. Caroline Link's Oscar-nominated epic is old-fashioned filmmaking--and we mean that in the best possible way.
A site maintained by the real-life location of this 1988 Percy Adlon comedy starring Jack Palance and Marianne Sägebrecht.
After the ecstatic fun of "Run Lola Run," German wunderkind Tom Tykwer returns with a moody story about criminals, madmen, and wounded nurses. It may be slower than "Lola," but this film is more alive than most movies, a baggy monster you shouldn't miss.
Margarethe von Trotta's moving film "Rosenstrasse" focuses on a little known act of resistance in Germany during World War II. Starring Maria Schrader and Katja Riemann.
Tom Tykwer's breathless 1999 techno mindgame has quick become an art house classic.
Review of the hilarious satire about the Hitler diary scandal. In German.
Banned by the Nazis, Fritz Lang's 1933 thriller finds the evil mastermind in an insane asylum, from where he controls crimes all over Berlin. The two-disc Criterion Collection edition of the classic expressionist mystery comes packaged with enough bonus features to qualify as a crash course in Lang's gripping thriller.
Based on the novel by nobel prize winner Günter Grass, this classic world film is as surreal as it is disturbing.
An excellent tribute site on the film by Wim Wenders.
Shot in the final months of World War 2, Helmut Käutner's <I>Unter den Brücken</i> (1944) feels like a movie out of time. Two lonely bargees fall for the same displaced Schlesian girl trying to make a living in Berlin, given wonderful life by Hannelore Schrott.
The word "blockbuster" gains a whole new meaning in this German comedy about a bunch of Berlin anarchists who reunite after fifteen years to deal with their bomb-throwing past. Light summer fare, German style.
My favorite movie, period. It's sort of a German "A Bout De Souffle" without the crime. Well, somebody steals a goat, but that's about it. Es wird boese enden!
