Released Date:
2008-04-18
Languages:
German
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
112 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (4947 Reviews)
Director:
Chris KrausIn Germany, the elder Frau Traude Krueger gives piano classes in a prison for a few prisoners and the security guard Mètze. When she sees the rebel and aggressive Jenny Von Loeben playing piano, she immediately identifies her potential and offers to teach her for a competition. Frau Krueger finds that Jenny was a prodigy when she was a child; abused when she was a teenager and has been imprisoned for murdering and decapitating a man. Along the period they work together preparing for the exhibition, Frau Krueger discloses secrets about her love in World War II while the self-destructive Jenny has four minutes of glory and recognition of her talent.
Released Date:
2009-09-24
Languages:
German, Latin
Countries:
Germany, France
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (778 Reviews)
Director:
Margarethe von TrottaMargarethe von Trotta (screenplay)
The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. The film portrays an original woman - best known as a composer and religious visionary - whose grand claims often run counter to the patriarchal world around her. The monks and nuns at the convent become a kind of family, offering both confidants and enemies. For example Jutta, struggling with her jealousy of Hildegard's success, and the young Richardis who worships Hildegard both as an intellectual role model and a mother figure.
Released Date:
2011-09-22
Languages:
German, French
Countries:
Germany, Switzerland
Runtime:
89 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (9850 Reviews)
Director:
Tim FehlbaumTim Fehlbaum (screenplay)
Oliver Kahl (screenplay)
Thomas Wèbke (screenplay)
In the not too distant future, people struggle to survive their greatest enemy, the sun.
Released Date:
2014-07-31
Languages:
German, French
Countries:
Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Runtime:
138 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (660 Reviews)
Director:
Dominik GrafDominik Graf (screenplay)
The aristocratic sisters Charlotte and Caroline both fall in love with the controversial young writer and hothead Friedrich Schiller. Defying the conventions of their time, the sisters decide to share their love with Schiller. What begins playfully, almost as a game among the three of them, soon turns serious as it leads to the end of a pact.
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