Released Date:
1999-02-11
Languages:
German
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
125 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (4910 Reviews)
Director:
Max FèrberbèckMax Fèrberbèck
Rona Munro
Erica Fischer (book)
Berlin 1943/44 ("The Battle of Berlin"). Felice, an intelligent and courageous Jewish woman who lives under a false name, belongs to an underground organization. Lilly, a devoted mother of four, though an occasional unfaithful wife, is desperate for love. An unusual and passionate love between them blossoms despite the danger of persecution and nightly bombing raids. The Gestapo is on Felice's trail. Her friends flee, she decides to sit out the war with Lilly. One hot day in August 1944, the Gestapo is waiting in Lilly's flat...
Released Date:
2003-05-16
Languages:
English, Swahili, German
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
141 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (10343 Reviews)
Director:
Caroline LinkCaroline Link
Stefanie Zweig (novel)
A Jewish family in Germany emigrate short before the Second World War. They move to Kenya to start running a farm, but not all members of the family come to an arrangement with their new life. Shortly after their departure, things are changing in Germany very quickly, and a turning back seems impossible. So everyone has to arrange himself with the new life in a new continent.
Released Date:
1999-03-11
Languages:
German
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
107 min
IMDB Ratings:
(589 Reviews)
Director:
Caroline LinkErich Kèstner (novel)
Caroline Link
Pènktchen and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pènktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pènktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pènktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.
Released Date:
2001-01-18
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, France
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (213 Reviews)
Director:
Wojciech MarczewskiWojciech Marczewski (scenario)
Pawel Huelle (based on the novel by: "Weiser Dawidek")
Maciej Strzembosz (scenario collaborator)
Tony Grisoni (scenario collaborator)
Released Date:
2010-11-05
Languages:
Italian, German, Neapolitan, English
Countries:
Italy, France, Germany
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (1471 Reviews)
Director:
Claudio CupelliniFilippo Gravino (story)
Filippo Gravino (screenplay)
Guido Iuculano (screenplay)
Claudio Cupellini (screenplay)
The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead. Instead, he was living in a little hotel near Frankfurt, with a wife and a young German son. Then, when the trains filled with waste departed from Naples, the past climbed on board. This is the story of a man who, while trying to kill a chestnut tree with a copper nail, was grabbed from behind by his past. And was forced to settle the score.
Released Date:
2012-10-19
Languages:
German, Norwegian, English, Russian, Danish
Countries:
Germany, Norway
Runtime:
97 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1901 Reviews)
Georg Maas (screenplay)
Christoph Tèlle (screenplay)
Stèle Stein Berg (screenplay)
Judith Kaufmann (screenplay)
Hannelore Hippe (novel)
Hannelore Hippe (collaboration on screenplay)
ènne Trèster (dubbing dialogue)
Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, now living in Norway since 20 years, is a war child: the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. Katrine enjoys a happy family life, with her mother, her husband, daughter and grand-daughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to witness in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealment and secrets is unveiled, until Katrine is finally stripped of everything, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: What carries more weight, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on?
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