Österreichischer Rundfunk
1) Buddenbrooks
Series
Language
Deutsch
Description
The sweeping tale of the rise and fall of a wealthy German merchant family, Buddenbrooks dramatizes the conflict between family loyalty and personal freedom. This stimulating adaptation of Thomas Mann's most famous work is brought to life with magnificent costumes and unforgettable performances.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1900s Vienna is a hotbed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses. Brilliant Dr. Max Liebermann is a student of Sigmund Freud, and together with Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt, they investigate a series of unusual and disturbing murders.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (324 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A young engineer goes to visit his cousin at a tubercular sanatorium in the Swiss Alps intending to stay three weeks, but ends by staying on for seven years to observe the disturbed personnel and patients. The unfolding exchanges between the protagonists are meant to present a microcosm of the society of pre-World War I Europe in this dramatization based on a Nobel Prize-winning novel.
4) John Rabe
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
©2010
Edition
[Widescreen ed.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Tells the story of a German businessman who rescued more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanking Massacre in China by courageously negotiating a safety zone to protect innocent civilians from the Japanese Army. Drawing from John Rabe's 1937 diaries as source material, Florian Gallenberger has crafted a portrait of a man revered as a saint in China to this day and yet never rewarded for his courage during his lifetime. Based on true events.
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (350 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
First broadcast in Italy in 1984, The Octopus (La Piovra) is an international blockbuster, running 18 years and producing nine follow-up series. In Series 2, it gets personal for Police Inspector Corrado Cattani. His lust for revenge drives him undercover, where he discoversa multi-million dollar arms deal. Helped by a familiar foe, the Countess Olga Camastra, whose love for him leads her to break the criminals' code of silence, Cattani works both...
Series
Criterion collection volume 744
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
Français
Description
This looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people: a television producer, his ex-girlfriend, and a prostitute, to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom.
