Hanna Schygulla

A beautiful Slovak girl from a rural area reluctantly marries a German antiques restorer 30 years her senior. The relationship seems doomed, but gradually the two outsiders discover each other's inner core, because they share a painful past. Though they begin their relationship in silence, they gradually learn to speak a common language. Fear turns to passion and the outer edges of love, money and acceptance are exposed.

Based on the Rainer Werner Fassbinder classic, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Francois Ozon's unique retelling finds Peter Von Kant, a successful, famous direct, who lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means. He offers to share his apartment and help Amir break into the world of cinema.

Over the course of several hours, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric nuclear family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor. The film rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder's earliest and most tender experiments with the possibilities of melodrama....

"In the 1970s, Wim Wenders was among the first true international breakthrough artists of the revolutionary New Germain Cinema movement, a filmmaker whose fascination with the physical landscapes and emotional contours of the open road proved to be universal. In the middle of that decade, Wenders embarked on a three-film journey that took him from the wide roads of Germany to the endless highways of the United States and back again. Each starring...

This despairing yet mordantly funny film charts the decline of a self-destructive former policeman and war veteran struggling to make ends meet for his family by working as a fruit vendor.