Tango Film Produktion
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Effi Briest is a radiant beauty, a vivacious blend of naivete and intelligence, forthrightness and willful self interest. She is married when very young to a much older Prussian diplomat and carried away to a remote Baltic port where she drifts into a brief, passionless affair with a local womanizer. The full effects are felt only later, in a chilling manifestation of the Prussian legal code.
Series
Criterion collection volume 198
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
Series
Criterion collection volume 740
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Full screen two disc special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director's roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer and a beautiful but icy ingenue, based, in a sly gender reversal, on the writer-director's own desperate obsession with a young actor....
Series
Criterion collection volume 758
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Full screen special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
Language
Deutsch
Description
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.
