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1) Klimt
Publisher
distributed by Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A look at the life of Gustav Klimt, whose paintings, like his life, were full of intensity, passion, and controversy.
2) Her third
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Twice-married and romantically involved with a woman, an independent woman decides to seduce a male colleague in order to find a father for her children.
3) Faust
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
An updated take on the famous play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alexander Sokurov directs Johannes Zeiler as Faust, a man who sells his soul to the devil.
4) Barbara
Publisher
Schramm Film Koerner & Weber
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital"--Internet Movie Database.
5) Transit
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
In Christian Petzold's brilliant and haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers's 1942 novel, Georg, a German refugee, flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming enmeshed in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie.
Publisher
KimStim, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A mother desperately trying not to implode and her youngest daughter who explodes constantly form poles between which sons and daughters, aunts and uncles, cats and cousins weave in and around each other in the tight domestic space of a middle-class Berlin flat.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal illness. She decides not to tell him and convinces him to visit their family in Berlin. When Trudi dies suddenly, Rudi vows to make up for her lost life and takes his last journey to Tokyo in the midst of the cherry blossom festival.
Series
Criterion collection volume 405
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Fullscreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Mackie Messer, also known as Mack the Knife, tries to escape the police, and woo Polly against her father's wishes. Bonus features include commentary, documentary, and more.
10) The bridge
Series
Criterion collection volume 763
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The first major antiwar film to come out of Germany after World War II, as well as the nation's first postwar film to be widely shown internationally, even securing an Oscar nomination. Set near the end of the war, it follows a group of teenage boys in a small town as they contend with everyday matters like school, girls, and parents, before enlisting as soldiers and being forced to defend their home turf in a confused, terrifying battle.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Based on a real historical event, this is the story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who appeared in a small German town in 1820 after having lived in total isolation from humans since birth. He is taught to speak, read, and write by townspeople, but is then mysteriously murdered.
13) Eolomea
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"A mysterious message--'Eolomea'-- is received on Earth from a sector of space. Within three days, eight cargo ships disappear from the sector and an entire space station goes quiet. What is "Eolomea"-- and who on Earth knows about it?"-- Container. Filmed in East Germany in 1972.
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.
15) Soul Kitchen
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
When Zinos hires a gourmet chef for his struggling restaurant, it drives away his low-life regulars. In the meantime, his girlfriend, Nadine, moves back to China, but a hip new clientele brings the restaurant back to life. When he goes to China to get Nadine back, he leaves the restaurant in the hands of his criminal brother. When Zinos discovers that Nadine has a new boyfriend, and his brother has gambled away his restaurant, he knows he must work...
16) Fata Morgana
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Herzog brings his cameras to the Sahara desert in order to film mirages. He combines the apocalyptic, often hallucinatory images of the desert with passages from the Mayan creation myth, the Popol Vuh.
17) Line 41
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A revealing documentary that explores the history and psychology behind the complex triangle of perpetrators, bystanders, and victims in Holocaust-era Poland.
19) The white ribbon
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a north German village prior to the outbreak of World War I, strange events, accidents, and deaths are occurring. The village people are beside themselves with worry and can't figure out what to do. After the school teacher starts to unravel the mystery, he discovers that the children of the town may be guilty of the crimes and have formed a secret society that the local pastor's daughter appears to be the leader of. Includes featurette.
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