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Asterix in America
VHS. In German. GF
001
Bambi
VHS. In German. GF
002
The Blue Angel
VHS. 1930. 108 min.
German with English subtitles.GF 003
Josef von Sternberg / Emil Jannings,
Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Hans Albers
Adaptation of Heinrich Mann's novel about a repressed
school teacher who is seduced and destroyed by his
demonic obsession for nightclub singer Lola Lola.
"The film is striking for its creative use of sound and
its impressive recreation of the sleazy atmosphere of
cabaret life"
Blue Light
VHS. 1932. 70 mn.
German with English subtitles.GF 037
Leni Riefenstahl
A painter falls in love with a young girl whom the
villagers fear as a witch because only she can reach
the dangerous mountain peak. When the painter
discovers her secret route, she jumps off a cliff. Shot
on location and emphasizes the romantic mysticism
of the mountains and the transmuting power of nature.
The film so impressed Hitler he asked her to make
films for the Nazis. Co-scripted by Bela Balasz.
Brainwashed (Die Schachnovelle)
VHS. 1960. 127
min.
German with English subtitles. GF 004
Gerd Oswald / Curt Juergens, Claire Bloom
Psychological drama about an Austrian aristocrat
captured by the Nazis. In an effort to uncover secret
military information, his captors interrogate him to the
breaking point. In order to keep his sanity, the prisoner
focuses on the chess book he keeps hidden in his cell.
Cécile
VHS. GF 005
Céleste
VHS. 1981. 107
min.
German / English subtitles GF 046
Percy Adlon / Eva Mattes, Jürgen Arndt
Marcel Proust is seen through the young eyes of
Céleste Albaret who for nine years before the writer's
death was his cook, companion, secretary, friend and
surrogate mother.
Das Dschunglebuch (The Jungle Book)
VHS. GF 006
Das Imperium Schlägt (The Empire Strikes Back)
VHS. GF 007
Das Russland Haus (Russia House)
VHS. GF 008
Der Froschkönig (The Frog King)
VHS. GF 009
Der Köng der Löwen (THe Lion King)
VHS. GF 010
Der Talisman // Wien Nach Neten
VHS GF 011
Der Schwarze Obelisk
VHS
GF 012
Die Fischerin vom Bondensee
VHS GF
013
Die Feuer Zangen Bowle
VHS GF
014
Die Kommissarin
VHS
GF 015
Die Schöne und das Biest (Beauty
and the Beast)
VHS. GF 016
Die Wunderbaren Jahre
VHS
GF 017
Europa Europa
VHS.1991. 121 mn.
German-Russian/English subtitles GF 036
Agnieska Holland / Jean-Marc Barr
Powerful, moving story of a courageous German-Jewish
teenager who survived World War II by concealing his
identity and living as a Nazi during seven harrowing
years through three countries. Based on a true story.
Forrest Gump
VHS. 1994. 142 min.
Dubbed in German. GF 018
Robert Zemeckis / Tom Hanks, Robin Wright-Penn,
Gary Sinise, Sally Field
Germany in Autumn
VHS. 1978, 134
min. GF 019
Eleven leading filmmakers collaborated on this protest
against Fascist tendencies in West Germany by
reflecting on the tragic events of Autumn, 1977, when
public official Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped
and murdered by the Baader-Meinhof group, whose
members mysteriously died in prison. The film's
contents range from an elegiac sequence of the burial
of the prisoners to newsreel clips of Rommel's cortege
and a fictitious argument among TV executives about
a controversial production of Antigone. In the amazing
Fassbinder sequence, he interviews his mother, who
first endorses the dictatorship and then physically
abuses her boyfriend. The contradictions in the film
"belong to one nation: only if all the country's
contradictions are together, can you accept this
history and understand it" (Alexander Kluge).
Hanussen
VHS. 1990. 117
min.
German / English subtitles GF 047
István Szabó / Klaus-Maria Brandauer
Berlin in the 1920's. Based on a true story, Hanussen
is a mesmerizing drama about one brave man's
struggle to change history... before it happens.
Hard to Die
VHS. Dubbed in
German. GF 020
The Inheritors
DVD. Austria. 1998.
94 min.
German/ 3 choices of subtitles GF 044
Stefan Ruzowitzky
In this fresh and lively socialist parable, the death of a
cruel landlord in a small Austrian village of the 1930s
brings unexpected consequences. The identity of his mysterious murderer becomes
less of an issue than
the inheritance of his land. Believing the peasants
would turn on each other if given control, the land
owner bequeaths his farm to seven laborers upon his
death. Their new
freedom does indeed
bring up
conflicts within the group, but also great possibilities
if their differences can be worked out.
Janosch's Traumstunde
VHS.
GF 021
Kamikaze '89
VHS.
GF 022
Kaspar Hauser
VHS.
1994. 137 min.
English/German subtitles. GF 023
Peter Sehr /
One of the greatest mysteries of his age: a 16-year-old
youth was found abandoned in Nuremberg, Germany,
unable to walk, write or speak. He became renowned
as "a wild child," and as the object of scientific study. Compelling
film which looks at Kaspar Hauser in a
social and historical context: as the crown prince of
Baden, abducted as a child in the name of political
intrigue, and raised in a dungeon.
Krieg Der Sterne (Star Wars)
VHS. Dubbed in
German. GF 024
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
VHS. 1975. 109
min.
German/English subtitles. GF 042
Schlondorff-Von Trotta / Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf,
Heinz Bennent, Jurgen Prochnow
This powerful adaptation of Heinrich Boll's Nobel
Prize-winning novel is a fierce condemnation of police
abuse and the reckless, irresponsible nature of
sensational journalism.
A shy housekeeper has a one-night-stand with a
handsome stranger she meets at a party. The following
morning she is arrested for terrorism and brutally
interrogated. A smear campaign in the press forces
the innocent woman to fight for her freedom and her
reputation.
Maedchen in Uniform
VHS. 1931. 87 min.
German/English subtitles. GF 025
Leontine Sagan /
Legendary film from the German post-Expressionism
period, extremely daring for its time in suggesting
lesbianism in the story of a young girl whose identity
is choked by the authoritarian boarding school she
attends.
Marianne & Juliane
VHS. 1981. 103 min.
German / English subtitles GF 045
Margarethe Von Trotta / Barbara Sukowa,
Jutta Lampe, Rudiger Vogler
Drama which chronicles the story of two sisters.
One is a left-wing editor, while the other became a
communist terrorist who ends up in prison. This film
offers a chilling personal account that illustrates the
political turmoil that afflicted West Germany in the
1970s.
Morgen in Alabama
VHS GF 026
The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser
VHS. 1974. 110
min.
German /English subtitles. GF 027
Werner Herzog / Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira,
Hans Musaus, Willy Semmelrogge.
In 1828, a young man appeared in the town
square of Nuremberg, his origins unknown, having
apparently been kept in solitary confinement all his
life; five years later he was murdered by an
unidentified assailant. Kaspar's brief, enigmatic
destiny becomes a powerful metaphor for life in
Werner Herzog's vision of the extreme edges of
existence.
The Nasty Girl
VHS. 1990. 94 mn.
German/English subtitles GF 035
Michael Verhoeven / Lena Stolze
When Sonja investigates the secret past of her home
town, she uncovers more than she expected--and
more than the townsfolk want revealed. Before she
knows it, she is nicknamed "the nasty girl" and her
trouble really begins. This provocative comedy about
secrets and surprises is based on a true story.
Rausch der Verandlung I
VHS
GF 028
Rosa Luxemburg
VHS. 1985. 122
min.
German / English subtitles. GF 029
Margarethe Von Trotta / Barbara Sukowa
Rosa Luxemburg's amazing life as a political radical
and fiercely independent woman is brought to life in
this sweeping biography. From war and
revolution to Luxemburg's tempestuous personal life,
including her love affairs and numerous jail sentences,
this charismatic figure stayed true to her ideals.
Rükkehr Der Jedi-Ritter (The
Return of the Jedi)
VHS. Dubbed in
German. GF 030
Snow White
VHS. 1965.77 mn. GF
038
Run Lola Run
DVD. 1999. 81 min.
German/English or French subtitles. GF 040
Tom Tykwer /
This stylish cinematic exercise and art house
box-office smash is an exciting, non-stop affair in
which the flaming-red-haired Lola is given twenty
minutes to get $100,000 to her boyfriend before the
mob kills him. The film plays out this scenario three
different ways, each building
in visceral suspense to
a different outcome. A thrill ride with an abundance
of visual flair.
The Tin Drum
VHS. 1979. 142 min.
German/English subtitles. GF 043
Volker Schlondorff / Heinz Bennent
The Tin Drum is a masterpiece of dazzling
exuberance and originality adapted from the novel
by Gunter Grass. The film is a stunning parable of
modern society in violent transition narrated by a
unique hero for our times--Oskar, a boy who decides
at three not to grow any older.
Vor dem Sturm
Part I and II
VHS GF 031
Vor dem Sturm
Part III and IV
VHS
GF 032
The Wannesee Conference
VHS. GF 033
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
VHS. 1993. 180
min.
German with English subtitles. GF 034
Ray Mueller
An exhaustive, infuriating and unforgettable
documentary about Leni Riefenstahl at age 90:
actress, filmmaker, propagandist, personal friend of
Goebbels and Hitler, photographer, explorer.
Filmmaker confronts Leni as she seeks to remold
her image from that of a master propagandist
and
Nazi to that of a noble and heroic victim of history.
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
VHS. 1962. 128 mn.
in English GF 039
Woyzeck
VHS. 1976. 80 min.
German/English subtitles. GF 041
Werner Herzog / Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes
Woyzeck represents one of the most extraordinary
events in the history of literature. Written in 1836,
just before its author's death at the age of 23,
Buchner's drama anticipates by some 50 to 100
years the literary movements of the 20th century.
This caustic tragedy of an ordinary man's headlong
plunge into madness and murder is filmed with a
terrible clarity, punctuated by bursts of unexpected
lyricism.
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