Special Programs in Focus

• Volker SCHLÖNDORFF
• Germany
• 2004
• 98min

Priest Henri Kremer is an inmate at Dachau. As an outspoken critic of the Reich, Kremer has been arrested and interned. Daily he suffers starvation, over-work, and beatings. He and...

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• Hans WEINGARTNER
• Germany
• 2004
• 126min

Friends Jan and Peter are "The Edukators," young, rebellious and non-violent agitators who break into the homes of wealthy people and leave messages warning that their time in such...

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• Jan KRUEGER
• Germany
• 2004
• 81min

Young mother Sandra is on a camping holiday in Brandenburg (Eastern Germany), south of Berlin, with her new boyfriend, Benni, and her six year old daughter, Jule. They run into Mar...

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• Group Work,Rainer Werner FASSBINDER
• Germany
• 2004
• 123min

Germany in Autumn is a collective film by some of Germany′s most noted directors: Raine Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlondorff, Edgar Reitz and Alexander Kluge among them The film′s...

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• Dito TSINTSADZE
• Germany
• 2004
• 102min

Based on the novel by Dirk Kurbjuweit - who also wrote the screenplay - Gun-Shy is a poetic thriller which depicts one man′s desolation and disintegration. Lukas is a solitary soul...

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• Wim WENDERS
• Germany
• 2004
• 114min

Wim Wenders has crafted a poignant, funny film about contemporary America. Opposing perspectives relay the hope that truth is not an ideal lost in the socio-political realm of Amer...

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• Heiner CAROW
• Germany
• 2004
• 106min

Paul and Paula meet by chance in a bar. They know each other, and have for some time, but have never really connected. Paul is unhappily married. Paula has two children and is bein...

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• Reinhard HAUFF
• Germany
• 2004
• 99min

Young Nathalie leaves her rural hometown to fulfill her dreams in the city. Her first order of business is to locate Johnny, a rock star she once met and who told her that she woul...

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• Romuald KARMAKAR
• Germany
• 2004
• 93min

A young woman and a young man live together in an apartment possessing an oppressive silence. He is a failed writer, happy to sit on the sofa all day reading. She is full of life a...

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• Frank BEYER
• Germany
• 2004
• 138min

Hannes Balla is the popular foreman on a construction site. He ensures his crew is paid fairly -and on time. Things run smoothly until the day two newcomers arrive on the site: att...