24th Sept - 1st Oct 2009
Die wilden Kerle
Germany | 2003 | 96 min. | OV
The "Devil's Pot" is the training ground of the "Wild Guys" and until this summer holiday it was exclusively their territory. The young soccer enthusiasts with their leader Leon only had one plan for the holidays - to play soccer. But a nasty continu ...
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Den Talende Muse
Denmark | 2003 | 100 min. | OV with English s.t.
With her huge eyes, thin lips, mask-like face and her slim, boyish figure, Asta Nielsen was the first big screen diva. She starred in 74 films from 1920 to 1932. This documentary shows archive footage from various periods in her life (she died in 197 ...
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De Gr�nne Slagtere
Denmark | 2003 | 95 min. | OV with English s.t.
Bjarne (Shooting Star, Nikolaj Lie Kaas) and Svend (Mads Mikkelsen) are buddies and butchers. Svend is ambitious but has a marked inferiority complex, while Bjarne doesn�t really give a damn about anything � except his girlfriend,
Astrid (Line Kruse ...
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Der M�rder ist unter uns
Germany | 2003 | 88 min. | OV
Criminal psychologist Bach (Christoph Waltz) and state prosecutor Stein (Susanne Sch�fer) reopen an old case, convinced that the sex murderer sentenced nine years ago is innocent. But in the village where another similar crime has
since taken place, ...
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Die, Mommie Die!
USA | 2003 | 89 min. | OV
Mark Rucker�s debut film is an homage to the melodramas of the sixties which starred ageing heroines such as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, while brilliantly maintaining the
balance between comedy and melodrama. Former Hollywood diva, Angela Arden ( ...
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Donna Leon - Venezianisches Finale
Germany | 2003 | 86 min. | OV
In the interval before the final act of La Traviata at the Venice opera house, La Fenice, worldfamous German conductor Helmut Wellauer (Rudolf Wessely) is found dead. A difficult case for Commissario Guido Brunetti (Uwe Kockisch). The dead man leaves ...
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Die arme Jenny
Germany | 2003 | 858 meter / ca. 40 min. | OV / without dialogues
Originally prohibited by the censors, it is today difficult to see what could have caused such offence when �Die arme Jenny� (Poor Jenny) was released in 1912. Asta Nielsen plays a simple girl who falls prey to an elegant seducer and
then pays for t ...
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Die Sch�nste aus Bitterfeld
Germany | 2003 | 90 min. | OV
Bitterfeld, GDR, spring 1989. Chemical factory worker Gisela (Astrid Meyerfeldt) � three children from three different fathers, an ex-boyfriend (Oliver Korittke) and a girlfriend preparing to head for the West � won�t be deterred: she is determined t ...
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Dann kamst Du
Germany | 2003 | 86 min. | OV
TV presenter Corinna (Katharina B�hm) has got over her last boyfriend with the help of her gay friend, B�b� (Jophie Ries) and her Granny (Gisela Trowe), and now has eyes for men again. Her Granny might be long dead, but in Corinna�s imagination she l ...
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Dogville
Denmark, France, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands | 2003 | 178 min. | OV
The most hotly disputed film at this year�s Cannes Festival, �Dogville� is set in a small town in the Rocky Mountains during the Depression. Nicole Kidman plays the part of Grace, a mysterious stranger on the run from the mob and granted leave by the ...
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Die Klasse von
Germany | 2003 | 93 min. | OV
Based on the motto, �School was yesterday � life is now!�, director Marco Petry�s �Class of 99� is a sensitive film about friendship and love, trust and loyalty, centred on a group of young people in a small German town who finished
school three yea ...
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Die Fabrik
France/Germany | 2003 | 22 min. | OV with English & French s.t.
The smart way of fighting the economical crises: employees of a brewery sell their sperm to prevent the factory from going bankrupt. ...
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Don�t Forget
Germany | 2003 | 9 min. | OV
In this comedy, the act of cleaning up the apartment has some surprises in store. After all, the heroine has locked herself in and a male choir drops by..... ...
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Der Dorfsheriff
Germany | 2003 | 12 min. | OV
Measure for measure: In this comedy, getting revenge takes all day for the village cop. But while there is life, there is hope. ...
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Die fremde Frau
Germany | 2003 | 91 min. | OV
Alexander (Ulrich Tukur), the creative head of the Brandenburg dynasty of jewellers, lives the satisfied life of the upper class in Hamburg with his wife, Konstanze (Judith Engel). Then one day he falls for the mysterious Helen (Corinna Harfouch). Po ...
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Die Souvenirs des Herrn X
Austria, Germany | 2004 | 98 min. | OV with English s.t.
A filmmaker comes across an unknown hobby film-maker�s Super-8 fi lms at a fleamarket and sets out in search of the man who made them. In the process, he slips deeper and deeper into the world of amateur filmmakers, who have their own sub-culture wit ...
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Dear Enemy
Albania, Germany, France | 2004 | 92 min. | OV with Englisch s.t..
DEAR ENEMY Following the success of �Slogans�, Gjergj Xhuvani�s new film delves deeper into his home country�s history. It tells the true story of the director�s grandfather, who became friendly with a German officer during the German occ ...
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Dar De Nuevo
Argentina | 2004 | 83 min. | OV with Englisch s.t.
DEAL AGAIN Four pensioners from Venado Tuerto, a small town in the province of Santa Fe in Argentina, meet regularly to play truco or boccia. The desolate state of the country�s economy leads them to come up with the idea of kidnapping an industry ma ...
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Doble Juego
Peru, Spain, Chile, Cuba, Argentina | 2004 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
THE CON GAME looks at the urban Peruvian middle classes in
late 2000, caught up in a political climate of resignation, fear and hysteria. A film-maker, a pianist, a real-estate agent, an accountant and an interior designer, all unemployed, fall prey ...
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Die Bergkatze
Germany | 2004 | 85 min | OV
DIE BERGKATZE This year�s retrospective is devoted to the legendary vamp, Pola Negri. Polish by birth, she rose to fame in Germany and was one of the fi rst actresses to move to Hollywood, in 1922. Ernst Lubitsch�s silent comedy, �Die Bergkatze ...
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Der Stich des Skorpion
Germany | 2004 | 89 min. | OV
OPERATION SKORPION Imprisoned by the Stasi (State Security
Police) for trying to escape from East Germany, Stein endures years of torture. Bought out by the West in the early 70s, he runs an organisation helping others flee the GDR - so succes ...
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Das Zimmerm�dchen und der Million�r
Germany | 2004 | 92 min. | OV
Sophie, an employee at a fi rst-class hotel, takes the shirt-sleeved man in the hotel lobby for Hannes, a temporary waiter who is late for work. In actual fact, he is the hotel�s owner, and he immediately falls for Sophie. In
true romantic com ...
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Der wei�e Afrikaner
Germany | 2004 | 2 x 90 min. | OV
An opulent two-part TV drama based on the life of the geologist, Hans Merenksy. Born and raised in South Africa, Hans (Tim Bergmann) moves to Berlin in the 1910s when his father dies. After university, he returns to Africa, to fi nd it overrun ...
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Dastan Natamam
Iran, Ireland | 2004 | 83 min. | OV with English s.t.
STORY UNDONE A bus with darkened windows drives through the
Iranian mountains into border country. Two men hand over money and get on board, joining masked illegal refugees hoping for a better life beyond the border. The new passengers are a directo ...
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Der Mann von nebenan lebt
Germany | 2004 | 93 min. | OV
It�s been a year since Kate (Lisa Martinek) and her friends Inge and Malise drowned their psychopathic neighbour (Axel Milberg) in a forest pond. Kate and Malise have moved into a new house; Kate is now romantically involved with police inspector Lan ...
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Der Fischer und seine Frau - Warum Frauen nie genug bekommen
Germany | 2005 | 102 min. | OV with English s.t.
Ida, like the fairytale character Ilsebill, who repeatedly sends her husband to the magic flounder to fulfil her wishes, wants more. She wants more than her fish-enthusiast husband Otto can offer. According to the director, women have been like Ilseb ...
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Der Schatz der wei�en Falken
Germany | 2005 | 92 min. | OV
Jan, Basti und Stevies� summer holiday is marred by the news that Jan is moving to the city in two weeks time. The friends decide to examine the mysteriously barricaded �Kattervilla� and find a treasure map deposited by a gang called the �Wei�e Falke ...
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Die blaue Grenze
Germany | 2005 | 102 min. | OV with English s.t.
The �blue border� (die blaue Grenze) is the border between life and death. Momme can�t face telling his grandfather that his son - Momme�s father � has suddenly died. The old man is still suffering from the loss off his wife. Director Till Franzen de ...
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Die Nachrichten
Germany | 2005 | 90 Min. | OV
The TV-News reader Jan Landers is under suspicion of having worked for the East German secret-police (Stasi). Two journalists are competing for the informers, rumours and missing documents necessary to expedite a huge scandal. Landers is removed from ...
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Die Diebin und der General
Germany | 2005 | 90 Min. | OV
Jessie is an unemployed single-parent who has been ordered 100 hours of community service for shoplifting. Whilst on duty at an old-peoples-home, she meets the grumpy old �General�, and the two of them develop an unlikely friendship. Miguel Alexandre ...
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Der siebente Kontinent
Austria | 2005 | 108 min. | OV
Michael Haneke�s �The Seventh Continent� catapulted Austrian film to the top of the cinematic ladder overnight. The film follows a married couple as they plan their joint suicide and the murder of their daughter. As with all Haneke films, �The Sevent ...
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Delwende, L�ve-toi et Marche
Burkina Faso, France, Switzerland | 2005 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
A woman is banished from her village for allegedly practicing witchcraft. Her daughter rebels against the decision and goes in search of her mother. Director S. Pierre Yameogo uses typically calm visuals to trace the story of a young woman�s fight ag ...
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Die gl�cklichsten Menschen der Welt
Germany, Bangladesh | 2005 | 95 min. | OV with German s.t.
According to a survey run by the London School of Economics, the happiest people in the world live in - Bangladesh. In order to substantiate this claim, Shaheen Dill-Riaz, a Bangladeshi living in Germany, travels to the mega city of Bhaka to conduct ...
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Drei Schwestern - Made in Germany
Germany | 2005 | 89 Min. | OV
1947, three sisters are searching for happiness in a small south German town. Freya wants to marry a US army colonel, Guddi is enjoying single life and Nora is secretly in love with a former concentration camp prisoner. A stranger appears on Freya�s ...
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Derb Moulay Cherif
Morocco | 2005 | 112 min. | OV with English s.t.
Airport worker Kemal dreams of nothing more than a future with his girlfriend Najat. Alas, when the authorities unearth his Marxist engagement as a student, he is arrested, interrogated and tortured. He seals his own fate by refusing to name his form ...
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Die Mandantin
Germany | 2005 | 90 Min. | OV
The prominent defence lawyer Ariena Lenhardt is suffering from MS and as a consequence, is increasingly forced to withdraw from professional life. However, when a mysterious young woman implores her to take on her case, Ariena accepts - quite unaware ...
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Die Nacht der gro�en Flut
Germany | 2005 | 90 Min. | OV
Helmut Schmidt, the freshly ordained Interior Minister of that time, explained 25 years later that the city of Hamburg was not prepared for a catastrophe of that scale. The 1962 flood, which took the city and its inhabitants by surprise, claimed 300 ...
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Die Spielerin
Germany | 2005 | 89 Min. | OV
At the request of Friedrich, her lawyer boyfriend, divorcee Polina goes to a casino for the first time, and wins surprisingly a large amount of money. The win leads to a gambling habit that will ruin her life; having already ruined her boyfriend�s. B ...
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Der Weibsteufel
Austria | 2005 | 92 min. | OV
A policeman flirts with the wife of a smuggler in order to gain information. Her husband sees through the plan and uses his wife to lead the investigator astray. Eventually, however, the woman reverses the game and starts to play the two men off agai ...
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De Indringer
Belgium | 2005 | 110 min. | OV with English s.t.
When Louise suddenly vanishes, her father Tom starts a desperate search. On the trail of a sixteen-year-old runaway, he eventually arrives at a small village in the Ardennes. He finds the mysterious girl with her parents, and although they refuse to ...
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Das beste Jahr meines Lebens
Germany | 2005 | 89 Min. | OV
Laura, the wife of an entrepreneur, is somewhat surprised when her husband is arrested and put in prison. The good-life is over: She is forced to trade the villa for a council flat and her �wellness-weekend� for a grinding, low-wage canteen job. Afte ...
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Die sch�nsten Jahre
Germany | 2005 | 88 | OV
Nina hasn�t told her mother that she has started a lesbian relationship. Then, just when she�s fallen in love with Flora, her mother decides to accompany her on a business trip to Budapest. The trip turns out to be a journey into the past through goo ...
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Despu�s del mar
Argenina | 2005 | 67 min. | OV with english s.t.
He is an author and is obsessed with his piano; she, a captivatingly austere prostitute seeking to understand her past. Two people who have apparently lost everything and who are now travelling to an undefined destination somewhere beyond the horizon ...
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Die Pamir - Untergang eines Gro�seglers
Germany | 2006 | 45 min. | OV
An intensively felt documentary accompanies the feature film account of the sinking of the German training ship Pamir which cost many lives. The visual look is new: a sleek mix of black and white images from the 30s and 50s, computer animation, new f ...
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Der Untergang der Pamir
Germany | 2006 | 180 min. | OV
Unsinkable was the verdict on the German training ship "Pamir". At least before 21 September 1957. One hurricane later it had sunk in the Atlantic, in an incident that is among the most tragic in the history of maritime shipping. alone 50 cadets drow ...
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Der Wirt, die Kneipe und das Fest
Germany | 2006 | 76 min. | OV
Once a year traditions run overboard and alcohol flows freely deep in Dithmarschen, in the German hinterland. Publican Friedemann Braun of the "Hohnbeerkrog" calls upon every man (not woman!) . By the end of these rambunctious and rather convivial ce ...
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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
Germany | 2006 | 71 min. | no s.t.
Truth or delusion? The most likely candidate for most famous German silent film of all times deals with the big issue, no less. During Filmfest Hamburg, the fantastic story of hypnotist, showman and killer Caligari, is accompanied by the live sounds ...
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Die letzten Tage des Sommers
Germany | 2006 | 15 min. | OV
With the sale of the co-owned house the loss of the dear-won home looms threatingly. Fears of debonding lead to an open controversy between mother and son.
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Day Night Day Night
USA | 2006 | 94 min. | OV
Nervewracking dramabeyond standard filmschool conventions. Small wonder, since the plot is involving a nineteen-year-old girl turning herself into a human bomb ready to explode on Times Square. The director hails from St. Petersburg and received acco ...
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De hel van Tanger
Belgium | 2006 | 105 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A true, scary story about two innocent bus-drivers who get caught in Morocco driving 700 pounds of dope around. Although their employer admits both had no idea of their illegal cargo, they wander into the slammer for five years out of pure negligence ...
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Der Tote am Strand
Germany | 2006 | 89 min. | OV
After ten years in America, Rosa returns to her family on the occasion of her father's seventieth birthday. She wanted to take the opportunity to talk it out with her dominating father but she's too late. Somebody killed him. When Rosa's exlover star ...
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Don
Netherlands | 2006 | 90 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Don Kerbosch is smart, pugnacious and a damn good soccer player. After his expulsion from school he ends up in a school full of migrants, which brings him into the unfamiliar position of an outsider. A student soccer championship seems to bring about ...
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Der Liebeswunsch
Germany, South Africa | 2006 | 112 min. | OV
Marlene leaves Leonhard for his best friend Jan. Leonhard falls in love with Anja who also falls in love with Jan. Everybody could be so happy but is not in this touching melodrama about passion and loss which gets under the audience's skin. Excellen ...
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Der Berufsindianer - Gojko Mitic in der Pr�rie
Germany | 2006 | 44 min. | OV
The portrait of Gojko Mitic, "Der Berufsindianer - Gojko Mitic in der Pr�rie" is shown as supplement to "Am Fu� der Rocky Mountains", a film about of Tom Crawford, a rancher who leads a double-life as Blackfoot Indian, powwow and sweat lodge included ...
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Du jour au lendemain
France | 2006 | 93 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Another day where everything goes wrong? Cinema just loves these sorts of stories! But when everything that one hates is going well � emerges a new chalange. Of course, Beno�t Poelvoorde who already enchanted Hamburg moviegoers with "Podium" (2004, F ...
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Dosar
India | 2006 | 127 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Is an affair justifiable if a marriage is unhappy? Can one condemn infidelity wholesale? Is fidelity merely a matter of discretion? A stylish black-and-white drama unfolds when a married man and his lover get into an accident; she dies, he survives b ...
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Dame Sobh
Iran | 2006 | 85 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
This was supposed to be the last day in the life of murderer Mansour. Islamic laws holds the victim's relatives responsible for taking him from this life to the next. But on the set date, they simply don't show up. An excruciating wait ensues. A powe ...
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D�j� s'envole la fleur maigre
Belgium | 2007 | 85' | OV with engl. st
In the late 1950s, director Paul Meyer was commissioned by the Belgian government to make a film about the successful integration of immigrants in the Walloon coal mining area. Inspired by Italian Neorealism, Meyer filmed grievant working conditions, ...
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Der Champagner Spion
Germany, Israel | 2007 | 90' | OV with engl. st
In 1960, 12-year-old Oded Gur Arie discovers his father is an agent for Mossad. Ordered to infiltrate a circle of German scientists working on weapons of mass destruction in Egpyt, he loses himself in his feigned identity as ex-Nazi millionaire. In 1 ...
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De Man Die Zijn Haar Kort Liet Knippen
Belgium | 2007 | 94' | OV with german st
Family man Govert Miereveld (Senne Rouffaer) is a teacher at a girls' school, secretly in love with his pupil Fran (Beata Tyszkiewicz). One day she disappears and his fancy becomes an obsession. When asked to an autopsy several years later, he identi ...
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Die Familie
Germany | 2007 | 60' | OV
For generations an industrialist family has successfully shrouded the origins of its wealth in mystery. They do not talk to the press, and their archives are not available to the public. More than four years of painstaking research went into this doc ...
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Darling
Sweden | 2007 | 93' | OV with engl. st
Eva is in her twenties and blows the money her mother gives her on clubbing and a flat in the hippest part of Stockholm. Then her boyfriend leaves her and her mother cancels her payments. When she ultimately finds work at McDonald's, she meets the ol ...
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Der Kommissar und das Meer - N�her als du denkst
Germany | 2007 | 90' | OV
Scandinavian actresses of current and past fame like Paprika Steen ("Festen") and Inger Nilsson ("Pippi Longstocking") play in this preview of a 2008 television series based on novels by Mari Jungstedt. Superintendent Anders is investigating the murd ...
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Die Z�rcher Verlobung
Germany, Switzerland | 2007 | 88' | OV
A remake of a classic, as German as the Ealing comedies are English. Young authoress falls in love with charmingly disinterested guy but draws the vested interests of his aptly named mate Buffalo instead. A romance enfolds, a love-story ends in tears ...
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Den man �lskar
Sweden | 2007 | 92' | OV with engl. st
Fishmonger Alf (Rolf Lassg�rd) is happily married to Lena (Sofia Ledarp), but it bothers him to be constantly compared to her violent ex-husband Hannes (Jonas Karlsson). When Hannes is released from prison, Lena proves to be sexually dependent of him ...
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Der blinde Fleck
Germany | 2007 | 91' | OV
Eckhard, a policeman, and his wife Marianne live in a small town with their daughter Laura. When Laura is accused of the murder of two policemen, their happy life derails. As Laura maintains her silence, Eckhard's colleagues begin to distrust him, an ...
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Die Todesautomatik
Germany | 2007 | 89' | OV
The GDR in 1961 was a rather joyless place. When two kids establish a fan club for a rock'n'roll musician, authorities prick up their ears. The youngsters protest against the Berlin Wall, scribble graffiti, even burn down a barn. The government puts ...
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Die Katze
Germany | 2007 | 93' | OV with engl. st
Margret, a middle-class widow, and Siegmar a former foreman, meet and decide to get married for fear of growing old alone. As they move in together, Siegmar brings his cat, which puts Margret on the warpath. The ensuing war of nerves destroys all fee ...
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