Movie Review Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005) NYT Critics’ Pick ‘Crossing the Bridge’ Is a Musical Tour of Turkey With a Funky Guide By MANOHLA DARGIS Published: June 9, 2006 If life were fair and film exhibition better, you could watch Fatih Akin’s musical mystery tour “Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of [...]
Synopsis: “Andreas Dresen’s tragicomic movie focuses on two women and their daily struggle for survival during a summer in Berlin. Katrin, a jobless single mum, and Nike, a nurse, live in the same house and are best friends. Although always dating the wrong men and still pursuing for happiness, they don’t lose their humor and [...]
Synopsis “This moving drama of the birth of Israel focuses on two women – Else Lasker-Schuler, a German poet, and Tania Shohat, a Russian revolutionary. They meet first in Berlin, where utopian ideals and fear of the Nazis force their escape to Palestine. Re-united in Jerusalem, they confront a harsh reality in the city idealized [...]
This critically-acclaimed, Oscar®-winning film (Best Foreign Language Film, 2006) is the erotic, emotionally-charged experience Lisa Schwarzbaum (Entertainment Weekly) calls “a nail-biter of a thriller!” Before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, East Germany’s population was closely monitored by the State Secret Police (Stasi). Only a few citizens above suspicion, like renowned pro-Socialist playwright Georg Dreyman, [...]
Synopsis Germany 1939. A day after Hans and Lene get married to each other the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed. Lene and Anna move in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but has changed [...]
Die Unberührbare is the fascinating portrait of middle-aged leftist writer Hanna Flanders, an intellectual torn between her conflicting ideals and the new realities of a changing society. The character of Hanna is based on German author and Leninist, Gisela Elsner, who is also the mother of director Oskar Roehler. Brief introduction and afterword to the [...]
The German House invites you to join us for our first Movie Night this semester. On wednesday, February 3rd at 8 pm we will be showing the movie “Goodbye Lenin”. About the movie: In 1989, Christiane Kerner has lost her husband and is completely devoted to the Socialist East German state. A heart attack leaves [...]
Jacob the liar (1999) Screening on Wed. 4th of November 2009, 8pm, German House Looking forward to seeing YOU! In Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, Jakob (Robin Williams), the owner of a long-closed café in the Jewish ghetto, accidentally overhears a forbidden radio news bulletin signaling Soviet military successes against the Germans. [...]
The German House hosts movie nights bi-weekly (every other Wednesday) at 8 pm in the Bice House. Come by for an entertaining film with commentary as well as light refreshments and conversation. Erkan & Stefan 23.09.09 Erkan & Stefan (a stand up duo from Munich) are assigned as bodyguards for the beautiful Nina. Having no [...]
Showing on Wednesday, 8 April, at 8 pm About the movie: 40-year-old Cahit is brought into a psychiatric clinic after attempting suicide and sets out to start a new life, even as he longs for drugs and new alcohol to numb his pain. Sibel is young, pretty, and, like Cahit, Turkish-German. She lives a lifestyle [...]
