The producers of the Oscar-winning drama THE LIVES OF OTHERS turn their attentions to comedy with this German film. FRIENDSHIP begins just as the Berlin Wall is about to fall. The new-found freedom in the former East Germany allows young Tom (Matthias Schweighöfer) and his friend Veit (Friedrich Mücke) to travel to San Francisco in [...]
SYNOPSIS Nick Keller (Schweiger) cannot hold down a job and has “a problem with authority.” Working as an orderly in a psychiatric clinic, he’s followed home by one of the patients, Leila (Johanna Wokalek), who’s suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after her mother’s death and starts hyper-ventilating if touched. An offbeat, strangely tender love story [...]
Christian Petzold’s drama deals with a woman, who leaves her hometown for a promising job and a new life, but is haunted by the truths of her past. As her marriage to Ben broke and her professional career has no future in her native town in the Eastern part of Germany, Yella has decided to [...]
SYNOPSIS Based on a chilling true story, The Experiment is an intense, high-energy thriller about a human behavior study in a controlled environment that gets wildly and horribly out of control. Stylish, compelling and incredibly provocative, “it’s an exhilarating and powerful work you won’t soon forget.” (Warren Curry, Cinemaspeak.com) An undercover reporter (Moritz Bleibtreu of [...]
Love finds a tabloid journalist in an unexpected place in this romantic comedy from Germany. Ludo (Til Schweiger) is a reporter who has enjoyed a successful career documenting the peccadilloes of the rich and famous with the help of his photographer sidekick Moritz (Matthias Schweighoefer). But a run-in with boxerWladimir Klitschko and his fiancée Yvonne Catterfeld [...]
There are six principal characters in “The Edge of Heaven”: two mothers, two daughters, a father and a son, all arranged in more or less symmetrical pairs. In the course of this extraordinary film by the German writer-director Fatih Akin (which won the best screenplay award in Cannes last year) children are lost, lost parents [...]
The story deals with the sensationalism of tabloid news and the political climate of panic over Red Army Faction terrorism in the 1970s Federal Republic of Germany. Katharina Blum (Angela Winkler) is a bit of a mystery. In every respect a model citizen, a divorced young woman, living modestly, working as a housekeeper, she is quiet and doesn’t [...]
In Hamburg, Ibrahim “Ibo” Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now, he makes commercials for his uncle’s kebab restaurant. Titzie, an aspiring actress and Ibo’s German girlfriend, finds she’s pregnant. Ibo is uncertain about fatherhood – compounded by his father’s disowning him for getting a German girl pregnant [...]
Die Sehnsucht der Verkonika Voss Munich, 1955: A sports journalist meets Veronika Voss, an UFA actress who supposedly had an affair with Goebbels. Now declining, Voss is kept by her “kind” doctor, Dr. Kart, supplying her house, food, clean clothes and her favourite: morphine. Voss, trying to come back towards the cinema, cannot perform [...]
A Summer in Germany: A wonderful opportunity to enjoy the advantages of studying abroad during your summer break. June 1 until July 23, 2010 Experience Germany, Dortmund and the Ruhr Area The upcoming summer program will focus on German culture in local, European and global contexts. As Germany’s largest polycentric, metropolitan region, the Ruhr Area [...]
