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Emma’s Bliss
Germany, 2006, 99 min.
Max, a mediocre car salesman, learns that he is dying of pancreatic cancer. On a whim, he takes a road trip that introduces him to Emma, a pig farmer, and country life, both of which almost make him forget his fate. This second feature by Taddicken is a very sensual, unpredictable, and heart-warming... more
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The Free Will
Germany, 2006, 163 min.
After serving nine years for rape, Theo (Jürgen Vogel, Goodbye Lenin!) is determined to follow the straight and narrow. Complications ensue when he falls in love with his boss’s daughter, herself a damaged soul. As they deal with their inner demons, a tragic romance blossoms in this daring, s... more
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Into Great Silence
Germany, 2006, 164 min.
Documentary filmmaker Philip Groeing shows us the never-before-seen life of a monastery high in the French Alps, in which the monks, bound by a vow of silence and solitude, live a simple life of faith.... more
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The Lives of Others
Germany, 2006, 137 min.
In this nail-biting political thriller set just years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, an agent of the East German police finds his ideology turned inside out when he is assigned to incriminate an innocent playwright. This runaway hit swept the German and Bavarian Academy Awards.... more
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Longing
Germany, 2006, 88 min.
A man and a woman in their early 30s love each other tenderly and live a quiet life in a village near Berlin, until one day the husband finds himself waking up in the bed of an unknown woman with no recollection of how he got there. Grisebach captures the essence and the mystery of the couple with e... more
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Pingpong
Germany, 2006, 89 min.
The repressed emotions of the German middle-class provide the focus for this chamber piece, with four characters simmering with unspoken needs. Winner of the Screenwriting Award and the Young Critics’ Award during Cannes Critics’ Week and Best Script at the Munich Film Festival.... more
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Strike
Germany, 2006, 104 min.
German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff dramatizes the creation of Poland Solidarity movement through the story of poor woman, who, despite being a simple welder, was able to ferment an international movement through sheer determination. Schlöndorff captures with sweeping majesty this crucial chapter of... more
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Summer ’04
Germany, 2006, 97 min.
In this sophisticated drama about maturity, a seemingly stable 40-year-old woman becomes unhinged when her son brings home a sexually charged 12-year-old girl and she suddenly finds herself competing with her for male attention. The film cunningly examines the fragile assumptions we hold about being... more
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Unknown Soldier—What Did You Do in the War, Dad?
Germany, 2006, 97 min.
Based on the recent exhibition of never-before-seen private WWII photographs that shocked an ever-more-complacent Germany, Michael Verhoeven's (The Nasty Girl) film traces some of the common crimes committed by German soldiers during the war, exploding the myth that the SS were the real bad g... more
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