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Berlin '36
Germany, 2009, 100 min.
With Berlin facing boycotts if Jewish athletes aren't allowed to participate in its Olympic Games, the Nazis bully a Jewish expat into training for the German high jumping team -- but they're also waging a covert campaign to defeat her.... more
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John Rabe
Germany, 2009, 134 min.
When the Japanese launch the 1937 Rape of Nanking, German businessman John Rabe fights to set up a secure zone for his workers and their families, opposed by those who despise his Nazi leanings. This stirring epic is the story of "China's Oscar Schindler."... more
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NoBody's Perfect
Germany, 2008, 84 min.
The documentary NoBody's Perfect follows former R.W. Fassbinder assistant Niko von Glasow as he looks for 11 people who, like him, were born disabled due to the disastrous side effects of Thalidomide, and who are prepared to pose naked for a book of photos.... more
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Soul Birds
Germany, 2009, 90 min.
Boasting an exceptional visual style to match its elemental themes, Soul Birds from documentarian Riedelsheimer, observes the intimate relationship between human beings and nature in this deeply moving portrait of three children battling leukemia.... more
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What You Don't See
Germany, 2009, 89 min.
Vaguely reminiscent of François Ozon's See the Sea, this impressive psychological thriller about a sensitive German adolescent grappling with his father's suicide and his mother's new boyfriend plays out against the eerie woods and fantastic rock formations of the Brittany Coast.... more
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The White Ribbon
Germany, 2009, 145 min.
Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Michael Haneke's (Funny Games) mesmerizing and disturbing mystery follows the escalating errant behavior of a group of children and adults in a rural German village in the years leading up to the First World War.... more
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