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62) Frantz
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.
Series
Criterion collection volume 437
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Deutsch
Description
A young traveler finds a remote castle, and starts seeing mysterious things, only to find that his own nightmares are coming true.
67) Western
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
An intense, slow-burning thriller, this film follows a group of German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in remote rural Bulgaria. The foreign land awakens the men's sense of adventure, but tensions mount when, Meinhard, the strong, silent, and newcomer to the group, starts mixing with the local villagers. The two sides speak different languages and share a troubled history. Can they learn to trust each other, or is the stage being...
Publisher
UMe
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
James Brown changed the face of American music. Soul Brother Number One, as he was known, pioneered the journey from rhythm and blues to funk. Includes music videos, full length commentary and interviews with Rev. Al Sharpton, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, and more.
71) Basic German
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
"With Pimsleur you get: grammar and vocabulary taught together in everyday conversation, [and] interactive audio-only instruction that teaches spoken language organically"--Container.
Publisher
Living Language
Pub. Date
[2002], p1997
Language
English
Description
An English-speaking narrator guides the user through 35 short lessons; listen and repeat after the native German speakers. The guide shows the spelling and text of all the dialogues, along with a brief grammar summary and a glossary of grammatical terms. Designed to help learn the German language while driving, working around the house, or exercising at the gym.
75) Army of crime
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Français
Description
In Paris, 1941, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian leads a motley crew of foreign-born resistance fighters in clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. An initially reluctant Manouchian and his team must resort to guerilla tactics and radical measures in the name of liberty. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006], 2005
Language
Français
Description
Loosely based on true episodes, this film tells the story of German, French, and Scottish soldiers in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge. Follows a French lieutenant, a Scottish priest, and a German tenor and his beloved Danish soprano as music and the spirit of Christmas create bonds between enemies.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Babylon Berlin is one of the most critically acclaimed European televisions shows of the decade, a sumptuously paranoid thriller set in 1929 Berlin, a metropolis in turmoil. In Seasons 1 and 2, the glittering excesses of the city's nightlife sparkle while an army of the impoverished strives for a better life. Organized crime and political extremists take advantage, extending their power throughout town. Gereon Rath, a young cop from Cologne, is transferred...
Publisher
Wüste Filmproduktion, GmbH
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Deutsch
Description
Cahit Tomruk is in his forties, a rock 'n' rolling boozer with a purposeless, dead-end job. Sibel Güner desperately wants to escape her conservative Turkish family. Both are German-born Turks equally ill at ease in either culture; seeking a new life, and a morality that will withstand the constant shuttling between codes. They marry--a marriage of convenience, natürlich. Eventually his nihilism and her promiscuity lead to violence and jail for him,...
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