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42) Good bye, Lenin!
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.
Author
Publisher
AM Editores
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The success of a home's design depends on two basic aspects that need to be taken into account. First of all, there are the wishes, lifestyle, taste and preferences of the inhabitants. Secondly, current trends in decoration cannot be left outside. The true challenge is to harness both as well as to consider the practicality, functionality an aesthetic qualities required by the present age. These innovative interior solution must encompass decorative...
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Deutsch
Description
Premiered in Germany in 1926 and is based on the stories from "The Arabian nights", this movie has been hailed as the first full-length animated film. This is the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse intending to send the rider off on a flight to his death.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a middle-European village a century ago, Death takes a young man just before he is to be married. His lover seeks out the Death figure and pleads with him for her fiance's life. Filled with pity for her, he promises to return her fiance if she can save even one of three lives about to flicker out.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Since the earliest days in her childhood, Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute, and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other people. Getting older and more mature, she becomes interested in music and starts to play the clarinet very successfully. Since her parents are deaf, they cannot share Lara's musical career. The day comes...
55) In the fade
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Katja's life collapses after the death of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
58) Toni Erdmann
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go home to Germany. Enter Toni Erdmann: Winfried's flashy...
59) November
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a Medieval Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her. This title is in Estonian.
Author
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Following her best-selling TASCHEN monograph Life in Photographs, discover a more intimate and highly personal side of Linda McCartney's photographic work in The Polaroid Diaries. The collection focuses on McCartney's distinctive way of seeing the world and her family, through charming and quirky portraits of Paul McCartney and the couple's four children. We see them pulling faces and in matching pajamas. We see James pouring water on himself, and...
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