Cast: Robert Dietl

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Birgit Doll · Dieter Berner · Leni Tanzer · Udo Samel

Plot Haneke's first feature is a stylistic take on the anguish of boredom. The film follows three years in the lives of a professional middle class couple searching vainly for an...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Gerulf Pannach · Fabienne Babe · Cristine Rose · Sigfrit Steiner

Plot A singer swaps the political intimidation of working in East Germany for the equally controlling capitalist music industry in the West.

Direction Jerry Schatzberg

Cast Jason Robards · Christien Anholt · Samuel West · Françoise Fabian

Plot American lawyer Henry Strauss (Robards) is preparing to return to Germany for the first time since he left in 1933 following Adolf Hitler's rise to power. He is seeking to...

Direction Herbert Vesely

Cast Mathieu Carrière · Jane Birkin · Christine Kaufmann · Kristina Van Eyck

Direction Jörg Graser

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Günther Maria Halmer · Daniela Schötz · Robert Dietl

Plot A chest full of gold teeth extracted from Holocaust victims reveals terrible secrets. This revelation forever changes the lives of Abraham, his family members and other inhabitants of a sleepy...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Giulietta Masina · Gustav Knuth · Gert Fröbe · Agnes Fink

Plot Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest for finding the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, constantly deluding herself about...

Direction Tom Toelle

Cast Mario Adorf · Maruschka Detmers · Milena Vukotic · Dominique Pinon

Plot A family who lives in the Swiss Alpes at the end of the 1920s is abused by a tyrannical drunkard.

Direction Peter Zadek

Cast Heinz Baumann · Wolfgang Schneider · Guido Baumann · Margot Trooger

Plot Rull (Wolfgang Schneider) is in his last year at a classical German state school. Believing all authority figures are repugnant, he engages in a series of bizarre behaviors. He literally...

Direction Claudia Schröder

Cast Violetta Ferrari · Heinz Schubert · Daniel Thorbecke · Alexandra Degen

Direction Cyril Frankel

Cast Petra Wagner · Barbara vom Baur · Mandy Perryment · Fiona Fullerton

Plot Harriet is a middle-aged woman who just does not succeed. It does not work in the job and it does not really work for the men either.

Direction Rosa von Praunheim

Cast Charlotte von Mahlsdorf · Jens Taschne · Ichgola Androgyn · Robert Dietl

Plot The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berflede. Miss Charlotte survived the Nazi reign and the repression of the Communists as a transvestite and helped start the German...

Direction Anthony Page

Cast Jacqueline Bisset · Jürgen Prochnow · Irene Worth · Peter Vaughan

Plot In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between young countess Nina von Halder (Bisset) who is studying veterinary medicine and a Fritz Friedländer (Prochnow), a man she meets...

Direction Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Cast Fritz Muliar · Heinz Marecek · Heinz Petters · Kurt Jaggberg

Plot Schwejk is a bumbling fool (he claims to have been discharged from the army on the grounds of being a certified idiot) but manages to outwit his superiors and his...