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Abstract/Sommario: Jack e Martin sono i killer di due boss rivali. Il destino li ha messi l'uno contro l'altro, ma non ha impedito ai due di diventare amici. Quando i boss stringono un'alleanza decidono di liberarsi dei due killer: sembra la fine di Jack e Martin... ma gli eroi non muoiono mai.

Abstract/Sommario: Abschied von gestern / Yesterday Girl: is about Anita G., a young girl, whose parents are picked up one morning during the time of the Third Reich. She comes from the East and now freezes her way through the West. Three times Germany.
In Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin / Part-Time Work of a Female Slave, Roswitha Bronski is a married mother of three at the centre of the protest movement. She finds her plans for social change are easier to realize outside family life.
Two films by A ...; [Leggi tutto...] Abschied von gestern / Yesterday Girl: is about Anita G., a young girl, whose parents are picked up one morning during the time of the Third Reich. She comes from the East and now freezes her way through the West. Three times Germany.
In Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin / Part-Time Work of a Female Slave, Roswitha Bronski is a married mother of three at the centre of the protest movement. She finds her plans for social change are easier to realize outside family life.
Two films by Alexander Kluge, both starring his sister Alexandra Kluge. Pictures, stories, quotes, documents and scenes which mark the beginning pof the New German Cinema and reflect the West German society of the 60s and early 70s. The 2-disc DVD also offers texts and short films by Alexander Kluge related to the two feature films.

Abstract/Sommario: Lotte Jacobi gehört zu den großen Photographinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. 1896 im westpreußischen Thorn geboren und im hohen Alter von 93 Jahren in den USA gestorben, zählt sie zu den wenigen Künstlerinnen, denen es gelang, nach der Vertreibung aus Nazi-Deutschland auf der anderen Seite des Atlantiks eine zweite Karriere aufzubauen. Zunächst als Repräsentantin der Neuen Photographie in den zwanziger Jahren bekannt geworden, steht ihr Schaffen in der zweiten Lebenshälfte wesentlich im Zei ...; [Leggi tutto...] Lotte Jacobi gehört zu den großen Photographinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. 1896 im westpreußischen Thorn geboren und im hohen Alter von 93 Jahren in den USA gestorben, zählt sie zu den wenigen Künstlerinnen, denen es gelang, nach der Vertreibung aus Nazi-Deutschland auf der anderen Seite des Atlantiks eine zweite Karriere aufzubauen. Zunächst als Repräsentantin der Neuen Photographie in den zwanziger Jahren bekannt geworden, steht ihr Schaffen in der zweiten Lebenshälfte wesentlich im Zeichen ihrer berühmten Persönlichkeitsbildnisse. In Berlin und Amerika entstanden die Porträts, u. a. von Albert Einstein, Lotte Lenya, Kurt Tucholsky, Käthe Kollwitz, Eleanor Roosevelt oder J.D. Salinger. In dieser Publikation werden die verschiedenen Stationen ihres künstlerischen Schaffens nachgezeichnet. Neben Lotte Jacobis berühmten Porträts zeigen die Photographien von ihrer Reise in die Sowjetunion 1932/33 und ihre experimentellen "photogenics" die Vielseitigkeit ihrer Arbeit.

Abstract/Sommario: For 40 years, James Benning has been a singular, defiant voice in the American independent film scene. This 2-disc set the first in a planned series devoted to the filmmaker's oeuvre features two of Benning's seminal works from the mid-1980s for the first time ever on DVD: "American Dreams (lost and found)" is the filmmaker's personal take on the history of the USA from 1954 to 1976, told through a complex and thought provoking amalgamation of image, text and sound. In "Landscape Suici ...; [Leggi tutto...] For 40 years, James Benning has been a singular, defiant voice in the American independent film scene. This 2-disc set the first in a planned series devoted to the filmmaker's oeuvre features two of Benning's seminal works from the mid-1980s for the first time ever on DVD: "American Dreams (lost and found)" is the filmmaker's personal take on the history of the USA from 1954 to 1976, told through a complex and thought provoking amalgamation of image, text and sound. In "Landscape Suicide", he effortlessly strides the boundaries of narrative and documentary forms as he recounts two infamous murder cases that took place almost 30 years apart.

Abstract/Sommario: Enacted in 1871, the German penal code's Paragraph 175 sentenced thousands of accused German homosexual men to jail terms for "unnatural vice between men." In 1919, director Richard Oswald and psychologist Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld created a film intended to expose the unjust Paragraph 175 and help liberate the "third sex" from legal persecution and public scorn. Different From the Others casts Conrad Veidt as Paul Körner, a gay concert pianist blackmailed by a closeted low-life named Boll ...; [Leggi tutto...] Enacted in 1871, the German penal code's Paragraph 175 sentenced thousands of accused German homosexual men to jail terms for "unnatural vice between men." In 1919, director Richard Oswald and psychologist Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld created a film intended to expose the unjust Paragraph 175 and help liberate the "third sex" from legal persecution and public scorn. Different From the Others casts Conrad Veidt as Paul Körner, a gay concert pianist blackmailed by a closeted low-life named Bollek. When Körner's budding romance with a handsome young music student runs afoul of Bollek's extortion, Körner goes to the German courts for protection. But the draconian Paragraph 175 makes criminals out of both accuser and accused, and the love Körner has found costs him his career and his freedom.Conrad Veidt's uncompromising performance (the same year as his legendary portrayal of Cesar the somnambulist in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) places a human face on Hirschfeld's reformist fervor and Oswald's tragic melodrama. In its frank depiction of gay bars, closeted homosexuality, and the suffocating expectations of straight society, Different From the Others is both a fascinating time capsule and a remarkably modern cinematic plea for tolerance and change.

Abstract/Sommario: Arca, a Berlin production company specialising in lowbrow entertainment, picked up a topical theme. In 1957, the German Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court) had just re-inforced the § 175, the paragraphic delaring homosexual acitivites as unlawful, in its Nazi version, and denied gay victims of the Third Reich reparations. Arca assembled a quite above-average cast including famed Austrian actress Paula Wessely, Paul Dahlke and young Christian Wolff, today a well-rega ...; [Leggi tutto...] Arca, a Berlin production company specialising in lowbrow entertainment, picked up a topical theme. In 1957, the German Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court) had just re-inforced the § 175, the paragraphic delaring homosexual acitivites as unlawful, in its Nazi version, and denied gay victims of the Third Reich reparations. Arca assembled a quite above-average cast including famed Austrian actress Paula Wessely, Paul Dahlke and young Christian Wolff, today a well-regarded star of TV series. They had Felix Lützkendorf, an old routinier, write a screenplay, and had Veit Harlan, another old routinier, infamous for Nazi propaganda like Jew Suess, direct. It must have seemed like a sure moneymaker. However, the FSK (Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle, the German equivalent to the MPAA) wouldn't let the finished film pass: it would "foster perversion", the officials claimed, even promote the "decadent weaklings", the typical homosexual. So, desperate Arca had to re-cut the film, shoot new scenes, re-dub others and rename the film from its original title Das dritte Geschlecht (The Third Sex) to Anders als du und ich (Different from you and me), the subtitle "§ 175" being more than a slight hint about what kind of difference was alleged to.

Abstract/Sommario: Uno strano e misterioso cliente, Louis Cyphre, ingaggia Harry Angel, un investigatore privato, per ritrovare Johnny Favorite, un reduce di guerra, ex cantante di successo, dimesso in maniera truffaldina da una clinica psichiatrica nel '43 e di lì sparito nel nulla. Costui era sotto contratto con Louis Cyphre e questi non intende lasciare partite in sospeso. Angel si dà da fare, seguendo ogni indizio, ma cade in un vortice di paura e di sangue.

Abstract/Sommario: Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit / The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time: a young doctor feels that she is redundant. People hurry around. A family sits in front of the computer as if it were a fire in the hearth. A kindergarten teacher is supposed to turn a child over to its legal guardians. The blind director. The present becomes inflammed. Without prior events, the future and particularly a sense of the possible, there is no reality. Vermischte Nachrichten / Mi ...; [Leggi tutto...] Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit / The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time: a young doctor feels that she is redundant. People hurry around. A family sits in front of the computer as if it were a fire in the hearth. A kindergarten teacher is supposed to turn a child over to its legal guardians. The blind director. The present becomes inflammed. Without prior events, the future and particularly a sense of the possible, there is no reality. Vermischte Nachrichten / Miscellaneous News: Miscellaneous News are on the last page of the newspapers. With little oversight from editorial offices but with great emotional fuel...

Abstract/Sommario: This double DVD comprises all three of Antonio Skármeta's films shot during his exile in Berlin in the 1980s: His award-winning story about Pablo Neruda and a simple postman, which was also published as a novel and later famously re-filmed as Il Postino; the portrait of a three-generation Chilean family living in a Berlin apartment; and a cinematic diary, in which Skármeta visits other Chilean artists in exile. These films cast light on the everyday occurrences in a life shaped by poli ...; [Leggi tutto...] This double DVD comprises all three of Antonio Skármeta's films shot during his exile in Berlin in the 1980s: His award-winning story about Pablo Neruda and a simple postman, which was also published as a novel and later famously re-filmed as Il Postino; the portrait of a three-generation Chilean family living in a Berlin apartment; and a cinematic diary, in which Skármeta visits other Chilean artists in exile. These films cast light on the everyday occurrences in a life shaped by politics the hope, the joy and the humour.