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Blueprint (film)
''Blueprint'' is a 2003 German film directed by Rolf Schübel. It is based on the novel written by Charlotte Kerner. The film raises the ethical issue of human cloning. More »
Die Feuerzangenbowle
''Die Feuerzangenbowle'' is a German book, later adapted into several films, which tells the story of a famous writer going undercover as a pupil at a small town gymnasium after his friends tell him that he missed out on the best part of growing up by being educated at home. The story takes place during the Weimar Republic in Germany. The novel by Heinrich Spoerl was published in 1933 and was adapted to film three times. The 1944 movie of the same name directed by Helmut Weiß is the most... More »
The Kremlin Letter
''The Kremlin Letter'' is a 1970 film, released by 20th Century-Fox. Directed by John Huston from a screenplay that Huston co-wrote with Gladys Hill , the film is a complex tale of intrigue and espionage set in the days of the US-Soviet Cold War. More »
The Miracle of Bern
''The Miracle of Bern'' is a 2003 film by Sönke Wortmann, which tells the story of the unexpected West German victory in the 1954 World Cup Final in Bern, Switzerland, on July 4 1954, and the story of a young boy and his depressed father who are brought together by the German success. The film can be regarded as a portrait of post-war Germany. With over 6,000,000 cinema visitors, it is one of Germany's best-selling films. Among those attending the premiere were: Gerhard Schröder the... More »
Fitzcarraldo
:''For other meanings, see Fitzcarraldo (disambiguation).'' ''Fitzcarraldo'' is a 1982 film written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski as the title character, the entrepreneur and would-be Irish rubber baron, Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald: Fitzcarraldo. More »
Blade Runner
''Blade Runner'' is an influential 1982 cyberpunk, neo noir film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, loosely based on the novel ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' by Philip K. Dick. It features Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah and Joanna Cassidy. The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically manufactured beings called replicants, visually indistinguishable... More »
Die Scheinheiligen
''Die Scheinheiligen'' is a German low-budget comedy film, written and directed by Thomas Kronthaler and based on a true incident in his hometown of Irschenberg. It became popular particularly in Bavarian cinemas. More »
Downfall (film)
''Downfall'' is a 2004 German film depicting the final days of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany in 1945. The movie was written by Bernd Eichinger and directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. The film is based on the book ''Inside Hitler's Bunker'' by historian Joachim Fest about Hitler's final days, pieces of Albert Speer's memoirs, and the memoirs of Traudl Junge, secretary of Adolf Hitler; in addition, it loosely conveys events described in the memoirs of Siegfried Knappe. More »
The Lives of Others
''The Lives of Others'' is an Academy Award-winning German film, marking the feature film debut of writer and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. For it, Donnersmarck won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film had earlier won seven Deutscher Filmpreis awards including best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor and best supporting actor, after having set a new record with 11 nominations. It was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th... More »
Der Schuh des Manitu
''Der Schuh des Manitu'' is a 2001 German parody of western films. Directed by Michael Herbig, it is a film adaptation of the Manitou sketches from his Pro Sieben television show ''Bullyparade''. It is one of the most successful German films ever made. More »
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