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On a trip to the city museum three young boys discover a golden bowl - a part of the legendary Aztec treasure. While examining the bowl more closely they set of the secret time-traveling mechanism. Suddenly the world around them disappears, and they find themselves on board of the pirate ship - back in the 18th century. There the adventure begins. They meet the beautiful and dangerous pirate-queen Anne Bonnie, Captain Blackbeard, terrifying and ruthless...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Gösta Ekman stars as the titular alchemist who, struggling with his faith amidst a devastating plague, is offered the power to cure and the gift of youth in exchange for his soul. As the diabolical Mephisto, Emil Jannings delivers a performance of operatic scale and intensity, by turns charming, comical, and horrific. This special Kino edition contains the Friedrich Wilhelm Muranu Foundation's meticulous restoration of the original German version...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special edition.
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.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
While Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels infamously declared Berlin 'free of Jews' in 1943, 1,700 Jewish Berliners managed to survive in the Nazi capital. Claus Rafle's gripping docudrama traces the stories of four real-life survivors who learned to hide in plain sight.
7) Phantom pain
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Deutsch
Description
A passionate cyclist and urban slacker sees his life change in an instant when he loses his left leg. But through love, willpower, and introspection, he overcomes the challenge.
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Based on a real historical event, this is the story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who appeared in a small German town in 1820 after having lived in total isolation from humans since birth. He is taught to speak, read, and write by townspeople, but is then mysteriously murdered.
12) Soul kitchen
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Deutsch
Description
When Zinos hires a gourmet chef for his struggling restaurant, it drives away his low-life regulars. In the meantime, his girlfriend, Nadine, moves back to China, but a hip new clientele brings the restaurant back to life. When he goes to China to get Nadine back, he leaves the restaurant in the hands of his criminal brother. When Zinos discovers that Nadine has a new boyfriend, and his brother has gambled away his restaurant, he knows he must work...
13) Persian lessons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to the Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by...
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Deutsch
Description
The Sissi trilogy presents through heartwarming storytelling and undeniable visual beauty a Cinderella story in scrupulous detail, in three chronologically biographical films that, together, take nearly six hours to watch. Made between 1955-1957 by German director Ernst Marischka, Sissi, Sissi: The Young Empress, and Sissi: The Fateful Years of An Empress chronicle, in not-strictly historical terms, Elisabeth of Bavaria's marriage to her cousin, Franz...
15) Schweizer Helden
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Sabine, experiencing a mid-life crisis, begins volunteering at an immigration center, teaching immigrants to speak German.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Archeologist Louise Cantor returns home to Sweden and finds her 27-year old son Henrik dead in his apartment. The police are ready to write it off as a suicide but as an experienced archeologist, Louise is used to piecing together a full story from incomplete shards of evidence, and is convinced he was murdered." -- Back of container.
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Deutsch
Description
"[The film] tells the story of a Tourette's sufferer named Vincent who is institutionalized by his father after the recent death of his mother. Vincent escapes from the hospital with his new friends Marie and Alexander, a Bach-loving neurotic. Together they set out on a Europe-wide road trip to honor the dying wishes of Vincent's recently deceased mother; to have her ashes spread at sea. In pursuit is Vincent's tempestuous father and the sensitive...
18) Wings of desire
Series
Criterion collection volume 490
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Women become the victims of the Red Army invasion in Berlin in 1945. One of them, Anonyma, a educated woman, decides to look for an officer who can protect her. A complex symbiotic relationship develops between her and Russian officer Andrej that will force them to remain enemies until the bitter end.
20) Lore
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings, led by fourteen year old Lore embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country.
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