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1) Rams
Publisher
Film First Corp
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
“RAMS" is the new documentary from Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized) about legendary German designer Dieter Rams. For more than 50 years, Rams has left an indelible mark on the field of product design, with his iconic work at Braun and Vitsoe, and his influence on Apple. So at 87 years old, why does he now regret being a designer? "Rams" is a design documentary, but it’s also a rumination on consumerism, sustainability, and the...
2) Liberté
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
Just before the French Revolution, in a forest outside Berlin, a band of libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI rendezvous with the legendary German seducer and freethinker, the Duc de Walchen (Helmut Berger), to convince him to join in their mission: the rejection of authority and all moral boundaries. What begins as an evening of strategizing on the proliferation of libertinage, descends into a Sadean night of pansexual one-upmanship. LIBERTÉ...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, �emigr�es, spies, and diplomats in World War II Sweden based on his grandfather's life.In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months...
4) A Single Spy
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"A single spy—in the right place and at the right moment—may change the course of history."
Aleksi Ivanovich Smirnov, an orphan and a thief, has been living by his wits and surviving below the ever-watchful eye of the Soviet system until his luck finally runs out. In 1936, at the age of 16, Aleksi is caught by the NKVD and transported to Moscow. There, in the notorious headquarters of the secret police, he is given
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The (East) German film collection is presented by the DEFA film library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The DEFA film library is the only archive and research center outside Europe devoted to the study of a broad spectrum of filmmaking from or related to East Germany from 1946 to the present. Its film series have been featured at venues throughout North America and elsewhere in the world. The DEFA film library has access to over 7500 films...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Brasch—a legendary name that represents one of the most sensational German families. Director Annekatrin Hendel presents a portrait of three generations of the Brasch family as a microcosm of the social tensions that were raging on a large scale in European history: between East and West, art and politics, communism and religion, love and betrayal, and utopia and self-destruction. In the late 1940s, the Brasch family is proud to live the dream of...
7) Legendary
Author
Language
English
Description
"Nachdem Donatella Dragna in die magische Welt von Caraval hineingezogen wurde, ist sie endlich ihrem Vater entkommen und hat ihre Schwester Scarlett vor einer katastrophalen arrangierten Ehe gerettet. Die Mädchen sollten feiern, aber Tella ist noch nicht frei. Sie machte einen verzweifelten Handel mit einem mysteriösen Verbrecher, und niemand konnte ihm jemals das liefern, was Tella ihm schuldet: den wahren Namen von Caraval Master Legend.
Die...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Study the key Arthurian texts of Hartmann von Aue, which delve deeply into questions of the balance between noble love, knightly endeavor, and devotion to God. Then grasp the brilliance of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s portrayal of Parzival’s wisdom quest, involving the magical Grail stone and the legendary Fisher King..
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of a farmers' revolt, Till Eulenspiegel, a fool and provocatuer, goes tearing through the countryside laying bear society's grievances. The powers that be try to silence him from opening people's eyes, but Till does not shy away from speaking the truth. He acts with wit and cunning towards the Kaiser, the clerics and the patricians. Time and time again he escapes trouble with a roguish laugh. The film is based on legendary character from...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
To mark the centennial of legendary director Ingmar Bergman's birth, noted German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta revisits the settings, scenes, people and themes key to the auteur's creative cinematic legacy. Nominated for a Golden Eye Award at the **Cannes Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** *"...one filmmaker's love affair with another's work, a prism for other beams of light to shine through." -...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Deutsch
Description
After Dammbeck’s original film project Herakles (Hercules) was rejected by the East German DEFA Studios in 1983-84, the artist was still fascinated by the Hercules story. He started experimenting with different media combinations, including overpainting, photography, film clips, collage, painting and movement. These experiments resulted in groundbreaking multi-media collaborations and in the film THE CAVE OF HERCULES, in which Dammbeck explores...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved TwoMedicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she...
13) T-34
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers, led by young lieutenant Ivushkin, manage to escape from German captivity in a half destroyed legendary T-34 tank.
15) Duke Ernest
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Young DUKE ERNEST wants to become a good knight, but circumstances are not in his favor. The Emperor—who wants to claim the Duke’s castle and marry his mother—has Ernest wrongfully accused of murder and jailed. The only way to escape death is to enlist and go in search of the legendary Carbuncle Stone. Along the way, Ernest encounters carnivorous rocks, magnetic mountains, the giant bird Roc and many fantastical adventures. Dammbeck worked on...
16) Hard to be a God
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Russian
Description
When legendary Russian auteur Aleksei German died in 2013, he left behind this extraordinary final film, a phantasmagoric adaptation of the revered sci-fi novel by the Strugatsky Brothers (authors of the source novel for Tarkovsky's Stalker). Hard to be a God began percolating in German's consciousness in the mid-1960s, and would actively consume him for the last 15 years of his life. He brought the film close enough to completion for his wife and...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In this experimental short, Lutz Dammbeck relocates his Leipzig-based artists’ circle, known as the Herbstsalon (Autumn Salon), to La Sarraz Palace in Switzerland. In 1929, La Sarraz was the site of a legendary congress held by leading European avant-garde filmmakers—including Sergei Eisenstein, Béla Balázs, Ivor Montagu, Hans Richter and Walter Ruttmann—who wished to create an independent cinema as a forum for discussing issues such as elitist...
19) Norman Foster
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The airport in Hongkong, the Gherkin in London, the viaduct in Millau - all of these constructions bear the mark of the most significant architect of the present: Norman Foster. The Brit is considered to be the master of modern high-tech architecture and has more recently been recognised for his innovative reconstructions of historical buildings. This portrayal highlights the artistic development and personality of the frequently honoured architect...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A strange and beguiling romance that launched the career of Leni Riefenstahl, The holy mountain is the greatest of Arnold Fanck's legendary "mountain films," in which dramatic intrigues are played out against the breathtaking backdrop of the German Alps. Enthralled by the scenic majesty and heaving power of nature, an alluring dancer (Riefenstahl) seeks the man of her dreams in a small mountain village. There she encounters a reclusive climber (Louis...
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