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In 1970s East Berlin, two teenagers rebel against pervasive paternalism. In settling accounts with everyday and cultural life in East Germany, this film farce from the environs of Berlin’s Volksbühne theatre tried out a new cinematic language.
A conversation with Pia Frankenberg and Michael Brynntrup about their Retrospective films.
Deutsche Kinemathek - 4th Floor
A bankrupt young industrialist goes all out on the idea of the “leisure society”. In his artfully run-down villa in leafy Berlin, he enjoys and preaches the “right to idleness”. A pleasant, frivolous summer étude that takes a few satirical potshots.
During a fictional road movie, women from the director’s circle talk about relationships and ideal love. The director’s thesis film for the Munich film school HFF, it represents an early example of taking stock of feminist positions.
In Weimar, a self-confessed rowdy butts heads with the school, state and Communist Party authorities, becoming a marginalised outsider in East Germany. This provocative coming-of-age drama was initially banned and first shown in 1990.
In her search for a suitable man, “Lieschen Müller” interviews politicians and passers-by in the then German capital Bonn about their masculine self-image. Male violence is also on the tantalising list of survey questions in this satirical documentary.
Thick fog has more than a dozen passengers stranded at Berlin’s Tempelhof airport overnight. With a collage of their encounters and conversations, this largely improvised ensemble film gels into a realistic portrait of society.
Akademie der Künste
During the 1948 Berlin Blockade, a gang, led by a young man who styles himself as the new Al Capone, commits robberies. A black-and-white film noir by former East German writer and director Thomas Brasch about a post-war generation with a zest for life.
Akademie der Künste
After witnessing a kidnapping, a young man in Munich gets involved in trying to free the victim. His partisanship makes him a suspect and he has to justify his actions in an interrogation. A psycho-thriller set against a political backdrop.
Leuchtkraft der Ziege – Eine Naturerscheinung | Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker
The story of a young home moviemaker, who shoots an amateur film group as it is making a village murder mystery. This short is a surrealist satire that plays ironically and subversively with the conventions of cinema and the visual arts.
After reunification, former East Germans are massacred in the West by a family of cannibal butchers. The satirical horror film was a garish, blood-drenched commentary on the assimilation of the “brothers and sisters from the other side of the Wall”.
Cubix 6
Subtitles: English
Akademie der Künste
Subtitles: English
After German reunification, a young woman in Brandenburg falls victim to the economic crisis and becomes the target of xenophobic hostility. An intense depiction of social upheaval in the former East Germany – topical, authentic and poetic all at once.
In 1981, Jeanine Meerapfel questioned Jews living in Berlin about whether it felt like home, and about their fears. All of them were the children of exiled and persecuted parents. What they talked about is alarmingly topical, even today.
This “monumental film about the life and suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ” was a group production shot on Super 8. It is a freethinking, provocative biblical adaptation in the expressionist tradition, arising from the queer, punk, avant-garde scene.
A young Turkish man puts everything on the line trying to become a film director, while his best friend slips into a world of prostitution and crime. A low-budget Berlin production occupying a space between Anatolia and the underground.
In a derelict house, an amateur detective stumbles upon lethargic people who seem strange and hostile to him. Context dissolves within dreamlike or nightmarish situations. Magic is in the air, and elsewhere, in this expressionist experimental film.