Kurt Raab
1941 - 1988Das Totenreich
Karin Brandauer
Vadim Glowna, Irm Hermann
Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. Two friends, a pastor and a physician, try to awaken his willpower and transcend a journey to Italy. Meanwhile, in the homeland, there are political breakthroughs that make little hope for new times.
Das Totenreich
Yearning for Sodom
Kurt Raab, Hanno Baethe
Kurt Raab, Hans Hirschmüller
Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in both theatre and film, most notably with Fassbinder, was in the process of making a series of video sketches for a new production when he learned that he had AIDS. Despite his deteriorating health, and with the caring support of his friend Hans Hirshmuller, he carried on working. This tape is his last testimony. Awarded with the Adolf Grimme Award and Cinéma du Réel Award
Yearning for Sodom
Acht Stunden sind kein Tag
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Gottfried John, Hanna Schygulla
A sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic look at domestic relationships and labour relationships, with particular focus on skilled worker Jochen and his new girlfriend, Marion.
Acht Stunden sind kein Tag
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Mathias Kneissl
Reinhard Hauff
Hans Brenner, Ruth Drexel
Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole from the riches to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people, and a popular social rebel. He was chased by the police until his unfortunate sentence.
Mathias Kneißl
Welt am Draht
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin
Институт кибернетики создал революционный суперкомпьютер — Симулакрон, с помощью которого можно моделировать целые миры и населять их искусственными людьми. Изначально Симулакрон должен был использоваться в благих общественных целях, но глава Института Сискинс начинает осуществлять свои корыстные планы. Помешать Сискинсу, а также разгадать ряд тайн и загадок вокруг суперкомпьютера должен гений компьютерных технологии Фред Штиллер…
Welt am Draht
Fox and His Friends
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.
Fox and His Friends
