Norbert Schwientek
1942 - 2011Why We Try
Peter Luisi
Pablo Aguilar, Fiamma-Maria Caresi
Argentinian biology student Miro falls madly in love with young actress Mercedes, but is without a clue as to how to win her love. Then, a series of misunderstandings put him in the hot seat as a famous film director. Miro grabs his chance to shoot a film with Mercedes as his leading lady, hoping that she will fall for him. Whilst his plan is crazy, it is simple enough and Cupid is on his side. But Miro hasn't reckoned with film students Peter and Luigi who wish to shoot a “making-of” documentary of the great Argentinian “director”at work.
Why We Try
Der Tod des Flohzirkusdirektors
Thomas Koerfer
François Simon, Paul Gogel
With the help of his assistant Anja, Ottocaro Weiss intends to put the plague on stage: circumstances beyond his control and a lack of fresh talent have forced him to close down his flea circus. For Weiss, the plague means the «extinction of everything that makes life miserable and low and freedom along with it. Unbeknownst to him, he has won the support of a patron who is of the exact opposite opinion: for Johannes Wagner, the plague is an organising principle, and, aided by his agent Moosbrugger, he is able to smuggle a new number onto the programme. Whereas Ottocaro Weiss means to represent the plague theatrically, what appears on stage is the scientific reality of the rat-borne infestation.
Death of the Flea Circus Director
Das Spinnennetz
Bernhard Wicki
Ulrich Mühe, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a Jewish anarchist.
Spider's Web
Glut
Thomas Koerfer
Armin Mueller-Stahl, Katharina Thalbach
Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is having an affair with his brother, and his young son is inseparable from a teddy bear. To remedy the son's situation, the parents take in a little refugee girl as a temporary companion and playmate, and the two children become fast friends.
Embers
The Castle
Michael Haneke
Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar
Michael Haneke's adaptation of Franz Kafka's unfinished novel Das Schloss. K arrives in a remote village a stranger. In attempting to establish himself there, he enters the nightmarish world of the castle bureaucracy.
The Castle
Justiz
Hans W. Geißendörfer
Maximilian Schell, Thomas Heinze
Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and is sentenced to twenty years. Kohler then gets his daughter Helene to pay the reluctant Spat to reinvestigate the case, on the assumption that Kohler is innocent. The newspapers pick up on this and begin to question whether Kohler was wrongly convicted.
Justice
Marmorera
Markus Fischer
Anatole Taubman, Mavie Hörbiger
Фильм «Marmorera» основывается на реальных событиях, связанных с одноименной граубюнденской деревушкой, затопленной в ходе строительства плотины с целью обеспечения бесперебойного снабжения Цюриха электроэнергией. Одновременно в картине используются элементы старых швейцарских легенд о русалках и прочих обитателях водных пучин.В результате зритель получает возможность посмотреть весьма элегантно снятый, напоминающий, особенно финалом, раннего Бергмана периода «Земляничных полян», триллер, построенный по принципу «десяти негритят», когда сторонники строительства плотины один за другим, самыми изощренными способами, оправляются в мир иной…
Marmorera
