Barfuss – Wed, Oct 15th, 8 pm

About the movie:

Nick Keller is a real loser who gets fired from every job he takes, and his new job as janitor in a psychiatric clinic he keeps only a single day. As he leaves the hospital, he is able at the last minute to prevent a young woman from committing suicide  - but with unexpected consequences. The girl Leila secretly follows her savior and turns up on his door-step barefoot and in her night-gown. All of Nick’s attempts to get rid of her are futile – Leila has decided to stay with him forever…

Nick, who never took on any responsibility in his life, and Leila, who sees the world around her with child-like wonder, go on a journey together that will change their lives…

Das Wunder von Bern – Wed 1 Oct 8 pm

The state of the Ruhr area in the summer of 1954: After ten years in Soviet captivity, Richard Lubanski returns home and doesn’t understand what the world has come to. His wife Christa has supported the family on her own, and his grown-up kids live their own lives. His youngest, whom he has never seen before, goes crazy about soccer players that Lubanski has never heard of, especially about Helmut “the Boss” Rahn, a player of the soccer team called Rot-Weiß-Essen.

While Lubanski is desperately struggling to find his place in this strange new world, the world’s best soccer teams compete at the World Cup in Switzerland – and as if by miracle, the German underdogs make it into the final against the Hungarians. The 4th of July in 1954 is going to be the day when every-thing will be decided…

Der Untergang – Wed 17 Sep 8 pm

Über den Film: Der Untergang schildert auf spannende und fesselnde Weise die Schlussphase des 2. Weltkrieges – von der tödlichen Schlacht um Berlin, dem Wahnsinn Hitlers, der bedingungslosen Unterwürfigkeit seiner Gefolgschaft, den letzten beklemmenden Stunden im Führerbunker sowie dem heldenhaften Überlebenskampf der Berliner Zivilbevölkerung. Nie wurde dieses Thema so authentisch umgesetzt wie in diesem Meisterwerk mit einem grandiosen Staraufgebot: Bruno Ganz als Adolf Hitler, Alexandra Maria Lara als Traudl Jung, Heino Ferch als Albert Speer, Corinna Harfouch als Magda Goebbels und viele weitere.

About the movie: Enthralling, gripping, and suspenseful, Der Untergang depicts the final stages of World War II – the deadly battle in Berlin, Hitler’s mad frenzy, the unquestioning compliance of his followers, the dismal final hours in the bunker, and the heroic struggle for survival of Berlin’s civilian population. This movie is a masterpiece that presents the subject matter in a completely new and authentic style with a world-class star ensemble.

Erbsen auf halb 6 – Wed 03. Sep 8pm

Über den Film: Jakob Magnuson, ein erfolgreicher Theaterregisseur, verliert bei einem Verkehrsunfall sein Augenlicht – und damit auch jegliche Lebensperspektive. Er trifft auf Lilly Walter, die von Geburt an blind ist. Zusammen begeben sie sich auf eine abenteuerliche Reise quer durch Europa, eine Reise voll skuriller Momente und liebenswerter Begegnungen. Und langsam entsteht Liebe zwischen zwei Menschen, die einander die Welt begreifbar machen und sich zeigen, dass es noch viel zu erleben gibt.

About the movie: The successful stage director Jakob Magnuson goes blind after a serious accident, thereby losing all prospects in life. He then meets Lilly Walter, who was born blind, and together the pair goes on an adventurous journey across Europe. On this trip full of bizarre incidents and amiable encounters, love tenderly develops between the two people who help each other come to grips with the world and discover new experiences.

Alles auf Zucker — Tue 8.4. 8 pm

Von www.zucker-derfilm.de: Dem schlitzohrigen Zocker Jaeckie Zucker (Henry Hübchen) steht das Wasser bis zum Hals – seine Frau (Hannelore Elsner) droht ihm mit der Scheidung, der Gerichtsvollzieher mit dem Knast. Letzte Hoffnung des Ex-DDR-Sportreporters: das Erbe seiner Mutter. Doch die verlangt in ihrem Testament, dass Jaeckie sich mit seinem Bruder Samuel (Udo Samel) versöhnt, einem orthodoxen Juden.

Welten prallen aufeinander, als Samuel mit seinem ganzen Familienclan in Jaeckies chaotischem Haushalt anrückt – doch die beiden verfeindeten Sturköpfe haben keine Wahl: Sie müssen sich zusammenraufen…

From IMDB: A Journalist of Jewish descent in Berlin feels that he is a loser of the political changes in Germany after 1989. When his mother dies, he has to meet his brother to whom he has not talked for years and to meet all his other family members. But during the preparations for the funeral he plays a snooker-cup for paying his debts with the money for the victory, and many other things mixes up.

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Wed 26.3. 8 pm — Werner – beinhart!

Werner – Beinhart! ist ein deutscher Real- und Zeichentrickfilm, der 1990 von Bernd Eichinger produziert wurde. In dem Film spielen sowohl der Comic-Held Werner als auch der Erfinder Brösel (Rötger Feldmann) mit. Es werden abwechslungsweise Comic-Szenen und reale Szenen gezeigt. Etwa 5,5 Millionen Zuschauer sahen den Film im Kino, was Werner – Beinhart! zu einem der erfolgreichsten deutschen Filme macht. (de.wikipedia.org)

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Tue 11.3. 8 pm — Die Könige der Nutzholzgewinnung

Corrected Date!

„Die Könige der Nutzholzgewinnung“ erzählt die Geschichte des liebenswerten Taugenichts Krischan, der in sein altes Waldarbeiterdorf Tanne im Ostharz zurückkehrt, um ausgerechnet dort einen Holzfällerwettbewerb auf die Beine zu stellen. Mit seinem unnachgiebigen Charme überwindet er nicht nur den massiven Widerstand seiner alten Freunde Ronnie und Bert, sondern sägt auch das ganze Dorf aus Stillstand und Resignation. Mit seinem skurrilen Humor und den fein beobachteten Sorgen und Träumen arbeitsloser Holzfäller erinnert „Die Könige der Nutzholzgewinnung“ an britische Komödien, wie „Ganz oder gar nicht“ oder an „Pauken und Trompeten“.

From IMDB: In the comedy „Lumber Kings“, the lovable and charismatic loser Krischan comes back to his working class village Tanne, planning to hold there a lumber jack competition. He manages not only to overcome the massive resistance of his old friends Ronnie and Bert, but also to transform the whole village, saving it from a state of stagnancy and resignation.

www.die-koenige-der-nutzholzgewinnung.de — Endlich muss ich mir die Bilder und das Poster mal nicht mit Image-Google zusammenklaubern, sondern kriege sie von der Webseite geliefert. Kudos an die Produzenten, die es mir einfach machen, Werbung für ihren Film zu machen!

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Wed 27.2. 8 pm — Der Schuh des Manitu

From de.wikipedia.org: Der Schuh des Manitu, eine 2001 entstandene Parodie der Karl-May-Verfilmungen der 1960er Jahre, gilt mit 11,7 Millionen Besuchern und 65 Millionen Euro Umsatz an den Kinokassen als einer der erfolgreichsten deutschen Filme seit Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs.

This is not actually a parody if America nor a parody of Native Americans. It’s parody of German stereotypes of America and Native Americans as they were portrayed by Mark May. His depictions may not have been very accurate, but they were most influential to the German imagination. This imagination spawned the Winetou films from the 1960s. Now these are, what the parody is about.

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Tue 12.2. 8 pm — Metropolis

From en.wikipedia.org: Metropolis is a silent science fiction film created by the famed Austrian-German director Fritz Lang. It was produced in Germany in the Babelsberg Studios and released in 1927 during the height of the Weimar Republic. In addition, it was the most expensive silent film of the time, costing approximately 7 million Reichsmark (equivalent to around $200 million in 2005) to make.

The screenplay was written in 1924 by Lang and his wife, Thea von Harbou, and novelized by von Harbou in 1926. It is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and examines a common science fiction theme of the day: the social crisis between labour and management in capitalism.

The film features special effects and set design that still impress modern audiences with their visual impact—the film contains cinematic and thematic links to German Expressionism, though the architecture as portrayed in the film appears based on contemporary Modernism and Art Deco. The latter, a brand-new style in Europe at the time, had not reached mass production yet and was considered an emblem of the bourgeois class, and similarly associated with the ruling class in the film.

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Wed 30.1. 6:30 pm — Open House Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot

Celebrating the first Movie Night in the spring semester, the German House will invite everyone to free pizza and soft drinks. We’ll start early so we have time to eat and socialize. The movie will start around 8 p.m. without trailer show.

From the International Movie Datebase: This movie took me completely by surprise. I had read a favorably inclined review in which it was mentioned that the film gave an interesting outlook on the effects of catholicism on children. It does so indeed, yet without ever ridiculing its subject or characters. And as if that were not enough, the film is at the same time incredibly funny.

11-year-old Sebastian is the main character who learns from his elder brother that their mother died when Sebastian was born. While this was intended as some sort of punishment for some mischief the boy was up to, the impact this news has on him was not to be foreseen… afraid of having to end up in purgatory for his sin, Sebastian is looking for ways to make himself immortal. The solutions that are suggested to him by his immediate environment are mostly questionable – yet Sebastian is more than willing to heed any advice to redeem himself.

What follows is a wild goose chase for salvation, leaving the spectator marveling at Sebastian’s ingenuity and laughing about the misinterpretations that may occur when parents and teachers try to understand their children.