Hilmar Thate

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Le Secret de Veronika Voss
7.2
Munich, 1955. Robert Krohn, journaliste sportif, fait la connaissance de Veronika Voss, une star déchue du cinéma des années 40. Son comportement étrange intrigue Robert. Alors qu'il veut en savoir plus, il apprend que Veronika vit chez son amie neurologue, Marianne Katz. La praticienne drogue ses patients à la morphine, crée chez eux une accoutumance et leur fait signer un testament en sa faveur, pour finalement les pousser au suicide. Robert, avec l'aide de son amie Henriette, tente de mettre fin à ces activités meurtrières. La jeune femme se fait passer pour une riche dépressive et obtient sans difficulté une ordonnance lui prescrivant de la morphine…
Drama
Anges de Fer
5.8

Anges de Fer

Apr 23, 1981
The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.
Crime
Le neuvième jour
6.3

Le neuvième jour

Aug 05, 2004
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'abbé résistant Henri Kremer se voit mystérieusement libéré du camp de concentration de Dachau. À son arrivée au Luxembourg, il apprend que les nazis, sous couvert de lui permettre de rendre hommage à sa mère récemment décédée, lui accordent neuf jours pour convaincre son évêque d'abandonner sa politique d'opposition face au régime, sans quoi il sera renvoyé à Dachau.
Drama
Professor Mamlock
7.1

Professor Mamlock

May 17, 1961
A Jewish chief of surgery in 1933 Germany remains blind to the rising Nazi threat, dismissing political dissent from his son and a patient, until his family faces increasing anti-Semitic persecution.
Drama
Die Wahlverwandtschaften
2
Eduard and Charlotte live an isolated and idyllic life together. But soon Eduard feels that something is missing and he invites his friend Otto to come stay. Charlotte, meanwhile, decides that her foster daughter Ottilie should come live with them. Complex and passionate relationships between the four people begin. Based on Goethe's novel of the same title.
Drama
Einmal ist keinmal
4

Einmal ist keinmal

Mar 25, 1955
A musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests for a symphonic composition and a pop song for a local dance band, leaving him with no time to relax.
Music
Der geteilte Himmel
6.4

Der geteilte Himmel

Oct 02, 1964
After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; how his enthusiasm about his new chemical process turned to bitter disappointment in the face of official rejection; how he escaped to West Berlin a few weeks before the Wall was built and hoped that she would follow him …
Drama
Das Lied der Matrosen
6.5

Das Lied der Matrosen

Nov 09, 1958
A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.
History
Leute mit Flügeln
5

Leute mit Flügeln

Aug 24, 1960
This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic, Bartuschek (Erwin Geschonneck) is working as a mechanic in the Sperber airplane plant. Director Dehringer offers him the opportunity to train as an airplane constructor if he is willing to give up his communist beliefs under oath. Bartuschek will not allow himself to be bought and instead joins the underground resistance movement.
Drama
Wege in die Nacht
6.8

Wege in die Nacht

Nov 24, 1999
Set against the backdrop of post-unification Germany, the film explores the breakdown of relations in a decaying social structure.
Drama
Hitlerkantate
5

Hitlerkantate

Jun 22, 2005
Berlin during the Nazi reign: Young music student Ursula is a talented musician and a fervent admirer of the "Führer". When she is asked to assist renowned composer Broch, who was ordered to compose a cantata for Hitler′s 50th birthday, it first seems like a dream fulfilled. Over the time, Broch and Ursula fall in love, and her relationship with the former communist gradually changes Ursula′s perspective on the realities of Nazi Germany. But falling in love with a Nazi means a huge moral conflict for Broch.
Drama
Der Fall Gleiwitz
6.6

Der Fall Gleiwitz

Aug 23, 1961
Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his invasion of Poland.
Drama
Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
7
During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered wagon. She does not care if it's Catholics or Protestants she trades with as long as business thrives. She loses her three children as a result of the war: bold and spirited Eilif, sincere and upright Swiss Cheese and mute Katrin, who saves the children of Halle by beating a drum on a farmstead roof In wartime, the Fierling children's virtues prove to be deadly. Yet, Mother Courage, remains incorrigible. She will not have anyone "spoil the war" for her and so sets out once more after the soldiers with her wagon.
Drama
Schön ist’s im Labyrinth – George Grosz in Amerika
1
George Grosz, born on July 26th in Berlin, vicious draftsman and painter of the face of the ruling class, enfant terrible of the 1920s, accused of pornography and blasphemy, was one of the most popular visual artists of the Weimar Republic. Little is known, however, that Grosz spent half of his artistically productive life in the USA before returning to Berlin in 1959.
Documentary
Saatfrüchte sollen nicht vermahlen werden
1
Tetzlaff's documentary combines historic film footage and photographs with quotes from Kollwitz's diary and images of her sculptures and graphic works, including The Weavers' Revolt (1893-97), The Peasant War (1902-08), Woman with the Dead Child (1903) and War (1922-23), her famous series of seven woodcuts.
Documentary
Preludio 11
1

Preludio 11

Mar 19, 1964
Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is afoot. Under the command of an American officer, four Cubans ex-patriots and a Guatemalan land on the Cuban coast to prepare a US invasion of the island. Daniela's superior, the corrupt Cuban officer Palomino, is secretly helping the invaders and the young woman becomes entangled in the intrigue.
War
Memento
1

Memento

Feb 16, 1966
A film about Jewish cemeteries in East Berlin, based on a screenplay by Günter Kunert, with text by Rabbi Martin Riesenburger. There are shots of gravestones and inscriptions – deported, murdered, perished; in Auschwitz or Theresienstadt. Commentary reminds us of the victims – "in 1933, 160,564 Jewish citizens lived in Berlin; in 1945, 3,500".
Documentary
Sur les lieux du crime
6.2
La série des Tatort, créé en 1970, est la plus ancienne et la plus appréciée des séries télévisées policières diffusées actuellement dans les pays germanophones. Au cours de l'année 2010, elle a été regardée chaque semaine par près de 8,5 millions de personnes en moyenne, d'après l'ARD.
Drama
Der König von St. Pauli
7.5
Rudi, who operates a striptease club in St Pauli, incurs immense gambling debts. The situation gets worse when his rival Graf, a fishmonger, enters the scene.
Drama
DAS!
4.2

DAS!

Oct 31, 2024
Talk
ZIBB
1

ZIBB

Nov 24, 2021
News