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| DVD/AB01.01 | Abel, Susanne | Bräuteschule 1958, Die (2007) | ||
| Language: German (with no subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: PAL zone 2, two discs | ||||
| AD12.01 | Adlon, Percy | Fünf letzte Tage / Last Five Days (1982) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| AD12.02 | Adlon, Percy | Salmonberries / Salmonberries (1991) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| AD12.03 | Adlon, Percy | Zuckerbaby / Sugarbaby (1990) | ||
| Language: German, English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| AK01.01 | Akin, Fatih | Kurz und schmerzlos / Short Sharp Shock (1998) | ||
| Language: German (with None subtitles) | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| AK01.02 | Akin, Fatih | Im Juli / In July (2000) | ||
| Language: German (with None subtitles) | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| DVD/AK01.01 | Akin, Fatih | Im Juli / In July (2000) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: 05/09 missing | ||||
| DVD/AK01.03 | Akin, Fatih | Gegen die Wand / Head On (2004) | ||
| Language: German (with Turkish subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Description: Es war ein Überraschungserfolg, mit dem niemand gerechnet hatte: Gut zwanzig Jahre nach dem RAF-Dokudrama Stammheim gewann 2004 wieder ein deutscher Film den Goldenen Bären der Internationalen Filmfestspiele von Berlin. Mindestens genauso lange hatte es allerdings auch keinen Film mehr gegeben, der sich so eindringlich mit der sozialen Befindlichkeit in Deutschland auseinandergesetzt hat: Gegen die Wand ist ebenso sehr ein Produkt der hiesigen Multikulti-Gesellschaft wie sein deutsch-türkischer Regisseur Fatih Akin. Er und seine beiden mit dem Deutschen Filmpreis ausgezeichneten Hauptdarsteller Birol Ünel und Sibel Kekilli brachten viele persönliche Erfahrungen ein in die Geschichte zweier Deutsch-Türken, die zwischen den Traditionen ihrer Heimatkultur und dem modernen Lebenswandel in Deutschland auf der Suche nach ihrer eigenen Identität sind: Die junge Sibel will sich von den Fesseln ihrer Familie befreien, und das geht nur per Selbstmord oder durch die Heirat mit einem Türken. Der abgebrannte Säufer Cahit ist dafür genauso gut geeignet wie jeder andere, doch die resultierende Zweckehe kann nur für kurze Dauer das Leben der beiden vereinfachen, bis zart knospende Zuneigung füreinander die nächste persönliche Katastrophe herauf beschwört. | ||||
| DVD/AL01.01 | Aladag, Züli | Wut (2007) | ||
| Language: German (with None subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: PAL 2, Spielfilm | ||||
| Description: Wut" ist eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Fremdenhass in Deutschland. Am Beispiel einer Familie werden Hintergründe und Motivationen für das Entstehen von Intoleranz und Misstrauen erläutert. August Zirner gibt dabei als besorgter Familienvater ein hervorragendes Bild ab. Die Handlung wirkt alltagsnah und nachvollziehbar, schafft es durchaus zu provozieren und zum Nachdenken anzuregen ohne dabei übermäßig moralisch Stellung zu beziehen. Ein hervorragendes Beispiel dafür, dass auch deutsche Tv-Produktionen ihren Sinn transportieren können. | ||||
| AN20.01 | Antel, Franz | Bockerer, Der (1981) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| AR01.01 | Arslan, Thomas | Dealer / Dealer (1999) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| AR01.02 | Arslan, Thomas | Geschwister - Kardesler (1997) | ||
| Language: German, Turkish | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| AT01.01 | Ataman, Kutlag | Lola und Bilidikid / Lola and Billy the Kid (1999) | ||
| Language: German, Turkish (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| BA01.01 | Baky Von, Josef | Münchhausen / Baron Munchhausen (1943) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| BA14.01 | Bannert, Walter | Erben, Die / Inheritors, The (1982) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| BA15.01 | Barison, David/D. Ross | / Ister, Part I, The (2004) | ||
| Language: English, French | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| BA15.01a | Barison, David/D. Ross | / Ister, Part I, The (2004) | ||
| Language: English, French | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| BA15.02 | Barison, David/D. Ross | / Ister, Part II, The (2004) | ||
| Language: English, French | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| BA15.02b | Barison, David/D. Ross | / Ister, Part II, The (2004) | ||
| Language: English, French | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| BA02.01 | Baser, Tefik | 40 Quadratmeter Deutschland / Forty Square Meters of Germany (1986) | ||
| Language: Turkish (with German subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/BA01.01 | Baumgarten, Norbert | Befreite Zone / Liberated Zone (2004) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: region 1 | ||||
| Description: A story for an open-minded audience, LIBERATED ZONE is the story of an economically depressed town in eastern Germany that finds its collective fortune and libido rejuvenated upon the arrival of superstar footballer "Blondi." Micha is in a serious relationship with local beauty Sylvia, but while they profess to love each other and dream of their future together, secret affairs abound. As the championship soccer game approaches, tensions mount to a combustible level, leading to an unexpected climax for all involved. | ||||
| BE02.01 | Becker, Wolfgang | Leben Ist Eine Baustelle, Das / Life Is All You Get (1997) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/BE25.08 | Becker, Wolfgang | Good Bye Lenin / Good Bye Lenin (2003) | ||
| Language: German (with German subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zone 2 | ||||
| Description: In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma; a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared | ||||
| DVD/BE25.09 | Becker, Wolfgang | / Good Bye Lenin! (2003) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zone 1 | ||||
| Description: In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma; a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared | ||||
| BE01.01 | Beethoven, Ludwig Von | Fidelio / Fidelio (1991) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Royal Opera House | ||||
| BE25.01 | Beyer, Frank | Verdacht, Der / Suspicion, The (1991) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| Comments: on tape together with RAINER KUNZE Die wunderbaren Jahre (1994) | ||||
| BE25.02 | Beyer, Frank | Fünf Patronenhülsen / Five Cartridges (1960) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| BE25.03 | Beyer, Frank | Nikolaikirche (1995) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| BE25.04 | Beyer, Frank | Jakob, der Lügner / Jacob the Liar (1975) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| BE25.06 | Beyer, Frank | Spur der Steine / Trace of Stones (1966) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| BE25.06a | Beyer, Frank | Spur der Steine / Trace of Stones (1966) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| BE25.07 | Beyer, Frank | Karbid und Sauerampfe / Carbide and Sorrel (1963) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| DVD/BE02.01 | Beyer, Frank | Jakob, der Lügner / Jacob the Liar (1975) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: DEFA | ||||
| DVD/BE02.02 | Beyer, Frank | / Naked Among Wolves (1963) | ||
| Language: English (with German subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| Description: Jankowski, a Polish prisoner from Auschwitz, arrives at the Buchenwald concentration camp hiding a little boy inside a suitcase. When the prisoners and members of the camp's covert resistance group discover the boy, his innocence moves many, yet his possible discovery by the camp guards threatens them all. NAKED AMONG WOLVES stars Academy Award Nominee Armin Mueller-Stahl (Shine, Avalon, Music Box, Utz) in one of his first film roles. Based on the novel by Buchenwald survivor Bruno Apitz, this was the first German film about life and death in a concentration camp. | ||||
| BO08.01 | Bohm, Hark | Yasemin / Yasemin (1988) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| BO08.02 | Bohm, Hark | Herzlich Willkommen (1992) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: German, on tape together with CHRISTOPH WAGNER Wallers letzter Gang | ||||
| BO12.01 | Bolvary, Geza Von | Lumpaci / Vagabundus (1937) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| DVD/BO01.01 | Bonengel, Winfried | Führer EX / Fuhrer Ex (2002) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: Jankowski, a Polish prisoner from Auschwitz, arrives at the Buchenwald concentration camp hiding a little boy inside a suitcase. When the prisoners and members of the camp's covert resistance group discover the boy, his innocence moves many, yet his possible discovery by the camp guards threatens them all. NAKED AMONG WOLVES stars Academy Award Nominee Armin Mueller-Stahl (Shine, Avalon, Music Box, Utz) in one of his first film roles. Based on the novel by Buchenwald survivor Bruno Apitz, this was the first German film about life and death in a concentration camp. | ||||
| DVD/BO02.01 | Borries, Achim Von | Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken / Love in Thoughts (2004) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: Based on the story of the infamous Steglitz student tragedy, a group of romantic-thinking, outside-of-the-box-living 20-somethings make a pact about how tragically far they'd go for love. Aside from their shared passion for parties and love, the main characters have little in common. The brilliant, shy, poetic Paul is a loner from the working class, while his best friend, Guenther, is a wealthy gay boy from the countryside. Then Guenther invites Paul home to the rich countryside for the weekend -- a weekend of limitless love, sex, bohemian-style partying, jealousy, rationale, and a completely unexpected outcome. | ||||
| BO18.01 | Borsody, Eduard Von | Wunschkonzert / Request Concert (1940) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| BO02.01 | Borzage, Frank | Mortal Storm, The (1940) | ||
| Language: English | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| Comments: Copy, black & white, 100 minutes | ||||
| Description: The Roth family lead a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930's. When the Nazi's come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil. | ||||
| BR15.01 | Brook, Peter | Marat Sade / Persecution And Assassination Of Jean-Paul Marat, The (1967) | ||
| Language: English | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Film version of Broadway play | ||||
| BR21.01 | Brueckner, Jutta | Ganz Und Gar Verwahrlostes Maedchen, Ein (1976) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| BR21.02 | Brueckner, Jutta | Hungerjahre / Hunger Years (1979) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| BR21.03 | Brueckner, Jutta | Kolossale Liebe / Love Beyond Words, A (1992) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| BR21.04 | Brueckner, Jutta | Lieben Sie Brecht? (1993) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| BR21.05 | Brueckner, Jutta | Tue recht und scheue niemand / Do right and fear no one (1975) | ||
| Language: German, English, Italian | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| BR21a.01 | Brusati, Franco | Pane e cioccolata / Bread and Chocolate (1974) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| BU01.01 | Buck, Detlef | Wir können auch anders / No More Mr. Nice Guy (1993) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| BU01.02 | Buck, Detlef | Wir können auch anders / No More Mr. Nice Guy (1993) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| DVD/BU01.03 | Buck, Detlef | Knallhart (2006) | ||
| Language: German (with German subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Zone2 | ||||
| Description: Weil der reiche Liebhaber seiner Mutter ihnen die Koffer einfach vor die Türe gestellt hat, muss der 15-jährige Michael Polischka mit der Mama in den Berliner Problembezirk Neukölln umziehen. Die Gangs haben hier das Sagen und wer nicht zahlt, kriegt schnell ein paar aufs Maul. Vom gewalttätigen Erol und seinen Jungs etwa, die niemanden fürchten - außer den mächtigen Drogenboss Hamal. Und ausgerechnet den gewinnt der aufgeweckte Polischka zum Freund. Wegen seines Talents als Rauschgiftkurier. | ||||
| BO01.01 | Böttcher, Jürgen | Jahrgang '45 / Born in ’45 (1965) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| BO01.02 | Böttcher, Jürgen | Mauer, Die / Wall, The (1991) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| CA18.01 | Carow, Heiner | Legende Von Paul Und Paula, Die / Legend of Paul and Paula (1973) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL [DEFA] | |||
| CA18.02 | Carow, Heiner | Coming Out / Coming Out (1989) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| CA18.03 | Carow, Heiner | Legende Von Paul Und Paula, Die / Legend of Paul and Paula (1973) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| CA18.04 | Carow, Heiner | Bis daß der Tod euch scheidet / Until Death Do Us Part (1979) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| DVD/CA01.01 | Carow, Heiner | Coming Out / Coming Out (1989) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| Description: Story of a young high school teacher named Philipp. As a boy, Philipp was strongly attracted to his best (male) friend, but as an adult, he puts that behind him in order to live within the "norm." Philipp meets a shy girl who falls hard for him, and soon the couple is sharing an apartment and starting a family. But when Philipp meets a young man in a concert ticket line, he really falls in love and cannot deny his true, passionate desires any longer. | ||||
| DVD/CA01.02 | Carow, Heiner | Legende Von Paul Und Paula, Die / Legend of Paul and Paula (1973) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| Description: The story of two people who couldn't be more different and yet more perfect for each other, The Legend Of Paul And Paula is truly a legendary romance. Paula (Angelica Domrose) is an unmarried salesclerk with two children who thinks with her heart and wants nothing more than to achieve complete happiness in life. Paul (Winfried Glatzeder) is a conservative mid-level bureaucrat stuck in a loveless marriage who only wants to provide for his family and climb the social ladder. Although they're neighbors, it's not until they meet by accident one evening that they begin to fall in love. Paula attempts to liberate Paul from his complacency with her more free-spirited ways. When personal tragedies and heartache beset them both Paul begins to fully appreciate her love, but it may already be too late. | ||||
| DVD/CH02.01 | Chang, Sylvia | / Siao Yu (1995) | ||
| Language: Mandarin (with Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: all regions | ||||
| CH01.01 | Charell, Eric | Kongress Tanzt, Der / Congress Dances (1931) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/CO01.01 | Compilation | Rendezvous unterm Nierentisch | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Die Wirtschaftswunderrolle. PAL Zone 2 | ||||
| DVD/CO01.02 | Compilation | Stadt als Beute / City as Booty (2005) | ||
| Language: Germany (with English- subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| DVD/CO02a-c | Compilation | / Sleeper Cell (2006) | ||
| Language: English | Format: DVD/ | |||
| Comments: Zone1, Three disc set | ||||
| Description: Showtime TV series. Sleeper Cell follows the the path of Darwyn Al-Sayeed, a Muslim FBI agent working deep undercover in an espionage-style mission to dismantle plans from a small "sleeper cell" terrorist group within the district of California, USA. | ||||
| DA01.01 | Danquart, Pepe | Schwarzfahrer, Der / Black Rider (1993) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DE01.01 | Deppe, Hans | Grün ist die Heide / Heath Is Green, The (1956) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DE02.01 | Derin, Seyhan | Ben Annemin Kiziyim - Ich bin Tochter meiner Mutter / I’m my mother’s daughter (1996) | ||
| Language: German, Turkish (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DE02.02 | Derin, Seyhan | Zwischen den Sternen (2002) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| DE02.02a | Derin, Seyhan | Zwischen den Sternen (2002) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| DVD/DI01.02 | Dieterle, William | / Devil & Daniel Webster, The (1941) | ||
| Language: English | Format: DVD/ | |||
| Comments: Black & White | ||||
| DVD/DI01.01 | Dieterle, Williams | Geschlecht in Fesseln / Sex in Chains (1928) | ||
| Language: silent (with optional English intertitles subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Black & White | ||||
| DO05.01 | Doerrie, Doris | Männer / Men (1983) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: replaced 6/5/01 | ||||
| DO05.02 | Doerrie, Doris | Happy Birthday, Türke / Happy Birthday (1992) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/DO05.03 | Doerrie, Doris | Erleuchtung garantiert / Enlightenment Guaranteed (2000) | ||
| Language: German, English, Japanese | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: 05/09 missing | ||||
| DVD/DO06.01 | Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel von | Leben der Anderen, Das / Lives of Others, The (2005) | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Zone 2 | ||||
| Description: The place is East Berlin, the year is 1984, and it all begins with a simple surveillance assignment: Capt. Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe in a restrained, yet deeply felt performance), a Stasi officer and a specialist in this kind of thing, has been assigned to keep an eye on Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch, Black Book), a respected playwright, and his actress girlfriend, Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck, Mostly Martha). Though Dreyman is known to associate with the occasional dissident, like blacklisted director Albert Jerska (Volkmar Kleinert), his record is spotless. Everything changes when Wiesler discovers that Minister Hempf (Thomas Thieme) has an ulterior motive in spying on this seemingly upright citizen. In other words, it's personal, and Wiesler's sympathies shift from the government to its people--or at least to this one particular person. That would be risky enough, but then Wiesler uses his privileged position to affect a change in Dreyman's life. The God-like move he makes may be minor and untraceable, but it will have major consequences for all concerned, including Wiesler himself. | ||||
| DVD/DR01.01 | Dresen, Andreas | Halbe Treppe / Grill Point (2002) | ||
| Language: German (with English, French, Spanish, German subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Zone 2 | ||||
| Description: A pair of couples in thier late 30s experience life in the small German burg of Frankfurt-Oder (near the Polish border) while struggling to make ends meet in this character driven comedy drama from director Andreas Dresen. Caterer Uxe (Axel Prahl) makes his meager living out of a small business located "halfway up the stairs" (which also serves as the literal English translation of the title) as the viewers bear witness to his daily struggles via cast-improvised scenes and by interviews with the main characters intercut with the narrative. Meanwhile, a pair of running gags concerning depressed DJ 'Magic' Chris (Thorsten Merten) and a band named 17 Hippies serve to lighten the mood of this Mike Leigh-influenced effort that was shot on digital-video. | ||||
| DVD/DR01.03 | Dresen, Andreas | Sommer vorm Balkon (2006) | ||
| Language: German (with German/English/Spanish/French subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Zone 2 | ||||
| Description: Andreas Dresen's microscopic examination of the humdrum lives of Katrin (Inka Friedrich) and Nike (Nadja Uhl), best friends who live in the same Berlin apartment building, is a pointedly unglamorous slice of life that could be set in any urban neighborhood where real estate prices haven't gone through the roof. Low-key realism is so meticulously maintained that "Summer in Berlin" feels somewhat trivial. There is nothing larger here than meets the eye. It is "Sex and the City" on a stringent budget with fewer characters, in which Mr. Big is Mr. Sneaky Loser, and the only coveted shoes are the 120-euro running sneakers Max desperately desires but his mother can't afford. | ||||
| DVD/DR01.02 | Dresen, Andreas | Willenbrock (2005) | ||
| Language: German (with German/English subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Zone 2, Drama | ||||
| Description: Bernd Willenbrock is a car dealer at Magdeburg, East Germany, a small, but nonetheless successful and well-reputed businessman who has made his way in the post-communist society. A sympathetic wife, a nice house, a fast car, a house on the countryside - these are the attributes of material success that count for Willenbrock. Then, things slowly begin to move into a different direction: Although he loves his wife, Willenbrock is attracted by a young student who keeps him at distance. To do her a favor, he gives her father the job of a night-watchman. But one night, the watchman gets cruelly beaten by burglars. And a bit later, the burglars come to Willenbrock's house at night. This is where the illusion of a quiet, secure, and self-satisfied life reaches an end. Things start to go wrong, well-known procedures don't work anymore, hopes and expectations of all kinds turn into disappointments. Willenbrock is challenged by an increasing feeling of lost safety and control, and he has to find a way to cope with that. | ||||
| DVD/DR01.04 | Dresen, Andreas | Stilles Land / Silent Country (1992) | ||
| Language: German (with German subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Two DVD set withh interview, "making-of", trailer, commentary. | ||||
| Description: In a provincial town in East Germany, the theater is preparing for the big performance. Meanwhile in Berlin and elsewhere in the country, dramatical political changes are taking place. What did it feel like to ordinary East Germans when their life was turned upside down during the fateful autumn of 1989? This film will give you an impression of that time free from the hugs-and-champagne cliche reiterated in the media. | ||||
| DR01.01 | Dreyer, Carl Theodor | Dracula / Dracula (1932) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DR05.01 | Dreyer, Carl Theodor | Vampyr / Vampire, The (1932) | ||
| Language: (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/DR02.01 | Dreyer, Carl Theodor | Mikaël / Michael (1924) | ||
| Language: silent (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| DU01.01 | Dudow, Slatan | Unser täglich Brot / Our Daily Bread (1949) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| DU01.02 | Dudow, Slatan | Kuhle Wampe / To Whom Does the World Belong? (1932) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DU01.02a | Dudow, Slatan | Kuhle Wampe / To Whom Does the World Belong? (1932) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| DU01.03 | Dudow, Slatan | Frauenschicksale / Destinies of Women, The (1952) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| EN01.01 | Engel, Erich | Affaire Blum / Blum Affair, The (1949) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| EN01.01a | Engel, Erich | Affaire Blum / Blum Affair, The (1949) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| EN07.02 | Engel, Erich | Maulkorb, Der (1938) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| DVD/EP01.01 | Epstein, Rob & Jeffrey Friedman | Paragraph 175 / Paragraph 175 (2000) | ||
| Language: English, German, French (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| EX16.01 | Export, Valie | Unsichtbare Gegner / Invisible Adversaries (1977) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| EX16.02 | Export, Valie | Menschenfrauen (1980) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| EX16.03 | Export, Valie | Praxis Der Liebe , Die / Practice Of Love, The (1984) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/AK01.02 | Faith Akin | Soul Kitchen / Soul Kitchen (2009) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/ | |||
| Description: When Zinos (adam Bousdoukos, HEAD-ON) hires a gourmet chef for his struggling Hamburg restaurant, it only serves to drive away his low-life regulars. Meanwhile, Zino's girlfriend, Nadine, has moved to Shanghai to take a reporting job. A new hip clientele helps bring the restaurant back, but Zinos' heart still needs fixing, so he flies to China, leaving SOUL KITCHEN in the hands of his criminal brother, Illias (Moritz Bleibtreu, RUN LOLA RUN). Bad move: Illias gambles the eatery away and Nadine has a new lover. But the brothers have a chance to repair the damage if they can stop arguing and work as a team. The hilarious and heart-felt SOUL KITCHEN, set to an infectious soul and funk soundtrack, won two prizes at the Venice Film Festival. | ||||
| DVD/FA01.01 | Fanck, Arnold | Heilige Berg , Der / Holy Mountain, The (1926) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| FA14.01 | Fanck, Arnold | Heilige Berg, Der / Sacred Mountain And The White Flame, The (1926) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: with Leni Riefenstahl | ||||
| FA19.01 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Angst Essen Seele Auf / Fear Eats the Soul (1973) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| FA19.01a | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Angst Essen Seele Auf / Fear Eats the Soul (1973) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| FA19.02.(1-8) | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Berlin Alexanderplatz / Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: TV series (1 – 8) | ||||
| FA19.03 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Bitteren Tränen Der Petra Von Kant, Die / Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant, The (1972) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FA19.04 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Bolwieser / Stationmaster’S Wife, The (1976) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FA19.05 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Chinesisches Roulette / Chinese Roulette (1975) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FA19.06 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Reise Ins Licht, Eine / Despair (1978) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FA19.07 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Deutschland im Herbst / Germany in Autumn (1978) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FA19.08 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Dritte Generation, Die / Third Generation, The (1979) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FA19.09 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Fontane Effi Briest / Effi Briest (1974) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FA19.10 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Ehe Der Maria Braun, Die / Marriage Of Maria Braun, The (1979) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FA19.11 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Faustrecht der Freiheit / Fox and His Friends (1975) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FA19.12 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Händler Der Vier Jahreszeiten, Der / Merchant Of Four Seasons, The (1975) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FA19.13 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden / In a Year with 13 Moons (1978) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FA19.14 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Kamikaze '89 / Kamikaze 89 (1983) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: German, directed by WOLF GREMM, R.W.F. as leading actor | ||||
| FA19.15 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Lili Marleen / Lili Marleen (1980) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FA19.16 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Mutter Kuesters Fahrt zum Himmel / Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FA19.17 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Satansbraten / Satan’s Brew (1976) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FA19.18 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Sehnsucht Der Veronika Voss, Die / Veronica Voss (1982) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: poor quality | ||||
| FA19.19 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Querelle / Querelle (1982) | ||
| Language: English | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FA20.00 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? / What makes Herr R. run AMOK? (1970) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/FA19.04 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Stationmaster's Wife, The | ||
| Language: | Format: DVD/ | |||
| Description: Drama of post-WWI Bavaria based on Oskar Maria Graf's novel Bolweiser, was originally presented as a three-hour-plus event for German television. In preparing his theatrical cut, director Rainer Werner Fassbinder shaved away the subplots and supporting characters to focus tightly on the story of railway stationmaster Bolweiser (Kurt Raab) and his philandering wife Hanni (Elisabeth Trissenaar). Set in late-1920s Bavaria, Bolweiser is a Nazi party man surrounded by grotesque, toadying underlings at the station but is pathetically servile to his increasingly frustrated, unhappy wife. Disgusted by her weak-willed husband, she finds passion in the arms of the butcher. Bolweiser ignores the town gossip and even perjures himself to defend his wife in a trial--an act which later dooms him. Exquisitely photographed (by Michael Balhaus) and beautifully designed, Fassbinder's lush, romantic style suffuses his caustic portrait of the self-destructive Bolweiser (a painfully perfect performance by Raab), and the petty small-town citizens who seal his fate. Even as Bolweiser sinks to the depths of self-pity, Fassbinder's gorgeous, shimmering canvas makes the small-minded doings look so much more tawdry. | ||||
| DVD/FA19.01 | Fassbinder, Rainer Werner | Angst Essen Seele Auf / Ali - Fear Eats the Soul - Criterion Collection (1974) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Region 1, two discs | ||||
| FA21.01 | Faulstich, Joachim | Aus dem Bilderbuch einer Revolte (1968) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: together with GEORG M. HAFNER | ||||
| FR02.01 | Forst, Willi | Sünderin, Die / Story Of A Sinner, The (1951) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FR02.01a | Forst, Willi | Sünderin, Die / Story Of A Sinner, The (1951) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| FO19.01 | Fosse, Bob | Cabaret / Cabaret (1972) | ||
| Language: English, German, Hebrew | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/FO01.01 | Fox, Eytan | Walk on Water (2005) | ||
| Language: English, Hebrew, German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: An unusual psychological spy thriller, Walk on Water follows Israeli agent Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi, from the superb romance Late Marriage) as he tries to learn from a German brother and sister (Knut Berger, Push and Pull, and Caroline Peters, Schone Frauen) whether or not their grandfather, a Nazi commander, is still alive--but his growing friendship with the pair forces him to grapple with his wife's suicide only months before. Walk on Water grapples with racial prejudice and homophobia without once seeming preachy; surprisingly, the spy storyline introduces these issues naturally, as Eyal's hostility towards Arabs and his blithe view of Nazi war criminals are central to his character. Ashkenazi is charismatic and subtle; his bedroom eyes and understated smolder make him something of an Israeli Clive Owen. | ||||
| FR01.01 | Fraser, K. | Rheingold, Das | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/DU05.01 | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Die Physiker / The Physicists (1962) | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Description: The Physicists (German: Die Physiker) (written 1961, performed 1962, and published 1962, Verlags AG "Die Arche", Zurich, Switzerland) is a satiric drama often recognized as the most impressive yet most easily understood work of the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Informed by the Second World War and the many recent advances in science and nuclear technology, the play deals with questions of scientific ethics and mankind's ability to handle its intellectual responsibilities. The play was first performed in Zürich in 1962 and has remained popular in the decades since. It was translated into English by James Kirkup, and published in the US in 1964 by Grove Press, under its Evergreen imprint | ||||
| FR21.01 | Fruchtmann, Karl | Boxer, Der (1986) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: German, on tape together with K. KAWALEREWICZ Bronsteins Kinder | ||||
| FAE01.01 | Färberböck, Max | Aimée and Jaguar / Aimée and Jaguar (1999) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| FAE01.01a | Färberböck, Max | Aimée and Jaguar / Aimée and Jaguar (1999) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Copy | ||||
| DVD/PA02.03a | G.W. Pabst | / The Three Penny Opera (1931) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/ | |||
| Description: In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'. | ||||
| GA18.01 | Garnier, Katja Von | Abgeschminkt (1993) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: on tape together with NICOS LIGOURIS Herz aus Stein | ||||
| GA18.02 | Gass, Karl | Schaut auf diese Stadt / Look at this City (1962) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| GA18.02a | Gass, Karl | Schaut auf diese Stadt / Look at this City (1963) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| GE01.01 | Geissendörfer, Hans W. | War Die Ddr, Das / GDR That was the GDR (1994) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| Comments: Parts 1-4 | ||||
| GE01.02 | Geissendörfer, Hans W. | Zauberberg, Der / Magic Mountain, The (1981) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| GO18.01 | Gorski, Peter | Faust / Faust (1960) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: starring GRÜNDGENS, GUSTAV as Mephistopheles, based on Goethe's play | ||||
| GO18.01 | Gorski, Peter | Faust / Faust (1960) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| Comments: starring GRÜNDGENS, GUSTAV as Mephistopheles, based on Goethe's play | ||||
| GR01.01 | Graef, Roland | Tangospieler, Der / Tango Player, The (1991) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| Comments: on tape together with Heinz Zschosche GLUECK IM HINTERHAUS | ||||
| DVD/GR03.01 | Green, Alfred E. | / Invasion U.S.A. (1952) | ||
| Language: English | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| DVD/GR02.01 | Green, Guy | Luther / Luther (1973) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Description: In luther martin luthers condemnation of the catholic church & incitement of the protestant reformation become the last desperate acts of a brilliant but deeply troubled man of conscience who has run out of options. | ||||
| DVD/GR04.01 | Grisebach, Valeska | Sehnsucht / Longing (2007) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Zone 0 | ||||
| Description: A man and a woman live in a village not far from Berlin. Out here, it feels as though the city were miles away. The couple have loved each other since they were children. They are inseparable. Both are now in their early thirties; he is a welder and a member of the auxiliary fire brigade. She works a few hours a week as a home help and sings in the choir. Their blissful relationship is so untrammelled by life's little ups and downs that others regard them with a mixture of astonishment and mistrust. They give the impression of being as innocent and unsuspecting as a couple of children. One day, the man goes on a business trip to a large town with the fire brigade. After a night of heavy drinking and carousing he wakes up in another woman's apartment. He can barely remember what went on. His efforts to find out what did occur lead to a passionate affair. | ||||
| GR02.01 | Groschopp, Richard | Chingachgook / Great Snake, The (1967) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| GR02.01a | Groschopp, Richard | Chingachgook / Great Snake, The (1967) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| GR21.01 | Grüne, Karl | Strasse, Die / Street, The (1923) | ||
| Language: silent (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| GUE01.01 | Günther, Egon | Dritte, Der / Third, The (1972) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| GUE01.01b | Günther, Egon | Dritte, Der / Third, The (1972) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| Comments: based on story by Eberhard Panitz | ||||
| DVD/GY01.01 | Gypkens, Martin | Wir / We (2003) | ||
| Language: German (with German, English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zone 2 | ||||
| Description: A summer trip to Berlin offers a fleeting glimpse into the lives of the country's youth in this vibrant, character-driven drama from director Martin Gypkens. When twentysomething Florian arrives in town to pay a visit to long-lost pal Pit, the duo quickly reminisce before heading out to a party. Soon meeting up with many of Pit's acquaintances, the film follows various intersecting lives as they are woven to create an intricate, microcosmic look at life's ups and downs as seen through the eyes of Germany's youth. | ||||
| HA14.01 | Handke, Peter | Linkshaendige Frau, Die / Left-Handed Woman, The (1978) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| DVD/HA02.01 | Haneke, Michael | / Funny Games (1997) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| HA01.01 | Haneke, Michael | Funny Games / Funny Games (1997) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/HA02.02 | Haneke, Michael | Schloß, Das / Castle, The (1997) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: A Melbourne family is very happy living where they do, near the Melbourne airport (according to Jane Kennedy, it's "practically their back yard"). However, they are forced to leave their beloved home, by the Government and airport authorities. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight to remain in their house, taking their case as far as the High Court | ||||
| DVD/HA02.03 | Haneke, Michael | / White Ribbon, The (2009) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/ | |||
| DVD ST04.01 | Hannes Stöhr | / Berlin Calling (2008) | ||
| Language: English | Format: DVD/ | |||
| Description: Berlin Calling is a 2008 German tragicomedy directed by Hannes Stöhr. The movie depicts the events following DJ and producer Ickarus' (Paul Kalkbrenner) institutionalization for drug abuse. | ||||
| DVD/HA03.01 | Hansen, Joachim | Stern von Afrika, Der / Star of Africa, The (1957) | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zone 2 | ||||
| Description: Fictionalized account of the life of Hans-Joachim Marseille, who is generally regarded as the leading Luftwaffe ace prior to his death in 1942. It depicts his notorious lack of discipline, his carefree lifestyle, and the rock star-like status he attained during his lifetime. Not surprisingly, given the era in which the film was made, political discussion is largely limited to the tragedy of war. Only swastikas on uniforms and planes serve as stark reminders of National Socialism. | ||||
| HA14a.01 | Hansen, Rolf | Grosse Liebe, Die (1942) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| HA14a.02 | Hansen, Rolf | Grosse Liebe, Die (1942) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| HA18.01 | Harlan, Veit | Kolberg (1945) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| HA18.02 | Harlan, Veit | Judd Suss / Indoctrination Of Racial Hatred, The | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| HA02.01 | Harnack, Falk | Beil Von Wandsbek, Das / Axe Of Wandsbek, The (1951) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| DVD/HA01.01 | Hasler, Joachim | Heißer Sommer / Hot Summer (1968) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: In HOT SUMMER, the East Germany's 'Grease', two groups of high school students--eleven girls and ten boys--meet on their way to a vacation on the Baltic Sea they face off like a rugby team, and with one extra girl there's bound to be trouble. The inevitable love story soon brews between the impetuous Kai (Frank Schöbel) and the precocious Brit (Chris Doerk), who are soon professing their love to each other... and starting trouble for everyone else in the group. The popularity of Schöbel and Doerk, an East German pop duet, helped HOT SUMMER skyrocket to be one of the top films of 1968 and placed the film's music on all the hit radio play lists. | ||||
| HA15.01 | Haußmann, Leander | Sonnenallee / Sun Alley (1999) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| DVD/HA04.01 | Haußmann, Leander | Herr Lehmann (2003) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Zone 2 | ||||
| Description: One of the key political events of the late 20th century fails to distract a man who is having a row with his parents in this comedy from Germany. The film takes place in the fall of 1989 in SO36, a neighborhood in West Berlin adjacent to the Berlin Wall, shunted into a corner and largely ignored. It is home to an oddball community of Bohemians and outsiders who pay little mind to the world around them. Frank Lehmann (Christian Ulmen) is a bartender who serves beer at nights to the motley citizens of SO36 and is oblivious to most everything except his lackadaisical pal Karl (Detlev Buck) and his ill-tempered girlfriend Katrin (Katja Danowski). A visit from Frank's parents throws his simple life into disarray, especially since his letters home led them to expect a far grander life than he's leading, and with this sudden chaos in his life, Frank barely notices that big things are happening on the other side of the wall. | ||||
| BR01.01 | Heinrich Breloers | Die Manns Ein Jahrhundertroman / The Men A Century Novel | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family. | ||||
| DVD BR01.02 | Heinrich Breloers | Die Manns Ein Jahrhundertroman / The Men A Century Novel (2001) | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/ | |||
| HE01.01 | Heisse, Thomas | Vaterland / Fatherland (2002) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| HE01.01a | Heisse, Thomas | Vaterland / Fatherland (2002) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| HE13.01 | Hellberg, Martin | Kabale und Liebe / Intrigue and Love (1959) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Based on Schiller play | ||||
| HE13.02 | Hellberg, Martin | Minna von Barnhelm (1962) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Based on Lessing play | ||||
| HE18.01 | Herbst, Helmut | Germany DADA (1986) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| GM21 | Hertle, Hans Hermann & Günther Scholz | Als die Mauer fiel / When the Wall Came Tumbling Down (1999) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| DVD/HE01.01 | Herzog, Werner | Flucht aus Laos / Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) | ||
| Language: German, English | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories? | ||||
| HE18a.01 | Herzog, Werner | Aguirre. Der Zorn Gottes / Aguirre.The Wrath of God (1972) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| HE18a.02 | Herzog, Werner | Fitzcarraldo / Fitzcarraldo (1981) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| HE18a.03 | Herzog, Werner | Kaspar Hauser: Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle / Mystery Of Kaspar Hauser, The (1974) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| HE18a.04 | Herzog, Werner | Stroszek / Stroszek (1977) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| HE18a.04 copyII | Herzog, Werner | Stroszek / Stroszek (1977) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: poor quality, copy | ||||
| HE18a.05 | Herzog, Werner | Woyzeck / Woyzeck (1978) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| HE19.01 | Herzog, Werner | Kaspar Hauser: Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle / Mystery Of Kaspar Hauser, The (1974) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: COPY II | ||||
| HI01.01 | Hippler, Fritz | Ewige Jude, Der / Eternal Jew, The (1940) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/HI02.01 | Hirschbiegel, Oliver | Experiment, Das / Experiment, The (2001) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zone 1 | ||||
| Description: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's German-language movie The Experiment finds a group of 20 volunteers randomly divided into 12 prisoners and eight guards and asked to play out their roles for a fortnight while scientists study their reactions. A conflict arises between undercover reporter Fahd (Moritz Bleibtreu), a con with a hidden agenda, and the apparently mild-mannered Berus (Justus von Dohnanyi), a guard with a megalomaniac streak. The film begins as a psychological drama as ordinary people settle into the game, with joking displays of resistance by the "prisoners" greeted with increasing brutality from the "guards," but detours into suspense and horror as Fahd, who needs the experiment to get out of hand in order to make his story more saleable, deliberately ratchets up the tension between the factions only to see the situation spiral nightmarishly out of control as various test subjects in both camps edge closer to snapping. | ||||
| DVD/HI02.02 | Hirschbiegel, Oliver | Untergang, Der / Downfall, The (2004) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zon 1 | ||||
| Description: The riveting subject of Downfall is nothing less than the disintegration of Adolf Hitler in mind, body, and soul. A 2005 Academy Award nominee for best foreign language film, this German historical drama stars Bruno Ganz (Wings of Desire) as Hitler, whose psychic meltdown is depicted in sobering detail, suggesting a fallen, pathetic dictator on the verge on insanity, resorting to suicide (along with Eva Braun and Joseph and Magda Goebbels) as his Nazi empire burns amidst chaos in mid-1945. While staging most of the film in the claustrophobic bunker where Hitler spent his final days, director Oliver Hirschbiegel (Das Experiment) dares to show the gentler human side of der Fuehrer, as opposed to the pure embodiment of evil so familiar from many other Nazi-era dramas. This balanced portrayal does not inspire sympathy, however: We simply see the complexity of Hitler's character in the greater context of his inevitable downfall, and a more realistic (and therefore more horrifying) biographical portrait of madness on both epic and intimate scales | ||||
| HO06.01 | Hoffmann, Kurt | Wirtshaus Im Spessart, Das / Spessart Inn, The (1958) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| HO12.01 | Holland, Agnieszka | Bittere Ernte / Angry Harvest (1986) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| HO12.02 | Holland, Agnieszka | Europa Europa / Europa Europa (1991) | ||
| Language: German, Russian, Polish (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| HU09.01 | Huillet, Daniele / Straub, Jean-Marie | Klassenverhaeltnisse / Class Relations (1983) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: based on KAFKA Der Verschollene | ||||
| HU10.01 | Huntgeburth,Hermine | Trio, Das / Trio, The (1998) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| IM08.01 | Imhoof, Markus | Boot Ist Voll, Das / Boat Is Full, The (1979) | ||
| Language: Swiss German (with English? subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/IM01.01 | Imoden, Markus | hunger auf leben (2007) | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Zone 2 | ||||
| Description: Biographical TV-Movie about the live of the popular East-German Novelist Brigitte Reimann. About her privat life and her fights for and against her Country and Herself. | | ||||
| DVD/JA01.01 | Jacusso, Nino | / Escape to Paradise (2001) | ||
| Language: Turkish/German (with German, French, English, Spanish subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Code free, PAL | ||||
| Description: A man seeking a better life for his family may have to lie to get it -- and pay handsomely for that privilege -- in this realistic drama. Sehmuz (Duzgun Ayhan) and his wife, Delal (Fidal Firat), are a Kurdish couple who have fled political persecution in their homeland and are seeking asylum in Switzerland for themselves and their three children. While Sehmuz's authentic tale of woe would seem to be enough to convince Swiss authorities to allow him to stay, his friend, Aziz (Nurettin Yildiz), confronts him with the ugly truth that 90 percent of Kurdish refugees are turned away by the Swiss government on the grounds that their claims don't appear plausible. Aziz, who is also seeking asylum in Switzerland, has hired a "storyseller," who for a price will manufacture a tale (with appropriate documents to match) that's likely to convince immigration authorities to grant a exile residency papers. Delal is opposed to this notion and tells Sehmuz that he should tell his interviewer the truth, but Sehmuz decides Aziz is has a point, and sells many of the family's valuables to pay a storyseller (Walo Luond) to spin a believable tale for him. However, Sehmuz discovers his investment may have been for naught when Aziz's storyseller fails to deliver the goods and his request for asylum is denied. Duzgun Ayhan, himself a political refugee now living in Sweden, won the Best Actor honors at the 2001 San Sebastian Film Festival. | ||||
| JA14.01 | Jannings, Emil | Zerbrochene Krug, Der / Broken Jug, The (1935) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: together with GUSTAV UCICKY | ||||
| JA20.01 | Jannings, Emil | Berlin Alexanderplatz / Berlin Alexanderplatz (1931) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/JO01.01 | Jodorowsky, Alejandro | / La Cravate - The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky Authentic Region 1 | ||
| Language: silent | Format: DVD/ | |||
| Comments: Region 1 | ||||
| Description: In this silent short, a mimed version of Thomas Mann's novella The Transposed Heads, a bereaved wife, through intercession, brings her intellectual husband and virile lover back to life by reattaching their severed heads but mistakenly transposes heads and bodies. This first film from Chilean avant-garde director Alejandro Jodorowsky stars Jean-Marie Proslier, Raymond Devos and Marthe Mercure. | ||||
| DVD VI16.03 | Joseph Vilsmaier | / The Harmonists (1997) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish | ||||
| DVD VI16.03 | Joseph Vilsmaier | / The Harmonists (1997) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish | ||||
| DVD VI01.01 | Joseph Vilsmaier | / The Harmonists (1997) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish | ||||
| DVD/VI01.01 | Joseph Vilsmaier | / The Harmonists (1997) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish | ||||
| JU01.01 | Junge, Winfried | Kind von Golzow I / Children of Golzow I | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| JU01.02 | Junge, Winfried | Kind von Golzow II / Children of Golzow II | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| JU20.01 | Jutzi, Piel | Berlin, Alexanderplatz / Berlin Alexanderplatz (1931) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| Comments: with Emil Jannings | ||||
| KA04.01 | Kahane, Peter | Ete und Ali / Ete and Ali (1985) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/HA03.01 | Karl Hartl | F.P. 1 Antwortet Nicht (1932) | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Description: Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire, but when he returns from his adventures to save the endangered F.P.1 he finds out that he has lost her to Droste. | ||||
| KA23.01 | Kawalerewicz, K. | Bronsteins Kinder / Bronstein's Children (1991) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| KI01.01 | Kirsten, Ralf | Unterm Birnbaum (1973) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| Comments: based on Fontane novel | ||||
| KI01.02 | Kirsten, Ralf | Auf der Sonnenseite (1962) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| KI19.01 | Kissel, Wolfgang | Kinder Kader Kommandeure / Strictly Propaganda (1991) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/KL01.01 | Klant, Michael | Kunst in Bewegung | ||
| Language: | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| KL02.01 | Klaren, Georg | Wozzeck / Wozzeck (1978) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| KL01.01 | Klein, Gerhard | Fall Gleiwitz, Der / Gleiwitz Case, The (1961) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| KL08.01 | Klein, Gerhard | Berlin - Schönhauser Corner (1957) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| KL08.01a | Klein, Gerhard | Berlin - Schönhauser Corner (1957) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| KL08.02 | Klein, Gerhard | Berliner Romanze, Eine / Berlin Romance, A (1956) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| KL08.02a | Klein, Gerhard | Berliner Romanze, Eine / Berlin Romance, A (1956) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| KL09.01 | Klier, Freya | Verschleppt ans Ende der Welt (1995) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| KO01.01 | Kolditz, Gottfried | Apachen / Apaches (1973) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| KU01.01 | Kunert, Joachim | Abenteur des Werner Holt, Die (1965) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| KA05.01 | Käutner, Helmut | Grosse Freiheit Nr.7, Die / Great Freedom No. 7 (1944) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| KA05.02 | Käutner, Helmut | Teufels General, Des / Devil's General, The (1954) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| KA05.03 | Käutner, Helmut | Hauptmann Von Koepenick, Der / Captain from Koepenick (1957) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| KA05.03 copyII | Käutner, Helmut | Hauptmann Von Koepenick, Der / Captain from Koepenick (1957) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| KA05.04 | Käutner, Helmut | Ludwig II. / Ludwig II. (1955) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| KA05.05 | Käutner, Helmut | Romanze in Moll / Romance in a Minor Key (1954) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| KA05.06 | Käutner, Helmut | Apfel Ist Ab, Der / Original Sin, The (1948) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/LA01.01 | Lang, Fritz | Frau im Mond / Woman in the Moon (1929) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: Thirty years ago, at a scientific conference, Prof. Manfeldt presented his theory on the existence of gold on the Moon. It was greeted with laughter by the assembled academics. Today, Herr Helius has ambitious plans to build a spaceship... and take it to the Moon! Windegger, his chief engineer, will be going, and so will Prof. Manfeldt, now living in a cramped garret alone with his theory. But there are disagreements with the financiers who insist that their man Turner also accompany the flight... The unmanned Rocket H 32 brings back valuable information from the dark side of the Moon. Helius is upset by the news of Windegger's engagement to the pretty Friede. And the financiers have a secret agenda: to control the world's gold supply... Finally, the Spaceship "Friede" is ready as it rolls out on its gantry for takeoff. The staged rocket works as planned, but the acceleration is fierce. As they approach the Moon, they discover a stowaway on board, Gustav, a little boy... | ||||
| DVD/LA01.02 | Lang, Fritz | Metropolis / Metropolis (1927) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: Fritz Lang's Metropolis belongs to legend as much as to cinema. It's a milestone of sci-fi and German expressionism. Yet the story makes minimal sense, and the "theme" belongs in a fortune cookie; to experience the film's pagan power, you have to see the movie. But for decades we couldn't, not really--not with so many versions, all incomplete, often in public-domain prints like smudged photocopies. This Murnau Foundation restoration changes all that. Some shots, scenes, and subplots may be lost forever, but intertitles indicate how they fit into the original continuity and the characters' individual trajectories. Most crucially, the images are crisp, vibrant, and three-dimensional instead of murky and flattened. The composite sequences (the Tower of Babel, a sea of lusting eyes) have been restored to their hallucinatory ferocity. And there's one moment when you can see a bead of sweat roll down a man's cheek--in medium long-shot. | ||||
| LA14.01 | Lang, Fritz | M. Moerder unter uns / M. Murderers Among Us (1931) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| LA14.01a | Lang, Fritz | M. Moerder unter uns / M. Murderers Among Us (1931) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: COPY II | ||||
| LA14.02 | Lang, Fritz | Dr. Mabuse. Der Spieler / Dr. Mabuse. The Gambler (1922) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| LA14.021 | Lang, Fritz | Dr. Mabuse. Der Spieler / Dr. Mabuse. The Gambler (1922) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| LA14.03 | Lang, Fritz | Metropolis / Metropolis (1927) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| LA14.03 copyII | Lang, Fritz | Metropolis / Metropolis (1927) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| LA14.04 | Lang, Fritz | Nibelungen. Part 1 - Siegfried, Die (1924) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| LA14.05 | Lang, Fritz | Nibelungen. Part 2 - Kriemhilds Rache, Die (1924) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| LA14.05 copyII | Lang, Fritz | Nibelungen. Part 2 - Kriemhilds Rache, Die (1924) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| LA14.06 | Lang, Fritz | Nibelungen. Part 2 - Kriemhilds Rache, Die (1919) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| LA14.06 copyII | Lang, Fritz | Nibelungen. Part 2 - Kriemhilds Rache, Die (1924) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| LA14.07 | Lang, Fritz | Frau im Mond / Woman In The Moon, The (1929) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| LA14.07a | Lang, Fritz | Frau im Mond / Woman In The Moon, The (1929) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/LA01.03 | Lang, Fritz | Fury / Fury (1936) | ||
| Language: English (with English,French,Spanish subtitles) | Format: DVD/ | |||
| Comments: Black & white, 92 minutes | ||||
| Description: Tough stuff from director Fritz Lang (M), making his first American film with this 1936 story of an innocent man (Spencer Tracy) who escapes a lynch mob and then orchestrates his apparent murder at their hands. Tracy is superb, and the film is uncompromising, until studio interference takes some of the wind out of Lang's sails right at the end. But as the portrait of a character who comes to reflect the destiny he is trying to avoid, this is still essential Lang and a pre-noir classic. | ||||
| LA14a.01 | Langhoff, Thomas | Aufstand der Fischer von St.Barbara (1988) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| Comments: on tape together with MAXIMILLIAN SCHELL Der Richter und Sein Henker. Germany & Italy, 1976 | ||||
| LE01.01 | Leacock, Richard | / Lulu in Berlin. The Story of Louise Brook (1984) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: together with S. WOLL | ||||
| LE09.01 | Leiser, Erwin | Deutschland erwache - Film als Propaganda des NS-Staates / Germany Awake (1968) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: doc. on Nazi propaganda | ||||
| LE09.02 | Leiser, Erwin | Hitler’s Mein Kampf / Hitler’s Mein Kampf (1961) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/LE01.01 | Leni, Paul | / Man Who Laughs, The (1928) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: The Man Who Laughs, based on the novel by Victor Hugo who also wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame, is a good example of this genre that essentially died with silent pictures. The plot involves the child of an English nobleman. When his father rebels against King James, the king has the child's face carved into a permanent grin. The child, named Gwynplaine, joins a carnival. He grows up alongside Dea, a blind girl who loves him. Both Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin were experienced with this sort of film. He had roles in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Waxworks, she was the leading lady of the Phantom of the Opera. Philbin's Phantom co-star, Lon Chaney, was originally slated to play the lead in this film but studio battles prevented it and Veidt, who came over from Germany to act in Barrymore's The Beloved Rogue, stepped in. Both Veidt and Philbin give rather good performances, particularly Veidt who, due to makeup, could only use the upper half of his face to express emotion. | ||||
| DVD/LE01.02 | Leni, Paul | Wachsfigurenkabinett, Das / Waxworks (1924) | ||
| Language: | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: Lesser-known among silent German classics, Waxworks is a carnival of a movie inviting you to visit three distinct freak shows and sample the thrills and peculiarities each has to offer. A young poet (Wilhelm Dieterle, who became Hollywood director William Dieterle) is hired to pen "startling tales" about three figures on display in the Wachsfigurenkabinett. Somehow he and his boss's daughter (Olga Belajeff) win plum roles in each fantasia he concocts. The Arabian Nights episode, featuring Emil Jannings hamming it up as Caliph Haroun al-Raschid, boasts demented architecture and a blend of comedy and surrealism that inspired Douglas Fairbanks's Thief of Bagdad. Conrad Veidt, making a memorably mad Russian icon of Ivan the Terrible, towers amid episode 2's fiercely angular compositions. Then, still-unnerving double-exposure cinematography is used to bring "Spring Heel Jack" (Werner Krauss's version of Jack the Ripper) out of the realm of fantasy and menacingly into the real-world framing story. | ||||
| LE14.01 | Leni, Paul | Wachsfigurenkabinett, Das / Waxworks (1924) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| LE18.01 | Leroy, Mervyn | / Random Harvest (1941) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| LI05.01 | Liebeneiner, Wolfgang | Ich klage an (1941) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: based on novel by Hellmuth Unger | ||||
| LI05.02 | Liebeneiner, Wolfgang | Goetz von Berlichingen / Ironhand - Goetz von Berlichingen (1986) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: based on Goethe's play | ||||
| GA18.01 | Ligouris, Nicos | Herz aus Stein / Heart of Stone (1994) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| LI12.01 | Lilienthal, Peter | David (1979) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| DVD/LI01.01 | Link, Caroline | Nirgendwo in Afrika / Nowhere in Africa (2001) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zone 1 | ||||
| Description: Both epic and heartbreakingly intimate, Nowhere in Africa begins with a Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich fleeing Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances (she brought with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown), while Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor. But this is only the beginning of a series of uprootings, and as the surface of their lives is torn away, Walter and Jettel find they have little in common, and must--under tumultuous circumstances--build their marriage anew. With incredible skill and passion, Nowhere in Africa manages to bring you fully into every change in this family's life; it richly deserves the Academy Award® it received in 2002. | ||||
| LI06.01 | Linke, Caroline | Jenseits der Stille / Beyond Silence (1996) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/LO01.01 | Loach, Ken | Es ist eine freie Welt / It's a Free World (2007) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Zone 2 | ||||
| Description: The story of two women who set up a recruitment business from their kitchen table and employ illegal immigrants to work for them. | ||||
| LO01.01 | Loriot | Nudel Oder Die Frau Als Solche, Die | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| LO01.02 | Loriot | HERREN IM BAD oder der Mann als Solcher | ||
| Language: (with no subtitles subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: poor quality | ||||
| LO01.03 | Loriot | LORIOTS 80. GEBURTSTAG | ||
| Language: (with no subtitles subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: poor quality | ||||
| DVD/LO02.01 | Losey, Joseph | Galileo / Galileo Galilei (1975) | ||
| Language: | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: This bio-pic is about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun. This brought him in conflict with the Catholic Church. By threatening him with torture, the Church forced him to recant his views in front of a tribunal, and sentenced him to house arrest. However, Galileo's trials and theories inspired others like Newton and Kepler to prove that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe. Some years ago, the Pope accepted that Earth does revolve around the Sun and issued a rare apology for what the Church had done to Galileo, i.e., the Catholic Church recanted! | ||||
| LU02.01 | Lubitsch, Ernst | Gypsy Blood / Carmen (1918) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| LU02.02 | Lubitsch, Ernst | Passion / Madame DuBarry (1919) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/LU02.03 | Lubitsch, Ernst | Shop Around the Corner, The (1940) | ||
| Language: English, French (with English, French, Spanish subtitles) | Format: DVD/ | |||
| Comments: Zone 1, black & white | ||||
| Description: One of the most charming and romantic films around, this 1940 comic romance finds James Stewart (Vertigo, It's A Wonderful Life) working in a small shop in Budapest and longing for a girl to call his own. His coworker, Margaret Sullavan, feels the same, and soon they are both corresponding and falling in love with their respective pen pals. What they don't realize is that they are writing to and falling in love with each other, but the problem is that they can't stand each other in person. The beguiling nature of the mistaken identity formula that influenced countless films is done to perfection here, and the wry combativeness and delightful banter between the two leads makes this a very special film. | ||||
| MA01.01 | Mach, Josef | Söhne der großen Bärin, Die / Sons Of The Great Bear, The (1966) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| MA01.01a | Mach, Josef | Söhne der großen Bärin, Die / Sons Of The Great Bear, The (1966) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| MA19.01 | Maetzig, Kurt | Kaninchen Bin Ich, Das / Rabbit Is Me, The (1965) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| MA19.02 | Maetzig, Kurt | Rat der Götter, Der / Council of the Gods (1950) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| MA19.03 | Maetzig, Kurt | Roman einer jungen Ehe / Story of a Young couple, The (1952) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| MA19.03a | Maetzig, Kurt | Roman einer jungen Ehe / Story of a Young couple, The (1952) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| MA19.04 | Maetzig, Kurt | Kaninchen Bin Ich, Das / Rabbit Is Me, The (1965) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| MA18.01 | Marshall, Stuart | / Desire (1989) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| ME01.01 | Meerapfel, Jeanine | Im Land meiner Eltern (1981) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| ME01.01a | Meerapfel, Jeanine | Im Land meiner Eltern (1981) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Copy | ||||
| MI12.01 | Miles, William | / Liberators (1992) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: African-American battalions in Germany, together with NINA ROSENBLUM | ||||
| MI12a.01 | Milestone, Lewis | / All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: restored | ||||
| MI19.01 | Misselwitz, Helke | Winter Ade (1987) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| MO19.01 | Moszkowicz, Imo | Max der Taschendieb (1961) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| Comments: with Heinz Ruehmann | ||||
| MO19.02 | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Zauberflöte, Die / Magic Flute, The (1991) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: James Levine conductor, Brian Large director | ||||
| DVD/MO19.02 | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Zauberflöte, Die / Magic Flute, The (1991) | ||
| Language: German (with English, French, Chinese subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: James Levine conductor, Brian Large director | ||||
| MU05.01 | Muehlen, Irmgard Von Zur | Bomben auf Berlin (1983) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: (copy) | ||||
| MU05a.01 | Mueller, Heiner | Auftrag, Der (1983) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Theatre, Anklam, PART 1 & 2 | ||||
| MU05a.02 | Mueller, Heiner | Anatomie Titus Fall of Rome (1988) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: theatre, Schauspiel Dresden | ||||
| MU05a.03 | Mueller, Heiner | Quartett (1982) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Theatre, Schauspiel Bochum | ||||
| MU05a.04 | Mueller, Heiner | Verkommenes Ufer (1984) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: theatre, Schauspiel Bochum | ||||
| MU05a.05 | Mueller, Heiner | Philoktet (1988) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: theatre, Schauspiel Frankfurt | ||||
| MU05a.06 | Mueller, Heiner | Lohndruecker, Der (1988) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Theatre, Deutsches Theater Berlin | ||||
| MU05a.07 | Mueller, Heiner | Apocalypse mit Zigarre (1990) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: German, on tape together with Die Intellektuellen und die Macht, documentary on Stasi and GDR writers | ||||
| MU05a.08 | Mueller, Heiner | Postoperative Texte (1995) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: German, on tape together with Die Intellektuellen und die Macht, documentary on Stasi and GDR writers | ||||
| RI05.05 | Mueller, Ray | Macht Der Bilder: Leni Riefenstahl, Die / Wonderful Horrible Life Of Leni Riefenstahl, The (1993) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: (documentary) | ||||
| DVD/MU18.22 | Murnau, Friedrich William | Nosferatu / Nosferatu (1922) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| DVD/MU18.11 | Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm | Letzte Mann, Der / Last Laugh, The (1925) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| DVD/MU18.33 | Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm | Faust / Faust (1926) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| DVD/MU18.44 | Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm | Tartuffe / Tartuffe (1926) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| DVD/MU18.55 | Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm | Tabu / Tabu (1931) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| MU18.01 | Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm | Letzte Mann, Der / Last Laugh, The (1925) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: silent | ||||
| MU18.01 copyII | Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm | Letzte Mann, Der / Last Laugh, The (1925) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| MU18.02 | Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm | Nosferatu / Nosferatu (1922) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Restored. Do not use in classroom | ||||
| MU18.02 copyII | Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm | Nosferatu / Nosferatu (1922) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| MU18.02 copyIII | Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm | Nosferatu / Nosferatu (1922) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: restored, copy | ||||
| MU18.03 | Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm | Faust / Faust (1926) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/MUS01.01 | Music Survives | / Third Reich, The | ||
| Language: | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: 05/09 missing | ||||
| MUE04.01 | Müller, Hans | Zar und Zimmermann / Czar And The Carpenter, The (1956) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| DVD/NA02.01 | Nair, Mira | / Mississippi Masala (1992) | ||
| Language: English (with English,Spanish subtitles) | Format: DVD/ | |||
| Comments: Region 1 | ||||
| Description: Minas family was expelled from uganda under the reign of dictator idi amin. Like the colorful indian dish masala mina is a hot spicy mix of cultures. But when she and demetrius fall in love nothing in her past prepares them for the family outrage they face. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/22/2008 Starring: Denzel Washington Roshan Seth Run time: 118 minutes Rating: R | ||||
| NA01.01 | Nasr, Samir | Nachttanke (2000) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| VA01.01 | Nasr, Samir | Nachttanke (2000) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| GM23 | Natan, Nomi Ben & Leora Kamenetzy | / Born in Berlin (1991) | ||
| Language: English, German, Hebrew | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| NE01.01 | Nekes, Werner | / Film before Film | ||
| Language: | Format: / | |||
| OP08a.01 | Ophuels, Marcel | Novembertage / November Days (2001) | ||
| Language: French | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| OP08.01 | Ophuels, Max | Reigen, Der / Roundabout (1950) | ||
| Language: French | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| Comments: poor quality, based on Schnitzler's story | ||||
| DVD/OS01.01 | Oswald, Richard | Anders als die Andern / Different from the Others (1919) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| PA02.01 | Pabst, Georg Wilhelm | Büchse Der Pandora, Die / Pandora’s Box (1927) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| PA02.01 copyII | Pabst, Georg Wilhelm | Büchse Der Pandora, Die / Pandora’s Box (1927) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| PA02.02 | Pabst, Georg Wilhelm | Tagebuch Einer Verlorenen, Das / Diary Of A Lost Girl, The (1928) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: restored | ||||
| PA02.02 copyII | Pabst, Georg Wilhelm | Tagebuch Einer Verlorenen, Das / Diary Of A Lost Girl, The (1928) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| PA02.03 | Pabst, Georg Wilhelm | Dreigroschenoper, Die / Threepennyopera, The (1931) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| PA02.04 | Pabst, Georg Wilhelm | Freudlose Gasse, Die / Joyless Street, The (1926) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| PA02.04 copyII | Pabst, Georg Wilhelm | Freudlose Gasse, Die / Joyless Street, The (1926) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| PA02.05 | Pabst, Georg Wilhelm | Kameradschaft (1931) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: restored | ||||
| PA02.06 | Pabst, Georg Wilhelm | Liebe Der Jeanne Ney, Die / Love of Jeanne Ney (1927) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| PA02.07 | Pabst, Georg Wilhelm | Weiße Hölle Vom Piz Palü, Die (1929) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| PA02.08 | Pabst, Georg Wilhelm | Paracelsus (1943) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| PE18.01 | Peled, Micha | Will my Mother Go Back to Berlin (1993) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/KA01.01 | Peter Kahane | / The Architects (1990) | ||
| Language: English | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: language options: English, German, French, Spanish | ||||
| Description: Shot in 1990, this portrayal of life in East Berlin offers a snapshot of what life was like just before the wall came down and communism gave way to a more democratic way of life. The film follows the fortunes of architect Daniel Brenner (Kurt Naumann) as he attempts to design a thoroughly modern new part of the city, with the results coming at an enormous personal price for the young designer. The government doesn't like his scheme, his wife leaves him due to the length of time he is spending on the project, and his ideas are constantly being compromised by the artless bureaucrats in charge of executing the plans. Daniel's decaying life mirrors what is occurring to the city he loves, making this a powerful portrait of life under a communist regime. | ||||
| PE20.01 | Petersen, Wolfgang | Boot, Das / Boat, The (1981) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| PE20.02 | Petersen, Wolfgang | Boot. Director’S Cut, Das / Boat, The (1981) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| PE20.03 | Petersen, Wolfgang | The Neverending Story / Neverending Story, The (1983) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| PE19.01 | Peterson, Sebastian | Helden wie wir / Heroes like us (1999) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| PE19.01a | Peterson, Sebastian | Helden wie wir / Heroes like us (2000) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Copy | ||||
| DVD/PE21.01 | Petzold, Christian | Yella / Yella (2007) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: 05/09 missing | ||||
| Description: 'Christian Petzold (I)' 's drama deals with a woman, who leaves her hometown for a promising job and a new life, but is haunted by the truths of the past. As her marriage to Ben broke and her professional career has no future in her native town in the Eastern part of Germany, Yella has decided to search for a job in the West. When she gets to know Philipp, a smart executive at a private equity company in Hanover, she becomes his assistant and gets involved into the world of ruthless and big business. Realizing her dreams could come true with Philipp's help, she starts hearing voices and sounds from her past, which menace her new and better life | ||||
| PL05.01 | Plenzdorf, Ulrich | Andere Leben Des Herrn Krein, Das (1994) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| PL05.01 | Plenzdorf, Ulrich | Trinker, Der (1995) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| PL05.01 | Plenzdorf, Ulrich | Vater Mutter Moerderkind (1993) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| PR01.01 | Praunheim, Rosa Von | Anita / Anita. Dances of Vice (1987) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| PR01.02 | Praunheim, Rosa Von | Virus kennt keine Moral, Ein / Virus Knows No Morals, A (1986) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| PR01.03 | Praunheim, Rosa Von | Ich bin meine eigene Frau / I am my own woman (1993) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| PR01.04 | Praunheim, Rosa Von | Neurosia - 50 Jahre pervers / Neurosia (1995) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| RE01.01 | Reich, Guenter | Anton der Zauberer / Anton the Magician (1978) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/RE01.01 | Reinhardt, Max | Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1935) | ||
| Language: English (with English, French, Portugese subtitles) | Format: DVD/ | |||
| Comments: Zone 1 | ||||
| DVD/RE02.01 | Reinhart, Gottfried | / Town Without Pity (1961) | ||
| Language: English, French (with English, French, Spanish subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Black & White | ||||
| Description: Three-time OscarÂ(r) nominee* Kirk Douglas is downright brilliant (The New Yorker)in this honest and gripping drama about a sleepy, occupied German town suddenly shocked awake by the brutal actions of four American soldiers. As timely today as it was shocking upon its release, Town Without Pity is an excellent productionone of the decade's finest jobs of filmmaking (Limelight) and will keep you on the edge of your seat! Attorney Steve Garrett (Douglas) is brought in to defend four enlisted men accused of attacking a 16-year-old girl. But if he's going to prevent their death sentences, he will have to turn the spotlight on the victim, Karin. Already immeasurably traumatized, Karin suddenly finds herself on the witness stand, attempting to justify her actions to Garrett, her stern father and a Town Without Pity. *Actor: Champion (1949),The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Lust for Life (1956) | ||||
| RE09.01.1-9 | Reitz, Edgar | Heimat / Heimat (1984) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: TV series (1 - 9) | ||||
| RE09.02.1-13 | Reitz, Edgar | 2nd. Heimat / 2nd. Heimat (1992) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/RE02.01 | Renoir, Jean | This Land is Mine / Esta Tierra es Mia (1943) | ||
| Language: English, Spanish (with Spanish subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: 05/09 missing, Zone 2, Black & white | ||||
| Description: Albert Lory is a teacher at a school in German-occupied France. He is a coward, but he is drawn into the actions of the resistance. Arrested by the Germans because of a murder, the German officers promise him freedom, if he is willing to collaborate with them against France. | ||||
| RI05.01 | Riefenstahl, Leni | Blaue Licht, Das / Blue Light, The (1932) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| RI05.02 | Riefenstahl, Leni | Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker / Olympia: Festival of the People (1938) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: part I of Olympia | ||||
| RI05.03 | Riefenstahl, Leni | Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit / Olympia: Festival of Beauty (1938) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: part II of Olympia | ||||
| RI05.04 | Riefenstahl, Leni | Triumph des Willens / Triumph of the Will (1936) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| RI16.01 | Ripploh, Frank | Taxi zum Klo (1992) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/WI05.02 | Robert Wiene | Das Kabinett des Dr. caligari / Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1920) | ||
| Language: English | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| RO08.01 | Rohmer, Eric | Marquise Von O., Die / Marquise Of O., The (1976) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| RO08.01a | Rohmer, Eric | Marquise Von O, Die / Marquise Of O., The (1976) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| RO13.01 | Romero, George A. | / Martin (1976) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| RO19.01 | Rossellini, Roberto | Deutschland im Jahre Null / Germany Year Zero (1947) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| RU20.01 | Ruttmann, Walter | Berlin, Symphonie einer Großstadt (1927) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| RU20.02 | Ruttmann, Walter | Berlin, Symphony einer Großstadt (1927) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| RU01.01 | Ruzowitzky, Stefan | Anatomie / Anatomy (2000) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: missing | ||||
| DVD/BE03.01 | S.N. Behrman and George Froeschel | Jokobowsky und der oberst / Ma and the Colonel (1958) | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| SA07.01 | Sagan, Leontine | Mädchen in Uniform (1931) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| SA14.01 | Sanders-Brahms, Helma | Deutschland bleiche Mutter / Germany Pale Mother (1980) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/SA01.01 | Saul, Anno | Kebab Connection (2005) | ||
| Language: German (with German/Turkish subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Description: In Hamburg, Ibrahim "Ibo" Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now, he makes commercials for his uncle's kebab restaurant. Titzie, an aspiring actress and Ibo's German girlfriend, finds she's pregnant. Ibo is uncertain about fatherhood - compounded by his father's disowning him for getting a German girl pregnant - so Titzie sends him packing. He makes attempts at getting it right, but as the birth approaches, he's still not ready. In the background are three thugs in search of good tripe soup and a Capulet-Montegue feud between the kebab joint and a Greek taverna across the street. Can Ibo be the glove upon that hand? | ||||
| DVD/SC04.01 | Schadt, Thomas | Berlin: Sinfonie Einer Großstadt / Berlin: Symphony of a Great State (2002) | ||
| Language: no speaking, only music | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Black & White, Berlin symphony plays the score | ||||
| SC08.01 | Schirk, Heinz | Wannsee Konferenz, Die (1986) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/SC03.01 | Schlesinger, John | Rosenkavalier, Der (1985) | ||
| Language: German (with English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| DVD/SC02.01 | Schlöndorff, Volker | Fälschung, Die / Circle of Deceit (1981) | ||
| Language: English, French, German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zone 1 | ||||
| Description: Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he meets some important people and discovers the everyday face of the war. He also has to figure out about his home life, where his marriage is in a big crisis. | ||||
| DVD/SC02.02 | Schlöndorff, Volker | Junge Törless, Der / Young Törless (1966) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zone 1 | ||||
| Description: At a boarding school in the pre-war Austro-Hungarian Empire, a pair of students torture one of their fellow classmates, Basini, who has been caught stealing money from one of the two. The two decide that rather than turn Basini in to the school authorities, they will punish him themselves and proceed to torture, degrade, and humiliate the boy, with ever-increasing sadistic delight. As each day passes, the two boys are able to justify harsher treatment than previously given. Torless is a passive member of the group but observes rather than participates and frustrates the tormentors by dryly analyzing their behavior. | ||||
| DVD/SC02.03 | Schlöndorff, Volker | Stille Nach Dem Schuß, Die / Legend Of Rita, The (2000) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zone 1 | ||||
| Description: West Germany; the early 1980s. A terrorist gang bursts into a bank. "Hi guys, we're the robbers," says Rita Vogt, "We're nationalizing the economy." As they flee, Rita stops to give money to a street-person. These are not your average bank robbers. After a series of complications, these anti-capitalist revolutionaries are forced to disband, but Rita decides to take refuge in East Germany under a false identity, and this former socialist activist begins to encounter some of the drab and discontented reality of a Communist state. Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum) directs this striking political thriller set in the later years of the Cold War. | ||||
| DVD/SC02.04 | Schlöndorff, Volker | Unhold , Der / Ogre, The (1993) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: based on Michel Tournier's novel | ||||
| Description: Frenchman Abel Tiffauges likes children, and wants to protect them against the grown-ups. Falsely suspected as child molester, he's recruited as a soldier in the 2nd World War, but very soon he is taken prisoner of war. After shortly serving in Goerings hunting lodge, he becomes the dogsbody in Kaltenborn Castle, an elite training camp for German boys. Completely happy to take care of these children, he becomes a servant of Nazism, catching boys from the area as supplies for the camp. | ||||
| SC08.02 | Schlöndorff, Volker | Fangschuß, Der / Coup de Grace (1977) | ||
| Language: German (with French subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| SC08.03 | Schlöndorff, Volker | Verlorene Ehre Der Katharina Blum, Die / Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum, The (1973) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| SC08.04 | Schlöndorff, Volker | Homo Faber / Voyager (1991) | ||
| Language: German, English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: based on Max Frisch's novel | ||||
| SC08a.01 | Schlöndorff, Volker | Blechtrommel, Die / Tin Drum, The (1978) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/SC01.01 | Schmid, Hans-Christian | Crazy / Crazy (2000) | ||
| Language: German (with German subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: German version; no English subtitles, two discs | ||||
| Description: Benjamin is a 16 year old half-side spastic with lousy grades in math, who switches to a boarding school to reach grammar school. Acclimatization to the new environment is difficult in the first place and he has to struggle with the various problems of coming of age, when he falls in love to the school's dream girl Malen | ||||
| SCH01.01 | Schmidt, Evelyn | Fahrrad, Das / Bicycle, The (1982) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| SCH02.01 | Schnitzer, Gregor | Was tun wenn’s brennt / What to Do in Case of Fire (2001) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| SC08b.01 | Schoenemann, Sibylle | Verriegelte Zeit (1990) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/PAL [DEFA] | |||
| SC08b.01 copyII | Schoenemann, Sibylle | Verriegelte Zeit (1990) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| SC08c.01 | Schroeter, Werner | Malina (1991) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| SC08d.01 | Schuette, Jan | Drachenfutter / Dragon Chow (1989) | ||
| Language: German, Mandarin (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| SC08e.01 | Schulze-Rohr, Peter | Ermittlung, Die (1966) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: German, based on Peter Weiss’s text | ||||
| SE08.01 | Sehr, Peter | Serbische Maedchen, Das (1999) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/SE01.01 | Selpin, Herbert/Werner Klingler | Titanic / Titanic (1943) | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: black & white | ||||
| Description: The story of the sinking of the British luxury liner Titanic in 1912. | ||||
| SI03.01 | Sidney, George | Red Danube (1949) | ||
| Language: English | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| Comments: Copy, black & white, 119 minutes | ||||
| Description: The story of a Russian ballerina in Vienna in 1945 who is befriended by, and falls in love with, a British Major when they meet in the convent in which she is hiding from the Russian authorities. The British Colonel turns her over to the Russians when they present a trumped-up story but discovers the lie when he sees her on a DP (Displaced Persons) train later. The Mother Superior of the convent and the Colonel set about trying to get her freed. | ||||
| DVD/SI01.01 | Siegert, Hubertus | Berlin Babylon / Berlin Babylon (2001) | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: 05/09 missing | ||||
| Description: Mannered, unassuming, and ultimately moving, writer-director Eric Mendelsohn's feature debut imbues a comic, bittersweet American character study with an almost European sense of weight and gravity. For Mendelsohn, the lives of dissatisfied Long Islanders can be downright mystical in their mundaneness -- a theory echoed not only by the dreamlike cinematography of Jeffrey Seckendorf, but also by the characters themselves. Over the course of a lengthy eclipse (subtly rendered through clever lighting tricks), the film reveals the tenuous bonds between its various families, and our hero, David Gold (Aaron Harnick), sheds his initial, off-putting solipsism and embraces his suburban roots. | ||||
| SI02.01 | Sierk, Detlef | La Habanera (1937) | ||
| Language: German (with None subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| SI14.01 | Sinkel, Bernhard | Väter und Söhne / Sins of the Fathers (1985) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: German, part 1 & 2 | ||||
| DVD/ST01.01 | Staudte, Wolfgang | Mörder sind unter uns, Die / Murderers Are Among Us, The (1946) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zone 1 | ||||
| Description: A wrenching look at history and humanity. The first feature film produced in Germany after World War II, it is set in Berlin just after the surrender, and the city is still being battered by air raids. The characters move through the half-destroyed husks of old buildings, and even simple acts like serving a meal at a table take on new meaning as the people try to put their lives back together. Susanne Wallner is a concentration camp survivor, eager to taste life again after her living death. Dr. Hans Mertens is a former German officer, unable to live with the guilt of what he and his former comrades have done. The two must quite literally learn to live side by side as they come to terms with the past and start to look toward the future. | ||||
| ST01.01 | Staudte, Wolfgang | Moerder Sind Unter Uns, Die / Murderers Are Among Us (1946) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| ST01.02 | Staudte, Wolfgang | Untertan, Der / Subject, The (1951) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: based on Heinrich Mann's novel | ||||
| ST01.02 copyII | Staudte, Wolfgang | Untertan, Der / Subject, The (1951) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| ST01.02 copyIII | Staudte, Wolfgang | Untertan, Der / Subject, The (1951) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| ST01.02 copyIV | Staudte, Wolfgang | Untertan, Der / Subject, The (1951) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| ST01.03 | Staudte, Wolfgang | Untertan, Der / Subject, The (1951) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| Comments: based on Heinrich Mann's novel | ||||
| ST01.04 | Staudte, Wolfgang | Rotation / Rotation (1949) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| ST05.01 | Stein, Peter | Gross und Klein (1980) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: German, based on Botho Strauss’s, part 1 & 2 | ||||
| ST05a.01 | Steinhoff, Hans | Hitlerjunge Quex / Our Flags Lead Us Forward (1933) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| ST05a.02 | Steinhoff, Hans | Alte Und Der Junge König, Der / Making Of A King, The (1935) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/ST02.01 | Stekly, Karel | / Good Soldier Schweik, Part I, The (1956) | ||
| Language: Czech (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Original title: Osudy dobreho vojaka Swejka | ||||
| Description: Josef Schweik is a good-natured buffoon with a story for every occasion. After Emperor Franz Joseph is assassinated, and WWI begins, Schweik is arrested for making comments against the state. He ends up at a mental ward before being drafted into the army, where he is made an assistant to high-ranking staff. As Schweik is bounced from one officer to another, he wreaks havoc on the Czech army. | ||||
| DVD/ST02.02 | Stekly, Karel | / Good Soldier Schweik, Part II, The (1957) | ||
| Language: Czech (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Original title: Poslusne hlasim | ||||
| Description: This sequel to GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK picks up exactly where the original left off, following a lost Schweik as he meanders through the countryside looking for his unit. | ||||
| DVD/ST03.01 | Sternberg, Josef Von | Blaue Engel, Der / Blue Angel, The (1929) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: black & white, two discs | ||||
| ST05b.01 | Sternberg, Josef Von | Blaue Engel, Der / Blue Angel, The (1929) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| ST05b.01 copyII | Sternberg, Josef Von | Blaue Engel, Der / Blue Angel, The (1929) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| ST05c.01 | Sternberg, Josef Von | Blaue Engel, Der / Blue Angel, The (1929) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: UFA Klassiker ed. (digitally remastered) | ||||
| ST04.01 | Strauss, Richard | Rosenkavalier, Der | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| ST03.01 | Stummer, Alfons | Förster Vom Silberwald, Der (1954) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| SW01.01 | Swankmajer, Jan | Faust / Faust (1994) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| SY02.01 | Syberberg, Hans Juergen | Parsifal I, II, III / Parsifal I, II, III (1982) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| SZ01.01 | Szabo, Istvan | Hanussen (1989) | ||
| Language: German, Hungarian | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| SZ01.02 | Szabo, Istvan | Mephisto / Mephisto (1981) | ||
| Language: German, Hungarian | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: based on Klaus Mann's novel | ||||
| SZ01.03 | Szabo, Istvan | Oberst Redl / Colonel Redl (1984) | ||
| Language: Hungarian (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: poor copy, based on John Osbourne's play | ||||
| DVD/TA02.01 | Tautou, Audrey | / Dirty Pretty Things (2002) | ||
| Language: French, English | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zone 1 | ||||
| Description: Okwe, a kind-hearted Nigerian doctor, and Senay, a Turkish chambermaid, work at the same West London hotel. The hotel is run by Senor Sneaky and is the sort of place where dirty business like drug dealing and prostitution takes place. However, when Okwe finds a human heart in one of the toilets, he uncovers something far more sinister than just a common crime. | ||||
| DVD/TA01.01 | Taviani, Paolo And Vittorio | / Elective Affinities (1996) | ||
| Language: Italian (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Based on Goethe's novel | ||||
| Description: Early in the 19th century, Edward and Carlotta, in love 20 years ago, find each other and marry. After a year's bliss at his Tuscan villa, Edward begs to invite Otto, an architect and friend, to join them. She has forebodings of disaster, but relents. Otto arrives, and to balance the dynamics, Carlotta invites her teenage godchild Ottilia to join them. Ottilia stirs Edward, Otto and Carlotta are attracted to each other, and these longings produce in Edward and Carlotta a night of passion that results in pregnancy. Otto leaves for Venice, Edward leaves for war, and a baby looking like Otto and Ottilia is born. | ||||
| TH09.01 | Thiele, Rolf | Tonio Kroeger / Tonio Kroeger (1965) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| TH09a.01 | Thiele, Wilhelm | Drei Von Der Tankstelle, Die (1930) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/TI01.02 | Till, Eric | Luther / Luther (2003) | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: In luther martin luthers condemnation of the catholic church & incitement of the protestant reformation become the last desperate acts of a brilliant but deeply troubled man of conscience who has run out of options. | ||||
| DVD ST04.01 | Torsten Striegnitz | Die Akte Kleist / the document kleist (2011) | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/ | |||
| Description: Berlin, 21st of November 1811: The German poet Heinrich of Kleist is shot discovered jointly Henriette bird with its love at the small Wannsee. A spectacular case that likewise fascinates the posterity until today distracted and. What hides behind the mysterious death? What does one know over the woman, who died with it? And: Who was Heinrich of Kleist? Against the background of the occurrence at the small Wannsee, the documentation produces life and death Kleists as an exciting Kriminalfall. Feature film sequence, expert interviews and animations reconstruct the personality Heinrich of Kleists and awake it to new life. | ||||
| TO01.01 | Tourneur, Jacques | Berlin Express (1948) | ||
| Language: English | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| Comments: Copy, 87 minutes, black & white | ||||
| Description: In divided Germany just after WWII, people from many different countries are passengers on a train. When one of the passengers, a German working for peace, is kidnapped by people who don't want his ideas to work, the others must set aside their differences and work together to find him in time for an important conference | ||||
| DVD/TO01.01 | Tourneur, Jacques | / Berlin Express (1949) | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Zone 2 | ||||
| Description: In divided Germany just after WWII, people from many different countries are passengers on a train. When one of the passengers, a German working for peace, is kidnapped by people who don't want his ideas to work, the others must set aside their differences and work together to find him in time for an important conference. | ||||
| TR05.01 | Treut, Monika | / Female Misbehavior (1992) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| TR05.02 | Treut, Monika | Verführung: Die grausame Frau / Seduction: The Cruel Woman (1985) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: together with ELFI MIKESCH | ||||
| TR05.03 | Treut, Monika | Jungfrauenmaschine, Die / Virgin Machine (1988) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/TR01.01 | Trotta Von, Margarethe | Rosenstrasse (2003) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zone 1 | ||||
| Description: When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena's story. | ||||
| TR15.01 | Trotta, Margarethe Von | Rosa Luxemburg / Rosa Luxemburg (1985) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| TR15.02 | Trotta, Margarethe Von | Zweite Erwachen Der Christa Klages, Das / Second Awakening Of Christa Klages, The (1977) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| TR15.03 | Trotta, Margarethe Von | Marianne & Juliane / Die Bleierne Zeit (1981) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| TR15.04 | Trotta, Margarethe Von | Versprechen, Das / Promise, The (1995) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| DVD/TY01.01 | Tykwer, Tom | Winterschläfer / Winter Sleepers (1997) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Region 1 | ||||
| Description: Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, after being in coma for a time, dies. Rene suffers from partial short term memory loss and starts a relationship with Laura. Meanwhile Marco is looking for the man who stole his car and Theo - for the man who killed his daughter... | ||||
| DVD/TY01.02 | Tykwer, Tom | Krieger Und Die Kaiserin, Der / Princess and the Warrior, The (2000) | ||
| Language: German (with English, French, Spanish, Portugese subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zone 1 | ||||
| Description: Sissi works in a psychiatric hospital but her safe predictable life almost ends when she is hit dead-on by a truck. From out of the blue a man miraculously saves her life. He them disappears into thin air and sissi sets out to find him. | ||||
| TY01.01 | Tykwer, Tom | Lola rennt / Run, Lola, Run (1998) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| UC09.01 | Ucicky, Gustav | Flötenkonzert Von Sanssouci, Das / Flute Concert Of Sans-Souci, The (1930) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| UC09.02 | Ucicky, Gustav | Flüchtlinge / Fugitives (1930) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| UC09.03 | Ucicky, Gustav | Zerbrochene Krug, Der / Broken Jug, The (1937) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: together with Emil Jannings | ||||
| VA12.01 | Ucicky, Gustav | Karl Valentin Program Part 1 & 2 | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| VA12.02 | Vajda, Ladislao | Es geschah am hellichten Tag / It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| Comments: based on Duerenmatt's novel | ||||
| DVD/VE01.01 | Verenfels, Stina | Meier Marilyn (2003) | ||
| Language: Swiss German | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: Marilyn is a hairdresser in Switzerland. She's overweight, underemployed, and is having an affair with the mayor of the town. Meanwhile Georg, her partner in the salon would like to marry her and she also strikes up a friendship with a gay musician named Halil. | ||||
| VE18.01 | Verhoeven, Michael | Schreckliche Maedchen, Das / Nasty Girl, The (1990) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: replaced 6401 | ||||
| VE18.03 | Verhoeven, Michael | Weisse Rose, Die / White Rose, The (1982) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| VE18.03a | Verhoeven, Michael | Weisse Rose, Die / White Rose, The (1982) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| VE18.02 | Verhoeven, Paul | Soldier of Orange / Soldier of Orange (1978) | ||
| Language: German, Dutch, English | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| VI16.01 | Vilsmaier, Joseph | Stalingrad / Stalingrad (1993) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| VI16.02 | Vilsmaier, Joseph | Comedian Harmonists / Harmonists, The (1997) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| VI19.01 | Visconti, Luchino | Tod in Venedig / Death in Venice (1971) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| VO01.01 | Vogel, Frank | Denk bloß nicht ich heule / Just Don’t Think I’ll Cry (1965) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| VO01.02 | Vogel, Frank | und Deine Liebe auch / And Your Love Too (1962) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| VO02.01 | Vohrer, Aldred | Frontier Hellcat (1966) | ||
| Language: English | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| Comments: Copy, black & white, 98 minutes | ||||
| Description: Old Surehand and Winnetou investigate the murders of a mother and daughter. The surviving husband believes that his wife and daughter were murdered by Indians, but Old Surehand suspects that it is the work of a gang of robbers and bandits known as The Vultures, who disguise themselves as Indians while committing their crimes. | ||||
| DVD/SCH04.01 | Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta | / The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. They spend the night together. In the morning, the police bursts in her flat, looking for Ludwig : he is a terrorist. But he was no longer here. Katharina is arrested, humiliated, suspected to be a terrorist herself, dragged in the mud by the newspapers... A plea for democracy and individual rights | ||||
| DVD/DO 06.02 | Von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel | Lives of Others, The / Lives of Others, The (Das Leben der Andersen) (2006) | ||
| Language: German (with English, French, Spanish subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zone 1 | ||||
| WA07.01 | Wagner, Richard | The Complete Epic Part 1 & 2 / Complete Epic Part 1 & 2, The | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WA07.02 | Wagner, Richard | Parsifal / Parsifal | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Part 1 & 2 | ||||
| WA07.03 | Wagner, Richard | Tannhaeuser / Tannhaeuser (1989) | ||
| Language: | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Metropolitan Opera, Part 1 & 2 | ||||
| DVD/WA07.04a-d | Wagner, Richard, composer | Ring des Nibelungen, Der (1990) | ||
| Language: German (with German, English, French, Spanish, Chinese subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: zone 0, 7 DVD box set | ||||
| Description: The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and ChorusBox set includes: Das Rheingold (1 disc) Götterdämmerung (2 discs) Siefreied (2 discs) Die Walküre (2 discs) | ||||
| WA10.01 | Wajda, Andrzei | Liebe In Deutschland, Eine (1984) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WA12.01 | Waletzky, Josh | / Image before my eyes (1985) | ||
| Language: English | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WA08.01 | Warneke, Lothar | Einer trage des andern Last (1988) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| WA09.01 | Warneke, Lothar | Beunruhigung, Die / Apprehension (1982) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WA23.01 | Wawrzyn, Lienhard | German Dreams / German Dreams (1985) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WE07.01 | Wegener, Paul | Golem, Der / Golem, The (1920) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WE07.02 | Wegener, Paul | Student Von Prag, Der / Student From Prague, The (1912) | ||
| Language: silent (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WE07.02 copyII | Wegener, Paul | Student Von Prag, Der / Student From Prague, The (1912) | ||
| Language: silent (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| DVD/WE02.01 | Weill, Kurt | / Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The (1998) | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Description: This 1998 Salzburg Festival production of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny does a difficult work proud, as Peter Zadek's staging makes the case for Kurt Weill's (and librettist-lyricist Bertolt Brecht's) epic dissection of consumerism and avarice as one of the most gripping 20th century operas. Soprano Catherine Malfitano, always a riveting singing actress, adds another memorable portrayal with her skillful portrait of Jenny, the whore with the heart of gold. Tenor Jerry Hadley embodies the role of our hero, Jimmy, admirably, and in a strong supporting cast, Gwyneth Jones and Roy Cornelius Smith are particularly outstanding. Conductor Dennis Russell Davies leads the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna to new musical heights, while the designers and technicians make this a visually accomplished Mahagonny. Warning: there's ample female nudity in the brothel scene (though entirely in keeping with Weill and Brecht's conception). | ||||
| DVD/WE01.01 | Weingartner, Hans | Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei, Die / Edukators, The (2004) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Zone 1 | ||||
| DVD/WE001.02 | Weingartner, Hans | / Edukators, The | ||
| Language: | Format: /NTSC | |||
| DVD/WE01.02 | Weingertner, Hans | Die Fetten Jahre sind Vorbei / Edukators, The (2005) | ||
| Language: German (with German subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Zone 2 | ||||
| Description: Jan (Daniel Brühl, Ladies in Lavender) and Peter are the best friends behind the radical and mysterious group The Edukators, united by their passion to change the world, in "The funniest, most original movie I’ve seen all year." (David Edwards, The Daily Mirror). When the rich go on vacation, The Edukators break into their homes. They don’t steal, but simply rearrange everything, leaving the message "Your days of plenty are numbered." When Peter’s girlfriend Jule (Julia Jentsch, winner, Best Young Actress, 2005 Bavarian Film Awards) moves in, she joins them in their subversive activities. But when a rich businessman catches them in the act, they rashly decide to kidnap him. Faced with the values of the generation in power, they will see what kind of revolutionaries they are, if their friendship can survive, and discover if they truly work in the interest of the greater good, or just in their own self-interest. | ||||
| WE09.01 | Weishaupt, J. | Wir hatten ein großes 'A' am Bein / We were marked with a big A (1991) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: together with E. JEANROND | ||||
| WE09a.01 | Weiss, Helmut | Feuerzangenbowle, Die / Fire Tongue Bowl, The (1944) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| WE12.01 | Welles, Orson | Prozess, Der / Trial, The (1962) | ||
| Language: English | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: based on Kafka’s Der Prozess | ||||
| DVD/WE03.01 | Welles, Orson | Orson Welles Collection, The: TheStranger,TheTrial,KingLear,David/Goliath,HerbShrinerShow (varied) | ||
| Language: English | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Black & white | ||||
| Description: The Stranger (1946), The Trial (1962), King Lear (1953), David and Goliath (1960), Herb Shriner Show (1956) | ||||
| DVD/WE04.01 | Wenders, Wim | Amerikanische Freund, Der / American Friend, The (1977) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Region 1 | ||||
| Description: Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. But another criminal business associate wants Tom to go in for an even riskier enterprise: murder. Tom suggests his associate ask a local picture framer instead. That man has a fatal disease, or so it's rumored. More, he has a wife and kid that surely he wouldn't want to leave penniless. Let this picture framer be a hit man, and no one will suspect. The terminally ill craftsman may agree to the misdeed, and several more, but he'll end up needing Tom Ripley in a pinch. | ||||
| WE14.01 | Wenders, Wim | Amerikanische Freund, Der / American Friend, The (1977) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WE14.01 copyII | Wenders, Wim | Amerikanische Freund, Der / American Friend, The (1977) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| WE14.02 | Wenders, Wim | Angst Des Tormanns Beim Elfmeter, Die / Goalie’S Anxiety At The Penalty Kick, The (1971) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WE14.03 | Wenders, Wim | Bis ans Ende der Welt / Until the end of the World (1991) | ||
| Language: English, German, French (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WE14.04 | Wenders, Wim | Wrong Move / Falsche Bewegung (1974) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WE14.04 copyII | Wenders, Wim | Wrong Move / Falsche Bewegung (1974) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| WE14.05 | Wenders, Wim | Hammett (1982) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WE14.06 | Wenders, Wim | Im Lauf der Zeit / Kings of the Road (1976) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| WE14.06 copyII | Wenders, Wim | Im Lauf der Zeit / Kings of the Road (1976) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Part 1 & 2, copy | ||||
| WE14.06 copyIII | Wenders, Wim | Im Lauf der Zeit / Kings of the Road (1976) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Part 1 & 2, copy | ||||
| WE14.07 | Wenders, Wim | / Lightning Over Water (1980) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WE14.08 | Wenders, Wim | / Paris, Texas (1984) | ||
| Language: English (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WE14.09 | Wenders, Wim | Stand Der Dinge, Der / State Of Things, The (1982) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WE14.10 | Wenders, Wim | / Tokyo-Ga (1984) | ||
| Language: German, Japanese (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WE14.11 | Wenders, Wim | Himmel Ueber Berlin, Der / Wings of Desire (1988) | ||
| Language: German (with English subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WE18.01 | Werckmeister, Hans | Algol (1920) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WI03.01 | Wicki, Bernhard | Bruecke, Die / Bridge, The (1960) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| WI05.01 | Wiene, Robert | Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The / Kabinett des Dr. Caligari, Das (1919) | ||
| Language: silent | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WI06.01 | Wilder, Billy | / Foreign Affair, A (1948) | ||
| Language: English | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WI01.01 | Wildhagen, Georg | Figaros Hochzeit / Marriage of Figaro (1949) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WI06.01 | Wildhagen, Georg | Lustigen Weiber Von Windsor, Die / Merry Wives Of Windsor, The (1950) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| Comments: Based on Shakespeare's play | ||||
| WO01.01 | Wolf, Konrad | Solo Sunny / Solo Sunny (1980) | ||
| Language: German (with English? subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| WO01.02 | Wolf, Konrad | Ich war 19 / I was Nineteen (1968) | ||
| Language: German (with English? subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WO01.03 | Wolf, Konrad | Sonnensucher / Sun Seekers (1972) | ||
| Language: German (with English? subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| WO01.03a | Wolf, Konrad | Sonnensucher / Sun Seekers (1972) | ||
| Language: German (with English? subtitles) | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| DVD BO03.01 | Wolfgang Borchert | Draußen vor der Tür (2008) | ||
| Language: German | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Description: The Man Outside describes the hopelessness of a post-war soldier called Beckmann who returns from Russia to find that he has lost his wife and his home, as well as his illusions and beliefs. He finds every door he comes to closed. Even the Elbe River rejects his suicide, washing him up on shore. The play ends with what can be assumed to be Beckmann's death. | ||||
| WO02.01 | Wortman, Sönke | Bewegte Mann, Der / Maybe, Maybe Not (1994) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| WO02.02 | Wortman, Sönke | Kleine Haie / Little Sharks (1992) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| SO01.01 | Wortmann, Söhnke | Kleine Haie / Little Sharks (1992) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: copy | ||||
| DVD/WO02.03 | Wortmann, Sönke | Wunder von Bern, Das / Wonder of Bern, The (1954) | ||
| Language: German, English (with English, French, Spanish subtitles) | Format: DVD/NTSC | |||
| Comments: Zone 2 | ||||
| Description: German filmmaker and former professional footballer (read: soccer player) Sönke Wortmann directs the family sports drama Das Wunder von Bern (The Miracle of Bern). The title is in reference to the unexpected German victory over the Hungarians at the 1954 World Cup in Bern, Switzerland. In the working-class Ruhr region of West Germany, the Lubanski family eagerly awaits husband and father Richard (Peter Lohmeyer) to be released from the Soviet POW camp. During his absence, mother Christa (Johanna Gastdorf) and daughter Ingrid (Birthe Wolter) have started up their own business, while son Matthias (Louis Klamroth) has developed an interest in soccer. He idolizes local player Helmut Rahn, but his father doesn't approve of it. Meanwhile, sports journalist Paul Ackermann (Lucas Gregorowicz) heads to Switzerland to cover the World Cup events. The finale at the climactic soccer game was re-created with professional players from the German Football Liga along with a 3-D stadium and CGI crowd. | ||||
| DVD/WO02.04 | Wortmann, Sönke | Deutschland, Ein Sommermärchen (2007) | ||
| Language: German (with German subtitles) | Format: DVD/PAL | |||
| Comments: Zone 2, two discs | ||||
| Description: A documentary on the German national team's World Cup 2006 journey, all the way from boot camp in Sardinia to the 3rd-place play-off. | ||||
| YA01.01 | Yavuz Yüksel | Aprilkinder (1998) | ||
| Language: German, Turkish, Kurdish (with English? subtitles) | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| ZI01.01 | Zinnemann, Fred | Search, The (1948) | ||
| Language: English | Format: Video/PAL | |||
| Comments: Copy, 105 minutes, black & white | ||||
| Description: Oscar winner. In the Post-War Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy to find his mother | ||||
| ZS02.01 | Zscoche, Hermann | Glueck im Hinterhaus (1980) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC | |||
| Comments: (missing) | ||||
| ZS01.01 | Zscoche, Herrmann | Karla / Carla (1965) | ||
| Language: German | Format: Video/NTSC [DEFA] | |||