West Germany movies

Die Zürcher Verlobung

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Comedy
Countries: West Germany
Actors: Pulver, Liselotte | Hubschmid, Paul | Wicki, Bernhard | Lukschy, Wolfgang | Kaiser, Roland | Platte, Rudolf | Finck, Werner | Linder, Erwin | Carlsen, Traute | Peltzer, Gisela | Franck, Peter | Schaufuss, Hans Hermann | Sebaldt, Maria | Hediger, Marianne
Directors: Käutner, Helmut
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Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner’s closest friend and from then on things become very complicated…

Himmel ohne Sterne

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: West Germany
Actors: Buchholz, Horst | Schumann, Erik | Kotthaus, Eva | Thomalla, Georg | Knuth, Gustav | Spira, Camilla | Ponto, Erich | Höflich, Lucie | Stang, Rainer | Lowitz, Siegfried | Wernicke, Otto | Neuss, Wolfgang | Bildt, Paul | Schwaiger, Beppo | Offenbach, Joseph
Directors: Käutner, Helmut
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Les innocents aux mains sales

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Italy | West Germany
Actors: Schneider, Romy | Steiger, Rod | Maistre, François | Giusti, Paolo | Perrot, François | Blech, Hans Christian | Santini, Pierre | Rochefort, Jean | Attal, Henri | Bento, Serge | Cherlian, Jean | Doeres, Jurgens | Servien, Gilbert | Zardi, Dominique
Directors: Chabrol, Claude
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A woman, with the complicity of her lover, prepares her husband’s anticipated death. The husband’s cunning makes it difficult – and meanwhile more than family relations are questioned, the couple being a sample of dirty relations in society at large…

From the Life of the Marionettes

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: Sweden | West Germany
Actors: Atzorn, Robert | Bennent, Heinz | Benrath, Martin | Berger, Toni | Buchegger, Christine | Dohm, Gaby | Faber, Erwin | Müthel, Lola | Olafs, Ruth | Pelser, Karl-Heinz | Russek, Rita | Schmidinger, Walter | Hallhuber, Heino
Directors: Bergman, Ingmar
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Made during Bergman’s tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter EGermann, the feuding, childless, professional couple who appear in one episode of “Scenes From A Marriage.” After Peter perpetrates a horrendous crime in its first scene, the rest of the film consists of a non-linear examination of his motivations, incorporating a police psychological investigation, scenes from the Egermanns’ married life, and dream sequences.

Dearest Love

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | Italy | West Germany
Actors: Massari, Lea | Ferreux, Benoît | Gélin, Daniel | Lonsdale, Michael | Ninchi, Ave | von Weitershausen, Gila | Ferreux, Fabien | Winocourt, Marc | Bona, Micheline | Poirier, Henri | Sorval, Liliane | Kersten, Corinne | Walter, Eric | Werner, François | Bouloc, René
Directors: Malle, Louis
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This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France. This is France in the mid-1950s rather than America in the 1990s. Thus, Laurent is unharmed by events which would irreparably shatter the self-esteem of a modern American adolescent: he gets drunk, he smokes, he has sex, he is smothered by his mother, he is ignored by his father, a priest makes a pass at him, he gets rheumatoid fever, etc. There’s enough scandalous behavior in this film to make 100 made-for-TV movies, and yet this is a very happy and oddly innocent tale.

Angry Harvest

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: West Germany
Actors: Mueller-Stahl, Armin | Trissenaar, Elisabeth | Pszoniak, Wojciech | Baltus, Gerd | Höfer, Anita | Beerhenke, Hans | Jaenicke, Käte | Haller, Isa | Carstensen, Margit | Raab, Kurt | Abramowsky, Klaus | Donner, Wolf | Wendland, Andreas | Gebel, Malgoscha
Directors: Holland, Agnieszka
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In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who’s now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon’s a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn’t tell Rosa he’s seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he’ll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon’s peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war’s end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: West Germany
Actors: Winkler, Angela | Adorf, Mario | Laser, Dieter | Prochnow, Jürgen | Bennent, Heinz | Hoger, Hannelore | Becker, Rolf | Kuhlmann, Harald | Fux, Herbert | Lutz, Regine | Eichhorn, Werner | Vosgerau, Karl Heinz | Hillebrecht, Angelika | Häberle, Horatius | van Lyck, Henry
Directors: Schlöndorff, Volker
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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.

Monsieur Gangster

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: France | Italy | West Germany
Actors: Ventura, Lino | Blier, Bernard | Blanche, Francis | Rich, Claude | Bertin, Pierre | Dalban, Robert | Lefebvre, Jean | Frank, Horst | Régnier, Charles | Ronay, Mac | Venantini, Venantino | Sinjen, Sabine | Dumesnil, Jacques | Arcanel, Yves | Castelli, Philippe
Directors: Lautner, Georges
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Ex-gangster Fernand (Lino Ventura) receives a call from a dying friend, a mob boss nicknamed “The Mexican”. The doomed mobster talks Fernand into taking care of some criminal business and looking after his soon-to-be-married daughter. When a longtime mobster heavy, Volfoni takes exception to Fernand for being an outsider, they come after Fernand who is equal to the task. He defends himself in a series of comical killings from the onslaught of the mob.

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Italy | West Germany
Actors: Musante, Tony | Kendall, Suzy | Salerno, Enrico Maria | Renzi, Eva | Raho, Umberto | Romano, Renato | Castellano, Giuseppe | Adorf, Mario | Patti, Pino | Di Marco, Gildo | Torosh, Rosita | Bonaro, Omar | Mingozzi, Fulvio | Peters, Werner | Valenti, Karen
Directors: Argento, Dario
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In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas (Tony Musant) witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia (Suzy Kendall) and help the police in the investigation, while the serial killer stalks Julia and him.

Wings of Desire

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: France | West Germany
Actors: Bruno Ganz | Solveig Dommartin | Otto Sander | Bois, Curt | Falk, Peter | Stier, Hans Martin | Nick Cave
Directors: Wim Wenders
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This Wim Wenders film centers around the story of two angels wandering in a mixture of post-war and modern Berlin. Invisible to humans, they nevertheless give their help and comfort to all the lonely and depressed souls they meet. Finally, after many centuries, one of the angels becomes unhappy with his immortal state and wishes to become human in order to experience the joys of everyday life. He meets a circus acrobat and finds in her the fufillment of all his mortal desires. He also discovers that he is not alone in making this cross over, and that a purely spiritual experience is not enough to satisfy anyone.