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Lektionen in Finsternis
(Lessons of Darkness)
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GD0014 |
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This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames. In contrast to the common documentary film there are no comments and few interviews. What must have been the hell itself is presented to the viewer in such beautiful sights and beautiful music that one has to be fascinated by it. The German title translates 'lessons in darkness'. |
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Mein Liebster Feind
(My Best Fiend)
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GD0019 |
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In the 1950s, when Werner Herzog was 13, he was sharing an apartment with Klaus Kinski, an ego-maniacal live-wire. In an unabated, 48 hour fit of rage, Kinski destroyed every piece of furniture in sight. From this chaos, a beautiful albeit volatile partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in Aguirre, The Wrath of God. Four more films would follow. In this personal documentary, Herzog traces the often violent up and downs of their relationship, revisiting Munich apartment where they first met - and thrashed, and the various locations of their films. |
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Seekrieg
(German Naval)
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GD0012 |
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A documentary on the German Navy between 1914 and 1918 |
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Shoah
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GD0016 |
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Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film secretly since though only agreed to be interviewed by audio). His style of interviewing by asking for the most minute details is effective at adding up these details to give a horrifying portrait of the events of Nazi genocide. He also shows, or rather lets some of his subjects themselves show, that the anti-Semitism that caused 6 million Jews to die in the Holocaust is still alive in well in many people that still live in Germany, Poland, and elsewhere. |
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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GD0004 |
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No event in recent years has so moved the world as the fall of the Berlin Wall, that stark symbol of Communist oppression. As thousands of East Germans fled westward through the crumbling borders in the south, the pressure on the East German government to free its impatient populace became unstoppable. |
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The Germans: Portrait of a Nation
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GD0010 |
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Five years after unification, Germany is emerging as Europe's most powerful country. Its size, geography, economic strength, and military potential assure Germany a central roll in shaping the post Cold War world. Despite its strengths though, Germany also faces a number of challenges. To understand better the profound changes taking place in Germany today, this program profiles individuals and families from both former East and West Germany and features interviews with leading public officials and experts, including an exclusive interview with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. |
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Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
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GD0005 |
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The Magic Mountain offers a bird's-eye view of the political, philosophical, and social landscapes of pre-World War I Europe. This vintage program uses provocative dramatizations of key scenes from Thomas Mann's grotesque bildungsroman and employs the character of Mann himself, in a re-creation of a 1939 lecture, as a guide to the story's heights and depths. In addition, Mann's biographer, Nigel Hamilton, inquires into the store's manipulation of time and the effects of the environment on identity. |
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