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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 120 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Deutsch
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This historical satire, based on Heinrich Mann's world-famous novel, Der Untertan, is ranked by film critics among the 100 Most Significant German Films of all time. In Mann's biting critique of conservative Wilhelmine Germany, written during WWI, Diederich Hessling learns an important lesson for an ambitious man: one must first serve power to gain power for oneself. From then on, his modus operandi is to bow to superiors and kick underlings.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 100 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Deutsch
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The engineer Linda falls in love with not with one, but two of the men on her construction team, in a film that raises questions about the importance of work, love and happiness in socialist East Germany of the 1970s. When Iris Gusner, one of very few East German female directors, previewed the rough-cut of her debut film, she was accused of presenting an "unrealistic picture of life," and officials banned the film. It did not become widely available...
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In dem Fantasy Drama Viva Rex oder die Suche nach sich selbst geht es um den Geliebten einen Ritter, der nichts lieber möchte, als König seines Volkes zu werden. Hierfür muss er sich aber dem Volk gegenüber als würdig erweisen und auch sein Freund der ausländische Prinz Siddhartha hat es auf die Krone abgesehen. Zudem greift ein Dämon, der das Volk und insbesondere den Geliebten hasst, immer wieder ein, um die Geschicke zu seinen Gunsten zu...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 115 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Deutsch
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A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control. Banned at Soviet insistence, it impresses even today with its political complexity, variety of characters and realistic portrayal of daily work in a forbidden zone of the industrial landscape. Sun seekers was banned in 1958 at the urging of the USSR, in part because it is about Soviet-German relations and the mining of uranium to support...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 130 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Deutsch
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In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup gave to the young refugee, Boel, over 30 years ago. This subject matter was considered so controversial by GDR authorities thatJadup and Boel℗ was banned and not released until 1988. Painful memories of the period after the war and of Boel and her disappearance begin to surface. Jadup, now the town's respected and popular...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 120 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Deutsch
Description
Disenchanted and bitterly resentful, the historian Dr. Dallow has been released after 21 months in prison for playing piano in a subversive student cabaret. He refuses the Stasi's offer to help him get his university position back in exchange for becoming an informant. He lives in increasing isolation and despair as he tries to deal with the hypocritical social system and the injustice done to him. Things change after Soviet tanks roll into Prague...
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Deutsch
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Maximilian saves Polheim's life and rids himself of the conspirators. In order to dispel rumors that their first-born son is actually a girl, Maximilian and Marie have their son baptized in public. However, as the ducal family leaves the cathedral, Maximilian is stabbed. He escapes death by the skin of his teeth only to confront the young French Prince Charles in the Battle of Guinegate.
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (46 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Deutsch
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Maximilian's marriage to Marie turns out to be a happy one. However, the risk of war with France is imminent. Maximilian arms his men and thwarts a conspiracy of the Ghent citizens. However, everything is put to risk when Joan's husband finds out that she has an affair with Maximilian's confident Polheim. According to Burgundy's law, Polheim faces death penalty.
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Deutsch
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Put under pressure by the French King Louis, the citizens of Ghent storm Marie's palace and make her sign a contract in which she agrees to marry Louis' son Charles. She sends Joan, her lady-in-waiting, to Maximilian, who is instantly smitten with Marie's portrait. Joan returns to Ghent with Maximilian's letter announcing his visit. Louis threatens war against Burgundy should Marie breach the contract.
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (44 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Deutsch
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After her father's death, Marie of Burgundy is the richest heiress in Europe. The sharp-minded woman resists the citizens of Ghent, who try to force her into a marriage with nine-year old Charles, the French King Louis' son. Meanwhile, the young Austrian archduke, stubbornly opposes his father Frederick who also wants him to marry the young Duchess.
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (282 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Deutsch
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A beautifully mounted miniseries of royal love and deception set during the Hapsburg Empire, is a feast for the senses. It is a love beset by jealousies and enemies, but also one under which the Burgundian Middle Ages transforms itself into the splendor of the Hapsburg empire at the beginning of modernity. Two lovers pave the way for the Renaissance, an era that is to change the world.
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (48 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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French King Louis won't allow Marie to bury her father's body in Burgundy. Instead he forces her counsellors to accept him as their lawful ruler. When Marie refuses to marry Charles, French troops invade Burgundy, ravaging its provinces. On his journey to Ghent Maximilian has caught the plague. Confined to his sickbed, he is unable to rush to her side and help her fight her numerous enemies.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (46 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Deutsch
Description
When the citizens of Ghent have Marie's closest advisors beheaded, she sends Joan, her lady-in-waiting, to Maximilian. He has recovered from the plague, but he is unable to settle accounts with the citizens of Cologne for his stay within their city walls. Therefore, Maximilian and Marie are married by his proxy with his confident Polheim acting as his substitute. Then the couple finally meets...
14) Special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world =: Kuhle wampe oder Wem gehört die Welt?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 69 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Deutsch
Description
This playlist includes the following special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world, How the Berlin worker lives (dir. Slatan Dudow, 1930) Slatan Dudow: a film about a marxist artist (dir. Volker Koepp, 1974) original prologue, with Herbert Jhering, 1958.
15) Stars =: Sterne
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 120 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Deutsch
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Stationed in a secluded Bulgarian village in 1943, Walter, an artist and sergeant in the Wehrmacht, lives an almost idyllic life far away from the war. Then one day a transit camp is set up for Jews arriving from Greece. Ruth, one of the Greek Jews, asks Walter to help a pregnant woman in the camp. At first he refuses, but then changes his mind and sends a doctor into the camp ... Stars, based on scriptwriter Angel Wagenstein's personal experiences...
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Weissensee Saga volume 1
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Deutsch
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Martin struggles to assimilate Anna into his family.
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Lou Andreas-Salomé, the woman who enraptured 19th century Europe's greatest minds, recounts her life to Ernst Pfeiffer in this German film directed by Cordula Kablitz-Post. A published novelist, poet and essayist, Salomé's desire to live a life free from convention scandalized society but spurred genius and passion in others, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Rée and her lover, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Under the tutelage of Sigmund Freud,...
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Hindemith conceived Mathis der Maler, his 'opera in seven tableaux', as a reimagining of Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece, a depiction of Christ's intense suffering and crucifixion. Set during the turbulence of the German Peasants' revolt in the early 16th century, the work's focus is on artistic freedom of expression and human isolation during a time of plague, repression and violence. Hindemith wrote his own libretto finding in Grünewald...
19) The Last Supper
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On the day Adolf Hitler comes to power, the German-Jewish family Glickstein comes together for a family dinner. Most of them however (like so many other Germans at that time) dont take the Nazis seriously. When young Leah reveals her plans to emigrate from Berlin to Palestine, her family starts disputing. Her father Aaron can't see any reason to leave Germany, the country of their ancestors and the country he risked his live for during the first world...
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