Movies I watched and rated (German)
All German movies I watched since I started to rate them.
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- DirectorNicole WeegmannStarsLudwig TrepteJenny SchilyJürgen TonkelA teenager who announces an act of violence against his teacher and with whom violent videos are found is examined in the adolescent psychiatry for his danger.Absolutely underrated movie with a message at least as important as "Die Welle". 5 Stars.
- DirectorKarl HartlStarsHans AlbersHeinz RühmannMarieluise ClaudiusHans Albers and Heinz Rühmann play two confidence tricksters. They manage to stop a night train for nefarious purposes, and impersonate Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Romantic involvement with two young British female travelers ensues, but the plot deepens into the disappearance of rare Mauritius postage stamps which they undertake to recover, in their role as Holmes and Watson..Surprising turns and the two greatest German actors of this time - what more could one want? 5 Stars
- DirectorLars KraumeStarsLeonard ScheicherTom GramenzLena KlenkeA group of twelfth-grade pupils in East Germany decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.A realistic and credible movie experience. 5 Stars
- DirectorJoseph VilsmaierStarsFranz-Xaver KroetzMichael HerbigLisa Maria Potthoff70-year old Brandner Kaspar lives with his granddaughter Nannerl in the mountains at the Schliersee. As he is visited by the Death and wants to take him, Brandner Kaspar tricks him and gets another 20 years of life.Original and worthy adaption of the iconic Bavarian stage play. 5 Stars.
- DirectorDennis GanselStarsJürgen VogelFrederick LauMax RiemeltA high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.5 Stars
- DirectorFranz AntelStarsPaul HörbigerGunther PhilippJoachim FuchsbergerFree, but well-made interpretation. 4 Stars.
- StarsAlexander HeldIris BerbenRobert AtzornThis Out of Africa (1985) style three-part movie deals with a courageous woman, who moves to Africa to flee her past. Berlin, 1914: When Katharina von Strahlberg discovers that her husband Richard had an affair with her sister-in-law Martha, she leaves him after stealing some important plans and photos of East Africa and travels to Dar es Salaam with one of Richard's business partners. In the German colony, she learns that nobody wants to employ her because of her husband's power, but she draws new courage from meeting Franz Lukas, a doctor, and Victor March, a lively Scotsman...German style monumental movie - without Hollywood pathos. 4 Stars
- DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsBruno GanzAlexandra Maria LaraUlrich MatthesTraudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.Credible athmospheric picture, great acting performance of Bruno Ganz. 4 Stars.
- DirectorMirjam UngerStarsZita GaierUrsula StraussGerald VotavaVienna 1945: The powderkeg of war and the Russian occupation as seen through the innocent eyes of 9-year old Christine. Bombed out and penniless, she and her family are put up in a fancy villa in the outskirts of Vienna. They now have a roof over their heads, but nothing more. After the German soldiers surrender, the Russians take over the house.Well-made adaptation of Christine Nöstlinger's autobiographic tale. 4 Stars
- DirectorMiguel AlexandreStarsVeronica FerresPeter KremerFilip PeetersBased on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on a East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to go there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie...Thrilling, but a bit to much cliché for the full rating. 4 Stars
- DirectorJoseph VilsmaierDana VávrováStarsGedeon BurkhardLale YavasLena BeyerlingA group of Jewish people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945.There are many holocaust movies, but I know only one about the horrible deportation trains. 4 Stars.
- DirectorJo BaierStarsAugust ZirnerHeike MakatschHerbert KnaupAugust Staudenmeyer returns to his hometown Gerbersau as a wealthy man after 30 years of absence. At first, the successful businessman is welcomed with open arms. When he takes sides with the local widow Katharina things change.The characters not being developed very consequently prevent a five-star-rating. 4 Stars.
- StarsSebastian KochTobias MorettiDagmar ManzelA reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence, was known for designing many of the Third Reich's buildings and for being Hitler's minister for war production.Mix between documentary and feature. 4 Stars.
- StarsIris BerbenBenjamin SadlerValerie KochThe story of Alfried Krupp and his family and of the Krupp company, which has been preeminent in German industry. The family company was a key supplier of weapons and material to the Nazi regime during WWII.4 Stars
- DirectorZoltan SpirandelliStarsMichael GwisdekDaniel BrühlTraugott BuhreThree monks are making their way from Germany to a monastry in Italy, because they cannot afford the rent for their facility any longer.Goddamn funny. 4 Stars
- DirectorCaroline LinkStarsJuliane KöhlerMerab NinidzeMatthias HabichDue to Hitler's threat, Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer, immigrates to Kenya with his wife Jettel and daughter Regina. Things take a turn when the family is ordered to move by the British officers.A movie for demanding watchers. 4 Stars
- DirectorToke Constantin HebbelnStarsAlexander FehlingAugust DiehlRonald ZehrfeldThe dream of two young men to become sailors collides with the harsh realities of life in East Germany.Interestingly, the story is told from various perspectives - but the end is unsatisfying and a bit implausible. 4 Stars.
- DirectorDennis GanselStarsMax RiemeltTom SchillingDevid StriesowFriedrich's boxing skills gets him in an elite Nazi high school in a castle in 1942. He enrolls against his dad's wish as it promises a brighter future. It's not what he expected.Relentless study about the intended brutalization of the youth in the Third Reich. 4 Stars
- DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.Good story, although the movie has aged suboptimally. 3 Stars
- DirectorFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckStarsTom SchillingSebastian KochPaula BeerGerman artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.The movie hit the point concerning political opportunism. 3 Stars.
- DirectorLeo KhasinStarsRyszard RonczewskiNeil BelakhdarNeil Malik AbdullahAli, who grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp, fled Lebanon with his family and moved to Berlin. A city gang challenges him to ransack the apartment of Alexander II, a WWII Russian Jewish veteran.Rather undistinguished as a movie, but it serves the purpose to deliver the message. 3 Stars
- DirectorCaroline LinkStarsRiva KrymalowskiMarinus HohmannCarla JuriA Jewish family in Berlin family must flee the Nazis. First, they go to Zürich. From there they go to Paris, and finally to London.A good movie, but as for the spirit of the novel, something is missing. 3 Stars
- DirectorMaren AdeStarsSandra HüllerPeter SimonischekMichael WittenbornA practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.Interesting character study. 3 Stars
- DirectorUli EdelStarsMartina GedeckMoritz BleibtreuJohanna WokalekA look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.3 Stars
- DirectorFrank StoyeStarsHedda ErlebachMaximilian EhrenreichCaspar KryzschKing Alexander is happy with his commoner-born queen Marie, but their three children are puppies (actually switched at the queen mother Eliza's orders by chamberlain Corbinian, who put each in a basket in the river), then she dies mysteriously. 12 years later, the king still mourns, refusing to remarry any princess picked by his mother. Then on a hunting trip, he meets Theo, Fritz, and Lotte, three foundlings--who greatly resemble his late wife--raised by farmer Hank and his wife. Eliza decides to dispose of the princes by tricking them into attempting to seek infallible answers from the bird of truth, which requires two equally magical gifts, each likely to be transformed at failure into rocks.Entertaining, although they could have made more out of the general idea. 3 Stars