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Jenseits der Stille (1996)
Outstanding German Movie
As a German myself I know how bad usually German movies are. This one is one of the very very very few exceptions. What makes it an exception is: no overdoing morality, no sentimentality beyond realism, GOOD ACTORS (all of them newcomers, so nepotism didn't do it as in many other German movies), an original story. Is there a scent of dawn in German Filmindustry ?
Cleopatra (1963)
Loved it
I saw the full length of the movie, not the heavily censored version of the first release. As I saw it in German TV two years back there was a speciality about it. In Germany movies are synchronised, that is the actors speak German. As they couldn't have the same voices as they had 35 years back, they left the formerly censored parts in the original version (English!), so the watcher could distinguish one from another.
That gave me such a good insight into the mentality of people in the sixties in the US, as I saw what they cut out and what they let go. And I observed very fine irony and satire in the dialogs. It has for me a political dimension. And I like Burton and Taylor when they are not the glamorous pair, but acting like being real people with their flaws and bourgeoise thinking. It was not a movie about the historical Cleopatra but a movie about people, life and politics in their eternal form.