Enemy at the Gates
The fall of Stalingrad in World War II will lead to the total collapse of all of Russia. Every block is under attack by the Russians and Germans, leaving behind…
Stroszek
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as…
Germany Pale Mother
Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born….
Woyzeck
Everything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But Woyzeck, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices — the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To…
In a Year with 13 Moons
Driven by the agony of unrequited love, the slaughterhouse worker and married father-of-one, Erwin Weishaupt, summons up the courage to become Elvira. As a result, rejected by friends and family,…
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer — arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. Some time ago, she divorced the husband she no longer loved. Until recently, she has been in…
My Best Fiend
In the 1950s, an adolescent Werner Herzog was transfixed by a film performance of the young Klaus Kinski. Years later, they would share an apartment where, in an unabated, forty-eight-hour…
The Promise
East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad,…
Leberkäsjunkie
Longing for Women: Dorothy Arzner
Raganelli visits Arzner's desert home and retraces the pioneering filmmaker's career to create this nuanced portrait of a woman who bucked every norm and defied societal expectation.