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…
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 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….
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
"Feelings always suck." The Lower Bavarian village police officer Franz Eberhofer internalized this deeply felt wisdom long ago. That is why he suffers only moderately when his girlfriend Susi is…
Austrian composer Gustav Mahler goes to see psychoanalyst Siegmund Freud in the summer of 1910 because he was tormented by excruciating jealousy. He wants his wife Alma, who is composer…
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.
