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Die Wollands (1973)
Character: Karin Wolland
Horst Wolland is a welder in Berlin who tries to move up the career ladder to better provide for his family. He is on the verge of being promoted when the working conditions worsen, triggering a strike. Wolland stays out of it, but he also refuses to tell his manager who the strike leader is, so he is not promoted. Wolland understands what solidarity means and tries to organize another strike.
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Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer (2000)
Character: Elisabeth Hauptmann
A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family.
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Etwas wird sichtbar (1982)
Character: N/A
An unconventional essay film that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the Vietnam War. Blending staged scenes, archival footage, photographs, and philosophical dialogue, the film follows various characters — including an American soldier captured by North Vietnamese villagers — as they reflect on violence, memory, and image-making. Set partly in West Berlin and partly in reconstructed spaces representing Vietnam, the film avoids traditional dramatic narrative in favor of a fragmented montage of voices, documents, and reenactments. Interweaving love stories, political debate, and historical commentary, Farocki creates a critical reflection on how war is represented, seen, and imagined, both in cinema and in public consciousness. The result is a complex meditation on images as weapons and instruments of perception.
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Die glücklichen Jahre der Thorwalds (1962)
Character: ihre Tochter Erika
The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident. Miss Thorwald takes over the raising of her children, four girls and two boys with the youngest already fifteen years old. She manages to keep them together in spite of the fact that their economic situation deteriorates after World War I. Never one to look too critically upon her brood, the woman undergoes a moving and gradual transformation as the adult activities of her children bring home the fact that none of them are what she had once imagined.
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Madame Bovary (1968)
Character: Madame Bovary
Emma Bovary, a dreamy, idealistic woman married to the dull provincial doctor Charles, yearns for the passion and luxury she’s read about in novels. After affairs with Léon and Rodolphe fail to fulfill her fantasies, her compulsive spending leads to crushing debt, and in despair, she decides to take her own life by poisoning.
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Hannas schlafende Hunde (2016)
Character: Frau Leeb
When Johanna's blind grandmother Ruth tells her the secret about their Jewish past, the “sleeping dogs” of the family history awake.
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Logik des Gefühls (1982)
Character: N/A
Georg, a self-confident man of 40, feels it as a heavy defeat when his wife suddenly leaves him. He has always been the superior man, to whom his wife now reacts with speechless contempt. In numerous contacts with people for whom he feels affection, he tries to catch himself.
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Die Vereinigung (2009)
Character: Mother
Luisa returns to her parents' home when her father becomes bedridden. She's expected to help her mother deal with the drudgery of caring for him, but their relationship is tense and the physical contact with the man proves to be unpleasant for her. In quiet moments she remembers scenes from her childhood Long repressed and forgotten memories force their way back into the present, until a final realization brings a family secret to light.
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Wo ich wohne - Ilse Aichinger (2014)
Character: Dame
Stillness, observing and the absurd are the secrets behind Ilse Aichinger’s poetry, as brought to life in the film WHERE I LIVE. Figures from stories come to life in a house, whose stories sink in upon themselves. Also, never before shown Super-8 footage shot by Aichinger, inspires awe at our ability to find ourselves, as well as the ways in which we find ourselves. Taking a sensuous approach, the film engages with Ilse Aichinger’s work, which stands out in the 20th century for its singularity whilst remaining timeless in its existential dimension.
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Geboren 1999 (1992)
Character: Katharina Treu
In 2015: 16-year-old Karl was adopted by Anna and Rasmus. Now he finally wants to find out more about his "real" parents. On his search, he learns a lot about his mysterious past.
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Ausatmen (2013)
Character: Luise
The story of an old married couple. As she dies his imagination calls her back to life and they have a wonderful time together like they didn’t have for many years....
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Lamorte (1997)
Character: Ali
Twelve classmates meet up again after thirty years. They chat, banter a little - and suddenly the mood changes. Because it turns out that the envied manager Iris is terminally ill...
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Die Glasmenagerie (1969)
Character: Laura Wingfield
An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.
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Kleine Fische (2009)
Character: Miss Septisch
When the owner of a fish store dies unexpectedly, a dispute breaks out over his inheritance. The youngest son continues to run the unprofitable store, while the second son and his mother want to sell it and invest the money in their multimedia business in Hamburg. When the young fishmonger falls in love with a pretty student, the cards are completely reshuffled.
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Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer (1962)
Character: Diana
A series of knife murders have an odd feature about them; the victims find that their luggage has been packed for them just before their deaths. Scotland Yard investigates, and discover that the murders are linked to an addictive drug called Mescadrine.
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Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen (1994)
Character: Frau Karner
This film is based on the actual events referred to as the "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" (Hare-hunt in the Mühlviertel) which occurred in February 1945 around the Mauthausen concentration camp. 500 Soviet officers form death block 20 attempt to escape, but only 150 of them actually succeed.
Following the tally-ho of the SS, a barbaric manhunt begins. Only very few fugitives survive. With a lot of good luck, the two young officers Michail and Nikolai reach the Karner family's farm. Frau Karner persuades her husband to hide the two escapees.
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Die Liebe meines Lebens (2001)
Character: Tibby
In a bomb explosion in a parking garage, the architect's wife Anna is buried together with the writer Robert. The two seriously injured people are scarcely recovered from the rubble. When Anna falls in love with the charming Robert during a subsequent stay in a rehab clinic, she has to make a heavy heart decision between him and her family. "The love of my life" is a sensitive love melodrama with Aglaia Szyszkowitz, Hannes Jaenicke and Jan Gregor Kremp.
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Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti (1960)
Character: Lisu
This first film adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play about class distinctions was made in 1955 in the Vienna Rosenhügel studios, but it was only premiered five years later. Curt Bois plays the rich capitalist Puntila who only becomes somewhat agreeable when he is drunk (which he is most of the time in this film). In his inebriated state, Puntila not only gets amorously involved with three different ladies but also suggests that his daughter Eva marries his chauffeur Matti. The chauffeur, however, doesn’t really agree…
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Eden (2006)
Character: Gregors Nachbarin
Fat German star restaurant chef Gregor shows romantic interest in waitress Eden Drebb. She's happily married to hunky Xaver Drebb, but feels romantically neglected. Gregor's deserts seduce her, first trough her brat daughter Leonie, to spend time with him and his fabulous dishes. That soon becomes a rather platonic affair, and domestic troubles. Xaver decides to exact revenge on Gregor, with tragic results.
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Der Vulkan (1999)
Character: Viola
A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor.
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Hilfe, meine Braut klaut (1964)
Character: Tessy
Valentin Hase (Peter Alexander) falls in love with the rich but cleptomanic society girl Babs (Connie Froboess) without knowing her true identity as the daughter of a chocolate company owner.
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Die Kinder aus Nr. 67 (1980)
Character: Frau Brackmann
The "Our Gang" type adventures of German working class kids from a Berlin apartment building (number 67) during the early 1930s. With Nazism's rise, however, their tight-knit group unravels. One leader, Paul, becomes a Nazi.
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Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013)
Character: Mrs Antrobus / Cinema Goer / 1st Train Passenger
A series of snapshots from the life of a fictional actress named Shirley serves to weave together thirteen paintings by Edward Hopper (e.g. "Office at Night", "Western Motel", "Usherette", "A Woman in the Sun") into a fascinating synthesis of painting and film, personal and political history. Each station in Shirley’s professional and private life from the 1930s to 1960s is precisely dated: It is always August 28/29 of the year in question, as the locations vary from Paris to New York to Cape Cod.
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Der Trafikant (2018)
Character: Martha Freud
Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty.
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