Softness of Bodies

Der Stolz der Firma, meaning The Pride of the Business, is a classic German silent film from 1914. The film tells the story of a shrewd apprentice and is filmed in the comical style of director Lubitsch. This is one of the few Lubitsch films from World War I that wasn’t lost.

Runtime

40m

Director

Carl Wilhelm

Cast

Ernst Lubitsch, Martha Kriwitz, Victor Arnold

The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Paul it is love at first sight. When Hanna visits friends after the end of the perfo...

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Rolf Hansen

Cast

Zarah Leander, Grethe Weiser, Viktor Staal

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.

Runtime

1h 21m

Director

Wolfgang Staudte, Hans Heinrich

Cast

Hildegard Knef, Wilhelm Borchert, Erna Sellmer

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Todd Haynes

Cast

Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Toni Collette

In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.

Runtime

2h 22m

Director

Richard Michaels

Cast

Richard Thomas, Robert Freitag, Horst Buchholz