Hanna Schygulla
1) Dead again
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. with some b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An L.A. detective is perplexed when he is hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim who is tormented by nightmares, which may lie in a past-life connection to a pianist murdered by her husband.
2) Antonieta
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 mn.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A French psychologist is obsessed with the study of famous suicidal women. She finds the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, a Mexican writer who died inside Paris' Notre Dame in 1931. To follow the investigation she travels to Mexico to reveal her life.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The lives of 6 persons, including Turkish immigrant Ali, his college professor son Nejat, and Turkish-born prostitute Yeter, intersect as they travel between Germany and Turkey, criss-crossing between different cultures but sharing the themes of friendship, love, sacrifice, reconciliation, and tragedy.
4) Whity
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([6] p.) : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
Deutsch
Description
Fassbinder's sole western is set in the late 1800s in the perverse household of Ben Nicholson, his blonde trophy wife Katherine, and two sons, the sadistic Frank and brain-damaged Davy. Whity's mother Marpessa is the family cook, singing freedom songs in the kitchen, but Whity adores the family and puts up with enslavement to please them--until he falls in love with saloon-singer Hanna. Filmed in Spain on the same sets where Sergio Leone staged Clint...
Series
Criterion collection volume 740
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
Language
Deutsch
Description
One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director's roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer and a beautiful but icy ingenue, based, in a sly gender reversal, on the writer-director's own desperate obsession with a young actor....
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